DEADLY CYCLES
We live in a world that has become void of any type of education regarding spiritual, psychological, or emotional warfare. The majority of people walk around slaves to their mental conditioning, their trauma, and their hyper active emotions. They become reactive to the world and those around them and their energy is siphoned. These same people are the ones questioning why they never have energy or the focus required to create the world they desire. They fall prey to a vicious cycle of:
- Willingly giving away their energy to things like emotions and derailed thoughts.
- Getting upset and lost in those emotions and thoughts.
- More emotion means more energy being directed behind the negative thoughts/ emotions.
- This cycle leaves people drained, depressed, and even MORE PRONE to similar attacks
Now, with that being said, it is not all in your head. This world has been designed to keep us energy-less and stuck in these cycles. Whether you believe in conspiracies or not, a simple look at this world and you will begin to see that there are aspects of it that seem to only produce one outcome; sheep who will follow the crowd and not question any of the things going on around them on a global level, even if this means living a life you are miserable living.
HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? CAN WE DEFEND AGAINST IT?
From a very young age we are taught to ignore our intuition, the soul’s compass, and instead to become better “listeners”. This process occurs at youth, where we are most susceptible because of our vulnerability. This is why childhood trauma can become so pervasive if it is not checked in adulthood; We literally build our entire “story” around what happened to us at youth.
It is our job then, as self aware individuals, to arm ourselves with defenses to combat the constant barrage of warfare being waged against our souls. There are certain steps we need to take in order to be in a position where we can rise above the cycles we often find ourselves in.
The first thing we must recognize is that our minds have often been programmed to be our prison guards. The only way to combat this is by recognizing this fact. Once you do this, you begin to question everything (exactly what they taught you as a child not to do). Why am I having this thought? Why am I feeling this way? Is it really because I feel hurt or is this triggering memories from a similar situation in the past and that is why I feel it so intensely. When you begin to do this you will begin to do several things:
- You will begin to unravel the layers of conditioning that cause you to act without contemplation and often lead to issues in life and relationships.
- You take back your power away from situations because instead of tossing your emotional energy at it you know give yourself the option of feeding into it or deflecting it.
- You begin to get to know your TRUE self. When we are conditioned to act, oftentimes we are exhibiting traits and behaviors that do not belong to us. When we begin to peel back the layers, our true self and soul are given the stage to act with intent and intuition rather than simply reacting. We also begin to understand ourselves more deeply.
This conditioning shows up in so many ways that some times it is an overwhelming task to deal with it all at once. Often times people undergo moments where their whole perception is torn down and they take leaps forward in this aspect. Some of you may know these as “dark nights of the soul”. These moments are often brought about by situations that were triggered by old conditioning patterns. These patterns became so troublesome that it created too much dissonance within and you recognized a need for a new perspective. You do not need to have a dark night of the soul in order to shed layers of conditioning, you need simply to be aware of your actions and intentions beneath the actions.
The second action we can take to clear our minds of the webs of conditioning is MEDITATION. For those who follow my poems on here, you know that many of the personal breakthroughs I have had myself have come from meditation sessions. This art has been around for thousands of years for a reason, it works. It clears our mind and differentiates our true selves from the machine/animal mind. We begin to understand that there is a differentiation between the thinker and the observer, and that oftentimes we think they are both one and the same.
By quieting the minds chatter through meditation, we begin to be aware of our intuitive pull towards what our soul requires for us to be aligned. The warfare against us is only meant to pull us away from our soul’s alignment. It seeks to remove us as far away from our true self as possible. This is why they try to fill our time with work and mindless television. They understand that by keeping us busy from contemplation and meditation, they are turning us into passionless and soulless zombies.
So go ahead and try these two methods – Mindfulness and Meditation – This is part one of a 3 part post regarding the subject of Spiritual Warfare. Any questions and feedback please feel free!