Reconciling our two states
Question: Please tell me more about reconciling our two states of being: physical/material and pure energy.
Answer: That is a solution without a problem, as you might say. The secret is that there is no problem; there is no disconnect. You are always both, all the time, while in physical form.
The distinction that you see, and so struggle with, is the almost exclusive emphasis on one state or aspect over the other. Like being spiritual on a Sunday and material the rest of the week. Or spiritual in prayer/meditation, before returning to your daily life of the physical.
You are always both. Always, all the time, in every way, in every activity, both. But where you place your focus determines which you most appreciate or experience.
As you cannot not be an eternal, energetic (made of pure energy) being, you are always carring that with you wherever you go as a physical form.
Remember when you were driving interstate, moving from Queensland to Victoria? It felt as if your eternal nature was leaning forward like a little kid or a new arrival, wide-eyed and excitedly drinking everything in, eagerly looking through the windscreen, savouring every minute detail of the scene and the road you were on. Allow that feeling more often. You do allow it occasionally and briefly now. Recognise it when it happens; savor it and let it linger for as long as you can.
As you cannot not be a physical person, doing physical things, while you are alive you are always carrying that with you wherever you go as an energetic (pure energy) entity having a physical experience for a time.
The decider, the determinant, of your experience moment-to-moment, then, is simply this:
Where do you give your attention?
By playing with physical forms from a nonphysical awareness/perspective, you are getting “the best of both worlds.” You are greatly expanding your point of focus, of the things and phenomena you see.
For example, this pen that you're holding as you write this is a discrete condensation of the formative and transformative energy which creates galaxies and everything in them (and beyond them). Now, play with this pen, on this paper which is likewise a discrete condensation of this formative–transformative energy.
These are not just abstract concepts, because you too are a discrete condensation of this awesome power, which is flowing through you as you write. Its flow is barely a trickle as you struggle to understand — which is to say, categorize, pin down, and integrate — what it is you're receiving from outside your customary awareness, your ordinary human mind.
As you relax, relinquish all sense of, and desire for, control. As you feel the freedom and expansion that results, you let more in. You are still a physical human being, having a physical experience of life on this planet at this time. You simply get to experience much more in every moment when you appreciate your magnificent origins and the origins of everything and everyone with whom you interact.
This is the (open) secret. This is the life you've been looking for, longing for. Just this. Simply this. There's no need to go looking for grand adventures outside of your ordinary experience when you can see each and every experience as extraordinary.
… because we are all made of the same stuff, and that stuff is inherent joy.
Question: So, it's simply a matter of shifting my focus, or really just opening my eyes?
Answer: Yes! And pay attention, too, to the power of repetition, of long-practiced habits. Those that distract from this expanded view — which is pretty much all of them — act to keep you in a perpetual cycle of distraction, division, and dissatisfaction. It's why you so often feel dull or down. Start forming new habits of seeing and being. Start playing more with the eternal nature of all things.
And start giving your brain a complete rest (a power nap) whenever you feel the strain of trying to grasp all this.
The best approach, the fastest way to change your life for the better, is to do the opposite: instead of struggling and straining to understand and to grasp and secure this knowledge for yourself, relax, let your mind open to the very limits of the cosmos. And then just rest there. Let the pure energy of the cosmos fill your mind, your body, your soul/spirit.
Place no limits at all on the experience. Let yourself be reset and renewed. Start over, from a new place of seeing and being. And then see what happens.
The decider, the determinant, of your experience
moment-to-moment is simply this:
Where do you give your attention?
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You experience much more when you appreciate your
magnificent origins and the origins of everything and
everyone with whom you interact.
There's no need to go looking for grand adventures
outside of your ordinary experience when you can see
each and every experience as extraordinary.
The Game
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Christine King
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