A true aspiration to be limitless is natural. Our heart longs for a life that is greater than that which we have had so far. Furthermore, it is possible to see and understand what we need to so that we can live the kind of life our heart longs for. What stands in the way?
Insights make us grow. But doubt, worry, fear, and the pain that accompanies these states, make us doubt that we can transcend ourselves in the way that we desire. "I can't" is powerless without the pain behind it. We have the wrong enemy. Negative junk from our mind comes up and says why we can't do what we want to do. In reality, nothing can stand in our way.
We have come to believe a great lie: "Where there is a problem, there is pain." Our primary response to a problem is pain. Then we go into protective mode in an effort to avoid what we believe is the cause of the pain. Now, pain has become the problem, rather than the original problem itself. Pain does not want to be exposed. It wants to dwell in the dark, with no light at all upon it.
Once we understand our habitual reaction to any problem, it is possible to never be concerned about a problem again. You can come awake BECAUSE of the pain instead of going asleep IN it. You can remember, "I don't have to go into that fear or worry!" You can begin to doubt that these dark states must take you over.
We often feel like "problem magnets." As soon as one is solved, ten more appear. But we can begin to realize that we are not here on earth to be problem solvers! That is not the purpose of life. To be free, we must begin to understand the problem magnet within - that unseen, uninvestigated, unknown part of us that makes everything into a problem that demands our attention. We must embark upon a path of discovery, and develop a relationship with what is already free. Then we can be completely free from captivity to negative states.
Story: (12 Words that Get Rid of the False Sense of Limitation) A Master investigator of paranormal activity and his apprentice were called to a house where the desperate homeowners were terrified of the hauntings that were taking place there. The ghosts were taking the house apart and wreaking havoc on the occupants. (We are the house, and the ghosts are negative states.) The master and the apprentice set up their equipment, and that night the apparitions appear. The first was an evil looking fellow dragging many heavy chains. Another was dressed in rags and sobbing like his heart would break. Another was a woman with what appeared to be an enormous tidal wave forming behind her, and yet another was a man who was being pursued by a number of evil looking creatures. All reached out to the Master investigator, as if beckoning for his assistance. But instead he whispers these words in each one's ear, and they disappear in an instant: "Don't bring your problems to me."
Each of the entities had a problem; a heavy spirit, a wave of anxiety or fear that threatened to wash her away. We must recognize that problems reach out to grab us! They want to drag us into them and get us involved. The sum of the pain of our problems makes the world the cruel, unhappy place it is today.
The apprentice paranormal investigator, thinking he knows everything he needs to know, quits and goes out on his own. But when he tries whispering the same words he heard from the Master it doesn't work for him, and he is badly beaten up by the entities. He returns to the Master to ask what he did wrong. The Master tells him that he left with only half the information he needed. We need more than just words. We also need an inward feeling, an emotional stance. While you say the words, in your heart you must also say, "I have no interest in you."
Do you realize that a part of us is terribly interested in being in pain? If we wake up without a problem, we quickly invent one. We love being in pain, and don't know it. But we can lose interest in our problems.
We fall victim to "Identification of the Negative Kind." We do it constantly and instinctively without knowing it. Through the process of association, an image from the past, stored in our mind, comes up and triggers a negative identification in us, and the mind says, "Oh no, I don't want that!" Then it resists that, which creates the pain we feel. Then, we are so focused on the pain, that we are prevented from seeing this aspect of our own mind's operation. It is pulling tricks on us to perpetuate itself. But this can all come to an end. We can say, "Don't bring your problems to me. I have no interest in them."
Our unhappiness comes from our preferences, which are always being thwarted. So our preferences become our pain. See into the workings of your mind. See that thinking keeps the pain machine in place. Ignorance of our own mental processes lends strength to the problem-making machine.
There is a way out. Let go of the problem solver within. Face the problem, and don't run from the pain it brings with it. Stop believing in the pain. Do the decent thing: don't take your pain to anyone else, nor be an enabler of anyone else's pain. Shine the light of understanding on this.
