Building the Personal Healing Platform
Having a strong foundation is not something that is important just for those who are dealing with some type of addiction but is a necessity for all who desire to experience a life of balance.
Millions of people seek a foundation within some form of organized religion, millions look to science to provide a foundation for their belief system and more are awakening to simply consider Spirituality as their belief system. Many who think they have a focused foundation still struggle with the challenges that daily living can bring. And we still see millions of people swimming around within a sea of chaos trying to make sense of all of it.
The strongest foundation we can create for our self is Love! I have never encountered anyone who is dealing with the challenge of addiction that feels love for their self but very few people experience self love regardless how their life is playing out and that is rather ironic as love is the common factor all are seeking.
The life experience is about “how well we love self” not how well we play the game of life and the majority of the population have forgotten how to love self which implies the elder population do not yet hold the ability to teach new generations how to love self. The game of life on earth is set up to ensure people do not remember how to love self.
The FTCF is grounded within a very strong foundation of love because its members share the experience of remembering not only the importance of being able to love self but to assist all how to remember the same.
Self love is not based on any cultural belief system or the lack therein. Self love only requires “you”. The cultural paradigms of the earth play are designed to promote failure while creating the illusion of what success is “suppose” to look like.
Statistics have proven that the minority of the masses who share the majority of “material wealth” are the least satisfied with their lives so we cannot point to material wealth as the “root of happiness and balance” but those who are struggling each day to simply survive would most likely argue with those statistics. It has been proven that those with less give more than those who have more to give because those with less know what it is like to live with less. Challenges with addictions are just as strong within the wealthy minority if not stronger simply because they have more resources to feed their addictions. So addictions are not judgmental to race, religion, creed or prosperity.
We can point to any number of reasons why anyone would become addicted to anything because the reasons behind such a question are as unique as the population is. Have you ever found a “one size fits all diet plan”? There is not a one size fits all for anything simply because we are unique individual expressions with unique biology and chemical makeup. The important thing to remember is “choice” because every thought we hold offers a “choice” to then decide how we desire to act, react or simply allow the thought to pass on by. But it can be extremely challenging for anyone dealing with an issue that seems to be controlling their life to see any higher choices within the chaos.
Living a life of balance within an imbalanced world is possible but it does not occur via material wealth, wishful thinking or seeking outside of our self because the chaos that creates the imbalance resides within our self. To heal into balance we must look and focus within our self and doing so can seem rather scary if we do not remember how to love our self.
When we do not love our self we have a hole inside of us in which inner chaos grows and the cultural paradigms teach us the way to fill that hole is by collecting material wealth and seeking others to provide the love we feel is lacking.
There are many expressions of love that include romantic love, love for a parent or a child, love for a sport or activity, love for nature and even love for an addiction. There is soft, easy love and hard, though love. A popular phrase is “money makes the world go round” but that is a false belief; love makes the world go round and without it, there would be no world.
The simple fact that we birth into a life experience which requires us to be completely dependent on another for our survival instantly programs us to seek outside of our self for our needs so we are all conditioned to fail the moment we birth into the body simply because of birthing into the body.
The desire for lust, greed and power within the masses continues to make the world stage more lopsided every day and creates an environment that is “perceived” as have and have not or “lack consciousness”. It is becoming more challenging for most of the “common population” to simply survive let alone feel like they get ahead in the game of life so the reasons why anyone might become addicted to anything are vast.
The outer imbalanced image of the world is a result of the inner chaos within the masses and very few people are aware of this truth at this time. So, the process of healing into balance, be that overcoming an addition or not, can only occur by creating a “solid inner foundation”.
Many people immerse their self into a cultural belief system if for no other reason than to find purpose for their life and there is nothing wrong with being “involved” as that is why we came here, to get involved, to experience, to have fun and enjoy what it is like to be here. Do you feel that your life is about having fun and creating joy or punching a clock and paying bills?
For the masses to heal the masses will have to remember how to support each other to allow healing to occur but the masses includes you and you are the starting point of healing the masses, how, by healing yourself. When we can truly remember how to love our self it makes it so much easier to allow others to be and express as they desire. Each of us have the gift of free will so we can choose to be miserable if we desire. But we do have a choice!
When we remember how to love self the inner peace and balance that follows is indescribable. When we are able to “Be The Love” and radiate it regardless of the circumstance we find our self within we draw to our self opportunities that allow us to gift our love to others which creates a very powerful flow of energy that extends outward from us and then returns to us at least 3 times stronger than we put out which means the love that comes back to us is more than enough to support our desires and needs.
It will be next to impossible to remember how to love self if we cannot remember what love feels like so remembering the feeling is the first step in building the strong foundation to allow a support platform for the desire of healing into balance.
All people desire to experience a life of balance regardless of the level of imbalance they are dealing with. Most people have no idea what being in balance means because we step out of balance and forget how to love self as soon as we birth onto the world stage.
The feeling of love that needs to be remembered is an overwhelming feeling that is so powerful it may bring one to tears or creates so much inner joy it may make you fall to your knees in gratitude. Gratitude is the second key ingredient that promotes balance as gratitude expresses through love and creates more love.
