In the game of life,
most people have the knowledge to understand that we're
all choosing what hand we play, and choosing how we interpret
the hands that we receive. The general understanding and
perception is that if life deals you a shitty hand than you
just have to experience it, move through it and as time passes
you will recover and get a better hand.
The missing piece that I think most people overlook is the
fact that we're not only playing and interpreting the cards
but we're also dealing the cards to ourselves by predetermining
there meaning. Now you may be asking, "Why would I choose
to deal a hand of depression, hatred, and loss to myself?" And I ask you, "Yes?
Why would you choose to deal yourself that hand?" Yet further understanding
of this can be reached when you search the rolodex of your mind for the experiences
that brought you to the one that you have called forth. Cause and effect is one
of the most natural laws and every experience you have, you have called forth.
It is quite possible that even though you believe you have free will and the
conscious ability to choose that you DO NOT. The reason for your unconscious
choices is a simple one, your level of Awareness.
There are infinite degrees of awareness. You may be aware
that you are playing the game, interpreting the experience,
but you may not have the awareness to realize that you are
creating it all. So now the question becomes "How do
I increase my awareness in order to consciously create what I choose?" I
think the first thing to do is to write the definition of the awareness I am
talking about.
Awareness: All-permeating, all knowing Consciousness;
moment-to-moment knowledge.
I
find in order for one to easily tap into this awareness
you must first become open minded by asking yourself
questions about who you are. To give it a try, the next
time you judge some one, or some thing, ask yourself
the questions, "What is
this for?" followed by "How is me judging this
person or experience serving me?" followed by "Is
this coming from a place of love or a place of fear?"
By asking yourself those questions it moves you out of your experience of judgments
and puts you back into the present moment. The judgments that you are experiencing
are coming from the past and when you judge or display fear you are re-living
your past, hence having no control to consciously choose the future to be any
thing different. So then the goal of awareness is to make you as Consciously
Aware of the Present Moment as possible.
Once you are in the present moment you can come to the realization that everything
from the past is just an illusion that has been blanketing your experience of
Now. Things will appear to you that you never thought existed and you can start
to see beauty where you couldn't see it previously.
People are holding on to their past so tightly because that is who they believe
they are, but I will tell you, YOU ARE NOT YOUR PAST. You are a being of infinite
consciousness in the eternal moment of NOW, with the ability to re-create yourself
anew in every moment. Let go of your past, because the Past Does Not Exist. Forgive
the unforgivable and be freed from the chains that you have attached to yourself.
We are all just a re-incarnation of the same physical material. We all started
as one, yet the only thing that separates us is our awareness. So go out into
the world, be the cosmic creature that you are and use your new understanding
of awareness to become the greatest expression of yourself that you can imagine.
Happy and Fulfilled,
Shane Lamotte
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