Change Your Consciousness To Improve Your Life by George Sison (PDI 8/24/14) Your mantra for the week: “I cocreate my life with the One Creator.” I have been receiving many letters asking how one can improve one’s life. Various self-help books offer techniques on how to achieve these goals. But I feel that there is one important thing one must achieve before any technique or recommended methodology can work—and that is to change one’s consciousness. Consciousness is the sum of all our thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Changing this is simple and yet a tall order. I used to go to Mass and communion every day for seven years and yet I could not get my life together. I decided to stop the practice and started researching on other ways so I could honestly call myself a happy human being. I went on a self-study of astrology, looked into other religious belief systems to a point where I finally became an agnostic. An agnostic is not the same as being an atheist as many mistakenly assume. An atheist categorically claims there is no God, while an agnostic just says, I do not know whether or not there is a God. Big realization But what finally brought me to where I am was the realization that everything in the universe is God. That, after all, what I was looking for all the time, but like so many things that are so obvious, we often do not recognize it. All the years of my life and all the religions I had studied, all stated and believed that God was everywhere. Plain logic will show that if God is everywhere, everywhere must be God. If everywhere is God, then one will find God within every human being. Even Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is within.” Unfortunately, Christianity never emphasized. Yet this belief is what determines one’s feeling of self-worth, and self-worth is what determines the quality of one’s life. If you feel you are not worthy of all the good in the universe, you can never have it. That is why there are many unfulfilled and unhappy people. The 30 percent of Filipinos living below the poverty line, which is an issue everyone is complaining about, will stay an issue until the self-worth of that 30 percent changes. Add to this, the belief of most Filipinos that they are sinners. The problem with guilt In psychology, when you believe you are a sinner, you are also guilt-ridden and feel a sense of self-hatred. In metaphysics, feeling this way about yourself will be the equivalent “punishment” which we call misfortune, kamalasan and other forms of negative experiences. In my Ateneo days, I remember a father-confessor who would tell me that God has put thorns in human lives and that is His will. No wonder so many people blame God for their misfortune. Since when does a God of Love and Goodness give thorns to His children? Many people must have asked the same question; therefore, the Church had to invent hell and the devil. Fortunately, St. John Paul II finally affirmed that there is no devil and no hell. They are all states of mind. Ergo, we just brought all negative things unto ourselves, showing that we are totally responsible for our lives and our consciousness. To those who want to improve their lives, remember that God is within you and you have the power to change your consciousness (your thoughts, your feelings and most especially your old beliefs). They have all created your life now. Once you have established in your consciousness that you are not separated from God, you will never be separated from your Good.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 03:26:20 +0000