Be in love with your life. Love your past, and love your present.\u00a0 And when faced with challenges, shift into neutrality.\u00a0 Choose acceptance as you love it all. Then you are loving as God loves, always in all ways.<\/em> – John Morton, DSS<\/p>\n This article was previously published in the New Day Herald, March 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s important not to judge our experiences or awareness as normal or abnormal but to move into neutrality. The concept of normal was derived through statistical analysis and looks at the mean or average proportion of some variable that\u2019s been tracked.\u00a0 What does that really mean?\u00a0 Not much when your experience is loving and caring toward God and God in kind toward all of the creation.<\/p>\n One of the things to consider is that most of our consciousness is not conscious.\u00a0 The part that is conscious is similar to looking at how much we actually see physically.\u00a0 We know there is more than we can see with our eyes.\u00a0 In a similar way, there is more in our consciousness than what we are aware of.\u00a0 It\u2019s very human not to be aware of everything in your consciousness.\u00a0 It\u2019s ordinary as well.<\/p>\n Have you ever been in a science class where they talked about light?\u00a0 There are lights we see and then there are other lights, such as ultraviolet light, infra-red light and x-ray light.\u00a0 There are a number of light fields that we don\u2019t see through. They\u2019re not within our physical ability. Yet they are part of the realm of what\u2019s to be seen.\u00a0 Just as it with light, it\u2019s awesome to consider how much more there is to our consciousness than what we\u2019re consciously dealing with.<\/p>\n The good news is that God is completely involved in every level of our consciousness. So we\u2019re already covered. It\u2019s a kind of insurance plan, a divine one.\u00a0 No matter what you do, you can\u2019t go outside of God\u2019s perfection.\u00a0 Yet part of the perfection involves your growing and learning.<\/p>\n You can get multiple, exponential value from your experiences.\u00a0 If you respond according to the highest consciousness, let\u2019s call that your spiritual Soul nature or true self, then understanding, patience, beauty, love, and peace are part of what you experience.\u00a0 In those qualities, you\u2019re getting into the field of what is going on spiritually, and it\u2019s magnificent.<\/p>\n When we\u2019re in a field of judgment, we are learning about the relativity of what\u2019s going on for us.\u00a0 We\u2019re learning about our choices and attitudes. Judgments are negative or erroneous perceptions of the limitations in our life.\u00a0 Judgments come in many kinds and varieties.\u00a0 They can be financial, physical, health-wise, or whatever involves our desires and interests.\u00a0 We find out how we do in our judgments when what we want or wish for doesn\u2019t meet up with our experience.\u00a0 One of the common experiences when that happens is disappointment, letdown, or frustration.\u00a0 When you\u2019re in judgment, you might find yourself saying, \u201cI\u2019m upset\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m angry\u201d or \u201cI won\u2019t try anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n Do you recognize any of those experiences? They\u2019re very common, ordinary and human.\u00a0 Rather than decide there\u2019s something wrong or abnormal, it would be better to look at yourself as a spiritual being in process in this world.\u00a0 You could realize, \u201cI\u2019m getting closer to who I am.\u00a0 I\u2019m being more true to myself. I\u2019m asking for spiritual assistance.\u00a0 I\u2019m asking to progress and to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n You may be then taken into what you need to experience and learn, and that\u2019s right on track. You\u2019re being successful with your learning and progression. But it doesn\u2019t mean that it feels good. For example, nausea isn\u2019t something that most people would say, \u201cI love nausea. It\u2019s such a great experience.\u201d\u00a0 But you can understand that nausea is temporary.\u00a0 You can do things to assist yourself so you don\u2019t have to experience nausea or you can move through it with greater grace and ease. Maybe you drink some water or you stop spinning around so you don\u2019t get dizzy.\u00a0 There are always practical applications in the experiences for our learning and growth.<\/p>\n Look at what do you do to stay calm and in a peaceful place rather than go into judgment, disappointment, or some kind of negativity.\u00a0 Part of it is simply claiming, \u201cMy intention is to be calm and clear.\u00a0 I hold myself to that consciousness. I breathe.\u00a0 I breathe naturally.\u00a0 I don\u2019t make myself be tense.\u00a0 I relax.\u00a0 I don\u2019t judge my process.\u201d That\u2019s shifting into neutrality.<\/p>\n Acceptance and Neutrality <\/b><\/p>\n The first law of Spirit is acceptance and that means neutrality.\u00a0 When you\u2019re neutral, you\u2019re taking yourself out of being charged up or down or in or out.