This guidance will be seen as a last resort by many, as it seemingly runs counter to much we are taught in the mainstream.
It is however given as the ‘easy way’, so your choice as to when to bring it into your individual awareness depends wholly on how far exactly you want to go down the road of the ‘hard way’ of pain and struggle before changing your mind about what you think you know of as true life, quality life.
If ever there was and is a mass belief system that is “not for turning”, and which ultimately creates for itself the ‘hard way’ through overdoing it, it is the belief in economic power and money, and to see that these quantities grow ever bigger and more powerful, no matter what — no pain, no gain, as the saying goes — even if this means pumping the system full of artificial stimulants.
Expanding on the ecosystem analogy introduced on the front page of this website, it is however important to understand that this economic power in physical terms is first generated by, produced by, the ‘egonomic’ power of the mind. In other words, the theatre of economic power and money is simply an outpouring of what first plays out in the mind as thoughts and emotions, beliefs and expectations, individually and collectively.
This may then lead many to shout from the rooftops that the ‘ego’ is to blame, as reflected in many longstanding belief systems which operate across the globe which seek to suppress the ego aspect of the mind — with certain ‘western’ approaches often seeking to suppress the more feminine ‘inbound’ aspects of the ego, and certain ‘eastern’ approaches often seeking to suppress the more masculine ‘outbound’ aspects of the ego. Contrary to these lopsided approaches, which inexplicably seem to still hold much sway, it is fundamentally important to remember that each individual is naturally designed and built to simultaneously play out both aspects of the ego, irrespective of physical gender, in having natural access to both an intuition and an intellect, in the parallel sense that everyone naturally has both estrogen and testosterone pulsing through their physical organism.
Having said all of that, it is not however the ego that is ‘to blame’ — the ego is simply your ‘worker self’ who is producing things in accordance with the creative drive of your wider ‘conscious self’ or conscious mind, the part of your mind which creates and directs the good and not-so-good belief systems in the first place.
Think of it this way, in modern times, especially since the advent of the industrial revolution and subsequent economic developments, when we ‘go to work’ most of us actually ‘dumb-down’ in terms of our overall creativity of mind, we focus only on certain ‘specialist’ parts of conscious activity, there is a narrowing or contraction of consciousness. We leave our ‘wider’, more creative, more dimensional aspect of consciousness, at home. In this sense, the wider ‘conscious self’ can then be said to be a more-dimensional thinker and doer than the ego or ‘worker self’.
So what is ‘to blame’ really is the poor self-management of our overall conscious awareness, and the beliefs it chooses to inherit, create and develop, believing that our home and our work activities are somehow totally disconnected realities — a belief which many of us do not question often enough ‘ahead of time’, in spite of the many hints and clues of pending natural changes, rhythms of time, which will ultimately pull the rug on the whole lot if overdone workwise.
Soul Connection
Thinking then about your soul, which is your multidimensional whole self or entity, your wider more-dimensional conscious self is ‘closer’ to this concept that your less-dimensional ego or worker self.
This is why, in a nutshell, if you wish to strengthen your connection to your soul, you need to first question the nature of the beliefs which you hold about true nature, for if it is believed that working your ego harder-and-harder, faster-and-faster, will bring you better times, then this is the wrong way of thinking about it.
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