How to Use Life's Pressure for Spiritual Transformation

This is a world of worn-out people; weary, reluctant, compromised and conflicted. But everyone thinks everything is fine. There is something hard at work inside of us that keeps our soul from being refreshed. It draws out of us the very life God gave us to know his life. The whole purpose of a seed is to bloom, flower, die and turn back into a seed again. We are not flowering. Human beings are meant to flower. We are invited to a greater life, to be a reflection of this higher life. Faith is an intuition of something around the corner. We know we are not intended to be angry, selfish people.

There was a family business that produced roses. The father realized the younger son had more promise and so he gave him more responsibility than the other siblings. They resented him and wanted him to fail and did things to sabotage his success. (Parts of you want you to fail). The roses began to fade. The young son called in a consultant in flowering and he discovered there was a cable connected to his older brother's house that was siphoning off the energy source of light that was intended for the roses. Something in you is stealing what you need to flower. What is the nature of this thief?

Tension is stealing your life. There is natural expression of tension in the body like breathing. We take in air and release it in order to sustain life. Working out to develop muscles. Swing a golf club, creating a natural coil and then the unwinding of it to hit the ball. Natural tension is the effect of conscious attention. Then there is a spring in a car that absorbs the extra tension and energy. It transfers it evenly to mediate pressure. The spring is loaded with an active force meant to release the pressure and restore itself in and out of the movement of the opposites of the coil. This is the natural movement of active, passive and modifying force. Perfect tension is perpetual rebirth through transference of energies.

We have constant pressure and this is what is stealing our energy and we need to learn how to transform this tension. Unconscious stress destroys; conscious stress creates and has a purpose and point to it. Tension occurs in the body when we resist something because we want something different. When we resist anything, pressure builds and we experience pain. That which we desire is the cause of this pain. The pressure is born out of the duality of what is and what we want. There can't be pressure in a person without a desired success or fear of failure. What is the pressure that pushes these opposites together? This and That -- wanting to become! It is this becoming mechanism that is born out of a divided mind, wanting to become something else - to be somewhere else. The only way we know to get rid of the pressure is to yield ourselves up to it. When change occurs, we are no longer this and need to get that. Our unpleasantness is what has been sown into us by our culture, only when we are this can we be free of that.

When will we ever be patient, decent human beings if not now. We must begin to use the pressure to bring an end to it. Use the moment when talking to someone, use the pressure to understand it instead of being whipped by it. Disconnect - Recollect. Catch the pressure telling you what to do, being rude to others, rushing or whatever. See that you are being compromised by a set of opposites running you around. Disconnect from the state and recollect the celestial peace. It is not in a time to come but right now.