According to Egyptian mythology, every 500 years the Phoenix self-immolates, meaning-it voluntarily lights itself on fire so that it may be reborn as a greater expression of itself. 95% of who we are is a set of unconscious thoughts, automatic programs, repetitive habits, emotional reactions, & memorized behaviors. These routine programs affect us mentally, spiritually, physically, chemically, biologically, & genetically, and they serve to keep us stuck in the past. When we’re entrenched in these life patterns, we might as well be a hamster on the proverbial wheel-& the only way to step off the wheel is to become aware you’re on it. In other words, the only mode to produce change is to bring conscious (awareness) to what we were unconscious to, & we do this by observing our thoughts, perceptions, behaviors, emotions, & actions. To become a master of our thoughts & emotions, like the Phoenix we need to be able to sit in the discomfort of the fire. Sitting in the fire is both the process & the initiation, & for many it can be a very difficult & painful process. The body craves the past, & by using our will to overcome the safety and comfort of the past, the body goes through all sorts of transformations on a moment-to-moment basis. I can tell you from experience, there have been countless times during my meditations where I’ve felt like a pugilist backed into the corner of a ring, & my opponent-the insufferable voice in my head called the ego-delivers body blow after body blow. Its strategy is to not to land the knock-out punch, but rather to weaken & disable. The metaphor of lighting the self on fire is sitting in the presence of that discomfort for a long enough period of time-continuously observing ourselves-until the ego tires itself out. Every time you win that round by becoming conscious of those unconscious thoughts, programs, behaviors, & attitudes, you are raising your energy-because consciousness is awareness and awareness is paying attention. You can’t have consciousness without energy, so the moment you start raising your awareness, you start raising your energy, and consequently moving closer to the unified field.
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According to Egyptian mythology, every 500 years the Phoenix self-immolates, meaning-it voluntarily lights itself on fire so that it may be reborn as a greater expression of itself.
95% of who we are is a set of unconscious thoughts, automatic programs, repetitive habits, emotional reactions, & memorized behaviors. These routine programs affect us mentally, spiritually, physically, chemically, biologically, & genetically, and they serve to keep us stuck in the past. When we’re entrenched in these life patterns, we might as well be a hamster on the proverbial wheel-& the only way to step off the wheel is to become aware you’re on it. In other words, the only mode to produce change is to bring conscious (awareness) to what we were unconscious to, & we do this by observing our thoughts, perceptions, behaviors, emotions, & actions.
To become a master of our thoughts & emotions, like the Phoenix we need to be able to sit in the discomfort of the fire. Sitting in the fire is both the process & the initiation, & for many it can be a very difficult & painful process. The body craves the past, & by using our will to overcome the safety and comfort of the past, the body goes through all sorts of transformations on a moment-to-moment basis. I can tell you from experience, there have been countless times during my meditations where I’ve felt like a pugilist backed into the corner of a ring, & my opponent-the insufferable voice in my head called the ego-delivers body blow after body blow. Its strategy is to not to land the knock-out punch, but rather to weaken & disable.
The metaphor of lighting the self on fire is sitting in the presence of that discomfort for a long enough period of time-continuously observing ourselves-until the ego tires itself out. Every time you win that round by becoming conscious of those unconscious thoughts, programs, behaviors, & attitudes, you are raising your energy-because consciousness is awareness and awareness is paying attention. You can’t have consciousness without energy, so the moment you start raising your awareness, you start raising your energy, and consequently moving closer to the unified field.