Being Authentic Is Overcoming Fear

There is something quite miraculous and magical that happens the very moment we are living our deepest rooted authenticity.  A new fresh you begins to sprout as you are pulled to surrender deeper into your very essence and being.  The attempt to express oneself authentically means there are no hidden agendas behind how or why you are sharing yourself.  You have nothing to hide, nothing to achieve, nothing to lose, and you know there's nobody to win anything.  You simply cannot and do not want to hold back your most liberated enlightened self any further.  You are devoted to revealing the naked essence of who you are. 

You are devoted to freedom more than you are to security.  When all of this happens, look out... you'll soon discover that all your fears and insecurities are quickly fading away.

There is a huge enlightening aspect to being authentic that most people haven't seen or don't consider.  When you are truly being authentic, meaning expressing your emotions, feelings, and beliefs from a truly authentic place, a shift happens in your consciousness where nothing tends to phase you anymore.  You aren't concerned with the opinions of others, or how you need to be to receive the world's approval.  You are truly free from it all.  You are that deeply liberated soul who is alive behind the scenes enjoying the exotic play of diversity and expression.  Your mouth may be moving, hands flying about in the air, telling the most wonderful story about your life, yet you are not inhibited by it, controlling it or trying to make it into a show.  

No part of you is analyzing, concerned or worried about the expression of information coming through you.  You are like a wild river which has broken through its dam and is now flooding over its protective banks.  There is no more room for being rational, reasonable or remaining within the small confines of your normal social boundaries.  You are in a state of pure unbounded freedom.  There is so much creativity and love pouring through you that you have to sit back, take your foot off the brakes, step fully on the gas, and ride this one all the way through.  

 In the most raw form of true authenticity, you are always ok with letting all your cards be seen on the table.  You don't shuffle your cards around depending on who is sitting at the table with you.  Your cards are the same.  You are willing to let everyone know anything about you at any moment.  You've completely stopped hiding any information from anyone.  From this place you can no longer be afraid of judgment, ridicule or any type of emotional, mental or social enslavement.   You are perhaps for the first time truly living life, breathing in a life that is beyond fear.  Its just something that happens when authenticity is the most important quality to experience.  When there is a willingness to expose the greatest and the most vulnerable parts of you, the most beautiful thing of all manifests itself wherever you are.  You naturally radiate the infinite source of love that you truly are. Here you will discover the strongest roots and wings which ground your being and liberate your soul.

For me, the experience of being authentic is all about finding the deepest surrender.  This means surrendering the egos desires over to the most radical deepest honesty that is bubbling up in that moment. I realize that the more authentic I can be with others, the more free and light I can feel within me. Choosing this as a way of life has changed my world forever.  I remember the day I realized how powerful authenticity was and devoted my entire life to being real.  I instantly felt this heavy burden lifted from my chest.  I knew that my purpose was to love and accept myself exactly as I was, as I was naturally revealing my full naked self with everyone that I met. There was simply nothing to be afraid of anymore.  Failure, loss, fear, desperation, abandonment, these dark experiences could not touch me anymore as I was devoted to revealing the lightness within them.  From this practice I have the most liberating and uplifting experiences out of the most challenging conversations and situations.  The foundation of my life has become the experience of being happy, which comes simply from being free to be me.  

No matter what spiritual path you may be on, when you can fully give yourself permission to simply show up in a real way, being radically real, honest and truthful with everyone about what your experience of life actually is in that moment, you are free.  Your angry victim story, your gripping tale of abandonment, betrayal, loss, or past life karmic patterns all instantly loosen their hold on you.  The most natural and effortless state of joy seems to relax itself into your heart and you feel a deep peace well up inside you. Radical honesty is the doorway to God, and it is what you'll be doing the day you die and you're knocking on God's door to get in, so you might as well begin practicing now eh?

There are many many benefits to being authentic and radically honest.  One big one is that you start taking full responsibility for the life you are creating.  You begin owning the fact that you are a powerful manifesting being who is totally capable of transforming your life in any way you want it to be.  In each new moment you can reinvent yourself.  I find the secret to success with this is all about being fierce with the ego.  Being vigilantly aware of that negative fear based over controlling mindset that is addicted to desire.  It is terrified of being honest and only knows the lie of separation from God.  When you begin lifting the veil that its hiding behind and reveal your true naked liberated self, you find that the purpose of the ego is to liberate you and befriending it becomes the most self loving aspect of your day.  

Always remember, that which is real cannot be threatened.  If you have to defend yourself, and cannot or "should not" reveal something, that wall is there just so you can experience a shedding of another egoic layer and feel even more free!  We all know that everyone is totally naked underneath their clothes.  Its the same deal with the ego.  The ego is just this super tight outfit you've been wearing for so many lifetimes that you've forgot that you can take it off and be your real God self...natural and naked.   Once you realize how good it feels to rip it off (or take it off slowly and sensually) then it stops creating fear and it transforms

 into the most enlightening, fun and playful aspect of your day.

