How Your Mind Will Keep You Well Chapter II Part 2 - PDF Download

Before the time of under­standing, we have all been brainwashed crea­tures of culture, to vary­ing degrees. We played back reli­gious dogma like parrots mum­bled acceptable phrases to avoid rocking the boat. Rarely did we speak honestly from our hearts. Sometimes you feared to displease because doing so felt as though you were "hurting people's feel­ings” but this concern was not for others but your own false sense of security, as you felt the emotional rug of approval being pulled out from under you.

In order to survive, loved ones may run from your grace robbing grasping for affection. If you did that, rejection swelled up as pride and the hollow of your spirit filled up with hate and guilt, all the more reason to need and for others to run from greater desperation.

Frustration triggers the vicious cycle of looking for love in all the wrong places. Even if it were pos­sible to bask in the light of glori­ous praises, you would never be happy because your very own needs set people up to make you a puppet of their approval. In one form or another you are always setting others up to fail as you also fall into judgment.

All those from whom we seek love seek it also from you; we are all in want. How can people give the love they don't have? Little wonder every one of us has some kind of repressed frustration morphing into depression, mental ill­nesses and the various psychoso­matic disorders.

You will not be meditating long before old cherished beliefs start surfacing for re-examination. Scripture recalled may hold deeper meaning heretofore denied you.

For this reason these words are not meant to be memorized, rather they are intended to awaken you to the Understanding of what you already know deep down inside; function now from understanding.

The lens of consciousness is destined to see and be moved by me light of its creator's reality. The energy of love flowering out of the true self is harmonious with purpose, a soothing balm to your restless nature. It is incompatible with the willfulness of an emotion­ally sustained ego.