So many times we believe what we are told. Someone elses truth becomes our own, sometimes never even questioning that it might not have been the truth to begin with. Rumors might ensue. Insults and manipulation of people, time and events can change not only one persons image of a situation, but sometimes entire nations.There are those that will use others for gain. Those that use events and those that are the victims of the perpetrators that wish to solicit a scene of deception. Like Lucifer, some of the grandest illusionists, are just that: illusions.
In this day and age we must not only be mindful of those around us that may wish us to see something in a light that better suites them, but we must be aware also that our government, the media and other large corporations may wish to do the same. Similar to brainwashing, if you hear the same thing again and again, you are most often groomed to believe it. Even in our advertising on TV it seems the media is setting the new standard of what "happiness" looks like by portraying happy families and relationships that of course buy their product. Should we not be conscious of the messages made by film, television and advertising, we unconsciously accept the messages they convey as a new point of reference. What's in, what's out, what a relationship should look like, or even a happy family.
Faced with these same issues in our immediate surroundings, we also may have people that solicit their ideas on how "our" lives should be run. It may be our church, our family or even a spouse or lover. What "they" say may inhibit our own point of reference and can lead us down a very different path than might have been intended for us. So what is the true path we should take and who should we listen to?
If we awaken to our true reality, we'll realize that our entire makeup is a series of beliefs, thoughts and patterns. All of them formed by our own experiences with input of thought and judgement from outside sources. Louise Hay had at one time said that if you change your thoughts, you can change your life. This statement holds much truth. For when we see what thought we have been fed or have accepted as our reality, we can also see that sometimes that "reality" we thought was real, is actually just an "illusion". Our illusions are accepted from others or created by ourselves. We may be under the illusion we are fat and will always be fat. That we are poor and that we will always be poor, or that we are repressed and will always be repressed.
Some of the greatest men and women of our time have dared to step out of those illusions. Nelson Mandela comes to mind as one who refused to accept that a once repressed people would always be repressed. He never bought into the illusion that another race or people were "better than" or more "deserving" of freedom. He knew that the true reality of who he was lied within. A stronger, more eternal and sacred part of himself that was his true essence. Within him was the source that connected all beings, big and small. He was awakened to his true self and shed the illusion of the little man that others wanted him to believe he was. It was not his illusion, but the illusion of others that wished to cast it upon him. He did not accept it, but rose above it and in the end he rose his entire nation above it as well.
Awakening to our true reality is the same. We must cast aside the pictures, the scenarios, the labels and stereotypes that society and others have dictated to us. We must begin to "re-route" our thoughts and form new ones in order to change our internal makeup and feeling body about who we really are. Doing this requires not only right action, but a conscious choice to be proactive in our own lives. Change can come to us, although sometimes slowly, it does come. As Mr Mandela once said, however, if we have in our minds what we want to achieve and we keep our thoughts on what that is, our purpose, in the end we have no option but to succeed. For when we embark on our own journey of the soul, we bring in the light necessary to make it happen. We are powerful beings. So powerful, that when we awaken to our true reality and who we are it often scares us. Knowing what we are, what we have created, takes consistency and great effort. Nothing is impossible and there is no dream that can't be kept alive as long as we have our dream in our hearts and minds.
This week may you keep dreaming. Keep taking steps down the road to your freedom, and keep your eyes on what you want in the end. Sooner or later you will arrive, and when you do, you'll realize it was only you that stopped you all along.
