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Social Conditioning

Uniqueness in Divinity

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According to George Sison:”…the Biblical quote says, ‘and be not conformed to this world’. In metaphysics the word ‘world’ means the mass-mind thinking.”

My interpretation is that we are called to rise above the common crowd, to claim our divinity.

George Sison speaks of sickness/disasters: “that kind of reality was not given to you by life nor by God.”

Neale Walsch wrote: “We are, each of us, a manifestation of God’s energy, and how we use the energy that we are determines how we experience the life that we live.”

The above bolsters my theory that there is no One-Size-Fits -All formula for spirituality.

New Deliberate Choices

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Two Sundays ago because of strong winds I stayed home in prayer. Reviewing a   book of Sylvia Boorstein, a practising psychotherapist, a Buddhist teacher and a practising Jew  gave me  a bit of clarity. I finally got some answers to burning questions  my Church told me not to entertain but simply to accept in Faith. But my mind has not been accepting. I read that George Sison who used to be a daily mass goer and communicant for many years also could not accept certain things in Faith.

I realized that I have been highly critical of my Church because I have been seeing her as a club. A club to me is an organization requiring dues in exchange of services. amenities etc. Obviously my Church has not met many of my expectations.

Of course I remember how in London last May I was reminded by two friends of our daughter that “I am the Church”.

I realized with the help of Neale Walsch that my Church preaches:”…Judgment, condemnation, and punishment in the after life and that frightening prospect is the chief tool of member recruitment and retention for most religions.”

A wonderful offshoot of my day in prayer , thanks to Sylvia Boorstein was:”The 2nd of the Noble truths differentiates between inevitable pains of life and the extra pain created in the mind that struggles rather than accommodates.”

“The words attachment and clinging are used to describe the tension that arises in the mind when it is unable to accept what is true.”

Even better than the above: “The natural mind… is free of tension and doesn’t allow attachments to become entrenched.”

“Preferences arise, but they dissipate without causing problems when the mind is relaxed. Annoyances also arise , but they don’t take up residence. Fears and hurt feelings , doubts and desires all come up in response to challenges and disappointments, but they don’t linger. They don’t upset basic clarity. The elegant expression for this… is all defilements are self-liberating in the great space of awareness.

My Proposal to the Universe

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My dream is to do cognitive therapy. I don’t want the usual commercial training sessions for the therapy I will do. I don’t believe in ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL programs. I want to help others manage their thoughts for abundance that covers: health, financial stability, spirituality etc. I want to be able to use the individual’s story and give pertinent guidelines. Needless to say, I don’t want my clients to be co-dependent on me.

I don’t want to compete with licensed medical doctors but I want to educate my clients to interact with their doctors. I know this is dangerous territory because doctors are jealous of their time and their knowledge. (They don’t seem to realize that much, much more than what they know is available in the Internet) Of course they will argue that the Internet is not that reliable?!

I want to educate my clients about the value and wonders of self-healing. “Our natural or Indigenous Self …knows intuitively what it needs. (“Energy Prescription” by Goulds and Childe)

“Most preventable illness is a by-product of energy-depleting habits and behaviors that are driven by unhealthy thinking and emotional patterns. So healing also necessarily involves a change of consciousness.” (Energy Prescription” by Goulds and Childe)

I don’t want to compete with the ministers of our Institutional Church. But I want to educate my clients about Who-They-Really-Are. God is a loving God and does not want to torture people with irrelevant teaching which at present times may be considered cruel. The constant ramming-down-the-throat sermons about sin etc. is so wrong psychologically to say the least.

Like George Sison, Tato Malay, Wayne Dyer, Ms Goulbourn etc. I want to work on the consciousness of people. I believe that when we awaken to our divinity we will contribute to the change in consciousness of humanity and eventually make our earth “the Kingdom of heaven” as claimed by a Hawaiian spiritual leader, Aunty Mahealani

I am not a psychologist. Neither am I a psychiatrist. But I am a wounded healer with a doctorate in Education.

Family, Tribal Culture and Spirituality

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For all my highly critical attitude towards the Church, I realize how I run my life along liturgical lines. I start the day by asking my husband who uses a standard meditation book who the saint of the day is.

My subconscious must be influenced by the liturgical calendar. I notice how dramas occur around the feasts of the Church. Days before the feast of the Rosary, I had a horrible misunderstanding with our daughter based in London. A blessed telecom we have been subscribing to for years did it AGAIN. Very delayed delivery of messages. It did not help at all in clarifying urgent issues. I ended up agonizing unnecessarily fr more than 20 hours. Happily our daughter decided to call PLDT. It was my husband who calmly resolved the differences.

The dramas around the feasts of the Church may be explained by heightened expectations for answered prayers experienced throughout my school years (grade school to college).

My subconscious may still believe in the power of the institutional Church on all of life: “The law and the practice of showing to the priest after healing indicates the social and the communitarian dimension of sickness. In a way, the priests in the temple are the stabilizers and conservers of the social order so they have a say on sick people who might cause imbalance and disorder in society.” Fr. Belita thus wrote about the power of the institutional Church.

Days after the feast of the Rosary I had nightmares about dead members of my family asking me to obey the Church. It was hard to differentiate the dream from
reality. I woke up with pains in he neck. Dr Page would interpret the pains as difficulty to change viewpoints. I want badly to go against my tribe and follow my own pathway to spirituality.

My old belief that good could  only come from the institutional Church is creating havoc to my peace of mind. Somehow all my readings and even my gut feel when awake can’t seem to shake up my ingrained belief (like the people written about by Fr Belita) that only the institutional Church” which speaks and acts in the name of God” could grant answered prayers.

Challenges to the Indigenous Self

12096249_998685506840853_7444340241134326164_nAccording to “Energy Prescription” our energy system runs on timeless rules: “And no matter how complex the world becomes, our bodies, our minds, our relationships, and our vital energy system will always operate on the same time-less principles.”

“To a shaman, depletion and fatigue are signs that we are habitually disconnecting from the limitless supply of energy that sustains us, or we are habitually obstructing or ‘leaking’ the energy we have.”

“But energy is not generated through mechanical or chemical medical procedures.”

“Disconnected from Nature and alienated from our natural or indigenous self that intuitively knows what it needs, simple functions like diet, exercise, sex, and breathing may seem like near-impenetrable mysteries.”

Dr Page writing about intuition said: ” Ah-h-h”. The moment of Ah-h-h resonates so deeply with our soul that nothing can dissuade us from following its calling.” It is compelling

“I cant explain but it feels so right.”
Page’s referral to intuition can very well be translated into the spirit/breath discussed in “energy Prescription”. Just as well it can parallel God’s inspiration of breath into human beings written about by Fr. Belita in his “Release for Wellness”.