What does it mean to be self aware?  Exactly “what” is aware of “what“? Where do our experiences in life come from? How can I use this to gain mastery over my thoughts and feelings? All of these are great questions. Understanding the following post will help you gain mastery over your thoughts and feelings.

The content that makes up your experiences in life comes from two places (or centers) in the body.  It would also be accurate to say, these two centers in the body are your two centers of “Being“. ~o)

The mind is the logic center of the body and the solar plexus is the feeling center of the body. The solar plexus is a unique bundle of nerves located deep in the chest behind the lungs.  The solar plexus is also where the subconscious lives. The solar plexus was named this because (like the sun) it radiates (drawing from source energy) the life energy necessary for the force field of the S.O.U.L. to exist in the realm of the relative. The energy (from Source Energy) used to create your force field is distributed along certain meridians of the body called “Chakras”.  Both “centers of Being“ are capable of independent non verbal communication with the body.

It would also be accurate to say the mind is the clearing for our thoughts (to show up) and the solar plexus (subconscious mind) is the clearing for our feelings (to show up). These two centers of being are in a constant competition for the expression that is your life. Your two centers of being are connected by a single channel called the Vegas nerve. It is this channel that allows your two centers of being to become aware of each other and form the duality you know as “you” (the little voice in your head that never shuts up). The Jamaicans call that duality “The I in I”.

Most if not all of the incorrect logic (harmful thoughts) and the breeding of insane human behaviors can be attributed to the collapse (or blending) of these two experiences into one experience called the “vicious circle of life” where your thoughts and feelings about something are so mixed up it becomes difficult to make a decision on some issues we sometimes have to deal with in life. The collapse of your thoughts and feelings into a single experience is the basis for the conundrum we experience when the heart and the head are of opposing view points on an issue. The collapse also makes it difficult to think or feel your way through a problem in life.

If we hold one experience distinct from another (i.e. separate what one feels about something vs what one thinks about something) it then becomes easier to find a solution to one or more of our life’s issues or concerns.

It is the blending (at the speed of thought) of these two centers of being that we achieve the state of BEING we call self aware, where the self (the mind) becomes aware of and enters into a life long conversation with the self (the subconscious mind). When the self becomes aware of the self, the conversation they enter into is centered around two topics “survival of the being” and “what things mean”. Survival and meaning is the game we all play in life.

There are only two types of experiences in life. If one takes time to notice, there is only what one thinks about something or what one feels about something.

All of this is great Leonard, and what can I do with this knowledge?

First, you can realize you are not your thoughts. Second, you can realize you are not your feelings. Third, you can realize you are not even a combination of your thoughts or feelings.

What you are, is a “clearing” for your thoughts and feeling to have expression in the world. What’s important about knowing that is this, thoughts and feelings are something you have, not something you are. It sounds simple, however most of us relate to our thoughts and feelings as tho they have us, not the other way around. Coming from that point of view will leave you “at the effect of” instead of “the cause of” your experiences in life. Not a very powerful place to stand, especially if what you want to experience is your natural state of happiness.

Mastery over our thoughts and feelings begins with the knowledge that we are an empty vessel for Life to express itself. Having dominion over both our thoughts and our feelings, lives in the practice of holding one type of experience distinct from the other. Further mastery comes with the knowledge that thoughts and feelings actually show up in the empty space we are and do not necessarily require any action on our part. Especially if that action goes against the grain of our internal compass.

Mastery over our thoughts and feelings will be attained when one can simply notice whats there (what one thinks vs what one feels), without the need to act on what one notices. It is the patterned inclination to “do” something with what we notice that is the cause of most of the upset we experience in life.

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I am of the belief that nothing I write is true. My writings are nothing more than the rantings of a pseudo eclectic and are therefore only “my point of view” to be tried on or not, with no more thought than you would try on a coat for functionality in your life.

The following post should be read in bite sized chunks to fully grasp the implication of it’s meaning. I also encourage reading this post several times to have the concepts really sink in.

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The Game

What if you knew all there was to know and you only knew it as pure thought energy? What if your very existence was nothing more than thought energy? You couldn’t feel anything, you could only think (and speculate) about your existence.  How would you come to know yourself completely, as thoughts and feelings?

Well, if you were omnipotent thought energy you could invent an “Eternal Game” where part of you became the physical world (the realm of the relative) as the created and the creator. “The All in All“.

