Spiritual Words of Empowerment
by Owen Waters

This week we continue to define Spiritual Words of
Empowerment. These are words and phrases which, when
interpreted in the light of New Reality thinking, add to your
spiritual sense of self-empowerment.

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Last week, for example, one reader reminded us that, in
relation to affirmations, the subconscious mind does not
recognize the word "No." This means that if, for example, you
affirm that you will eat NO more chocolate cake, your
subconscious mind sees only a picture of more chocolate cake.
It then obliges by preparing your taste buds to receive more
cake!

It's the same with household pets, which are actually more
telepathic than humans. If you tell your dog to NOT sleep on
the sofa, your dog sees your thought as a mental picture - a
picture of him on the sofa! So, guess what does he does next -
sits on the sofa!

This week, we'll be further exploring the idea of words of
spiritual empowerment by tackling two of the most disempowering
words in use today - karma and guilt.

Ready? Put on your New Reality "spectacles" for a whole new
view on these tired and worn-out words from the Old Reality.


Karma.

Karma, in the popular view, is often perceived as the bogey
man of Eastern philosophy, as the stick that punishes you for
doing the wrong thing. In reality it is much simpler than that,
and it carries no judgmental overtone at all.

Karma is simply reflectance. Reflectance is a property of the
universe. Therefore, life reflects what you project. This
principle of reflectance or karma states that life reflects
your beliefs, emotions and actions. The stronger these are, the
more apparent it becomes that life is a mirror of whatever you
project.

Whenever you change the way you view life, the universe, just
like a mirror, reflects your new view of reality. This may not
occur instantaneously as, often, circumstances do not allow the
new reflection to immediately manifest. In this case, the new
reality is held, like a pressure within the aura of your body's
subtle magnetic field. You then walk around in life, surrounded
by this magnetic potential, your "karmic pattern," as it
influences your circumstances to adapt into a form where the
new reality will be able to manifest and operate.

Reflectance, sooner or later, produces manifestation.
Therefore, if you don't like something in your life, the most
powerful way to change it is to discover how you have generated
that reflection. Then change your point of view - the beliefs,
viewpoints and energies that you put into your life - so that
the reflection is changed.

It's just like the law in physics: "For every action, there is
an opposite and equal reaction." This law goes much deeper than
just a law of mechanical motion. It is how the universe was
designed at all levels.

Reflectance is entirely automatic. There is no judge. No one
looms over you, threatening retribution for imaginary sins.
However, because this law of life is automatic, you have to be
the one to initiate change. It will not come to you until you
take the initiative, until you create the action so that there
can be a reaction.

If you seek more happiness from life, the mirror of life will
shine more happiness back upon you, just as soon as you decide,
within yourself, to become a happier person. Then it will
reflect your new reality.

Your power lies in how you respond to the circumstances which
have been created in your life. Circumstances, within
themselves, are inherently neutral. It is human judgment that
assigns positive and negative values to those circumstances. It
is a paradox of life that the challenges of difficult times can
produce the most happiness in the end.

Remember that if "bad" circumstances are affecting you, it is
often not because of some "bad" way that you thought or
behaved, but because you planned your life so that it would
present certain challenges. How you respond to those challenges
is the whole point of the exercise. The strongest steel is that
which is quenched from great heat and the most compassionate
heart is that which has seen great suffering in the world.

Your viewpoint is your response to the picture that life
presents, and it is totally under your control. Your viewpoint
determines what energies you will put into life and therefore
what the mirror of life will reflect back.


Guilt.

Guilt comes in two forms: The guilt of your own conscience and
the sense of guilt projected upon you by another person.

The promptings of your conscience come from your soul guiding
you as to what is the heart-centered response to situations in
your life. Listen to that still, small voice within. No one
ever looked back on their life, complaining that they had loved
too much. Quite the reverse, in fact.

If your sense of guilt is projected upon you by someone else,
remember that this is a merely a game which is played by people
with control issues. Such people desperately fear that they
have no control over their own lives, so they compensate by
trying to control the lives of others.

