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We are hybrid beings made up of body, mind, and soul. Of these three , body and mind are limited to this lifetime. With the soul being functionally eternal, it is easy to deduce that the soul is in a body for a reason, a purpose. The soul has an agenda and is using the body and mind as a way to interface with the world to attend to its agenda.
When we are born, we are pure soul sealed in an adorable little body. Over the next twenty one years or so, we are steeped in everything we need to know to function in the world and in our society. Like little computers, we download programs from our family, school, church or religious group, peers and seemingly endless media sources. These programs act as our software, and applications, all overlaid on top of the still, small voice of our soul. All that programming stands between the soul we really are and the world. By the time we are adults, we are fairly well convinced that we are our programming. We are sure that the mask we are wearing to interface with the world is the totality of who we truly are.
The behavioral software, or the sequential orderly way the mind is loaded, is like a mask slowly built over our true nature.
We learn the rules of this plane of existence. We learn what is real, in other words. We learn what believe in. These range from the practical, hot and cold, to the more obscure like good and bad. We begin to download the belief surrounding who we are and what is expected of us. We learn how to treat each other and how we deserve to be treated. These beliefs lay the foundation for the balance of our lives.
We learn about our emotions. Emotions are those things that move us. They make us do things, compelling us to action. One emotion would be fight or flight. Love and courage. As well as anger, desire, jealousy, and others. An understanding of all these programs are loaded into us. We write many of the emotional programs that are designed to defend the beliefs we established. For instance, if at age two we come to believe daddy loves our sister more, we will write behavioral programs to deal with that belief. This could be acting out, flirting, or wanting attention. They are idiosyncratic to the individual and conform to other beliefs within the framework of the family unit. Much of our pain and hurt from circumstances of our youth, along with our joy and wonder.
The key is to allow soul to use the programs as tools, not to allow our entire being to be used as a tool of the programs.
Originally posted by Buddha1098
reply to post by stephinrazin
+1 S&F For you my friend.
It never ceases to amaze me that we Humans choose the despair and drama of depression, fear, anxiety, or anger over the calmness of joy and serenity. Emotions are like rocks thrown into the pond of the self. Some people prefer to ride the waves rather than enjoying the stillness I guess.
Namaste my friend.
Spoon Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon...that's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth...
Neo: What truth?
Spoon Boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon Boy: Then you will see, it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Originally posted by sign00
It requires a change in the consciousness of the whole planet for something like this. Yes, on an individual level we can get somewhere too, but for the world to change it takes a tipping point.
At the same time we have to look after ourselves, there will always be some of us that rise above the crowd.
-sign