"No tree can grow to heaven until it's roots reach down to hell." ~Carl Jung

Every human being knows fear, insecurity and smallness intimately.  This is a good thing, for now we know what causes pain and have more awareness of choosing love.  There is no good reason to hide from this pain you're carrying while you are alive. We all have to face death one final day, so you might as well find peace with the pain you're carrying now.  The only reason you're hiding and playing small is so that when the game is over you will get to experience an even bigger expansion and release of it.  Yet, after you've just read this sentence you can no longer live in ignorance, unawareness and continue choosing smallness.  Once you're conscious of it, you have to let it go otherwise you're making a self sabotaging choice.  You cannot ignore the truth.  You have to choose freedom from this moment on.

The reality is that anyone who knows you can sense when you're hiding your greatness. They just may have so much compassion for you and fear of facing their own smallness that they don't tell you when you're doing it.  Only a good friend will let you know, and say it in a way that you can hear it.  Your job is to listen and respect others when they tell you that there is a deeper authenticity to be explored. They are Gods messengers and they are always right. There is always a deeper connection to God to be explored.  Its an infinitely deep well with many layers to pass through.  The ironic thing is it gets lighter and lighter the further you dive into the deepest parts of it.  Within your exploration of your deepest darkest fear and insecurity, you'll find there is also your greatest lightness, joy and freedom.

So, do you want to know the greatest secret to being authentic all the time?  It comes from practicing one simple thing.  Constantly relaxing into your body, letting go of your mind, giving the creative energy that rises from that relaxation freely away.  This means your typical day is more about letting go than its about holding on.  Its more about devoting your life to sharing what you can give away, rather than what you can acquire.  You start seeing people as vehicles of receptivity, eagerly waiting for you to come by and receive the boundless joy and love you have to give them.  Your life is a gift, so give it!  Share the appreciation that is buried inside you.  This is one of the most amazing aspects of what authenticity will lead you into.  

The day you've found the most authentic relaxed creative expression of yourself you'll notice a very unique and interesting experience comes with it.  There is a sense of doing an eternal "free fall" into yourself.  Its like doing a back dive off a 9000 ft cliff into a dark abyss which seemingly has no bottom.  You simply trust that the Universe will catch you along the way and is there holding you safely in each moment.  You don't have to cling to anything, or think about how fast you're falling, or when you'll hit rock bottom. You simply practice letting go of life and falling within you.  Relaxing into your innermost being, into the infinite essence of who and what you are.  There is nothing more enjoyable in the long road ahead of you than this. 

Written by Jafree Ozwald

THE EFFECTS OF MARIJUANA FROM A SPIRITUAL POINT

There are various arguments that marijuana proponents make to support their choice, and they are all based upon beliefs that seem, at first, to be acceptable. However, the essential problem with marijuana is that it creates a split between the body and the soul. This is something that can be detected with subtle sensing, and so those who have not developed this sensing ability will probably entertain doubt about these assertions. I am not the only energy-sensitive person who detects these issues, and so I am going to describe them as I sense them, and you can reach your own conclusions.

Marijuana proponents say that smokers tend to be peaceful, in contrast to alcohol drinkers. Though this can be observed easily enough, it still doesn’t validate the use of a substance that creates an energetically fragmented condition in the aura. I observe that the fragmented aura condition of marijuana smokers keeps them seemingly peaceful, but at a price. The fuzzy aura condition of smokers keeps them from fully feeling their emotions, and when you understand this, it reveals a different, and somewhat less happy explanation regarding their preferred emotional suppression method.

When people have emotions or thoughts that are troubling, they tend to want to leave their body so that they won’t have to feel their discomforts. People wanting to not feel their feelings have some popular choices: They can drink alcohol, they can eat devitalized junk food, they can space out in front of the television — which is known to induce a quasi-meditative alpha state — or they can smoke marijuana. All of these choices can create a fragmented energy field, in which the clarity of the aura is compromised. But the spiritual problems from marijuana use seem to last longer than the side effects from the other methods.

The alleged peacefulness of smokers is their convenient excuse. They may feel more peaceful than they would if they weren’t smoking, but unfortunately, they are not transcending their pain in any useful way. 

Their escape from emotional discomfort is temporary. This means that they can’t really address the pain, and that leads to a problem. If you can’t address something, because you don’t feel it anymore, then you have to keep pushing the denied emotions down, so that they are out of your conscious awareness.

This may explain the notion that marijuana is not physically addictive, but is psychologically addictive. After all, if you need to keep smoking in order to not feel what you don’t want to feel, then that may well be a psychological addiction.

