Gary Christopher

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ASTHAR MESSAGE LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS TO US AND TALK TO US IN OUR RESCUE IN OUR HEARTS I AM Ashtar Commander of the Galactic Federation,

I am here today to convey an urgent message to humanity: please keep calm and don't create chaos and panic globally. We understand that you are scared right now and don't know what to expect next. Let's see what's happening on your planet and we are trying to help you. Please don't take all the facts your media paint and give you too seriously. They are not showing you the whole picture and not telling you the whole truth about what is happening behind the scenes. They're trying to make you lose your cool and make you live only in fear. Fear is the real virus, fear spreads faster than a virus.

Please do your daily meditation and please help those who are still asleep, trying to make them understand that they shouldn't panic. They are creating chaos right now closing everything, closing schools, games, boundaries and all. This will create more chaos than anything. We said earlier and I said before that we are taking care of humanity, we have always helped humanity and we don't leave you without our support. We are here to help you, you just need to ask for our help. Moreover, we understand that the situation on Earth has become too alarming. We know the whole staged, because we call it the Dark Forces staged, which are trying to create global panic. This is their last attempt to control humanity, but they are losing control and they know it. They've been losing power for some time but still trying to use money, media and other methods to make everyone panic and fear.

If you look at the images of what the media describes now, they show what's happening with your work, schools and everything else; it's like they're completely obscuring you, but remember that there will be certainty behind all this uncertainty. The sun will always rise and shine after rain, negative things will pass and everything will change again for the better. Right now you don't see the whole picture of what's really happening, all the energies that Earth receives and all the support that comes from the Galactic Alliance. The Galactic Alliance is working hard to bring the New Age to your planet, so just look at the bigger picture and don't spend too much time on this Coronavirus; it's just to distract everyone from reality, make everyone run and be scared. Beyond that, you are not sheep running where they were told. You are spiritual beings who came from other planets, you are Star Seeds. Please remember this and help everyone around you not to panic by telling them something, smiling or encouraging them that this will have to pass, it will pass, it won't stay here forever, it's just a temporary situation.

We must remember, especially in the Light Workers communities, that we are here to bring Love and Light. We are here to create a new reality and move from 3 D to 5 D; it's getting faster and faster regardless of what the Dark Forces do. They can't stop change, they lost the battle, but they don't want to recognize it themselves. Negative forces no longer have a choice, their time is up and all of this, what they are doing right now, is just their latest attempt to create hysteria in the world. I trust that humanity will eventually revive and start to see and understand that this is not the real image, so help each other, bring each other Light and love. Darkness will end and Light will succeed as always in many other planets. You are not the first nor the last planet we are helping to bring into the New Era.

Please be patient, be aware and don't listen and don't take too seriously what the media says, who hide the truth from you, even their times will end. They will have to reveal the truth, the whole truth about what is really happening here, in other countries and around the world. Please be well, I send you all my Love and Light.

I am Ashtar Commander of the Galactic Federation
Thanks, I'll be back.

From Sisia Orion Bella

ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ASHTAR 21/3/2020

ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ASHTAR 21/3/2020

Είμαι ο Ashtar Commander της Γαλαξιακής Ομοσπονδίας,

Είμαι εδώ σήμερα για να μεταδώσω ένα επείγον μήνυμα στην ανθρωπότητα: παρακαλούμε μείνετε ήρεμοι και μη δημιουργείτε χάος και πανικό παγκόσμια. Καταλαβαίνουμε πως είστε τρομαγμένοι αυτή τη στιγμή και δεν ξέρετε τι να περιμένετε. Ας δούμε τι συμβαίνει στον πλανήτη σας και προσπαθούμε να σας βοηθήσουμε. Παράκληση, μην παίρνετε στα σοβαρά όλα τα στοιχεία που σας δίνουν τα ΜΜΕ. Δεν σας δείχνουν την εικόνα ολόκληρη και δεν σας λένε την αλήθεια ολόκληρη σχετικά με το τι συμβαίνει πίσω από τη σκηνή. Προσπαθούν να σας κάνουν να χάσετε την ψυχραιμία σας  και να ζείτε μόνο μέσα στο φόβο. Ο φόβος είναι ο αληθινός ιός, ο φόβος διαδίδεται ταχύτερα από έναν ιό.

