{"id":310,"date":"2010-05-13T08:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-05-26T03:42:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:42:32","slug":"know-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Know yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you truly know yourself?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you know who it is that <strong>breathes the breaths <\/strong>you take?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Do you know who it is that <strong>dreams the dreams<\/strong> you observe?<\/li>\n<li>Who <strong>moves your legs <\/strong>when you decide to walk into the other room?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do we really know ourselves, if we don&#8217;t know how we do these things as clearly as we know we think?<\/p>\n<p>You may believe you know you think.\u00a0 But do you know <strong>where your thoughts come from<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Do you know where your <strong>emotional feelings originate<\/strong>?\u00a0 Do you really?<\/p>\n<p>They <strong>originate from within <\/strong>and can be known to us. However, it is most easier to recognize the <strong>communications that come from within <\/strong>before trying to recognize the <strong>part of ourselves <\/strong>that carries out the acts of <strong>breathing and walking<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Dreaming, thoughts and emotional sensing <\/strong>all represent <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>forms of communication <\/strong><\/span>we receive <strong>from our inner being<\/strong>. There is much more to the whole being that what most of us readily recognize.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Emotions: Communications of Experience Quality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One may say;\u00a0\u00a0 My lover left me and now I am sad,\u00a0 I am sad because my lover left me.\u00a0 Sadness is an\u00a0 <strong>emotional sensation that is physically sensed<\/strong>.\u00a0 It is a form of communication.\u00a0 It is communication of the <strong>quality of the experience<\/strong> we&#8217;ve become aware.<\/p>\n<p>But first let&#8217;s address: <em>where do the emotional feelings come from<\/em>?\u00a0 Do they emanate from the lover that left us, kind of like how we feel the warmth of the kitchen stove <strong>radiating <\/strong>to our bodies as we stand near by?\u00a0 No, emotional feelings are NOT radiated from an external source; We can catch sadness just by reading the note our lover left behind for us to find.\u00a0\u00a0 They are not conducted nor inducted either.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore,\u00a0 emotions do NOT come from our lover <em>spiritually or mentally<\/em> either. We might have gone a full week without discovering the bad news letter and not felt the sadness until we found the note and <em>obtained <\/em><strong>awareness of the departing event<\/strong>.\u00a0 The timing of the parting event is immaterial to the emotional sensing. Emotional sensing is a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">function of our awareness<\/span><\/strong>; it is a characteristic of our <strong>conscious awareness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Two perceptional factors always accompany awareness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An emotional sensing is always <strong>triggered by an event<\/strong>! More accurately, it is always <strong>triggered by our becoming AWARE of some event<\/strong>.\u00a0 The triggering <strong>event is awareness<\/strong> of some \u2026\u2026 event.\u00a0 Awareness is purely within the domain of <strong>spirit<\/strong> or <strong>mind<\/strong>. While it is may accompany sensing of an external event, it is <em><strong>always a mind event <\/strong><\/em>that <strong>affects our emotions<\/strong> and never until.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>The two primary mental factors that influence the quality of the emotional experience are:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The sum total accumulation of all our <strong>desires, wants and preferences<\/strong>; purely subjective, it is <strong>our point of view<\/strong>; true to the <strong>reality <\/strong>from our perspective.<\/li>\n<li>Our <strong>Interpretation <\/strong>of the event as <strong>conforming or non-conforming <\/strong>to the first factor. Again, this is purely our point of view as we interpret reality from our perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If\u00a0out interpretation conforms, we are happy. If it does NOT conform we are less so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emotions are experienced in response to our <strong>becoming aware<\/strong> of some event and our <strong>perception of the event quality<\/strong>. Event Quality is relative;\u00a0 Quality is <strong>relative to our standard or standards<\/strong>. In the case of emotional experience, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">standard of quality\u00a0 is defined as the sum total accumulation of all <strong>OUR <\/strong>desires, wants and preferences.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our inner being has a perfect memory,\u00a0 it has heard everything we ever identified as desirable, preferred or better, according to our own <em>personal <strong>subjective perspective<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Perception is completely subjective and each person individually forms that perspective from the sum total of all experiences ever <em>contemplated <\/em>as <strong>preferred, better or desirable<\/strong> within her own personal view of reality.