The popular expression with marijuana smokers that smoking helps them “take the edge off” is a euphemism that hides the emotional pain they seek to avoid. And to be fair, it is reasonable to acknowledge that emotional pain can be frightening, and that confronting it takes a great deal of courage and determination. However, smoking isn’t going to build courage and determination.

This is because the focus required for determination is associated with a strongly linked soul and personality within a coherent aura — and marijuana interferes with that. 

Ideally, the body, the emotions, the mind, and the soul are all united in a coherent energy field — your healthy aura. Uniting these aspects within yourself is key to being aligned with your true self, so that you can do the things that you came to this lifetime to do. Anything that muddies the clarity of your aura is slowing your progress on all levels. It is better to be clear in your perception– even if this involves challenging realizations — so that you can confront your emerging feelings and thoughts, rather than hide in a fragmented, diffused understanding of yourself.

You could imagine your soul as the eternal divine essence of your being. Your soul carries the spark of the creator, and so your soul is your connection to higher spiritual awareness. Ideally, your body, heart, mind, personality, and soul link as one, with the soul being your cosmic cohering energy presence — the divine glue that holds you together.

When your divine soul is integrated with your body, you become more conscious about how you treat your body. When your soul is able to shine into your emotions and mind, you can achieve a unified level of consciousness that lets you confront issues. You can move in a positive direction in your life. Marijuana disrupts this unity, and creates a muddy aura that short-circuits your spiritual empowerment.

Another concern with this substance is that it mimics spiritual experiences, but actually interferes with spiritual realization. To understand how that happens, imagine the spectrum of consciousness as a range of vibrations. At the lowest part of the awareness scale, there is low, unaware consciousness. At the highest level of the awareness scale, there is cosmic consciousness, or divine consciousness.

Now suppose that a person is stuck in a narrow, exclusively earth-bound level of perception. Such a person might find that marijuana helps them feel and see beyond their narrow material range of perceptions. And that seems impressive, at first. It even seems to suggest that marijuana might be a consciousness expanding substance.

The problem, however, is that marijuana can, in a limited way, seem to help those who are stuck in a narrow materialistic perspective. It seems, at first, to give them a more expanded view of the universe. However, this benefit is limited by marijuana’s intrinsically lesser quality of vibration. When a substance keeps you at an intermediate level of consciousness, then try as you might, you will be chemically limited from attaining higher states of spiritual realization.

The so-called consciousness-expanding benefits of marijuana are only somewhat broader than the narrow materialistic worldview of the uptight, tense person. This means that when a person who feels rigid or stuck smokes, they get a temporarily expanded sense of things, and this impresses them. They believe they have a found a solution that frees them from limitation.

Unfortunately, marijuana has only raised their consciousness somewhat. Especially troubling is that the marijuana, though seeming to raise the consciousness a bit, keeps the smoker at a level of awareness that is only somewhat expanded beyond the lower materialistic range. To understand this, imagine that there is a range of consciousness between one and ten. One represents limited, stuck consciousness. Ten represents cosmic consciousness.

A person stuck at level one or two could go to level three or four with the help of marijuana. They might be impressed by this shift. As they would argue, their consciousness has been expanded, they feel more creative, and they have a broader sense of reality.

It seems like a convincing validation, until you realize that the marijuana is keeping them from going above level four. And this is the problem with marijuana that smokers would rather not consider.

In addition, the marijuana inhibits their ability to heal their own problems — their level one and two problems, so to speak. These are the energy blocks that they were trying to escape. However, unaddressed problems stay stuck. Your ability to honestly sense your own energy blocks is a vital element in your self healing.

You are a spiritual being. Your soul is made from the eternal cosmic essence of the creator. 

You incarnated to bring your eternal soul into the experience of this lifetime. To receive the light of your soul, you need to create a fit physical vehicle that can be in harmony with your soul. In spite of the claims of marijuana proponents, marijuana cannot provide you with assistance if you want to progress spiritually.

The popular claim that marijuana generates peacefulness is based on a limited definition of what peace is — peace is not merely the absence of strife or violence. This limited definition of peace leads people to pay a spiritual price that isn’t worth the alleged benefits — your soul alignment is worth more than any temporary peace. And when you realize that this so-called peace is just a dissociated condition that ultimately inhibits your well-being, you may be empowered to re-examine this topic with a deeper understanding.

If there were no other options for attaining inner peace, or for dealing with your emotions, then the beliefs of marijuana proponents might be convincing, but there are, in fact, many options:

– Learning to feel your feelings is a powerful teaching that builds strength in many levels of your being. It’s not always easy, and often not fun, but when you gently breathe through your feelings you discover that you are stronger than your fears.

– Learning to question your automatic self-talk lets you get out of the mental and emotional loops that can trap you in negativity. Learning to talk to yourself in an empowering way puts you, metaphorically, in the driver’s seat of your life, rather than in the back seat with your subconscious patterns in control of the steering wheel.