Σας παρακαλούμε να κάνετε τους καθημερινούς σας διαλογισμούς και σας παρακαλούμε επίσης να βοηθάτε αυτούς που ακόμη δεν έχουν αφυπνιστεί, προσπαθώντας να τους δώσετε να καταλάβουν πως δεν πρέπει να πανικοβάλλονται. Δημιουργούν χάος αυτή τη στιγμή κλείνοντας τα πάντα, κλείνοντας σχολεία, παιχνίδια, σύνορα και όλα τ΄άλλα. Αυτό θα προκαλέσει μεγαλύτερο χάος απ΄οτιδήποτε άλλο. Σας το είπαμε και νωρίτερα πως φροντίζουμε την ανθρωπότητα, πάντα βοηθούσαμε την ανθρωπότητα και δε θα σας αφήσουμε χωρίς υποστήριξη. Είμαστε εδώ για να σας βοηθήσουμε, το μόνο που έχετε να κάνετε είναι να ζητήσετε τη βοήθειά μας. Επιπλέον, καταλαβαίνουμε πως η κατάσταση στη γη έχει γίνει πολύ ανησυχητική. Γνωρίζουμε πως είναι όλα στημένα, τα ονομάζουμε Σκηνικό των Σκοτεινών Δυνάμεων, οι οποίες προσπαθούν να δημιουργήσουν παγκόσμιο πανικό. Αυτή είναι η τελευταία τους προσπάθεια να ελέγξουν την ανθρωπότητα, αλλά χάνουν τον έλεγχο και το γνωρίζουν. Χάνουν την εξουσία εδώ και καιρό αλλά ακόμη προσπαθούν να χρησιμοποιήσουν τα χρήματα, τα ΜΜΕ και άλλες μεθόδους για να προκαλέσουν σε όλους πανικό και φόβο.

Αν κοιτάξετε τις εικόνες που σας δείχνουν τώρα τα ΜΜΕ, δείχνουν τι συμβαίνει με τις εργασίες σας, τα σχολεία και όλα τα υπόλοιπα. Μοιάζει να σας μπερδεύουν, αλλά θυμηθείτε πως θα υπάρξει βεβαιότητα πίσω απ΄όλη αυτή την αβεβαιότητα. Ο ήλιος πάντα θα ανατέλλει και θα λάμπει μετά τη βροχή, τα αρνητικά πράγματα θα περάσουν και όλα θ’ αλλάξουν πάλι προς το καλύτερο. Αυτή τη στιγμή δε βλέπετε όλη την εικόνα του τι πραγματικά συμβαίνει, όλες τις ενέργειες που λαμβάνει η Γη και όλη την υποστήριξη που έρχεται από τη Γαλαξιακή Ομοσπονδία.  Η Γαλαξιακή Ομοσπονδία εργάζεται σκληρά για να φέρει τη Νέα Εποχή στον πλανήτη σας, οπότε κοιτάξτε την ευρύτερη εικόνα και μην ξοδεύετε πολύ χρόνο με αυτόν τον κορονοϊό· είναι μόνο για να αποσπάσει την προσοχή όλων από την πραγματικότητα, να κάνει τους πάντες να τρέχουν φοβισμένοι. Όμως, δεν είστε πρόβατα να τρέχετε όπου σας λένε. Είστε πνευματικά όντα που ήρθατε από άλλους πλανήτες, είστε αστρόσποροι. Σας παρακαλούμε θυμηθείτε το και βοηθήστε γύρω σας τον κόσμο να μην πανικοβάλλεται, με κάποια λόγια, με χαμόγελο ή δίνοντάς τους κουράγιο ότι όλο αυτό θα περάσει, θα περάσει, δε θα μείνει για πάντα, είναι μια προσωρινή κατάσταση.