\u00a0 Being neutral is allowing things to be what they are without any interference or judgment.<\/p>\n Being neutral doesn\u2019t mean you have to stop being involved or moving forward.\u00a0 You may not have any choice but to be very much involved and active.\u00a0 If you\u2019re in the midst of a raging river going downstream, you\u2019re definitely moving.\u00a0 There are practical things to do, like keep your head above water if you want to get your next breath. There may be a very intense desire to get that next breath. The divine power inside can transcend what you think, feel or judge about your experience just so you can get that next breath.<\/p>\n I encourage people to have wonderful intentions. It\u2019s very important to realize that we are creators. What we hold in our consciousness creates.\u00a0 What we focus on creates. It\u2019s important to know what you want to do.\u00a0 And if your experiences don\u2019t match up with what you want in your life, then that points out you have choices.<\/p>\n Regardless of your intentions, choose to be accepting.\u00a0 That\u2019s an important first step.\u00a0 How do you do that?\u00a0 By allowing things to be what they are without resistance or objection. That\u2019s easy to say.\u00a0 It\u2019s another thing when we don\u2019t like it.\u00a0 We may disagree. We may feel impatient as in, \u201cI want it now!\u201d That\u2019s fairly common and human. It\u2019s our choice to shift back into neutrality, to accept as we do our best to move forward on our intentions, remembering it all takes place in Spirit\u2019s timing.<\/p>\n Spiritually, we do have it right here and now.\u00a0 It\u2019s all present spiritually. However, this is the level where there\u2019s the rub or friction.\u00a0 In the friction, we find out how strong we are in our intention.\u00a0 We see how much willingness we have to keep going and adjusting to whatever is working here and now.<\/p>\n Choosing Neutrality with Others <\/b><\/p>\n You may wonder, \u201cWhat if somebody doesn\u2019t treat me very nice? What\u2019s that about?\u201d<\/p>\n First of all it\u2019s about them.\u00a0 It\u2019s not first of all about you.\u00a0 How someone expresses themselves is first about them.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat if they\u2019re saying things about me that are mean and blaming?\u00a0 What if they\u2019re finding me at fault?\u201d\u00a0 You can be neutral with that because that\u2019s an option.\u00a0 It\u2019s your choice how you react.\u00a0 You can also look and see if there\u2019s information there for you.\u00a0 Maybe there\u2019s an opportunity for your learning.<\/p>\n For example, perhaps someone is upset with you because you\u2019re stepping on their toes, literally or figuratively.\u00a0 You can move.\u00a0 You can adjust. Often how we get along is when we move into the second law of Spirit which is cooperation.\u00a0 When we choose to cooperate, we find out how to harmonize with others, to be in accord. What cooperation asks of us is to have vigilance or watchfulness. It asks us to have wakefulness so we\u2019re awake, alert and aware.\u00a0 Then we can respond accordingly and in cooperation for the greater good.<\/p>\n For another example, if you were going to leave a room by trying to go directly through a wall instead of the doorway, you wouldn\u2019t be cooperating with what is there for you as a better choice.\u00a0 You\u2019ll run into the wall, and you won\u2019t be able to leave the room.\u00a0 You could then choose to move into neutrality by seeing that experience as providing information to help you realize where you missed or are off track.<\/p>\n Some people might react with something like, \u201cThat wall shouldn\u2019t be there. That\u2019s unfair!\u00a0 That\u2019s a bad wall.\u201d\u00a0 They\u2019re upset and indignant about the wall.\u00a0 They want to move the wall and may even demand you move that wall.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have to be all upset about the wall when there\u2019s an opening right there.\u00a0 However, they may still choose not to cooperate.\u00a0 They may reject an opening and say, \u201cThat\u2019s not my opening.\u00a0 My opening should be right here where this wall was.\u201d\u00a0 Obviously, if people want to get upset, that\u2019s their option. They can find a reason to be upset. But that\u2019s not the best choice.<\/p>\n If you hear yourself saying things like, \u201cI\u2019ve got a bad feeling today.\u00a0 I\u2019ve just got a feeling it\u2019s going to be bad,\u201d then ask yourself what you\u2019re doing.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019re aware that something very challenging is going to happen.\u00a0 That\u2019s different from bad.\u00a0 Bad is an interpretation.\u00a0 It\u2019s a judgment.\u00a0 Instead, you can move into neutrality and say, \u201cMy consciousness is warning me to be careful, prepared and have extra caution today.\u201d<\/p>\n Ask yourself if your concerns are based in fear or awareness.\u00a0 Awareness would be your natural knowing or intuition.