THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SOUL & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
We chose these physical bodies to experience the illusion of form, time, space, matter, personal identity, and to learn about how these aspects of our limited physical reality relate to more unlimited, non-physical forms of energy. Part of the package deal is to learn about and experience the journey of the personal self and its relationship to your unlimited Higher Self. One big reason we are here on this planet is to evolve our capacity to Love and to FEEL, and through compassion and understanding, to move beyond the illusion and appearance of duality. It is through our ability to FEEL and make conscious choices that sets our spirit free when our awareness is heart-centered.
Our personal self, which is also currently, the human expression and desire of our soul, is a great gift, and just like the physical body, it needs to be loved, honored, accepted, integrated, and brought into balance and harmony with our Higher Self.
As a human species, we carry the collective pain of centuries of human suffering in our bodies, minds, emotions, and these are encoded in our DNA as a cellular memory in every cell of our body. The parents that we currently have are not created by accident. Your soul /Higher Self carefully and with great wisdom, agreed to choose these parents for you to learn the particular karmic lessons of responsibility for the choices that you made, lifetimes ago.
Each lifetime is a precious opportunity to advance into your enlightenment and ascension. This does not have to take place in twenty or a hundred more lifetimes. It can be done in one lifetime now. The opportunity is always there. Sometimes our pain and our suffering is our greatest teacher to show us what it is we need to heal the most in our psyche, or soul.
In our present planetary evolution, which comprises the collective mass consciousness of humanity, we have the unprecedented opportunity to permanently heal all illusion of duality within our subconscious and unconscious as a human species.
One major fracture or separation between the conscious and unconscious in the mass collective is the separation between spirit and flesh, spirituality, and sexuality. This global drama has been perpetuated for centuries and kept alive by most world religions, and even in the economic development of our planet. It has to do with the collective limiting belief systems that limit our personal power and sovereignty.
What a big tall order to be able to finally heal and integrate something we were never taught about! For centuries we were taught th at someone else had all the answers and that through our subservience and obedience, as we humble ourselves, we will be saved! While all the time the split in our unconscious was becoming greater and greater until today we are faced with the ultimate journey of our Soul and the healing of our personal human self. Will we claim this opportunity and take the steps in order to heal the shadow self, which when it is unmasked becomes your greatest ally and liberator?
The unconscious, hidden part of our self is also known as the shadow side. This shadow side contains all the collective limiting beliefs and negative emotional patterns from our previous lifetimes as well as our current one.. The shadow of the unconscious is a storehouse of everything in our past lives and current experiences that we have denied, judged, feared, rejected, suppressed, abused, and kept hidden from our own conscious awareness. These deep emotional patterns usually consist of unfulfilled desires, struggles, and self-sabotaging tendencies that keep us from being whole. It is precisely this shadow of our unconscious that makes you feel like you have no control over your life, your weaknesses, or your debilitating conditions. You may feel like a victim in life, you give and give, and then everything seems to be taken away from you. Or you are a taker, using people and situations to your own selfish advantage without considering how this affects others. These are the trappings of the unconscious shadow.
But what happens when you begin to uncover the veils of this unconscious by learning to embrace your shadow side without judging it, or blaming yourself?
What happens when you begin to focus your attention on healing this part of your hidden self by making conscious what has been unconscious for so many lifetimes?
How do you transform the unconscious use of your will (ignorance) from the past with its present consequences, into a more conscious, more loving, and self-aware use of will, tempered by the intelligence of your Higher Self?
Hopefully it doesn?t have to take some form of crisis or life-threatening illness in order for you to awaken. There are truly only two ways in how you choose to approach your personal growth and evolution: Either you awaken through some form of crisis, or through the choice of wisdom. When you choose to learn from wisdom, you begin to take full responsibility for everything that you are experiencing, including all the negative emotions that surface from these experiences. You no longer blame or project your anger or rage on anyone else, including yourself.
When you choose the path of wisdom, you begin to learn from your weaknesses and transform them into opportunities. When you begin to perceive every challenge in your life as an opportunity instead of a threat, you begin to shift the limiting belief patterns in your subconscious from being a victim to a victory.
