Seems to me that many misperceive of 'spirituality' as pertaining to some prescribed religious sense of dogma, dictating that a righteous sense of goodness exists within the narrow framework of a specific belief, when deeper truth suggests that strength of spirit, necessary for character development, relies upon independent trains of thought, brainstorming toward lasting change for the better by considering how best to satisfy basic needs (such as breathing freely, eating and drinking in moderation, moving, resting and procreating) in such well balanced ways as prove essential if mankind hopes to enjoy such good health as to thrive throughout each stage of life.
As history suggests that social and religious constraints continue to place guilt-ridden restraints upon our innate (natural) desire to satisfy six basic needs, I'd like to name a seventh need, basic to improving the emotional health of the human spirit: The human spirit has need to break free of social and religious restraints that stuff our brains full of baggage, which a person's soulful sense of individuality needs to unload in order to make room for conscious awareness to grow so insightfully well balanced as to muster the courage and patience necessary to determine which course of action will best relax physical and emotional tension (based in unidentified guilt), which coils so tightly around our brains' ability to think clearly that self empowering knowledge, concerning each person's intellectual awareness of mankind's universal need to thrive as unique individuals, can't imprint so deeply into our gray matter as to brighten our think tanks with this insight: Peace of mind depends upon accepting oneself not as we have been taught to be but as uniquely differentiated individuals, which is why intuitive thought inspires your intelligence and mine to develop the discretionary agility to sense when readiness to satisfy a highly personal, unmet need proves more productive than continuing to ponder, quietly, about an inner conflict that resists resolution until an individual's growing sense of mind expansion has developed the mental acuity that offers a clarified view of emotional complexity, which defensive reactiveness had blinded our intelligence from understanding at an earlier time when guilt-ridden trains of thought had flooded your think tank or mine with so much adrenalin as to have made brainstorming toward change for the better seem impossible. Whew!
Speaking personally, it takes a whale of soul searching, on my own, before a deeply ingrained mindset expands to comfortably embrace a decision, which had seemingly contradicted a principle that had guided my life until a mind blowing experience offered my sense of logic sound reason to consult ever more astutely with my brain's intuitive process than conscious awareness had ever felt capable of perceiving until the mind blowing uniqueness of that unexpected experience tapped into a depth of innate spirituality that my conscious mind had never fathomed as my own until insight into the complex nature of my unexplored emotional layers began to emerge, and as inter-related strings of insight, concerning the depths of my spirit's unmet needs, began to 'speak' to my conscious mind more clearly than ever before, my think tank had need to call forth inner strengths necessary to make decisions, which social and religious constraints had taught me to believe as forbidden until intuition tapped into my soul's sense of readiness to expose deeper truth to my newly expanded sense of conscious awareness ... And now that we've defined what is meant by 'a mind blowing experience', those of you who've been following my blog can fathom why intuitive trains of thought drive my intelligence to work toward identifying and expunging every drop of undeserved guilt, which had blocked my conscious awareness from enjoying certain experiences so whole/heartedly as to fulfill my spirit's independent need to thrive, free of self-depreciating degradation, based in the distorted absorption of my self image during childhood, which festering, subconsciously, had taken the admonishments of adults as gospel—whereas, today, I've grown to acknowledge my role models as having been emotionally over-reactive ...
Each time insight into deeper truth spotlights another aspect of my negatively focused self-image, festering, subconsciously, my relationship with myself improves, and each time my relationship with myself improves, my relationships with others adjust, accordingly, to everyone's benefit, and as one positive change for the better leads to another, my attitude concerning the person I've actually grown up to be continues to improve until, little by little, change for the better serves to rebalance my attitude about life in general so that, with each next step forward, I find myself smiling while asking: What could feel more uplifting to the human spirit (at any age) than brainstorming, conscientiously, to relax tight knots of mental tension by reconsidering negative attitudes (which had darkly distorted my self image during childhood), thus offering my mind sound reason to expand my brain's agility to embrace bright ideas, based in strings of emergent insight, which enhance peace of mind as clearly as this train of thought has summarized the primary reason why I challenge my intelligence to pen post after post, each of which encourages my think tank to clarify a spiritually uplifting belief system, based in deeper truth, that frees all of me to be truer to my uniquely existential self, today, than had been possible as recently as yesterday, when, once again, I found myself standing at a fork in the road, questioning which course of action my intuitive voice was coaching me to choose in hopes of taking another step closer to change for the better: Shall I follow a prescribed path, which, though 'seemingly' safe, does not offer me peace of mind, or shall I continue to listen for my little voice of intuition, encouraging my intelligence to quest ever more self confidently (not self-servingly) for emergent strings of insight, based in deeper truths, which continue to re-energize my spirit's heightening sense of self awareness to adjust toward thriving by directing my soulful sense of determination to carve out each next step as my growing sense of wholesomeness creates my very own 'road less taken' in hopes of satisfying seven existential unmet needs, which all human beings have in common?
Do you realize that I rarely know when a train of thought is pulling into each day's rest station until the last in a string of insights flashes through my mind's eye, which acting like a camera, continues to take snapshots of trains of thought until the intuitive exposure that my intelligence has been seeking, ultimately, develops, clarifying a deeper truth that leads my self confidence toward making each next seriously considered move, regardless of whether my train of thought penetrates deeply into any head other than my own.
Perhaps, tis safe to say that, where many see life as a game of checkers, my spiritual need for inner peace seeks insight into chess ...
Not chess with you, but chess between my intuitive intelligence and my defense system (which is programmed to tie my gray matter into knots in order to oppose any move that might expose my ego's need to deny deeper truth) ... you see, each time inner conflict plays chess inside my head, my intuitive quest to sense a deeper truth unties one knot of tension after another until humility feels free to acknowledge where my ego's thought process is off target, and since humility directly opposes my ego's need to win at any cost, my ego calls upon its army of defense mechanisms to block the existence of deeper truth from penetrating my wall of denial until my intelligence has untied so many knots of tension as to clear a path whereby insights, flowing freely from a place of intuitive thought, brighten my gray matter to see the light of clarity beckoning at the end of the tunnel, which defensive thoughts can no longer darken once intuition offers a helping hand to my conscious intelligence, which proves in need of that partnership throughout every stage of life, and each time that partnership feels strengthened, my self confident voice encourages my smarts to sit my defense system in time out while the rest of me takes the next positively focused, adventurous step into the great unknown ... Whew!
And now, if I say so, myself, that's quite enough brainstorming for today.
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