How to Exercise the Soul!

 

“We are fundamentally good, not fundamentally flawed.” This awareness is so liberating for us souls to know and to understand.  This soul was born under a belief system based on ORIGINAL SIN…as were many of my generation and the preceding generations. Actually the truth as I have come to know it is, a hundred and eighty degrees opposite! We are Originally Pure Souls and the weaknesses we find within ourselves at present have been ACQUIRED; they are not INNATE to the Human Family or the Human Soul.  This is what I have learned from the Divine Source of the beautiful teachings of the Brahma Kumaris’s.

Much of what we have acquired from the world around us includes our religious dogmas, beliefs instilled by very well-meaning parents and teachers, and even attitudes and perceptions picked up through our friends and cultural backgrounds. These are the foundational basis for the  creation of the EGO systems we currently live through and which limit our experience of LIFE!!!.

The Buddhists call the concept of a fixed identity “ego-clinging”.  This refers to how our egos try relentlessly to hold on to what we consider to be ‘real’, to stand rigidly upon a sense of solid ground in an ever-shifting world. 

In states of deep meditation or deep contemplation or even in momentary states of wonder,  notice how your usual awareness/perception is shed or broken free of…. liberating you from old, limiting patterns of thought and perception.  Metaphorically speaking, these transitional experiences are akin to the ordinary, crawling, caterpillar emerging from the cocoon as an amazing winged creature, we know as the butterfly. These experiences help you to transition or metamorphosize from one state of consciousness into another!  

These opportunities give the reflective soul a chance to emerge from its ordinary “egoic self”, free from  the thousand little opinions that have encased it in a “protective shell”, and experience a flight of freedom into its true Unlimited Form!

As you sit quietly, observe yourself from the inside, from the place inside which is deep and peaceful and spacious.  Notice the difference between this place of being and how different that feels from  the little self which is often found to be running the show and painting itself into a small corner of reality. Ultimately, You, the soul exists beyond thought and beyond cultural belief systems of right and wrong. The soul that is you,  has been covered over by the mind (a tool of the soul) which has been mired in a world of limited “truths” and small thinking. 

EXERCISE YOUR MIND AND STRENGTHEN YOU THE SOUL by repeating these powerful thoughts grounded in truth many times- throughout your day.  These thoughts are valuable because they point you in a new direction…the direction of your essential nature which is pure, unlimited, and eternal.  Begin living from this place of knowing you are a soul whose nature is not only good, but great!  Don’t fall back into the world of “ego-clinging”. Do this resistance training instead! 

This is EXERCISE FOR THE SOUL!!!

I AM LIGHT

I am a being of unlimited peace.

I am a beloved child of the Benevolent Bestower of Love and Happiness.

I am a great soul.

I am a destroyer of obstacles for myself and others.

Bask in the eternal nature of who you are. Encourage yourself  to live in truth and to be free.          

THIS IS HOW TO EXERCISE THE SOUL!!!