In prior posts we have discussed the four lower bodies. Our mental thoughts, physical body, emotional body and spiritual bodies. That to clear them and become closer to our true divinity and to be happier individuals, we must break the patterns of thought and emotion that hold us captive. These patterns are repetitious cycles. As we've demonstrated before, one word or thought can set us off on a pattern that we have internalized. It may be something that makes us sad, angry, frustrated or even excited. Most of us always want the excited and happy patterns, but the patterns that leave us feeling bad, angry or depressed I'm sure we'd all agree would be better left out.
It would be nice if we could just surgically extract them, but we can't. We have to transmute or transform them into something else. If you think of a car that rides down a muddy road every day, the tires of the car will produce ruts in that road. The car will naturally go into the ruts because that's the easiest route. Internally your make up is the same way. What you have seen and heard from childhood and what you have become and do in your adulthood are the patterns that play out internally for you.
Some of the most telling statements and evidence of these patterns are statements like: "I love the smell of freshly baked apple pie. It always reminds me of my grandmothers house when I was a kid" or "I hate the smell of alcohol. My father was drunk all the time when I was a kid."
Smells, tastes, thoughts, anything we experience in the five senses can bring about an emotion. Michael used to say what enters the mind, the mind enters. I love that statement because when we enter into the emotion from the thought it suddenly becomes our reality.
How many times have you had a pretty good day when all of the sudden something happens and shatters it? Say you just broke up with your boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife. You think you see them at the mall with someone else. Powerful emotions right? It starts a cycle and we are cyclic beings. The thoughts and emotions begin to run rampant and soon your pretty good day turns ugly.
The key in breaking these patterns and cycles is to stop them between the phases. If it's the sight of your ex partner, the stopping point would be before the next thought and before entering "into" the emotion. Once we let the emotional body, or as Eckhart Tolle would say, the pain body, into the equation, the pattern is already commencing. You can actually "feel" the pattern in your body. It's the tenseness, the heart palpitations from seeing that ex with someone else or the warm comforting feeling when you smell that apple pie. Catching the pattern before it gets into the emotions is key. When you find yourself headed toward that ugly place, stop and consciously re-route the thought to produce another feeling.
Here are a few videos that help clarify patterns and cycles and how we might break them. The first video is a study that was done with water crystals. Realizing that our bodies are comprised mostly of water, think of how our internal emotions really do effect us inside. We create these types of patterns within us when we "feel" a certain way.
It would be nice if we could just surgically extract them, but we can't. We have to transmute or transform them into something else. If you think of a car that rides down a muddy road every day, the tires of the car will produce ruts in that road. The car will naturally go into the ruts because that's the easiest route. Internally your make up is the same way. What you have seen and heard from childhood and what you have become and do in your adulthood are the patterns that play out internally for you.
Some of the most telling statements and evidence of these patterns are statements like: "I love the smell of freshly baked apple pie. It always reminds me of my grandmothers house when I was a kid" or "I hate the smell of alcohol. My father was drunk all the time when I was a kid."
Smells, tastes, thoughts, anything we experience in the five senses can bring about an emotion. Michael used to say what enters the mind, the mind enters. I love that statement because when we enter into the emotion from the thought it suddenly becomes our reality.
How many times have you had a pretty good day when all of the sudden something happens and shatters it? Say you just broke up with your boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife. You think you see them at the mall with someone else. Powerful emotions right? It starts a cycle and we are cyclic beings. The thoughts and emotions begin to run rampant and soon your pretty good day turns ugly.
The key in breaking these patterns and cycles is to stop them between the phases. If it's the sight of your ex partner, the stopping point would be before the next thought and before entering "into" the emotion. Once we let the emotional body, or as Eckhart Tolle would say, the pain body, into the equation, the pattern is already commencing. You can actually "feel" the pattern in your body. It's the tenseness, the heart palpitations from seeing that ex with someone else or the warm comforting feeling when you smell that apple pie. Catching the pattern before it gets into the emotions is key. When you find yourself headed toward that ugly place, stop and consciously re-route the thought to produce another feeling.
Here are a few videos that help clarify patterns and cycles and how we might break them. The first video is a study that was done with water crystals. Realizing that our bodies are comprised mostly of water, think of how our internal emotions really do effect us inside. We create these types of patterns within us when we "feel" a certain way.
