Most Effective Shelter During Pandemic
There are a lot of bullhorns blaring presently during the pandemic madness currently exploiting the minds, and subsequently, the well-being of throngs of individuals on the planet. Political bullhorns, religious bullhorns, commercial exploitation bullhorns, social media bullhorns, gossip bullhorns (wait, did I just repeat myself?), fear mongering bullhorns, and the like. The most effective shelter during the pandemic noise (or any other noise) is deceptively readily available to all regardless of societal status or strata.
In a recent Conscious Flyer, “Immunize Yourself” pandemic series issue, the focus was on the particular paradigm of living you elect (consciously or unconsciously) to participate in (Series Issue Number __). The liberating premise of this issue was that you need not ignore, fight, debate or fear the pandemic experience if it is seen as one paradigm of relevancy among many.
You experience what is relevant to you; you do not need to ignore or deny the crisis at hand, but rather, you decide if that is the paradigm of reality that gets your validation – your relevancy. If your mind makes relevant, a paradigm (essentially, a world view) that decidedly excludes the concepts of dis-ease, struggle, despair, cultural exclusion, fear, competition and lack, then you witness yourself experiencing a reality that is kind and generous as an alternative paradigm of living.
It is not a matter of denial of the harshness that can be experienced and witnessed, it is a matter of choosing a mental vantage point that (literally) reflects a different reality. Essentially, we all live in our “own private Idaho” – a reference to the 1991 classic film loosely based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV about personal discovery – as the nature of our “real world” experience is largely subjective. Though much of that subjectivity can be heavily influenced by consensus thinking (pandemic anyone?).
To live, and subsequently promote, a life full of love, grace, kindness, forgiveness and abundance, in what appears to be, the midst of harshness is largely a matter of those elements of life’s true nature becoming the paradigm of choice. Not denial of the harshness but choosing to deprogram from it. It becomes the shelter that fortifies a world free of the harshness of another imposed paradigm.
The following most effective shelter during the pandemic draws the principle dynamics from the pandemic series thus far to fortify your choice of a different paradigm of experience. Use every “room” in this shelter of choice and witness your world – and the world around you – reflect an entirely different paradigm of being.
Re-Read Post
Re-read and study every headlining blog post in this Immunize Yourself pandemic series. Though you tend to carry a consistent narrative about yourself in your mind – and hence witness the consistency of any suffering that narrative reflects – you actually evolve and change with every thought (?!). You are not cognitively aware of this because your thinking largely reflects the same content, so it appears as though you are the same person from moment to moment, year to year, decade to decade.
In truth, because you are not the same person right now who read last month’s post last month – you will receive a deeper meaning and empowering implication of the potency of each re-read post. Let these post be the gifts that keep on giving.
Decision’s Inherent Power
Most of the decisions you make to better your life, your circumstance and your choices do not get a full opportunity to fulfill themselves because the same rote thinking filters the decision’s wherewithal. Know this: all decisions inherently have the power to fulfill themselves when not filtered through the same paradigm of previous thought.
Desire to increase or improve your financial state, your relationship experience, your health, your career, your self-esteem confidence? Then once you make a decision about one (or all) of these areas cease immediately “attacking” the decision with thoughts from your past as to how you are going to implement the decision! By definition, when you are attempting to ‘initiate’ steps after making a decision you are using your arsenal of past perception to make new change. What sense does that make? (Yet, we do it automatically).
Become receptive to your decision’s lead. “What?!” That’s right, adopt a receptive mode rather than a ‘doing’ mode so that you allow the Decision’s own intuitive wherewithal to inform your awareness of just how it wants to go about fulfilling itself. This works. The receptivity mode opens your mind to discoveries, opportunities, novel thoughts, approaches and encounters that are cut off when you make knee-jerk, reflexive thoughts and moves towards a decision’s goal. Chill your automatic thinking – not your willingness to act.
“I want to start dating again… let me jump on a popular dating site!” Chill. A decision has been made (to date), now ‘receptively’ contemplate an openness to experiencing satisfying, resonating companionship – and let that intuitively lead to steps and actions. “I want my real estate career to soar!…That means I have to network!” Chill. Become receptive to the kinds of listings, sellers and buyers you desire to represent (how about those ready to transact?!), and then allow intuitive, perhaps novel ideas and actions to lead the way. “I want to lose 50 pounds! What diet do I have to jump on, discipline or food am I gonna have to eliminate?!” Chill (“That’s the problem! I’ve been chilling too much!” Ha!) – well, euphemistically, chill. Receptively consider that true self-worth deserves – without guilt – a body it resonates with, then be led by that in your dietary and exercise motivation.
