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	<title>The Way to the way &#187; General</title>
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		<title>Releasing Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeling wrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shame is just an expression of belief, and when the underlying belief is recognized as untruth - there is nothing in your energy of awareness for shame to adhere to. Whether the shame you feel is for your self, or you are projecting shame onto others, the cause and the solution are the same. Specifically, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong></strong>Shame is just an expression of belief, and when the underlying belief is recognized as untruth - there is nothing in your energy of awareness for shame to adhere to. Whether the shame you feel is for your self, or you are projecting shame onto others, the cause and the solution are the same.<br />
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Specifically, i<strong><img src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/gallery.mailchimp.com/21c7b35d7f913f347881f89f1/files/Delusion.jpg" alt="" width="157" height="168" align="left" /></strong>t's the nature of mind to believe in the wrongness of people who express behavior that's personally disliked, and to project those beliefs in the world along with feelings of shame. To put it succinctly - in order to experience or project shame, one must be tuned in to a belief that certain behavior makes a person wrong.</p>
<p>The beauty of the relationship between belief and feeling is that you always have the choice to again buy into your personal identification with them; or you can choose to observe what you believe to be wrong and relax your mental grip on those beliefs.</p>
<p>Remember that you don't <strong></strong>have to believe anything can make a person wrong in order to choose Love in this moment. Indeed, to the extent your awareness is focused through belief that something can make a person wrong, you are choosing shame.</p>
<p>In this regard, now is always the 'right' time to forgive thoughts that evoke the feeling of shame. Let those thoughts dance in your awareness as they naturally will, and experience the sensation they create in your body while remembering your intent to observe and relax the beliefs upon which those thoughts/feelings are founded.</p>
<p>If you get caught up again in a story of shame, that's ok.  Simply forgive the diversion and return to relaxed observation when you are ready.</p>
<p>There is no race to resolve shame from the energy of your vibration, and as long as the idea of 'wrongness' is being held in human energy of awareness, you will be given limitless opportunities in this regard.</p>
<p>You are appreciated! Not only is your experience of shame an opportunity to improve your personal life experience by raising your energetic frequency - but when you seize that opportunity, you uplift the energetic frequency of all Life. Mahalo!!</p>
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		<title>Personality is the Resistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[end of suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental interference]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your personality is the resistance…the necessary resistance for expansion of this big idea called Life.  But this does NOT mean that you have to suffer. As soon as you feel emotional tension, it’s an indication of belief in the importance of personal will in making your personality’s ideas manifest in the material world. If you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your personality is the resistance…the necessary resistance for expansion of this big idea called Life.  But this does NOT mean that you have to suffer.</p>
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<p>As soon as you feel emotional tension, it’s an indication of belief in the importance of personal will in making your personality’s ideas manifest in the material world.</p>
<p>If you choose to let go of how you think it should be, right then and there your resistance (mental interference) is gone, and the creative force is allowed to bring about the idea that sprang from your personality without a detour into personal suffering.</p>
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		<title>Selfless Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing needs to be done. There is nothing you need to learn and nobody you need to serve. Your experience of a distinct self is serving The One (YOU) no matter what you are doing or not doing within the illusion. As you let go of egoic seeking to be of service to self or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing needs to be done. There is nothing you need to learn and nobody you need to serve.</p>
<p>Your experience of a distinct self is serving The One (YOU) no matter what you are doing or not doing within the illusion.</p>
<p>As you let go of egoic seeking to be of service to self or the other (which are really the same thing), the immense appreciation that The One (who you are) holds for your unique personality can be remembered...and through sheer enjoyment of Being, your true essence emanates through your personality - effortlessly commanding blessings for your self/world.</p>
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		<title>To Know God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[knowing God]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[God is simple and yet unfathomable. Now is always the time to get to know God on a deeper level. &#160; Breathe deeply and slowly while consciously allowing your awareness to come back home to the sensation of energy in your body. That energy represents your Divine essence - it is Life Force Energy - [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God is simple and yet unfathomable. Now is always the time to get to know God on a deeper level.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Breathe deeply and slowly while consciously allowing your awareness to come back home to the sensation of energy in your body. That energy represents your Divine essence - it is Life Force Energy - it's the 'stuff' that heals and detoxifies your material body and cleanses your awareness of attachment to matters of mental concern.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>When you give attention to Life Force Energy, it moves to fill your awareness spontaneously – thus allowing you to perceive that which transcends the five senses, empirical knowledge and rational thought.</p>