What if you forgot on purpose (as one of the rules of your game) you did that, the  design of which was to remember (through a process of creation and re-creation of yourself) who and what you really are?  How would you remember?

One way to accomplish this, is to invent a game where the only purpose of the game was to remember who you are, through direct experience (to feel, what you already think). To accomplish this task, one would need a mechanism in which to do this, this is the reason for the S.O.U.L. ~o)

Critical to the understanding of this writing, the following distinction must be understood. Life (capital L, synonymous with source energy ) is the all in all, the beginning and the end,  all there is, the alpha and the omega.  “life” (lowercase l) is animated tissue, plants, animals and humans or anything with a DNA based structure.  Source Energy uses a S.O.U.L. to experience itself  as individual projections of itself. Said another way, the soul is the mechanism by which source energy gets to experience and know itself in the physical (the self, becoming aware of the self), or said another way… Source Energy becoming aware of Source Energy, through the process of life.

Mind Body and Spirit.

One could say that life shows up for us (gets experienced by us) in two ways, as a presence (a feeling) or as a concept (a thought). The notion that sometimes bakes my noddle is this: Not only “do” we experience Life, we “are” (serve as) experience itself . We are all messengers and our lives are a “teaching” to everyone around us. We bring a message to Life, as life, about Life. Said another way… we all play a part in the universe becoming aware of itself through direct experience.

What is the soul?

A favorite teacher of mine, (Neale Donald Walsch) has a lecture and writing on the meaning of the SOUL. Neale calls the S.O.U.L. a Singular Outflow of Universal Life. I differ slightly from my teachers acronym. I prefer to call the soul a Single Occurrence of Unique life. I believe it goes further in drawing a line of distinction between Life (capitol L) and life (lower case l) for the purpose of being able to accurately relate to both terms in a way that is less confusing.

I personally feel, to have altered the next passage in any way would take away from its clarity and simplicity. If you connect with any part of what Neale is saying here, I would strongly encourage buying his book. A link will be provided at the end. So, without further adieu here you have it, straight from the teacher word for word.

What is the difference between the soul and the spirit, or is there a difference?

“Your soul is the individuation of the divine spirit ( said another way… it is the individuation of Source Energy in the realm of the relative) which is all there is. The soul is universal life energy focused, localized and vibrating at a particular frequency in one specific time in space. Energy vibrating in such a highly specific way is a singular out flow of universal Life. You may abbreviate that in English as S.O.U.L.

The S.O.U.L. uses the rest of itself (that is, it draws upon the energy of universal Life of which it is a part) as one of three tools with which to fashion a particular experience (in the realm of the relative). The energy of universal Life is sometimes called the Spirit, the other tools are the body and the mind.

Your S.O.U.L. is who you are, your body and your mind are what you use to experience who you are, in the realm of the relative. The home of your soul is in the realm of the absolute, where Divine Spirit dwells. Your S.O.U.L. is now living in the realm of the relative, and is on a journey home. When it returns home, it joins once again with the rest of itself. It reunites with Divine Spirit, fusing with it to become one spirit once again. In some Eastern mystical traditions this fusing into one is called Samati. Then, having re-experiencing the bliss of Samati and the ultimate knowing of oneness, the S.O.U.L. emerges once more from the “All” (as a individual projection of the “All” ) controlling and regulating its vibration and transmuting its energy at a localized point on what can be referred to as the space time continuum. It’s most recent journey though this never ending cycle of Divinity experiencing itself, has produced the being that you call You.” [-O<

If you connected with any part of Neale's explanation of the soul, I strongly recommend picking up his book. The book will give you a 360 degree view of this topic. I have provided a link to assist you in this endeavor.

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In conclusion, here is my attempt at describing the term, "The Realm of the Relative."

The realm of the relative is synonymous with 3 dimensional time and space. That is to say, we only know something in the realm of the relative by its relation to something else. We only know the term "back", by its relation to the term "front". We only know the term "up", by its relation to the term "down". We only know the term "left", by its relation to the term "right". A thing has height, only in its relation to its width and breadth. Everything we understand, we understand only by its relation to what we do not understand.

In the realm of the relative, everything is relative to something else.

What does it mean to be self aware?

On a smaller scale we as humans achieve the state of Being we call "self-aware", when our conscious mind enters into a life long dialog with our subconscious mind through a direct channel called the Vegas nerve. (This is the voice in your head that only stops "Being" when YOU stop "Being".) Awareness just happens to be the topic of my next writing.

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