\u00a0 Be cautious with things like superstitions and beliefs passed down from family or ancestors.\u00a0 You are responsible to check things out. \u00a0What is your experience?\u00a0 What do you know in your natural knowing?\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have the experience yet, if you\u2019re not clear inside, then stay open to your learning.<\/p>\n Check It Out <\/b><\/p>\n Sometimes others can help you with their experiences and learning.\u00a0 For example, if someone says, \u201cHey, I\u2019ve been down that road and there\u2019s a big cliff. Watch out!\u201d that could be very helpful and caring.\u00a0 Then again, maybe they\u2019re deceiving you.\u00a0 Maybe there\u2019s something really good down that road, but they don\u2019t want you to go there for whatever are their personal reasons.\u00a0 Just because somebody says something doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s true.\u00a0 So check it out.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of responsibility in this level to check things out, to be aware and conscious of your experience. Keep moving yourself into a place that\u2019s calm, clear, peaceful, up, and enduring.\u00a0 If something is difficult for you, remember that one of the great truths on this level is this too shall pass. There\u2019s nothing in this world that\u2019s going to last.<\/p>\n In the spiritual realm, a lifetime in this world is a blink. It\u2019s an important blink, but it\u2019s still just a blink.\u00a0 It\u2019s not all that long.\u00a0 One of the things that happens in this world is that God slows things down so we can handle them.\u00a0 When you start understanding that, you can realize, \u201cThings are really dense here, so I can learn at my speed.\u00a0 As I learn, I move on and I graduate.\u00a0 I go on to something else that\u2019s now on purpose for me.\u201d<\/p>\n As we progress spiritually, we realize that a lot of things on this level are no longer our level of concern.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been there.\u00a0 We\u2019ve done that. Or we\u2019ve heard enough so we know we don\u2019t want to go there.<\/p>\n Every day we have opportunities to realize what\u2019s on purpose for us.\u00a0 We then make decisions accordingly.\u00a0 It ends up being very ordinary, like putting food on our plate or gas in the car or shoveling snow off the sidewalk — ordinary practical things to take care of our level of responsibility in this world.<\/p>\n For example, as a caring person, part of your caring may extend to making sure it\u2019s not slippery when you or someone else walks on the sidewalk near your home.\u00a0 You care about yourself and you care about them.\u00a0 So you shovel the snow off the sidewalk.<\/p>\n What if nobody\u2019s come up the sidewalk for six months?\u00a0 Why would you still shovel the sidewalk? It\u2019s an exercise in discipline. God knows what you are doing.\u00a0 God walks to your house. So who are you really caring for?\u00a0 It\u2019s part of a loving gift to God when you choose to shovel the sidewalk.<\/p>\n These are the little victories available to us.\u00a0 By doing good, we can start overcoming anything like a down feeling or a down moment.\u00a0 Choose to keep going after each triumph.\u00a0 Do a little good here, a little good there.\u00a0 It all adds up.<\/p>\n Looking at Karma with Neutrality <\/b><\/p>\n Sometimes life comes along and smacks you anyway.\u00a0 Karma is like that sometimes. It can be unexpected, unwanted and it can hurt. Are you being punished?\u00a0 You can look at your experiences in that way.\u00a0 But I encourage you instead to look at karma as an experience and a balancing action.<\/p>\n When karma involves you, it\u2019s yours. There\u2019s no sense in trying to deny it or reject it.\u00a0 Your protesting and denying won\u2019t help you.\u00a0 Move into acceptance.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to have to deal with whatever it is, so you might as well deal with it now.\u00a0 And dealing with it now may be about cleaning up a mess, making it better somehow or dusting off yourself and moving on.<\/p>\n Choose for the greater good, and remember that you\u2019re learning. Your life is teaching you what you need to learn. That applies to all the conditions, all the people, all the time.\u00a0 None of us are finished yet. We\u2019re all moving toward completion. So do more of those things that are for your fulfillment.\u00a0 As you choose your fulfillment, you demonstrate that you\u2019ve overcome the world.\u00a0 That\u2019s the Christ consciousness.\u00a0 That\u2019s your heritage.<\/p>\n Christ Consciousness & Loving It All <\/b><\/p>\n A good way to get in tune with the Christ consciousness is to love yourself and understand that you\u2019ve been chosen.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been chosen to pick up your life and move it into the Christ. We\u2019ve all been chosen.\u00a0 Some don\u2019t choose back or they do it to a lesser degree. In the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, we\u2019re going for the full one hundred percent.