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		<title>No-thing to Accept</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acceptance is not something to be done by you. The essence of ‘who you are’ is the Loving Acceptance from which all things arise in your experience. The mind entertains you with likes and dislikes according to your unique life experience - and your life experience only consists of every perception you have given meaning [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thewaytotheway.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/All-Encompassing.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3242" title="All Encompassing" src="http://www.thewaytotheway.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/All-Encompassing-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Acceptance is not something to be done by you. The essence of ‘who you are’ is the Loving Acceptance from which all things arise in your experience.</p>
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<p>The mind entertains you with likes and dislikes according to your unique life experience - and your life experience only consists of every perception you have given meaning to before. In this way, the perceived need to accept anything gives meaning to whatever the mind is interpreting as unpleasant/disliked/unloved, thus holding you in resistance to your present experience.</p>
<p>This is the mind’s way of moving you through a life experience, but you are not the mind - nor are you bound to serve the mind. To the extent you are believing the mind’s ideas about how you ‘should’ be thinking or feeling, your energy of awareness is positioned in service to the mind.</p>
<p>You don’t think or feel anything! Thoughts and feelings come into your awareness and then move on. The meaning that you give to thoughts and feelings is what keeps them looping around and around in your awareness.</p>
<p>The simplicity of being has NO meaning and includes no-thing that the mind can identify you with. When you just stop taking ANY mental positions, the mind can finally serve You as a clear and powerful tool for creating incomprehensible pleasure and joy.</p>
<p>There is nothing to do but relax, release, breathe and let you be as you are. You are Brilliant!!</p>
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		<title>Love Message: Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Challenge is the basis for Life's expression - it inspires creativity, which is essential to expansion, and gives purpose to your Life journey. Asking 'why' you are faced with any challenge is egoic mind's process to keep you focused on how things ‘should’ be from the perspective of fear. However tumultuous and negative challenges may [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Challenge is the basis for Life's expression - it inspires creativity, which is essential to expansion, and gives purpose to your Life journey. Asking 'why' you are faced with any challenge is egoic mind's process to keep you focused on how things ‘should’ be from the perspective of fear.</p>
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<p>However tumultuous and negative challenges may appear, they only appear that way to the extent you are buying into resistant thoughts about them. When you notice thoughts that ask 'why' with respect to your challenges, you can be sure that your thoughts are in contention with Life.</p>
<p>But rest assured that as soon as you embrace what is, it will become abundantly clear that you are exactly where you intended to be and that your purpose is being fulfilled in this very moment in time.</p>
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		<title>Ego is not Against Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thewaytoTheWay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ego is not against Spirit as in a battle between good and evil. Ego is the fictional creation of Spirit which allows for the perception of distinct forms - the foundation of experience in this material dimension. Only through buying into Ego's assertion that thoughts are true does one resist Spirit's directive to uplift and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ego is not against Spirit as in a battle between good and evil. Ego is the fictional creation of Spirit which allows for the perception of distinct forms - the foundation of experience in this material dimension.</p>
<p>Only through buying into Ego's assertion that thoughts are true does one resist Spirit's directive to uplift and expand energy of awareness. This 'buying in' is ignorance - not right nor wrong - just a mindset that generates the experience of struggle.</p>
<p>There is nothing to do but remember the Truth that there is no truth to any thought. From there, Spirit is allowed to uplift energy of awareness to lighter frequencies of mind - and infinitely more expansive Joy/Peace/Love/Pleasure may be experienced thereby.</p>
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		<title>Heaven First</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heaven first and all else falls in line. All doing is either for a desired feeling or out of a desired feeling, and when doing is for a desired feeling, mental energy makes that feeling unavailable to you until the mind can rationalize it based on what's been done. Moreover, nothing that's done can ever [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thewaytotheway.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/heavenly-scenery.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3027" title="heavenly-scenery" src="http://www.thewaytotheway.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/heavenly-scenery-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>Heaven first and all else falls in line. All doing is either for a desired feeling or out of a desired feeling, and when doing is for a desired feeling, mental energy makes that feeling unavailable to you until the mind can rationalize it based on what's been done.</p>
