The power of the mind to manage your life and understand the power of metaphysics.
One of the questions is,
What is the difference between taking responsibility for what happens in your life and blaming yourself?
Often the ego will get those two mushed together.
When we take responsibility for our lives,
We are choosing to respond to what's going on in our lives,
Where when we are blaming,
We are reacting.
One has an open heart,
Which means I'm seeking to understand,
I'm seeking to grow,
I'm seeking to evolve.
And that's what responsibility,
Your ability and willingness to respond is all about.
Where blame is the closed heart,
Where you're punishing yourself,
Sabotaging yourself and beating yourself up.
There's no growth potential for beating yourself up to try to grow.
That old paradigm is diminishing,
But the new paradigm is that of seeking to understand and thus taking responsibility.
Therefore,
When you take responsibility for creating your reality,
It doesn't mean that you caused this to happen.
You didn't cause yourself,
But you did perhaps allow it.
You did attract it.
When you can take responsibility for that fact,
People think,
I didn't cause this lump in my neck,
Or I didn't cause this headache,
Or I didn't cause this.
But if they can take responsibility for the mental,
Emotional conditioning and for the beliefs and attitudes and the thoughts and feelings that lead up to certain things,
Then they can make those changes.
For instance,
If you repress a lot of anger for 10,
20,
30,
40 years,
That anger has influence over your autonomic nervous system.
It has influence over your health and well-being.
And then one day you wake up with some health condition that took 20 years to develop and to say,
Oh,
It's not my fault.
I didn't do it.
You allowed yourself to repress your anger,
Not because you're bad and wrong,
But because you've been taught and conditioned to believe that's what people have to do.
And so a lot of taking responsibility is ownership,
Owning the fact that you are a human being and a spiritual being.
And as a human being,
You also have weaknesses and you have strengths,
You have power,
You have talent,
But you also have vulnerability.
That's what metaphysics is,
Really understanding that which is beyond the physical and then how the mind works.
What is beyond the physical is your consciousness,
Is your thoughts,
Your feelings,
Your choices and decisions,
Allowing yourself to realize,
Okay,
Taking responsibility doesn't mean to blame myself.
It doesn't mean to beat myself up.
It's about understanding there's a part of my consciousness that has allowed this in,
That has allowed this in for whatever reason,
Perhaps because I believe that's the best way to grow is to struggle and suffer.
And that belief can be changed.
Or perhaps it's because I've repressed certain emotions that I've judged as unspiritual or whatever.
And that repressed emotion has impact.
But if I ignore the fact that I'm repressing it,
Then I have to deal with the consequences.
But if I can own it and take responsibility,
I can express those repressed emotions and thus free myself to lift my energy to a higher octave,
Higher vibration,
And thus change.
That's the difference between blaming yourself and taking responsibility.
Blame is a closed heart that wants to make yourself bad and wrong,
That wants to punish yourself.
And it comes from the ego's need to be right and righteous.
Whereas taking responsibility comes from your empowered self,
Where I realize,
Yes,
I create my own reality by causing it,
Which is the one that most people can relate to.
And also,
I create my reality by allowing and attracting it.
When I can understand the conflicts in my consciousness and resolve them,
Then I can change what I attract and allow.
But if I say,
Oh,
No,
I didn't cause it.
I didn't do that.
I have nothing to do with it.
Then I'm choosing to be a victim and pretend that life is happening to me.
Anyways,
I just want to leave that with you for this little nugget for today.