What you are today as a person is a result and combination of many lifetimes of personal experiences both as a woman and a man of different races and religions, as a beggar, a prince, a prostitute, a warrior, a doctor, artist, musician, healer, etc.
By healing the shadow of the split, denied self, you have achieved something quite phenomenal and masterful that transcends not only all human perception, but all limiting belief systems that kept you from being totally whole and free.
This brings us to the healing of our first three primary energy centers (chakras), mainly our base center, which represents issues of survival, how we relate physically to our bodies, and the earth, the sexual center which impacts our ability and expression of intimacy and the creation of life, and our emotional center which is the seat of our emotions and how we express our our desires and passion. It is these three lower centers that need the most attention and healing, and it is in these centers where the the greatest split between our conscious and unconscious urges is acted out in the form of the shadow self. This shadow self is composed of fragmented aspects of our unhealed human issues; all that we have denied, held back, repressed, censored. This is the area of our human persona where we store and hide feelings of guilt, shame, fear, self-judgment, lack of self-worth, etc.
Nothing can be more transforming than to face the basement of our denied self, and heal any left over remnants of our wounded inner child. The collective fracture of humanity?s denied unconscious self is the unhealed inner child of us all. As each embodied individual takes the steps to heal the split self, it automatically sets up a powerful resonance frequency for the healing of all humanity. You?ve heard that slogan, ?Physician heal thyself. And I say the same to all of the lightworkers, gurus, teachers, therapists,: ?Physician, Heal Thy Self!?
In order to truly excel in his craft, a good teacher needs to learn how to be a good student, and what makes an excellent teacher, is one who continues to learn from his students.
When you have learned how to make peace with your human nature without self-judgment and self-censorship, but with loving compassion, loving acceptance, embracing all that needs to be healed and loved, you will not only expand your capa city to love, but your capacity to develop a deeper and more profound empathy for your fellow beings. Now, I know that you can heal a lot on your own, by yourself. But the proof is in the pudding, and when you step out of your isolation and into the realm of intimacy and relationship with another, you will see those parts of you that you have healed, reflected by the way your partner treats you. Your partner will also reflect those aspects of your self that are still challenging; pressing issues ?these too will be mirrored back to you in how you relate to one another. The deeper the soul connection, the greater the intimacy, the more it will bring to the surface all those aspects of your denied self, the split self, the hidden self, which comprises the unconscious, together with its emotional, mental, and psychological patterns.
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/span>You know, it?s so easy to look at a beautiful painting or photo of an Ascended Master and idealize the connection between you and that master. What you see reflected is your own projection of an ideal all-encompassing image full of love, compassion and understanding. You feel unconditionally loved and accepted. But when you look into the face and eyes of your beloved, there are times when the reflections that are stirred up are a bit different, because you are beginning to see fragmented parts of your own denied hidden self. This is where you begin to experience and realize what it is that needs healing. Here is where we shift from idealizing our projection to realizing what it is we need to heal in ourselves in order to be whole.
No one brings this out in us more, than those we love the most, those we are most vulnerable with. The more vulnerable you can be with someone, the more you risk the fear of exposing your hidden, secret human self. As I said, you can grow and heal a tremendous amount of human creation on your own, however the deepest levels of transformation and healing between your psyche, soul and especially your capacity for true intimacy, happens in an interactive, inter-personal relationship with someone that begins to mirror the exact issues that we need for our healing. If you want a healthy relationship, you must first be willing to spend some alone time developing your inner Self, and take some steps to love, heal, nurture and embrace your inner child. The more you heal your inner human self, the more you will attract a healthier partner who will reinforce new, healthier patterns of self-worth, understanding, compassion, and love. You will shift from a human relationship of blame and projection to a sacred relationship where both people begin to take full responsibility for their human shadow and commit to healing it through the relationship. There is no escape clause for intimacy. In a sacred relationship, one doesn?t run outside the re lationship to get a ?sexual fix.? The purest and highest state of love is devotion. True devotion is never expressed out of duty or obligation; but only by the free will and conscious choice of each partner, for love?s sake alone. You commit to love itself, not just a person. You let Love transform YOU!
