Lately there's been a lot of focus on the Olympics. Much like the world’s athletes who seek excellence in their chosen sport, Lightworkers bring a similar vitality of spirit to their meditation practice. Each day we sit and run energy through our channels, revitalizing our system and tuning into ourselves as Spirit. The rewards gleaned are many, and like an athlete, the sheer joy of experiencing grace in a physical body is profound.
Many classes at Lightwork are nearing completion, and as this cycle comes to a close, another will begin. Graduation for many students will take place this month, a time for celebration and reflection. It is a time to be present with the spiritual journey, and to look ahead and choose the next step at Lightwork.
Lightwork will have a spring break from classes April 1-11. Classes resume April 12. Healing Space runs throughout the break.
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Decisions Based on Emotion
- An article by Scott Robinson
You are not your emotions, you are not your pain, you are not your limitations. These are things you are working with. You as Spirit are much bigger than emotions, pain or limitations.
Self-responsibility doesn’t mean taking responsibility for others, it means taking responsibility for self. If everyone took responsibility for themselves the planet would be very healthy. When you stop being responsible for yourself you start creating problems.
Your reality is your creation. Self-responsibility is understanding this fact. When you blame somebody for something you start to create suffering. Self-responsibility is being clear with your creations. Your reality is your creation. You create your reality as you go, as an opportunity to get certain pieces of information about your journey, your state. The spiritual warrior uses this information to heal him or herself.
You have the opportunity to be spiritually conscious in a physical body. The majority of beings in the universe aren’t in manifest bodies. It is important to really appreciate your body. Human bodies are high-end, high- performance machines. It is important to take care of and do the maintenance on this machine.
You have the possibility of transcending the karmic wheel; spiritual freedom. The spiritual warrior’s intention is to clean up past karma, the type that requires healing. In day-to-day life, it is important to only create karma which is clean and supports the journey toward full spiritual freedom.
Emotions are a body phenomenon. A spiritual being's natural state is not a manifest state. A spiritual being living in a manifest body is a unique experience.
There are a few different pieces set up to make the communication between the spiritual being and the manifest body easier. One of these is the emotions. Emotions are your body’s way of telling you, the spiritual being, what is going on for it. If the emotions are senior- and you are making decisions based on your emotions you are easily led astray. You can begin saying and doing things and making life choices that aren’t from your highest integrity or on your path. Your body doesn’t know what your path is, and your body’s emotions certainly don’t either. But you as Spirit do.
One of the keys is the process of validating your emotions without letting them be in charge. “My body is needing to run some sadness today, because it’s telling me something is up”. Remember emotions are more a communication than anything. Something’s happened, something’s going on energetically, that maybe you missed, and your body’s saying, “Hey, there is something here you need to look at.” This is the body communicating to the being, you as Spirit. Are you judging the emotions? Are you letting them dramatically affect your day? Remember the roller-coaster ride is “Everything is great when I’m happy and everything is awful when I’m sad and I’m up and down, and all around.” The spiritual warrior has stability through it all. You, the spiritual being, are not on the roller-coaster ride. Spirit is saying, “OK, my body’s sad. OK, a sad body is a valid reality. The body is happy now? Alright, that’s a valid reality, I’m getting the messages”. Spirit has a stable through-line.
Your body will keep on transmitting the emotion until you get it. That’s why some people are sad their entire life, because they never looked at why their body is sad. Some people are angry their entire life, because they never asked “What is the communication?” Your body will say, “Well, you haven’t got it for the last 20 years, so I’m just going to keep running anger until you get it.” And if you never listen, it’ll always be there. You can get the message and choose how you want to be with it.
A choice made from a place of emotion is probably not of your highest integrity. It may be in some cases but if you want to be really clear with the choices you’re making, then make them from Spirit. To really illustrate this, tune into a major choice, in your life, you made from an emotion lower than amusement. And I’m not saying the emotion was giving you a piece of information and you made a spiritual decision from the information, what I’m saying is the emotion made the decision for you. Basically, you weren’t part of the decision making process. The emotion was senior, in charge, this is one type of body seniority. And body senior choices lead you astray. We always want to come back to you as Spirit being the choice maker, in clear communication with the body and the body’s emotions.
An example is, I need to make a specific phone call, the decision of my highest integrity is to make the phone call but it makes my body sad, so I’m not going to make the phone call. That’s a decision based on emotion. The spiritual warrior makes the phone call anyway, even though it may trigger sadness for your body.
Another example, you need to talk to a specific person, but you have some anger around that person, even though, if you take a look spiritually, talking to them is the most appropriate thing to do but you are not going to talk to them. The emotion of anger is stopping you from doing what you need to do. So basically, you are making a decision based on the emotion.
There can also be destructive decisions based on higher vibration emotions too. “This thing makes my body happy, so I’m going to do it even though it’s not of my highest integrity.”
What makes your body happy isn’t necessarily the choice of highest integrity. It may make your body happy just based on your body’s programming. For example, buying a big, energy inefficient vehicle - if you’ve got a lot of programming saying that driving a big car makes you a more valid person, then driving that car may make your body feel happy, but it’s not of the highest integrity, based on what we know about the impact it has on this Earth.
Tune into a decision based on Spirit. Maybe the decision is a little bit challenging. Perhaps there are some emotions around it, you’ve got some issues around it, but you know it’s the appropriate choice, so you are making that choice. Notice the difference between a decision made from Spirit and a decision made from an emotion. I encourage you to make more and more decisions based on Spirit rather than emotions.
The emotion is simply a piece of information. Hear the message from the body’s emotions but make your decisions from your spiritual awareness. As Spirit you have powerful tools such as clairvoyance and knowingness, these tools can be used to guide you to light and freedom. The body simply works off programming and communicates through emotions. The body and the emotions were never meant to be in charge, they do not have the skill set.
Healing the body programming is the challenge. If you have grown up in the materialist culture, and have been programmed from day one to believe that buying things, the act of consumption, makes you a valid person, then you will go out and buy something to feel happy, to feel valid. And you will continue consuming over and over, even if the things you buy are hurting you and the planet, you will do it because the programming triggers an emotion, and the emotion is happiness. The reality is this happiness is very short lived and soon you will need another “hit”, just like a drug. This of course is unbalanced and unsustainable.
When you are body senior, when your emotions are in charge you say, “Oh that makes me sad, so I’m not going to do it”. The spiritual warrior says, “My body is sending me a sadness signal, what is the information?” I’m going to take a look at it, and base my decision on my knowing and understanding. Not just on the emotion. If you are ruled by your emotions, you are ruled by your body’s programming, plain and simple. The emotions are a communication tool, your body telling you how it feels about something. Don’t let emotions take you astray. It is up to you as Spirit to make the choice of highest integrity. You always know. As Spirit you know what the path of integrity truly is.
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