<p>Moreover, nothing that's done can ever have a lasting effect on feeling, and whatever feeling is evoked by circumstance soon becomes its opposite. The way out of feeling in polarity is to allow the desired feeling irrespective of circumstance.</p>
<p>Present feeling depicts how proximate the vibrational frequency of thoughts come to allowing desired feeling. Awareness of this enables you to discern where thoughts are leading, and to determine which thoughts, if any, you are willing follow.</p>
<p>The conditions of Life are always ideal for your awareness to return to unity with all that you desire; and every circumstance that draws your awareness into separation is another opportunity for transformation and growth through the return to unity.</p>
<p>You seize every such opportunity when you remember your intent to allow all things as they are HereNow, and let your awareness of the breath gently absolve your grip on anything that contradicts your intent.</p>
<p>In this way, the desired feeling can be experienced now, and whatever is done from that feeling becomes an expression of Heaven for your world.</p>
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		<title>Victims &amp; Villains</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mind seeks to compare people against one another and project delusion by making some people out to be victims and others to be villains. When you make the delusion you perceive in 'others' your concern, your consciousness is hooked to an emotional pattern whereby your energy is given to create more of the subject [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The mind seeks to compare people against one another and project delusion by making some people out to be victims and others to be villains.</p>
<p>When you make the delusion you perceive in 'others' your concern, your consciousness is hooked to an emotional pattern whereby your energy is given to create more of the subject delusion - and resulting manifestations - that give 'reason' for your concern.</p>
<p>It takes great courage to see through delusion and allow your world's victims and villains to be in a state of grace - because this contradicts how ego (energy of fear) dictates that you 'should' respond.  Be willing to let go of concepts about how the 'other' should be, and let the warrior within perform the necessary alchemy to turn delusion into solutions that glorify All.</p>
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		<title>Unreasonable Pleasure</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your capacity for experiential pleasure is unlimited. To the extent you are open to the gifts that Life is presenting to you Now, you are allowing ecstasy beyond words to be expressed through your individualized being. This is not to say that anyone should chase pleasurable experience. Indeed, all perception is patterned with feeling, and [...]]]></description>
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<p>Your capacity for experiential pleasure is unlimited. To the extent you are open to the gifts that Life is presenting to you Now, you are allowing ecstasy beyond words to be expressed through your individualized being.</p>
<p>This is not to say that anyone should chase pleasurable experience. Indeed, all perception is patterned with feeling, and to the extent one tries to create pleasurable feeling, its opposite is activated within their energy of awareness - and addiction is manifested thereby.</p>
<p>Every thought that crosses your awareness is a demonstration of egoic gripping to pleasurable experience and resistance to painful experience.  Your belief in the truth of thoughts is all that keeps tension between the polarities for you, and makes them real in your perception.</p>
<p>Pleasure, experienced in the present moment, immediately becomes an experience of memory when thoughts about sustaining, recreating or protecting the experience of pleasure are believed. Accordingly, pleasurable experience tends to be elusive and short lived.</p>
<p>Pure consciousness is the source of limitless pleasure from which all feeling is created according to thought. While superficial pleasure (the opposite of pain) is based on circumstance that evokes an elated feeling, the deeper, limitless pleasure is a resonant yet subtle rhythm which can be attuned to at any time, under any circumstance.</p>
<p>By noticing what is being thought and the feeling and breath pattern that come with the thought, then deepening the breath without judgment, you are allowing pure consciousness (the source of pleasure) to penetrate through mental patterns as they cloud your awareness.  As pure consciousness is permitted access through the layers of mind, core belief in the separate self (which is the only barrier to one’s capacity for pleasure) is exposed.</p>
<p>In this way, consciousness is allowed to gently detach your energy of awareness from identification with thought, and the polarities of mind are diffused thereby. From a truly detached point of view, all thoughts and associated feelings are not only a pleasure to observe, but they provide the necessary direction whereby the movement of awareness may be given to allow new openings for greater depths of experiential pleasure.</p>
<p>The window of opportunity to allow conscious access to your thoughts and feelings is always in the present moment, whether you are thinking about past or future is irrelevant - all thought happens in the present. You deserve to experience levels of pleasure that surpass all mental reason and understanding, and focused attention can lead you there.</p>
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