You can do all the mantras, affirmations, prostrations, meditations, all the siddhic and spiritual practices or penances you want, and there will still be that fractured part of your human self that will continue to resurface, until you learn to love, honor, embrace, and understand the psychology of the soul and how it relates to your human evolution.
The reason that present day psychology is not able to break through the barrier of our human persona, is because most psychology only goes as far as healing emotional patterns from our childhood in our present incarnation. It takes into account how we were raised, how our parents or caretakers nurtured us as infants and how deep emotional patterns were created during these formative years. What is not taken into account, is the many lifetimes that a soul has experienced many different personalities and how this affects our current evolution & development. So when you begin to treat a person?s addictions, or serious emotional/mental problems, you have to be able to penetrate into the psyche or soul of that person. The psyche is a collective storehouse of feelings, impressions, emotions and desires that we have experienced throughout many lifetimes.
The psyche is the collective interface between the conscious intelligence of the soul, and our unconscious urges and desires, and how we fulfill those urges and desires in this physical dimension. The psyche is also the storehouse of unfulfilled desires, dreams, aspirations, hopes, and fears. Our eros, what fuels our passion, our very life force, is greatly affected by the state of our psyche.
The psyche is the delicate instrument of communication between your soul and your human personality. How we have used our personal energy, power, and will in fulfilling our desires or denying them becomes stored in our psyche, which in turn influences the activity of the unconscious. So positive, healthy patterns of past behavior are translated by the psyche as pleasant experiences that become part of our conscious self. At the same time, challenging or unfulfilled emotional patterns that have been experienced by the soul in past lives as negative, become registered by the psyche into our unconscious, hidden self as painful, unpleasant memories and experiences that are kept buried and hidden from our conscious awareness.
It really takes a new level of spiritual psychology to address these deep issues. A new, spiritual psychology is necessary to understand the true cause of the many layers of emotional & mental imbalances whic
h could have started lifetimes ago. These serious disturbances could still have deep repercussions and effec ts on our current human behavior. So how do we get to the root of our problem and finally get to the cause? This answer takes a lifetime or lifetimes of inner work on one?s inner self to heal the scars of misqualified human creation. No matter how highly evolved you are, this journey continues each day until we are ready for our ascension. This is true for every human being on this earth, including the Dalai Lama, the Pope, all the gurus, leaders, and spiritual teachers that are embodied. There is always something more to heal, to learn, and to transmute within the fabric of our human evolution. Otherwise, we wouldn?t need to be here to learn these lessons.
We?ve heard so much about desires now haven?t we? We?ve heard how desires are the root of all evil, how we should banish desire, how we should kill the personal self? You see this in so many world re ligions and doctrines, in Buddhism, in Hinduism, Christianity, even in some more refined spiritual teachings in the New Age movement. There is an underlying censorship of our right to experience complete fulfillment in these physical bodies. The qualities of our very life force, our eros, our passion that fuels our desires are shunned and suppressed under a cloak of self-judgment, guilt and fear. And this is how the fractured, split self of our unconscious continues to operate, life after life until we come face to face with it all and commit to healing it permanently.
Use the force of your passion and desire to propel you into your enlightenment, into your wholeness, into your complete fulfillment. Activate and reactivate your capacity for aliveness by letting all the energy in all your chakras flow freely. Expand your life force by using your sexual energy creatively to heal the fracture d self, to heal the wounds in your heart; to heal all illusion of duality and separation in your unconscious.
This perhaps is the boldest step you can take toward the fulfillment and enlightenment of your True Self. This is when all that you have Idealized about a Master becomes Realized as Your Very Own True Self.
It is a whole new dimension where the inner male and inner female are in graceful balance and alignment, without any role-playing, competition, or performance issues. Androgyny is the most natural and purest state of our soul. At this level, there is no mind or power games like most humans act out. When there?s no competition, there is nothing to win, and nothing to lose. It is a graceful dance that unfolds new levels of intimacy between lover and beloved as your very own SELF. When you meet another soul of this frequency that is ready to join with you in this sacred dance, you will then experience what it means to be fully honored, as you have honored your Self, and so shall you be honored by your own God Presence through your Beloved.
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