\u00a0\u00a0 Once you <strong>define a true, real, or actual preference, you care<\/strong>!\u00a0\u00a0 It is that simple; a standard has been defined.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Care <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you <strong>care, you value <\/strong>something. Emotions tell if the focus of awareness is upon something you care about; is your focus on a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>conforming or non-conforming<\/strong><\/span> event relative to <strong>something of value<\/strong> you care about .\u00a0 If the event is <em>perceived<\/em> as a <strong>quality event<\/strong>, we feel a <strong>quality experience <\/strong>or <strong>joyful emotion<\/strong>. If the event is perceived as non-conforming event, we perceive a <strong>poor experience <\/strong>indicated by a poor or <strong>painful emotion<\/strong>.\u00a0 These feelings only appear when we care about the subject matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extreme Aspects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two more aspects affect\u00a0 the extremes of emotional response; <strong>imminency <\/strong>and <strong>certainty <\/strong>\u00a0of our convictions.\u00a0 If we on the <strong>verge of receiving<\/strong> and we are <strong>certain<\/strong> ( intensity of\u00a0belief) we have our precious &#8220;valued&#8221;, we&#8217;re elated.\u00a0 If we are <strong>certain <\/strong>we will <strong>never possess <\/strong>our &#8220;precious&#8221;, we feel hopeless, despair and depression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Origins of\u00a0emotions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It should be obvious our emotions<\/strong> emote in response to our mind&#8217;s awareness. So long as we understand the message of our emotions, it\u00a0matters little if\u00a0we recognize our\u00a0<strong>emotions <\/strong>are coming from our <strong>inner being<\/strong> (God, Holy Spirit, or Abraham)<strong> <\/strong>or mistakenly think our emotions are external (god, a holy ghost, or Abraham)<strong> <\/strong><strong>responses.\u00a0 <\/strong>The <em>practical aspect <\/em>of emotion is:\u00a0<strong>emotions<\/strong> <strong>communicate where your current thoughts lie relative to your minds desires;\u00a0 <\/strong>Is your conscious focus upon something you\u00a0desire\u00a0or not? If you&#8217;re focused on something threatening your valued, it doesn&#8217;t feel good. You don&#8217;t want to attract more of it you need to focus upon what you do want.\u00a0 You will know properly switched focus when you feel better.\u00a0 You can do this immediately anytime you become aware you are mis-creating and attracting what you don&#8217;t want.\u00a0 If for no other reason, you should switch your focus just because it feels better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matter how we feel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does it really matter if we feel <strong>good or bad<\/strong>?\u00a0 The answer is certainly clear in regard to the <strong>law of attraction<\/strong>. As goes our thinking, so goes our experience. We know that <strong>we attract what we focus upon<\/strong>. First in thought then in experience. \u00a0So we should be careful about what thoughts\u00a0occupy our\u00a0primary disposition. What is our normal point of view? It is that which we give the most constant focus.<\/p>\n<p>One the other hand, since <em><strong>we all desire happiness and\u00a0feeling good<\/strong><\/em>, do we need to go any further in deciding if it matters what we are feeling?\u00a0 Of course it does feel better to switch away from painful emotional thoughts! Happiness, which only comes with predominantly good feeling thoughts, is be the primary objective for our life&#8217;s experience. Shouldn&#8217;t it be the rule for determining where you place your awareness, where you place your thought focus?\u00a0 Your emotions were provided for no other purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The emotions are the <strong>clearest most accurate communication <\/strong>we have for whether or NOT we are <strong>living what we want<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>attracting what we want <\/strong>.\u00a0 The emotions are the <strong>measure of success. <\/strong>Every success is measured by the happiness it ultimately brings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Events may come, and events may go. We have constant feedback enabling us to <em>immediately detect<\/em> if we are <strong>focused <\/strong>upon what we want or not.\u00a0<strong> Emotions communicate that we ARE thinking what we were meant to think.\u00a0<br \/>\nDecide to always focus on what feels good and we enjoy life &#8230;. oh and an added\u00a0bonus: we attract more of it.\u00a0 Believe it! Realize it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you truly know yourself?\u00a0 Do you know who it is that breathes the breaths you take?\u00a0 Do you know who it is that dreams the dreams you observe? Who moves your legs when you decide to walk into the other room? 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