David Shoshani
The reservoir of beliefs that each of us holds within, is the main factor that influences what happens to us. If we deeply accept this axiom we automatically free ourselves from major psychic blocks. The personal beliefs that we hold regarding our daily lives form each moment and second whether or not such moment is happy or tragic. If, for instance, your personal beliefs took you to a place of self-esteem, absolute certainty in the existence of TrueLove and undoubted knowing that you are worthy enough to experience it here and now, then TrueLove would definitely and instantly manifest in your life. The fact that such thing has not happened yet only means that your beliefs have not been fined enough, have not become accurate enough, to reach the necessary level to create that. Anyhow, this is what we are here for.
Whereas each of us has their own personal and unique beliefs that were crystallized along the years, there are still several common beliefs that all of us, the human race, accept and adopt to a lesser or greater extent.
These beliefs can be likened to huge and heavy steam-rollers which press from above and prevent us from growing and expanding. The mechanism of those rollers is similar to a vacuum: no matter how hard we may pull the cover from the outside it will not be released and our immense effort will be to no avail. Nonetheless, as soon as we make a small change from within, like allowing a small bubble of air to enter the empty space, the mechanism will be effortlessly released at once without having to invest any pressure. Such is the case with the prominent beliefs that govern the bigger portion of our thinking. As soon as we recognize them, understand them and invest a little time to work with them, they will be discharged. Then, the feeling of freedom will be highly tangible.
The first belief that many hold, and surprisingly enough specifically those who hold religious world-views, is the belief that says that the kingdom of the humans and the kingdom of love are separate places which exist on different levels of the reality. The religious terminology would say that God and humans are not closely related or attached to each other and we can never attain godhood in this reality. Indeed, some of the priests or the religious believers are willing to go one step further to broader their belief and to say that in every human-being lies a spark of god or a light from divinity. However, in their eyes a total merging of the spiritual world and the earthly world remains a taboo.
It’s sad to say but as long as you continue to believe in such separation TrueLove and its kingdom will remain distant and unattained. Not because you are punished; not because your belief is wrong and you must be educated “the truth”; but simply because you create your own life and your sheer belief, like any other natural law, creates such a disjoined reality. You will keep chasing after TrueLove but as soon as you get closer and reach out your hand to touch it, you will realize that a high and unseen wall divide between you two. That wall is the cover that was created by the belief that there is a separation between you, as the human, and spirit/god/nature – you name it. The truth is as always: the humans world and the spirits world is one.
The second belief takes the situation to the other side of the scale, to the opposite extremity. That belief claims that in order to connect with the spiritual world, with the “higher and sublime” worlds, one must make a significant effort to distinguish and to eradicate any connection to the materialistic self that is, to one’s human characters. Those who take after that belief are willing to admit that TrueLove does exist but at the same token they would tell you that because you are still humble human beings with memories, dreams, wishes, wants, desires and feelings you cannot possibly connect with the kingdom of love. Their advice to you would be to make a great effort to deny your human self – emotionally and mentally – so then it would be possible for you to reunite with the spiritual world where you will meet your TrueLove.
The truth is different. Your human self is a valuable and precious gift that grants you the feasibility to live in the physical world. When you will reach the level of TrueLove, still in this body and in the physical reality, you will still carry along your memories, your thoughts and the beautiful self that you currently know. Any attempt to trace a new path, a special meditation, certain foods to consume or weird rituals to follow in order to forget your human-self will only take you away from TrueLove because TrueLove wants to feel and to experience the physical world through the channel that you provide it. If it saw that you are denying your humanness or treat your body poorly, it would simply go and search for a new appropriate conduit.
One of the falsest rooted belief that humans hold is the cross cultures belief that we, humans, are all sinners. Such world-view, religious and secular alike, gives birth to deep guilt-feelings which shape and form our reality and make it unnecessarily miserable. The belief that at some point in our life we committed a sin, that we hurt someone else, that we harmed another living creature like us, is relentlessly bothering and depriving our inner serenity. Whether we left a relationship or were deserted, we would always feel that we did something wrong, that we hurt our ex-spouse, that we failed in some way to fulfil their needs. Therefore, we would always feel guilty! That self-lashing (figuratively of course) is pointless and contributes nothing to anybody; especially not to us on our journey towards TrueLove and self-acceptance.
The way to deal with that belief is by understanding that from a broader level there is no such thing as sin; That concepts as “bad” and “good” belong to the old world of duality; that everything is merely an experience.
Did you yell at your child and now you feel guilty?
Did you cheat on your spouse and now your conscience severely bothers you?
Do you work many hours a day and you barely see your family and loved ones so the guilt disturbs you?
Did you tell someone you love them just to make them do something for you and now you are tormented by what you had done?
This is the time to stop thinking like that; to cease torturing yourself and to understand that everything you ever done was appropriate. It was an experience on your way – the soul’s way – to decipher and to decode the mysterious connection between the physical reality and TrueLove. You are not sinners. None of you.
We are not saying that harmful behaviours are justified or should be repeated. Not at all. These were events that you chose from a certain level of awareness to bring you to your current stage of being. The belief that you are sinners that need redemption in this world impedes you from understanding the nature of TrueLove and the vast territories in which it resides. As soon as you examine your beliefs and world views your awareness and perceptions will grow and your new achieved balance will make sure you can never hurt anyone.
Work with the beliefs we presented here. Examine yourself vis-à-vis the general world views. What is relevant for you? What beliefs do you hold? What does still serve you and what does no longer apply? Working with your beliefs is a never ending task because your reality is in a state of constant development. The good news is that rather quickly you train your minds to automatically release the beliefs that don’t serve you and to adopt those who proliferate and enrich your lives. The journey has never been easier and effortless, as it should be.
