{"id":111963,"date":"2024-05-29T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=111963"},"modified":"2024-05-30T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:52:17","slug":"focus-on-the-positive-and-your-divine-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/111963-focus-on-the-positive-and-your-divine-nature","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Positive and Your Divine Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Traveler understands you are going to forget and have lapses, stumble, and fall.\u00a0 You will get your hands dirty.\u00a0 We are ready for that.\u00a0 We would appreciate it if you would clean up, clear up and put yourself back in order as best you can.”<\/em> – John Morton<\/p>\n

This new and timeless article and blessing come from a sharing session John had with an \u201cIntention, Health, Openness and Prosperity\u201d (IHOP) class in January 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the universal stories about embodying in this world is that we come from a better place in order to do it.\u00a0 That is important as a reference point.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like we are bringing in a lower nature.\u00a0 We\u2019re bringing in the soul that has a higher nature than the psychic bodies.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about layers.\u00a0 There is a layer, then there is another layer and then another.\u00a0 Eventually there is a physical world layer.\u00a0 If you go back through those iterations of the soul embodying itself, there is a kind of repetition. Layer upon layer.\u00a0 Having a memory of your origin, your source, is in your favor.<\/p>\n

As we took on the layering of the lower nature, we may have protested and resisted.\u00a0 It\u2019s a rebellious nature that is also in the mind and\/or the emotional state.\u00a0 I am being very simple now.\u00a0 We need to release the rebellious, resistant nature.\u00a0 Release the protest, but not in a way where you are condemning yourself, like punishing a child by saying, \u201cYou\u2019re grounded for another week!\u201d\u00a0 What child enjoys that treatment?\u00a0 Self-condemnation towards your process is not helping.<\/p>\n

It is more important that you lift the judgment and have positive regard, going towards unconditional positive regard.\u00a0 Then you are going towards the loving consciousness.\u00a0 That is what\u2019s really important.<\/p>\n

In MSIA, we try to do it as a direct line, a direct shot.\u00a0 We don\u2019t do it in twenty-eight steps if we can do it in one.\u00a0 It is like John-Roger talking about cutting a dog\u2019s tail off.\u00a0 Don\u2019t do it in five whacks, just do it in one.\u00a0\u00a0 If we have to clear the rebellion, resistance, and judgment, let\u2019s do it all at once rather than a little at a time.\u00a0 Sometimes, that is very frustrating, but it\u2019s really important to clear the judgments.<\/p>\n

The Traveler inside you is a consciousness.\u00a0 When we understand who the Traveler is, it becomes \u201cI am the Traveler.\u201d\u00a0 Yes, of course you are.\u00a0 For a while it is practical to be in an \u201cI-Thou\u201d relationship, that the Traveler was greater than you.\u00a0 You would get down and bow.\u00a0 That humbleness of your ego is healthy.\u00a0 We could call it submission, but I like to call it surrender and acceptance.\u00a0 I am letting go of my position so I can be entirely in with your position.\u00a0 Your position is the Traveler in the divine nature.<\/p>\n

We also call that the Christ as it steps itself down.\u00a0 It is coming into the opening of this pure, whole spirit and nothing but the spirit.\u00a0 One of the things the Traveler will do is deliver your karma to you.\u00a0 If the Traveler has your karma as an initiate, then one of the things it\u2019s going to do is dispense it back to you \u2013 in grace.\u00a0 It is done in an intelligent way, in perfect timing, in perfect ways, even if you don\u2019t agree because you don\u2019t understand it.\u00a0 Your lower nature would reject or try to resist it.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons the Traveler doesn\u2019t tell you when the karma is going to be released is so you can\u2019t interfere.\u00a0 You may ask, \u201cWell Traveler, couldn\u2019t you have told me?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 You would have tried not to be there or perhaps sabotage it.\u00a0 You ask, \u201cWhy would I do that?\u201d\u00a0 Because that is your pattern.<\/p>\n

The Traveler already knows how this story goes.\u00a0 It goes that you overcome the world, the negative dimensions.\u00a0 That is how it\u2019s going, and the Traveler doesn\u2019t let up on its end.\u00a0 It is going to continue until the job is done.\u00a0 All you need to do is keep up.<\/p>\n

What does that mean?\u00a0 It\u2019s like breathing, but also asking, \u201cWould you mind helping when you can?\u00a0 Lend a hand and help yourself?\u00a0 Clear yourself and keep somewhat out of trouble?\u201d\u00a0 That is appreciated.<\/p>\n

The Traveler understands you are going to forget and have lapses, stumble, and fall.\u00a0 You will get your hands dirty.\u00a0 We are ready for that.\u00a0 We would appreciate it if you would clean up, clear up and put yourself back in order as best you can.\u00a0 There is plenty of help.<\/p>\n

What you need spiritually doesn\u2019t run out or have limitation.\u00a0 Limitation is in the lower nature.\u00a0 That should make perfect sense.\u00a0 Of course, it\u2019s in the lower nature.\u00a0 In spirit, there is no limitation.\u00a0 It is not necessary or needed.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t there.\u00a0 Why is it needed in the lower nature?\u00a0 Because we are not ready.\u00a0 We can\u2019t handle it.\u00a0 We are not given what we cannot handle.\u00a0 Spirit is practical.<\/p>\n