Get the picture? Decide then to decide to be receptive. It works. All decisions have the inherent power to successfully fulfill themselves – when permitted to do so.
Silent Partner
You have a silent partner within you that is incapable of reacting. This partner in you witnesses, not reacts. We initiate an unconscious manufacturing of our woes – no matter how indirect it appears (“Hey, that car rear-ended me, I had nothing to do with it.”), react to them thusly, perpetuating their “reality” which traps ourselves in a cycle of initiating and reacting. As you no longer react to unconsciously manufactured dilemmas, there is opportunity to exit the cycle. Your silent partner is your exit strategy.
Since your silent partner doesn’t react, ceding your relevancy to reaction instead of the non-reacting silent partner, perpetuates cycles of limitation. As the silent witnessing partner in you is appreciated and valued it becomes what is relevant and therefore what becomes instrumental in exiting the cycle of woe.
There is a simple key to recognize the silent partner in you: release judgment. Judgments create a narrative (story about something) that then becomes the profile we relate to. It has been said, “we don’t react to the world, we react to our perceptions (judgments) of the world,” release the habit of judging your self, your circumstances, the world and you release that thin veneer between you and your silent, witnessing partner. Its simple: if you are no longer reacting (based on judgments) you are no longer perpetuating. Do not confuse non-reacting with suppression; you are releasing the attachment to reaction-triggering judgments – not suppressing them.
Limit Media Consumption
This ‘room” is kind of a no-brainer, many become overwhelmed at the constant news reports of calamity or the calamity of pandemic presently, and disengage for relief from the fear or frustration. However, there is a more instructive motivation for limiting one’s media consumption and that motivation can be summed up in one word: agenda.
Usually, when something is assessed to have an agenda it is used in a pejorative context, however everything has an agenda, however benign it could be. The news media’s agenda is to keep eyeballs riveted and therefore, as the old news media decree goes, “If it bleeds it leads” – meaning, the more calamity in a news story the more prominence it receives. This pandemic is the media’s wet dream (all forms of news media rating have soared during the pandemic).
You – however informative the news can at times be – are accosted with a heighten, often distorted picture of the picture. If it bleeds it leads; of course the pandemic stories that are the most devastating, incriminating and compelling will be perpetuated, recycled and expounded upon because it satisfies the agenda to keep eyeballs glued and ad buyers paying for those eyeballs.
Limit media not out of fear and overwhelm, but out of awareness of perspective and not being victimized by an agenda that may not have your best interest at heart. Your interest for sure, but perhaps not the best of it. Limiting media consumption also leverages your power to avoid being victimized by a singular paradigm of disease/disorder reality.
Programming
“We interrupt this program to bring you…” Everything is a program – or programming as such. There is not one thing you typically think, say, or do that has not been influenced by some form of programming. From bathroom relief (potty training was a program) to self-esteem distortions and issues (pronouncements that you are, “not this”, or “too much that,” or “should be this,”) – everything is a program… superimposed on unlimited-ness! Even dis-ease is a program!
Your fundamental Nature is unlimited, unbound, unconditioned. However, we are “programmed” to live from our programming. As your awareness of your unconditioned pre-programmed state is perceived (see, Silent Partner above) you empower your CHOICE to select what programming truly serves you rather than what unconsciously imprisons you. Programming itself is not bad – it is the content of the programming that matters.
Choose to release the program of dis-ease (not stupidly defying it, but releasing the perception it is fundamental to living), choose to release the programing of lack, choose to release the programing of incompatibility, choose to release the programming of cultural separateness, chose, chose, chose!
Of ideas and mechanisms
This “room” has an adjoining door to the room of Programming (“Nice design, this shelter! Call my extraordinary real estate agent, Karen Moore!” [karen@plgestates.com]). When you can distinguish the difference between an idea and a mechanism – all your problems of any sort will be at your mercy rather than your master!
Here’s how things work: an idea creates a ‘mechanism’ for its delivery or manufacturing. Unfortunately, most confuse the two. When one thinks that a mechanism is a cause, one loses access to their power. Ideas are causative; mechanisms are delivery systems.
A primary context of this confusion is reflected disappointedly in our allopathic medical model. Medicine sees all ailment mechanisms as causes. Cancer is ‘caused’ by the presence of cancer cells by way of heredity, habit, consumption or environment, diabetes is ‘caused’ by blood cell insulin disorders, MS lesions on the brain result in malfunctioning of nervous system, etc. These are no more ‘causes’ than walking under a ladder.