<\/p>\n There\u2019s an amazing aspect to that one hundred percent. It\u2019s called grace. So if you do the best you can, then the Christ consciousness completes what you don\u2019t do.\u00a0 The Christ consciousness picks up whatever is your debt or your incompletion.\u00a0 It picks it up, and it fulfills it. Then you go free.\u00a0 Free is free.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like a limited version of freedom that\u2019s still attached or in bondage. It\u2019s unconditional.<\/p>\n We\u2019re on a path where we\u2019re going to triumph.\u00a0 So claim it.\u00a0 Then get busy matching up your intention with how that intention works in this world. There are some big keys, like the Spiritual Laws John-Roger has defined, and they\u2019re primarily working through loving it all.\u00a0 More and more, it becomes a process where you\u2019re in grace. There\u2019s more happiness, and there\u2019s joy and peace.<\/p>\n This world is not our world. It\u2019s a temporary waystation, basically. But it\u2019s an on-purpose waystation. This world is tremendously good in what it delivers for us for our learning, upliftment and growth.<\/p>\n One of the amazing qualities of this world is how multi-dimensional it is. It\u2019s vastly diversified. Yet what concerns us is right here and now.\u00a0 So you don\u2019t have to go anywhere.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing lacking or missing here and now.\u00a0 You just deal with what you\u2019re finding here in the present moment.\u00a0 These are often the little things that bring a smile to your face or maybe a smile to somebody else\u2019s face.<\/p>\n As I was driving the other day, I saw an older man with a cane standing on the corner.\u00a0 He seemed rather weak and frail.\u00a0 Nearby, was a young father with a baby carriage. The father had two babies in the carriage who were both very much awake and moving around.\u00a0 The older man smiled and waved to the babies as they passed by him, but the father didn\u2019t notice.\u00a0 He seemed caught up with getting into the car and on their way.\u00a0 I was struck that the older man was noticing something really grand going on right then in that moment.\u00a0 Although he looked weak and even shaky, he turned to notice and appreciate the joy in the moment while the father seemed to be preoccupied and in a rush.<\/p>\n In Spirit, there is no urgency.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the basic teachings.\u00a0 So where\u2019s the urgency? In our perceptions in the world. And what do we do when we are in a hurry? We often don\u2019t catch what\u2019s really on purpose right now.<\/p>\n Did you know that Christ walked right by you today?\u00a0 How would you know?\u00a0 Maybe the Christ was dressed like an old man or even a thief, and you didn\u2019t take a moment to look inside there and see the Christ.\u00a0\u00a0 If you look from the eyes of the Christ consciousness, you can see the Christ in others.\u00a0 You can see the Christ even when someone\u2019s disagreeing with you or is upset with you.\u00a0 What a moment to say, \u201cI see the Christ in you.\u201d\u00a0 You can choose to see what it is within them past their behavior or their words.<\/p>\n The more you can see the Christ within, the more you can realize your life doesn\u2019t have anything missing in it. There\u2019s no lack in it. Even if somebody says, \u201cYou\u2019re fired!\u00a0 Get your stuff out of the desk by 5:00!\u201d there\u2019s really nothing missing.\u00a0 You can choose an attitude of neutrality which is on track with your spiritual progression.<\/p>\n As soon as you respond with dread, reluctance or resistance, that\u2019s not who you are in the truth of your being. That\u2019s moving away from neutrality and into a false self. So as soon as somebody expresses through that negativity, consider they\u2019re saying, \u201cI\u2019m expressing my false self.\u201d\u00a0 When we\u2019re speaking from our false self, that\u2019s a misinterpretation of who we are.<\/p>\n Letting the Love Out <\/b><\/p>\n I encourage you to be very caring toward yourself, and extend that caring to others. Be nicer, so you\u2019re nicer to yourself and nicer to others.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about your ability. It\u2019s about your willingness.<\/p>\n If you say what\u2019s in your heart, you\u2019re just speaking what\u2019s true. It\u2019s not necessarily something you\u2019re going to be comfortable with.\u00a0 But if you\u2019re willing to do this, it will liberate you.<\/p>\n Nobody does well when they\u2019re afraid to love. It\u2019s a form of imprisonment, and the heart doesn\u2019t like it. So you have to be your own liberator.\u00a0\u00a0 Part of it is just being more yourself and giving yourself permission to do what you love.\u00a0 Then it\u2019s liberating.<\/p>\n Unconditional loving opens you up so it will come through you.\u00a0 You\u2019ll experience it. Often the way it reflects to us is as feeling love for a person or thing.\u00a0\u00a0 We may experience it as the love is out here in the world.\u00a0 The reality is we opened up to our love inside, and it\u2019s connected to whoever and whatever is reflecting it back to us.