ACIM
The Power of Focus - Relax, Release, Remember, Rest
08/07/24 01:11 PM
This article was originally published in a much shorter form from: Notes From The Universe. I received more insight, so I thought I'd update as an article.
We have power over our focus. We can move our focus wherever we want. Focusing beyond the usual programing of thoughts, emotions and feelings is like changing the channel to a higher universal experience that is readily available through awareness, but is drowned out by our ego sense of self.
Change the station:
How to change the channel
The Universe is all in our consciousness to tune in. Here is one way I have found to change the channel.
Relax
Physically and mentally relax the body. Surrender to the moment
Release
Let go of all thoughts and tensions in the moment
Relax and Release are the first two important keys to surrendering to the moment. This works at first and then 'things' such as emotions and feelings may start to rise. Just let those 'things' come up. This is a good opportunity to watch from your Higher Self/Awareness perspective. This takes diligence and practice. I walked away from it for a while and then reincorporated it. So like any exercise it takes time to integrate. Your experience may vary.
Remember
If you practiced allowing who you really are, Light/Love/Source energy and have felt this, and you can in those moments of release, then Remember who you are in the moment.
Rest
Be in the peace and contentment in the moment.
Repeat as needed
Moments are obviously, well, moment to moment. Again, practice and incorporation is necessary to awakening to your true self or what I like to call reality. Feel that subtle at the beginning energy while doing this. Opening of the larger universe that is at your disposal into your life beyond the thoughts, feelings and emotions is RIGHT HERE.
Focus is the key. We have power over our focus. Change the channel.
Here is an illustration I put together. Feel free to print as a reminder if that helps.
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It's All About Remembering
08/19/23 12:15 PM
It’s All About Remembering
You’re driving and look up and see a billboard. The billboard has a message inside the ad that gets your attention in a way not intended by the billboard. The message gives you pause. You needed to hear that. The message sinks in. Back to driving to work and listening to that podcast.
The Universe is trying to get your attention. Maybe you are ailing and asked for help, but forgot, just a moment in time. I mean, how does the Universe get a hold of me? It doesn’t even know my phone number.
Who is the Universe you ask? The Universe in my vernacular here can be your Higher Self, guides, someone that you know in your actual essence life that agreed to give you guidance during this incarnation. But know, there is guidance available.
The key is to ask. Ask to know what’s what, what’s going on here. Ask what the truth of life is.
This ego/distortion world we chose to come and experience in all its glory is totally mesmerizing and can block out who we are if we don’t refocus our attention away from our chattering mind.
In the meantime, if you ask, the Universe will send you messages and information. Maybe a book falls to your feet and you decide to read it. Maybe it’s not the whole book. The ego/distortion may add guilt to not reading the whole book, but the Universe sent the message intended. Put the book down and move on. There are people in A Course of Miracles that spend years and still don’t get it. The ego/distortion can make you feel like a failure if you quit and go to something else. Or maybe you just love reading and discussing the words of ACIM.
By the way, spoiler alert for ACIM, quit giving attention to the chatter of your mind, the world is illusory, put attention on the essence and allow the Universe to guide you. Of course, the ego/distortion here is so massive it takes a 488 page book….
There are many roads to truth. Go where inspiration takes you. Trust your inspiration because the inspiration is your link to remembering. And that’s the key, you are remembering. You aren’t learning anything. You are remembering. You already know truth. How does that feel? You already know the truth and you are trying to break through the ego/distortion to remember truth. The Universe sends messages, books, anything to get you to remember. But you must ask to remember truth.
We’ll get further into this in future articles..