~ IMPORTANT~Thank You for Participating In your Part of the Divine Plan~

I think you hit the nail right on the head my friend. : ) What especially gave me 'sublime chills' were your words "The shift engages our dreams, our imaginations and our soul purposes together as well as individuals". That reminds me of an insight I got a while back when I was pondering about 'contrasts'....

I was sorta 'brainstorming' about the way life would be we had no conflicts - no inner-conflicts, exterior conflicts, or otherwise - and at first I thought it might become rather boring. . .

See, I had myself convinced for a long time that there can't be moments of high joy and elation without there also being severe struggles and hardships as a sort of counter-balance. . .

Well, when I was having my aforementioned 'brainstorm', I suddenly realized that something didn't seem quite right about my philosophy of 'elation vs. hardship'. Something about it was a little 'off'. . .

I know now that the reason I real-ized the flaw in my philosophy is because I was actually no longer thinking with only my brain. : ) I was tapping into a deeper part of my consciousness; the part that resonates, intuits and harmonizes- my 'Inner-Mind', aka 'Inner Energy Body', aka 'True Self'. . .The real me who is the one inhabiting my body and using my intellect as a tool, not the other way around. . .

Anyway, I had a 'eureka moment' and real-ized that "hardship" only exists in the mind. We can choose to create "hardship" for ourselves be interpreting things to be difficult, or we can choose to Accept things as they are and form our own opinions about them. Those opinions can even be joyous and enthusiastic if we want. Nothing has to be a "horror" or a "struggle". . .

I shared this insight with people, and a lot of them told me to be careful, because it seemed to them like I was trying to ignore the "other side of the spectrum"; the so-called "dark side"; the "yang-side". I was warned that I was favoring one extreme over the other, and that I would become imbalanced that way and distrupt my polarity...

I meditated about it and this is the insight I got - one can be balanced and centered deep within without having to sacrifice the gift of polarity. The way to do this is to 'datach' from your mind. ie, while it's true that you still use your mind, you do not have to identify yourself with it. You are the one having experiences via your mind & emotions (and body), but while your mind/emotions/body are indeed faculties of you, they do not do justice in explaining who you are; YOU are the pure, conscious, intelligent essence who is indeed connected to those faculties, yet you can differentiate yourself from them even during the times that you use them, and this will 'plug' you in to a whole new type of consciousness and awareness. You'll find that you can be fully functional/coherent/aware even if you completely silence your mind, and also when your mind is active. Again, staying tuned in to your 'Inner Self' will keep you balanced within. It will keep you aware and coherent no matter what you're experiencing. So in this way, you can experience the "highs and lows" of polarity if and when you want, and enjoy the many contrasts among the "light" and "dark", without becoming "tangled up" in the extremes and getting hindered. You could choose to experience an "intense" situation, such as white water rafting for example, and remain balanced during the entire experience, even though there were many moments when you felt intensity within. And after you're finished, if you want a more gentle contrast to your intense rafting, you could go bird-watching, while still remaining balanced. [I should mention here that when you are balanced and "plugged in" to your Inner-Self, you get to "calmly ride the emotional spectrum". In other words, you can feel excitement and elation, peace and tranquity, intensity, or any emotion in between. And I want to mention here that "intensity" is not the same thing as "fear". "Fear" and "negativity" are only possible when your mind creates a judgment, and when you are subscribed to that judgment (<< and that would only happen if you identify yourself with your mind and the fear that your mind has created.) Fear debilitates and dulls the senses. It distrupts coherence and cognition. But even if you feel intensity when you are plugged in to your Inner-Self, it will actually be empowering, uplifting, enhancing, vitalizing....which is what the entire range of emotions are meant to be. In this eternal Present Moment, when you have Unconditional Acceptance and you remain balanced within, all the frequencies within the "emotional spectrum" are experienced as different "shades" of life-enhancing Love, because that's exactly where emotion comes from - Love.

-Balance & Love-

J