Remember Who You Are
Here, I describe the fundamentals of the framework that’s used throughout OBA. This is just a summary and likely to evolve over time. Each topic will eventually be covered in greater detail in other blog entries. In the second half of this entry, I’ll explain the term I chose (“alēthinós“).
Cultivating a connection with your higher self and Spirit is fairly straightforward. First, learn the difference between your ego’s voice (fear) and the voice of your higher self and Spirit (love). I’ve written another entry that explains how to do that. As your discernment develops, you’ll be able to handle your thoughts appropriately and the voice of your higher self will grow progressively stronger and become the prevalent voice in your mind; you’ll be surprised how quickly that shift occurs and how much more peace and joy you experience as a result. Incorporating love and care for your ego is a big factor in how smoothly and quickly this process goes. When the ego is getting its needs genuinely met for the first time ever, it won’t have a reason to fight this shift.
Second, start a conversation with your higher self and Spirit and keep it going. Ask for what you need. Ask for help seeing the opportunities that are in alignment with your highest good and purpose. Ask for help with anything and everything. When you’re receptive to guidance, you’ll be given that in abundance. You’ll probably become aware of how often you were receiving guidance in the past that you didn’t recognize. The more engaged you are in that conversation and acting on the guidance you receive, the more easily life will flow.
If you aren’t sure how to identify the voice that comes from Spirit and/or your higher self, the easiest way to tell is by evaluating the feelings that come with it. Messages from Spirit and your higher self will always come with a sense of peace. You may have a “what-if” response that causes you to feel fear and anxiety, but the message itself will never have those feelings attached to it. Messages from Spirit and our higher self always come with feelings of peace and well-being. Even if they guide us to be cautious about something, it will still come with a sense of peace and protection; their message will never be that we have something to fear.
Our biggest hurdle in facing ourselves is our fear that it will make us feel awful about ourselves. We spend our lives using all kinds of methods to run from ourselves because we’re sure that facing the truth of everything we’ve done and has been done to us – and what those things must mean about who we are – will crush us with the badness of it. Once we remember and embrace who we are, that shifts and broadens our perspective. Our eyes are opened to the fact that we have nothing to fear about anything, including our past. If we face our fear of connecting to ourselves, we learn the very truth that reveals EVERY fear we have is of something that doesn’t genuinely exist.
Continue reading “Facing Ourselves: Misconceptions and Delightful Surprises”
When my spontaneous awakening happened and all this information was suddenly in my head, there was an immediate shift in my perspective of my life, my past, and the world around me. Within a few months, I’d become a dramatically different person living a dramatically different life. The only thing I was really doing differently was cultivating the ability to hear the voices of my higher self and Spirit and then trusting what I heard. What surprised me most was how easy it was and how rapidly it developed. I’d lived more than 40 years with high anxiety, hyper-vigilance, and frequent bouts of depression. All of that evaporated, not as a goal but as a by-product. That’s what convinced me that the messages I’d received were true: it came so naturally, unlike everything else I’d tried over the years.
Remembering who we are reveals to us a number of truths that relieve our burdens far more effectively than our distractions and manufactured excuses ever did. That’s the reason for applying what’s written on this site: it works extremely well despite how counter-intuitive the practices can be from the ego’s perspective. That’s the topic of this post: the outcomes of living in connection with Spirit and Higher Self. Rest assured, this way of life is not about denying ourselves pleasure or becoming moralistic. We simply become able to fill our lives with what pleases and thrills us most rather than guessing at what will do that (and being wrong). There are a lot of things we won’t be anymore – like selfish, suspicious, avaricious, deceitful, and petty – but not because we’re imposing an external set of morals, values, or expectations on ourselves. We simply stop being the things that we no longer feel the need to be, and the primary thing we stop being is fearful.
Continue reading “The Nature of Our Trap and How the Truth Sets Us Free”
In the previous post, I explained the significance of our ego/shadow self, as well as the importance of embracing it. In this post, I’ll explain the specifics for that process.
You can find a short definition here: Terminology. As mentioned here, we’re all being pulled in two different directions by our human self and being (higher) self. Both have the same goal – to feel happy and safe – but they have very different ideas about how to achieve this. The higher self knows exactly what will get us there. Unfortunately, the ego is a lot louder and more emphatic than the higher self and has biological wiring on its side. Every message from the ego comes stamped with “necessary for survival.” The higher self knows better so its messages rarely feel as urgent. The ego is panicked and reactive, whereas the higher self knows there’s never a reason to panic. This post covers the nature of the dynamic, how to shift it, and how the change will make our life better.
This is a list of terms found throughout OBA and how I use them (in alphabetical order).
One of the ego’s self-defeating methods of protection is to fixate on wrongs from the past, whether it was something we did to someone else or something that someone else did to us. Rumination is when we replay it over and over in our minds, along with all of our assumptions about it. Since it doesn’t lead to resolution or solutions, we’re really just pointlessly torturing ourselves. It’s a state of mind that lowers our vibration and contributes to attitudes and behaviors that brings more suffering into our lives. Even when we know all of this, it’s still very easy to get trapped in this state.