The goal is to rediscover a rare moment when you experienced an over whelming love feeling inside of yourself and for many people they may feel they never have. I find that quite sad to know it is true! The feeling is not one that can be “given to you” as only you know how you feel but it can be sparked within you by interacting with others.
Have you ever seen a movie, read a book, heard a song or watched other people express love for each other in such a way that it creates an over whelming feeling of love within you; a feeling that brings so much inner peace and happiness you may feel like you want to put your arms around the world and give it a hug?
The feeling may come from experiencing a beautiful sunrise or sunset or perhaps the birth of a child or the joy of getting married. It may have been a moment of receiving a precious gift from another.
You could call your precious thought memory your “Love Thought”; a memory so precious that you wanted the experience to never end. Think and focus within yourself and remember your Love Thought. If you do not feel like you have a Love Thought think of a song that you love that allows you to feel love, peace and joy. It does not matter what type of song but it should be one that promotes stillness with simply the desire to listen and feel those deep inner feelings of love. Once you remember your “Love Song” listen to it through headphones if possible for at least 15 minutes and allow your body to remember that wonderful inner feeling.
Once you remember that feeling of love, never forget it again; if need be make your Love Song or Love Thought your life line. If you feel your emotions dragging you down into a dark place, use your Love Song or Love Thought to rise back up.
The “key” is to allow the feeling of love to build as strongly as possible within yourself because it is “your body” that has forgotten what that feels like and by consciously working to remember that overwhelming feeling of love you are allowing your body to remember what love is and that it is loved.
Make your Love Thought as real as possible:
- In your mind’s eye focus on the event that filled you with so much love.
- See it all again and sit quietly while focusing on the memory.
- What was the weather like? Try to remember the feeling of the weather during your event.
- Was it inside or outside?
- See the faces of the people sharing your event.
- Become aware of any smells; was there food smells?
- See and feel the ground or floor beneath your feet as if you were standing there once again.
- What were you wearing and how did it feel on your body?
- Notice the environment of the event, if inside what is hanging on the walls, what color are the window coverings? If outside hear, smell and feel the outside environment. Make it as real as you possibly can within your body to reawaken the memory within all of your body senses.
Practice this daily, either with your Love Thought, your Love Song or both. The goal is to allow your “whole body” to remember and retain the memory of what that overwhelming love of Source feels like and allow that to be your healing foundation.
We were all created within that love, we are all held within that love eternally and we were created to “BE” that love. That love IS the love of Source regardless if you believe in Source or not. That love is flowing within you and it is eternal and eternally yours. You could not feel that love if it were not a part of you so you could not feel that love if the energy of Source was not flowing within you.
If life’s moments knock you down, when you feel weak and powerless, when you feel out of control with worry, grief or fear, when you feel like you no longer want to live, when you feel like you are going to die if you do not feed the body what it is screaming for, Remember Love! Fill yourself with the love, focus on that inner feeling of love.
Start “right now” to build your strong foundation of love to support your desires for healing and if you do so daily or as many times as day as you desire you will discover that your foundation becomes a mountain to support you through all experiences.
Know This! You could not feel that love if you were not love!
Sit quietly and think about that and as you do allow yourself to remember “you are love”, so how can you not love yourself, because of bad choices you have made? Well what can you do about that? Star making better choices!
Does it mean you are weak if you make a bad choice or that you have no control over yourself? No, not unless you believe it does! Together we will rediscover what it means to be experiencing via these human body forms and remember that there is no such thing as being weak, simply the need for inner healing to occur.
Answer the following question with the first thought that comes to mind. Don’t think about it, just allow yourself to respond instantly. Be honest with yourself because this is only between you and you!
Who do you perceive yourself to be, who are you?
If you answered anything but Love then you simply need to heal to remember you are Love!
Think back through your life experience and try to remember the point in your life when you first became aware of the you that you now consider yourself to be. Why did you adopt that perception of yourself, because of choices, because someone told you that you were that something?
Do you know that “as soon as you believed” you are that perception you hold of yourself, you became that image?
That is the truth behind that ancient story in the fairy tale of Adam and Eve when God was supposed to have asked “who told you that you are naked”. It is a metaphor asking “when did you believe yourself to be that”. Because in that very instant you became naked, prior to that instant you did not even know what naked was.
In a future post we will consider why there is this labeling of “addiction” held within society and look much deeper into the label. If you truly desire to heal yourself, you are heading in the right direction.
If society “needs” to create labels to identify people with and the assigned is addiction, consider this; ALL people on this planet are addicted to something. When do the addictions begin? In the infant stage. The infant “needs” either a silky blanket, a stuffed toy, a pacifier or a bottle to find calm and peace from the inner chaos of being in the body. Those first addictions are simply transposed onto something else as we are conditioned to take our role among the masses. What is the key then if everyone is addicted to something? Balance!
Keep on keeping on and together we will get to that Inner Balanced Happy Spot!