Basically, they use an abusive attitude to try to force you
into a state of low self-esteem. Then they keep you confused
about what you should and should not do in order to keep you
off-balance. If you allow them to succeed, you will then need
direction as to how they, and not you, can run your life. Such
attempts to exploit fear and guilt should be seen for what they
are - simply attempts by the perpetrators to hide from their
own fears.

Genuine promptings of conscience, on the other hand, are the
gentle whisperings of your inner guidance as to how you can
behave in a more loving manner. Love is the balm that heals all
things. When your conscience prompts you to give more love,
then find a way to express that healing energy in your life.

Life is a learning experience which is designed to result in
continual transformation to more harmonious states of
consciousness. Your conscience is your intuitive connection to
your soul.

Listen within, act and transform. That's what life is for.

Spiritual Words of Empowerment:

Separation

The keyword of the Old Reality was separation. Separation has
been the theme of consciousness on Earth for thousands of
years. We have separated into tribes, then countries and
empires. We have separated, or divided, ourselves by race,
sex and religion.

We have even separated our own consciousness further from its
source, focusing it firmly in the external world and away from
the light within. Intuition and the inner aspects of the five
senses have been largely ignored in order to focus upon the
game of life, and the game plan has revolved around
separation.

We have even been separated from the records of our
experiences over the countless millennia prior to current,
recorded history. In this materially-focused world of
separation, we don't even know who we are as a human race,
where we came from, or how we came to be living on this one
small planet within the vastness of the universe.

The only human species native to this planet was Neanderthal
man, and that lineage is extinct. We are not descended from
Neanderthal man. For most of today's population, it's just
easier to avoid such haunting questions by thinking of
ourselves as being alone in the universe.

The Shift, however, allows the human race to set sail in the
direction of integration, where we will find answers to these
and many other vital questions.


Integration

The universal theme playing out on Earth today is shifting
from one of separation to one of inner integration.
Integration, basically, means people learning how to love
themselves and how to love others.

Integration invokes a sense of wholeness. An integrated self
no longer has the opposing parts which foster the inner
tensions that promote a lack of self-love and self-acceptance.
When people love and accept themselves, they can love and
accept others unconditionally. This opens the door for the
development of an inner sense of the connectedness of all
life. Other people can then be seen as simply other
expressions of the same fundamental Infinite Being.

All people are seen as one, with the universe within them, and
not something separate that is outside of themselves.

Opposites do still exist in a world of integration - the
opposite sex, the opposite poles of a battery, the opposite
sides of a coin; but these all complement each other rather
than causing a sense of division.

As our sense of inner integration continues to develop
throughout The Shift, we will find that our previously
separate compartments of consciousness begin to join together.
The subconscious, conscious and superconscious minds only
have to function separately during times when the issue of
separation is being explored. Intuition and conscious
telepathy, for example, will become progressively easier
to develop.

Integration is a viewpoint. With it, you see life as a
harmonious and complementary variety of thought, feeling and
action. With it, your life constantly unfolds as a true
symphony of your own, spiritually planned purpose, as a dance
of meaning and synchronicity with everyone in your life.


Love

Unconditional, holistic love is the answer to all of life's
challenges. We are here on Earth to learn how to love
ourselves and others. We are here to accept ourselves and
others completely, and without judgment.

At this point, some people may ask, "Are you supposed to love
someone who is determined to be non-loving?" The secret here
is that there is a difference between an acceptance of the
outer beliefs of a person and an acceptance of their inner
essence. Regardless of that person's outward belief system,
and whether you agree with it or not, it is the inner
essence of the person that you learn to recognize, love
and accept.

The secret is that unconditional love will heal the world, and
there is no shortage of its supply. The universe is permeated
by, and held together by, the love aspect of the one Creator.
The universe was created by three fundamental aspects of
original consciousness - intent, love and motion. Love is the
medium that fills all of the universe, while the intent of the
One Creator holds that universe together within its embrace.

Love is not something that you generate. It is something that
you allow to flow through you. You have only to allow it to
flow in order to experience its wonder.

Every part of space, every part of matter and every part of
your being is filled with the love of Creation. So, the next
time you feel a little down, just remember one thing.

Love is in the air.

It really is!