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5 Oct 2006 @ 12:19, by Enocia Joseph

Pain is of the ego. The real self never goes through any pain.


The dominant paradigm (model) in this reality we collectively define as earth is that one evolves through learning from experience. You come into a family, society and culture, you go through trials and tribulations. You look back on your experiences and try to glean whatever meaning you can from them. You conclude that you wouldn't be this kind of person if you hadn't had that experience.

Because most people accept this paradigm as truth, life seems to follow that pattern. And your life is filled with pain and more dramas. And yet somewhere deep inside of you is a knowing that life doesn't have to be this way. There is a knowing that life is meant to be joyful. The moment you take a step towards that knowing the paradigm of pain pulls you away. The paradigm of pain/ego tells you life is about trials and tribulations. Go to any bookshop and you'll find biographies and autobiographies galore about persons learning from experience through trials and tribulations.

Like many people I was conditioned into the same paradigm of learning from experience. It got to a point when I also had the knowing that life was meant to be joyful. So I listened to the Voice within me. Yet the ego was pulling me in the opposite direction. There followed the long battle of letting go of and weaning myself from old beliefs.

The Voice is that of my real self who doesn't go through trials and tribulations. The real self is always in joy, love and peace. There is no need for me to try to let go of ideas or beliefs, just be the real self now. My real self continues to remind me to be the Love that I am now.

Here's one example of being the Love that I am now.

Years ago I had persistent pain in one knee that would give way whenever I put pressure on it. First of all, I saw my GP (General Practitioner/doctor) who referred me to an orthopaedic consultant. The consultant did an X-ray but found nothing wrong. He even sent me to have a second opinion with another consultant and he could find nothing wrong either and there was nothing they could do to help. As the pain persisted I sought help elsewhere. Over the next two years I saw a physiotherapist, osteopath, chiropractor, homeopath, and chiropodist. I tried acupuncture, Reiki healing(I became a Reiki healer), energy healing, NLP (I trained as a practitioner), Pranic Healing (I became a practitioner), shamanic healing (I trained with a shaman) all to no avail. I also tried healing with truth principles. I wanted to understand whether my beliefs and thoughts were keeping me in pain. That didn't work either. I called upon healing angels and masters and still nothing. In desperation, I asked God, my real self, for help. I was instantly shown a vision of myself running, which I couldn't accept at the time. One day I ran for a bus and my knee was perfect. It has been perfect ever since.

Of course the paradigm of learning lessons would argue that I was going through a process of awakening; the pain was my guide to my real self. Whatever!

All I know is that the real self's way is that of joyful living. SHE doesn't care what my beliefs or past experiences are. I can be the Love that I am now.

Life is a choice. You can either choose to walk the path of learning from experiences or be the Love that you are now.

In other words, are you a person or Spirit? You decide.

Enocia

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5 Oct 2006 @ 13:09 by triggs : Spirit
I am not a christian, just a free spirit but I have always felt that the devil was a metaphor for the human ego. Thanks for posting this , I agree with you.
Peace. Tom  

5 Oct 2006 @ 13:26 by vector8 : I am Spirit
Thanks Tom.

[[I am not a christian, just a free spirit but I have always felt that the devil was a metaphor for the human ego.]]

Yes I feel the same way, Tom. I see the devil as a way to distract you from being who you are. In a previous article I wrote:

"The earth (and other realities like earth) is like a game. The object of the game is to realise there is only One taking on the many forms. To make the game more challenging, every move you make there is an antagonist trying to distract you from your objective." http://simplyenocia.blogspot.com/2005/10/is-there-devil.html

Thank you for being the free spirit that you are.

With love,
Enocia  

5 Oct 2006 @ 18:39 by bushman : Hmm
Maybe just a "divine being", within a less than perfect body, for the job at hand? I got those kind of pains, knees, back, hips. You know, it feels like a foot stuffed in a tight sock. Like theres not enough room in the body/vessel to contain the being.  