\u00a0 It could be the dog, your neighbor, what\u2019s in the sky or even the weather.\u00a0 Allow your loving to go out regardless.<\/p>\n You can always turn up your loving.\u00a0\u00a0 You can be somebody that wherever you go you take the time to be loving.\u00a0 Even if you\u2019re waiting in line to pay for your groceries, you can specialize in loving the different kinds of gum at the checkout stand.\u00a0 Sounds silly?\u00a0 Rather than judge your loving, you can choose to love the different kinds of gum or the different colors on the wrappers. You can appreciate the graphic artist who designed the wrapper and the factory workers who helped process the gum inside.<\/p>\n Choose to engage with your life more fully than you are doing.\u00a0 Instead of waiting for something to happen, like you\u2019re waiting for your love\u2019s ship to come in, be that love ship.\u00a0 It begins right here where you are now.\u00a0 If you can solve it in this moment, it has the same application to the next moment. So that means you know how to love. That means you\u2019re lovable. As soon as it happens once, it can happen again.<\/p>\n These moments will start transforming you, so you have a life that starts becoming different.\u00a0 You\u2019re letting the love out.\u00a0 That\u2019s going to work. It has to. It\u2019s the greatest force in this world. So when people are unhappy or unsatisfied, they need to let the love out. That\u2019s the bottom line. We need to love and be loved. That\u2019s everybody\u2019s truth.\u00a0 When we\u2019re loving and being loved, everything is right.<\/p>\n Loving It All <\/b><\/p>\n John-Roger has said, \u201cOut of God comes all things.\u201d\u00a0 So if you\u2019re upset and in disagreement, that\u2019s an accusation that eventually goes to God.\u00a0 Then you\u2019re choosing to be in separation from your divinity.<\/p>\n I suggest you come into good terms with God. You can begin with neutrality where you just let go of the issues. You can say, \u201cGod, I\u2019m letting go of the way you treated me in the form of __________.\u201d That can be in about a relationship, your work, your body, etc.\u00a0 Instead of having an argument or disagreement with God, let go and trust. That\u2019s a choice that will let you be freed up so you can be more fully in your life now.<\/p>\n Remember, everybody is doing the best they can with what they know and with what they\u2019re working with considering the conditions they\u2019re in. So why judge anybody including yourself?\u00a0 Everyone is dealing with their own pain, their own limitations, their own learning.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they behave the way they do.<\/p>\n When you come into understanding, which it the third law of Spirit, then you won\u2019t hold it against them.\u00a0\u00a0 You may not want to participate in it, which is understandable.\u00a0 You have a responsibility to take care of yourself. So that would mean you can say, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t want that\u201d or \u201cI don\u2019t permit that.\u201d<\/p>\n Some conditions in life are like, \u201cTough, it\u2019s going to be that way anyway.\u201d You may say to somebody \u201cStop hurting me,\u201d and they may say \u201cNo, I\u2019m going to hurt you anyway.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 If that happens, you still have a choice not to allow how you\u2019re being treated to internalize.\u00a0 Don\u2019t dishonor yourself when others do things that seem dishonorable. Choose to hold in your dignity and love yourself regardless.<\/p>\n Your dignity is always present with you. If we erase the way you were treated, your dignity\u2019s there. And if we don\u2019t erase it, your dignity is still there. So go to your dignity.\u00a0 Go to your integrity.\u00a0 Say to yourself, \u201cI\u2019m a good person regardless of how anyone treated me.\u201d<\/p>\n No one is responsible for your happiness.\u00a0 So choose to have more fun, more enjoyment, more appreciation, more smiling, particularly with the little things in life, the routine things. The ordinary, practical little things have a way of transferring over to greater things.\u00a0 So love the little things in your life.<\/p>\n Be in love with your life. Love your past, and love your present.\u00a0 And when faced with challenges, shift into neutrality.\u00a0 Choose acceptance as you love it all. Then you are loving as God loves, always in all ways.<\/p>\n Blessing<\/p>\n Father, we ask for Your blessing and\u00a0Your light to clear whatever has been brought up here so we experience the healing, joy, and the upliftment.\u00a0 We give ourself permission at every level, especially with the past and our judgments towards ourself or others, so we set ourselves free.\u00a0 We release all these judgments and come into Your adoration, the love that is unconditional.\u00a0 We accept it, and we claim it as our divine heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n Baruch Bashan<\/em><\/p>\n WATCH A SHORT VIDEO WITH JOHN MORTON<\/strong>
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