Hi,
This is Guy and thanks for joining me.
We're going to talk for now about your right to be emotionally free.
I mean,
Do you ever wonder why there are times where you feel so bad about yourself or why events you experience are so disturbing?
I think most of us do.
And most of us also believe that we suffer in this way emotionally because the conditions that we meet within ourselves or in the world around us are actually punishing us.
But the fact is,
And this is where we have to dig in a little bit,
The conditions in our lives do not have the power to punish us as we think they do.
The true cause of our emotional pain is that we've forgotten that the higher intelligence that powers this entire universe is good.
And I don't mean just sometimes,
And not only for those who are in quotes deserving,
But for all of us and in all ways.
As we are now,
When unwanted moments occur,
A part of us reacts negatively,
Which brings us to a very specific point in this study.
We can either identify with that dark stream of thoughts and negative emotions that come jumping up inside of us,
Believing that the only thing that's possible for us in that moment is to do as they say,
To be what they tell us we have to be,
Or we can take that negative reaction as a signal to look up and out.
Let me explain.
By looking up and out in that moment allows us to shift our attention and to become quietly aware of the down trending presence,
That dark emotion within us that's trying to pull us into its world that is filled with yet more negative states.
And because we're now aware of it,
Is the same as the beginning of being able to break free from it.
Through self observation,
We can begin to realize that the real reason so much of what's going on within and around us seems bad,
Is that that's all we can see.
Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
So is negativity,
So is emotional pain,
Which gives rise as it does to inner states like fear,
Depression,
And bitterness,
Because once we start looking in that direction,
That's pretty much all we can see,
And that's all that we're given to see,
Which is why we have to change the direction that we put our attention in.
In those moments,
And all of us know it,
We become bound up in thoughts and feelings that we don't want,
And then seeing a world that confirms our sense of captivity,
We literally forget that none of what we're going through is necessary,
Because nothing we're looking at in that moment requires our attention.
The only reason we ever stand in a storm of negative emotions is that we have fallen asleep.
We've forgotten who we really are,
Including our inborn right to call upon a higher intelligence that instantly transports us out of harm's way by allowing us to realize the pain that we're feeling is because of the way we're perceiving the moment.
So when we change our perception,
So do we change the direction of that moment for us,
And any time we can remember to do so,
We are free to wake up and return to our true home within us,
Which is far beyond the reach of those old fears,
Doubts,
Or any other emotionally troubling problem.
If we wish to walk through life free of the fear of sudden storms,
And to have that kind of special confidence we all want,
Of knowing that we have an interior home whose light cannot be breached by any darkness,
Then our task is clear.
First we have to see how we are indeed blinded,
And then bound in a prison of false perceptions induced by having forgotten our true higher possibilities.
And secondly,
We can use the following insight as a kind of wake-up call to action that it's intended to be,
Which will empower us to finally put behind us these negative emotional states that are so troubling.
Here is the special lesson.
The freedom that we have to let go and outgrow who we have been is not something created.
It is and always will be ours,
Which means it can't be destroyed any more than the onset of night destroys the light of the sun.
Nothing in the universe can take from you your right to be inwardly free of all unwanted emotions.
That means that any time we find ourselves struggling to escape the grip of some negative emotional experience,
It's only because we are in a dream,
Actually it's more like a nightmare from which we have yet to awaken.
The true prescription,
With the power to bring an end to these kind of emotional pains that constantly revisit us,
Is to shake ourselves awake from the forgetfulness that has caused us to lose sight of our true nature,
Not to mention its higher possibilities.
Remember always the truth of yourself.
It can't be stated enough,
Because remembering the truth of ourselves is one and the same as remembering our right to be free from all troubling emotional states.