Stay out of the lower vibrations that aren\u2019t serving your higher progression.\u00a0 Watch what you are doing.\u00a0 Be vigilant and conscious.\u00a0 Is it working?\u00a0 If you realize it is a temptation of some kind, there is a law of reversibility coming around inviting you to get involved.\u00a0 That is not a spiritual calling.\u00a0 That\u2019s a fascination.<\/p>\n

Call on a higher power, so as not to do something in the negative, which couldn\u2019t be done at the spiritual level.\u00a0 Where would it be done?\u00a0 It could be done at the magnetic level.\u00a0 It could be familiar but it\u2019s not necessary to get involved.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t do psychic phenomenon.\u00a0 It\u2019s around and some people are very attracted and involved in it.\u00a0 That is off-course from what we are focusing on.\u00a0 If you are in it and it\u2019s uplifting and working, okay.\u00a0 When in doubt, check it out.\u00a0 If you are not sure or there is a hesitation, give that some credence.<\/p>\n

Lower natures can be stagnant in relation to the spirit.\u00a0 Lower natures can\u2019t keep up.\u00a0 They are not at that frequency or rate.\u00a0 Have compassion towards any sense of stagnation.\u00a0 It is not big enough to interfere with what we are doing spiritually.<\/p>\n

Focus on the positive.\u00a0 Trust that if you need to know something, there is a watchfulness and you will have a sense of that.\u00a0 It might be, \u201cI\u2019m having these fears and I am nervous.\u201d\u00a0 Let\u2019s take a look around, put up the periscope and see what we find.\u00a0 Check it out so that if we do find something in the waters, grace would let you steer clear of it. This can come through your dream state, or like a hunch or intuition.\u00a0 It can come through common sense, like, \u201cI know that\u2019s not working for me, so I\u2019m not going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it is a so-called \u201cheavy karma\u201d you have to go through, the Traveler goes through it with you.\u00a0 What is it that the Traveler can\u2019t handle in the negative realms?\u00a0 It can handle it all.\u00a0 The Traveler\u2019s interest would be getting through as directly as possible with minimum negativity.\u00a0 Take care of yourself.\u00a0 Don\u2019t do things that make it more difficult, make you suffer or cause trouble.\u00a0 Any help with that is appreciated.<\/p>\n

In a lot of ways, conform with what is in the world.\u00a0 Get along in that way.\u00a0 You are not exempt from the details in the world.\u00a0 Don\u2019t violate or try to get away with it.\u00a0 In a way, just get it over with.\u00a0 Minimize the involvement with the lower forms or things that don\u2019t really matter in spirit.\u00a0 Focus on the positive and your divine nature.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

\n

A Blessing of God\u2019s Joy and Peace Everlasting<\/h4>\n

Let’s consider we have the blessing of the search
\nin the consciousness that’s still searching,
\nstill looking, still exploring,
\nstill trying to find what we’re looking for.<\/p>\n

In that light that we know is the Christ and the Holy Spirit
\nand this consciousness that is the Traveler,
\nwe now search for God.
\nWe now search for the blessings of God.<\/p>\n

In our openness, in this trust, we find we’re on solid ground with the blessings
\nand the consciousness that is God is already with us,
\nin the substance of our life, in what’s solid and true,
\nin what’s unshakeable.<\/p>\n

It cannot be taken away, cannot be disturbed, cannot be forsaken.
\nIt is already fulfilled, is holding safe and secure,
\nis preserved as the spiritual promise,
\nas those treasures always held in safekeeping until that moment,
\nthat perfect moment,
\nwhen we are fully prepared and fully available.<\/p>\n

In this blessing is all the opportunity to claim it as so.
\nWhat has been prepared, what we’ve been waiting for,
\nsearching for, hoping for, wishing for, can be called forward.<\/p>\n

In this silence is the patience,
\nthe understanding that whatever we’re looking for,
\nit’s already in our midst.
\nIt’s already present.
\nIt\u2019s in that consciousness within us we know it is God, our true and divine nature.<\/p>\n

We can hear the laughter.
\nIt strikes us funny that what we’ve been looking for,
\nwhat we’ve been searching for, has always been with us.
\nThe search itself has been unnecessary, and yet the search is now being used.
\nWe can see it because we know it.
\nWe know it as our true nature.
\nIt\u2019s everlasting good, everlasting joy, peace, and harmony.<\/p>\n

The presence that while we’re in this world,
\nwhile our eyes are always hungry what we seek to find,
\nwe have the comfort in knowing it’s a grand adventure.
\nIt’s a grand opportunity to keep moving,
\nto find our acceptance, to find our willingness
\nto embrace and contribute into all of these blessings,
\nall of what is already presented inside of us as the treasures,
\nthat they become manifest more and more every day in every way.<\/p>\n

So with the laughter, we can consider that God’s joke is upon us,
\nand we are the subject of God’s laughter.
\nWe are vibrating in this joy, in this profound upliftment and fulfillment.
\nAnd there is peace everlasting.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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