But they are indeed the mechanisms by which the idea of dis-ease delivers itself. No denial, just liberated understanding. Examine the legitimacy given to the IDEA of disease and you get to the root of cause (damn that programming again!) rendering the delivery system mechanism neutralized.
All limitations have causative origins in their ideas just as all liberating experiences stem from their originating ideas. Change the idea about something and you change the mechanism. (This ‘room’ will soon be featured as its own Flyer article post.)
Compassion
Compassion and sympathy are worlds apart. Compassion is understanding, sympathy is aligning. Therapeutically, the former is supportive and empowering the latter is commiserating and agreeing. To extend compassion to yourself or another suffering any dimension (the stressful fear of, or contagion of) the pandemic paradigm, is to understand that one’s vulnerability is not a fault but a sorrowful predicament. Sympathy on the other hand is an unconscious agreement with suffering.
Sympathy is often regarded as a form of compassion (‘sympathy’ cards, gestures, etc.) but in truth it is not; it has just been popularized as such from well-meaning intent. Choose compassion over sympathy (someone should invent a line of “compassion” cards; talk about creating your own abundance during the apparent economic downturn! … Thank me later as you build your hand-made greeting card empire against the grain of economic forecast! 😉
To wit: you can ‘sympathize’ with fear, you can sympathize with doubt, you can sympathize with violence, and on and on – get the point? Sympathy is aligning not supporting, compassion supports, it says, “I get how one can be vulnerable to all kinds of emotional states and or experiences.”
Captain Word!
“More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall perceptions in a single utterance! It’s … CAPTAIN WORD! Words convey ideas, concepts, positions – the very elements (words, concepts, positions – point of views) that create experience. I often find myself in hypnotherapy sessions ‘adjusting’ language unconsciously used by clients expressing their heartfelt points to me. And it is never a matter of semantics but a matter of unconscious depositories of one’s power.
Words unconsciously convey perceptions about things. For example, when explaining an ailment to self or anyone else (doctors included) refrain from saying “I have…(this or that ailment)” and rephrase as “I am experiencing…,” to say, “I have” communicates to the subconscious (which takes everything literally) ownership(!). How can you relieve, eliminate, release or heal from something while at the same time claiming ownership? Things do not become chronic because they are, they appear chronic because of unconscious ownership! Yet, “experiencing …” conveys to the subconscious that something is being ‘moved through,’ rather than permanently owned – and still allows candidness and honesty about a predicament.
Replace the phrases, “I have,” and, “I can’t” with “I’m experiencing,” “it appears…” respectively whenever referencing something limiting. This will require catching the frequency in which the automatic programming of using identifiers of, “have” and “can’t” are used until your psyche acclimates to the enlightened usage and its liberation!
Exercise
What shelter would be worth its purpose without an exercise room?! Even if you were not a frequent exerciser pre-pandemic lockdown you were probably getting exercise by default from the sheer mobility of a typical lifestyle. Unfortunately, a lot of typical movement has been curtailed due to circumstances, so it now becomes prudent to keep that heartbeat pumping and muscles used (with medical conscience understood) to counter inertia and the stress of present times. You should have already pulled out that stepper or other exercise equipment off clothes hanger status by this point in lockdown. And there are too many resources readily available providing sound, effective ways to incorporate exercise no matter your budget or lack thereof. Dust off those old DVD’s (or perhaps take the cellophane off them finally!).
What Are You For?
This is the foundation of your pandemic immunity shelter upon which the use of all other ‘rooms’ are able to be maximized. Those familiar with these Flyer writings or Conscious Life Hypnotherapy work know that the therapeutic deconstruction of forgiveness – what you are FOR GIVING yourself release of – is the cornerstone of therapeutic liberation from all things binding.
What you are for giving yourself release of becomes the galvanizing momentum of liberation. Its simple (I use that ‘simple’ opening qualifier frequently, huh? Any truly effective remedy should always be simpler than the issue it purportedly eliminates. Use that as a rule for all sound recourse.), forgiveness – no matter what it addresses – conveys an understanding that nothing compromising reflects the truth of your indomitable nature! Remember, EVERYTHING is a program superimposed on your unlimited nature and therefore, you become for, giving your self release of it! Forgiving it. Your past, the hurts, pains, frustrations, fears, sufferings – forgive them to be free of the tyranny of them.
It is more prudent to be for giving yourself release of indiscretions – perpetrated or victimized by – than analysis of such, as analysis often leads to attachment and solidification rather than release and liberation.
Here, your shelter from the paradigm of distress. Call my R.E. Agent! Karen!