– Learning to move and exercise, by whatever means you choose, gives you an option to raise your vibration every day, so that your feelings and thoughts don’t sink down to the lowest levels of your problems.

– Learning to meditate, visualize, concentrate, and create a coherent aura helps you discover your true spiritual identity as a multidimensional being. Spiritual practices empower you to live in alignment with your true divine identity, so that you are less affected by the negative influences from the media, from other people, and from the world in general. You observe the world with a deeper wisdom that expresses your true self.

One spiritual concern with marijuana use is that it causes users to get stuck in an intermediate spiritual dimension known as the astral plane. These intermediate dimensions of consciousness, though not bad in themselves, are the levels of illusion. Ideally, the astral dimension is a state of consciousness in which you can invent and create. However, the astral dimension is only safe for you if you are also aligned with higher levels of divine consciousness, and safely grounded within your own physical body. Without this higher divine alignment, and without your grounded physical presence, the astral plane is merely the plane of illusion and fantasy, taking you further from your true center.

This is important to you if spiritual awareness is your goal. I don’t pretend that this article will change the minds of those who are committed to using marijuana, although I do hope that any user will consider the options to using a spiritually negative substance.

But what if you are undecided about this topic, and spiritual awakening is important to you? Have you let yourself be impressed with the glamorous images presented in the media, in which creative people or celebrities are associated with marijuana use? It is to you that this article is specifically written, because glamorous images are only superficial descriptions of a false reality — that is, they are not real.

False images are reflections of the astral plane — the dimension of 
illusion. And when millions of people hold false images, the effect can be powerful. Fortunately, even powerful false images can be seen for what they are — fake realities that only interfere with spiritual awareness. When you have real spiritual experiences that integrate you, uniting your body, heart, mind, and soul with your spiritual potential, then you build clarity in your consciousness. You learn to recognize fake realities as superficial images with no spiritual core.

Spiritual realization is something that you develop over time. It is not something you can put on like a coat, or take like a pill, and for this reason, you want to develop your spiritual awareness as a daily practice. In the same way that you can build physical muscles through exercise, you can build spiritual strength through cultivating your awareness. One of the benefits of a regular spiritual practice is that your alignment with your soul wisdom grows. And this lets you see illusions as the deceptions that they really are.

When you don’t have a spiritual means of connecting with your soul, you can be easily influenced by the powerful distorted energy fields of millions of people who are trapped in fake illusions. And marijuana doesn’t help you grow or evolve beyond that, because it gives the illusion of expanded consciousness, while trapping you at a merely intermediate level of consciousness. It claims to take you beyond the average state of human consciousness, and then leaves you at a muddy, intermediate level.

And the energy at that intermediate level, I notice, is sticky. That might sound a bit strange, but the aura quality of marijuana smokers is sticky, fuzzy, and open to entities. That is the opposite of the brightness and clarity associated with those who are in alignment with their divine soul.

But no matter where you are in your spiritual development, whether you are smoking or not, you can always make the choice to move in a healthier direction each day. In the same way that the public is moving towards the realization that healthy food is better than junk food, and in the same way that the public is moving towards the understanding that exercise makes you feel more alive, so too are people becoming aware that anything that interferes with their soul development is to be avoided.

If you’re already moving in the direction of seeking healthy food choices and exploring exercise, then you are able to appreciate how negative substances can interfere with your vibration. When you consider how a seemingly popular substance, marijuana, can lower your spiritual vibration, it invites you to make some new healthy choices. Anything that disrupts your body-soul unity is worth avoiding. It’s time to tune in to your true divine essence, and make some healthy decisions for yourself.

Your essence is made of divine substance. If you want to feel your aliveness, then realize that your emotions, your thoughts, and your body all need to be aligned with your soul — so that you can be truly alive on all levels. And that may mean, at times, that you will feel emotions or thoughts that you don’t enjoy. However, you can learn to breathe through your challenges. You can learn to stabilize and integrate your mind-body-spirit energy. You can learn to bring the divine light of your soul — and the cosmic intelligence of the universe — into your life.

And when you align in this way, you get a sense of what it means to be in tune with the cosmos. You can feel in alignment with the eternal vibration of the creator, humming within you. You are in alignment with the truth of your being, which is a spiritual vibration that is alive in the deepest sense of the word. It is the higher consciousness that is capable of knowing its true infinite nature.

And you want to be aligned with that infinite universal consciousness, because it is who you are — you are one with the source of all reality. Breathe it into your being. It is the true elixir that you can partake of every day. Let every breath unite you with the aliveness that wants to vibrate joyously within your every cell. Welcome to this moment.

Many Blessings,
Joel Bruce Wallach
Founder, Cosmic Living