5 Oct 2006 @ 20:46 by hgoodgame : A bit deeper
and we see there is no this/that, either/or, body/spirit, devil/god; this is still dualistic thinking. Love does not see many things, it sees only one. Everyone in their place being, doing, experiencing what they came for.

Body/spirit are ONE, to try and separate into categories is still a place of being stuck in the illusion of duality. My personal riddle: What is always together and always apart?

Your experience of being able to run is a wonderful example of forgetting for a moment your limitation. It worked for you, you were ready for that 'miracle' and so you were shown.

Yes, we came here to experience the joy of material manifestation, to see hear, touch, taste, and smell, and feel emotion. And once having entered this 'physical' arena, we also became effected by universal laws, such as cause and effect; as above, so below.. We also forgot our divinity and the power we have to create with thought and feeling (it's how everything got to be the way it is). Now we see a world created by all of us with beliefs long held, already in place long before we were born. Is it live or is it memorex? Many are waking up to their divinity and with this process we will change 'reality'.

Because we are spirit in manifestation, we can create our version of reality by holding an image, visualizing as you did with the running, something different from where we are here and now. In that 'here and now' you were limited, an instant later in another 'here and now' you were reborn into another reality, that of not being limited or in pain. Do you know that we are reborn several times a day? It only seems that the story is continuous because of 'memory'. Parallel dimensions exist within each other, not alongside each other.

My thinking is not so far from yours. One of my favorite saying (from Ken Keyes' book Handbook to Higher Consciousness) is: Life is just a game we play and there is no special way.

I'm happy to see you've taken your comment to heart and continued the thread here. ;)  

6 Oct 2006 @ 10:33 by vector8 : Aches and Pains - Bushman
Hi Bushman,

[[Maybe just a "divine being", within a less than perfect body, for the job at hand? I got those kind of pains, knees, back, hips. You know, it feels like a foot stuffed in a tight sock. Like theres not enough room in the body/vessel to contain the being. ]]

You know I can relate to your point of view. When I have those pains sometimes I have a good stretch, not physically, but imagine myself expanding into infinity. I actually did that last night where I saw myself as huge and everything in me.

However, the pain I described in the piece was one where the knee kept giving way and there was a sharp pain going right down my shin. For two years I walked with a limp because of the pain.

I appreciate your contribution, Bushman.

With love,
EJ  

6 Oct 2006 @ 11:12 by vector8 : A bit deeper - hgoodgame
Appreciate your comments, Heidi and I can see where you're coming from.

I tell you where I stand as of NOW. ;) Love is all there is and Love is Spirit. Therefore, I live in Spirit now. What we perceive as the physical universe is Spirit. Because the universe is Spirit I expect it to behave as Spirit i.e. not be under cause/effect but be love. However, I have to continuously remember that I live in Spirit NOW. This is why I can injure myself in one moment (when I forget who I am) and erase that pain in the next moment when I remember that Spirit is Love and Perfection and Grace. (I am not talking about the knee experience). So for me, life is about expressing the many variations of Spirit in form and enjoying these forms as Love. I expect to have lots of chocolates and not be sick because chocolate is love. I expect to eat anything I feel like without thinking about nutrients or calories because food is love. Do you know I once had a grit in my eyes and it stung, then I remembered that I live in love and the grit melted into nothing.

In my view waking up is simply realising that I live in Spirit now and there is nothing to change. I simply need to accept that I live in love and witness the Glory of Love.

[[My thinking is not so far from yours. One of my favorite saying (from Ken Keyes' book Handbook to Higher Consciousness) is: Life is just a game we play and there is no special way.]]

I agree that life is a game and I choose to play it as living in Love now and forever.

[[I'm happy to see you've taken your comment to heart and continued the thread here. ;)]]

Thanks. :)

Lovely chatting to you.

Lots of love,
Enocia  

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