Πρέπει να θυμόμαστε, ειδικά οι κοινότητες των Εργατών του Φωτός, πως είμαστε εδώ για να φέρουμε Αγάπη και Φως. Είμαστε εδώ για να δημιουργήσουμε μια νέα πραγματικότητα και να μετακινηθούμε από την 3η διάσταση στην 5η διάσταση· γίνεται όλο και ταχύτερα, ανεξάρτητα από το τι κάνουν οι Σκοτεινές Δυνάμεις. Δε μπορούν να σταματήσουν την αλλαγή, έχασαν τη μάχη, αλλά δε θέλουν να το παραδεχτούν. Οι αρνητικές δυνάμεις δεν έχουν πλέον επιλογή, ο χρόνος τους τελείωσε και όλα αυτά, αυτά που κάνουν τώρα, είναι μόνο η τελευταία τους προσπάθεια να δημιουργήσουν υστερία στον κόσμο. Η ανθρωπότητα σταδιακά θα αναγεννηθεί και θα αρχίσει να βλέπει και να καταλαβαίνει πως δεν είναι αυτή η αληθινή εικόνα, βοηθήστε λοιπόν ο ένας τον άλλο, φέρτε ο μεταξύ σας Φως και Αγάπη. Το σκοτάδι θα τελειώσει και το Φως θα υπερισχύσει όπως πάντα σε πολλούς άλλους πλανήτες. Δεν είστε ούτε ο πρώτος ούτε ο τελευταίος πλανήτης που βοηθάμε να έρθει στη Νέα Εποχή.

Σας παρακαλούμε να έχετε υπομονή, να έχετε επίγνωση και μην ακούτε και μην λαμβάνετε υπ΄όψη σας αυτά που λένε τα ΜΜΕ, τα οποία σας κρύβουν την αλήθεια. Κι ο δικός τους ο χρόνος θα τελειώσει. Θα αναγκαστούν να αποκαλύψουν την αλήθεια, όλη την αλήθεια σχετικά με το τι πραγματικά συμβαίνει εδώ, σε άλλες χώρες και σε όλο τον κόσμο.
Να είστε καλά, σας στέλνω όλη μου την Αγάπη και το Φως.

Είμαι ο Ashtar Commander της Γαλαξιακής Ομοσπονδίας

INTERESTING TIMES MAR. 20, 2020

How to Survive a Plague

By Andrew Sullivan

Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

It’s quite possible that by the end of all this, almost every American will know of someone who has died. A relative, a friend, an old high-school classmate … the names will pop up and migrate through Facebook as the weeks go by, and in a year’s time, Facebook will duly remind you of the grief or shock you experienced. The names of the sick will appear to be randomly selected — the ones you expected and the ones you really didn’t, the famous and the obscure, the vile and the virtuous. And you will feel the same pang of shock each time someone you know turns out to have fallen ill.

You’ll wake up each morning and check to see if you have a persistent cough, or a headache, or a tightness in the lungs. This is plague living: witnessing the sickness and death of others, knowing that you too could be next, even as you feel fine. The distancing things we reflexively do — “oh, well, he was a smoker”; “she was diabetic, you know”; “they were in Italy in February” —  become a little bit harder as time goes by, and the numbers mount, and the randomness of it all sinks in. No, this is not under control. And no, we are not in control. Because we never are.

And this will change us. It must. All plagues change society and culture, reversing some trends while accelerating others, shifting consciousness far and wide, with consequences we won’t discover for years or decades. The one thing we know about epidemics is that at some point they will end. The one thing we don’t know is who we will be then.

I know that I was a different man at the end of the plague of AIDS than I was at the beginning, just as so many gay men and many others were. You come face-to-face with mortality and the randomness of fate, and you are changed. You have a choice: to submit to fear and go under, or to live with the virus and do what you can. And the living with it, while fighting it, is what changes you over time; it requires more than a little nerve and more than a little steel. Plague living dispenses with the unnecessary, lays bare whom you can trust and whom you can’t, and also reveals what matters.

I know also that the AIDS epidemic, more than any other single factor, transformed the self-understanding of gay men and lesbians, opened the eyes of our fellow citizens, and revolutionized the world of gay rights. It showed us, with blinding clarity, what we had hitherto not seen: the ubiquity and humanity and dignity of homosexuals. And, having seen this, we were all changed. Within a couple of decades, out of the ashes, we had marriage equality, a new world of visibility and toleration.

Plagues destroy so much — but through the devastation, they can also rebuild and renew.

I was watching the movie 1917 the other night and there’s a scene in which the protagonist, a British soldier, is trying to navigate a vacated, devastated town in no-man’s-land at night. He makes his way through the shattered, urban wasteland where German soldiers are still hiding, but from time to time, a flare goes up, light suddenly floods the scene, and there is no hiding. Everything is clear for a moment — clearer than it was in daylight. Every cranny in the ruins and every quivering rat appears suddenly in sharp contrast and then disappears again, as the flare falls from the sky. But in an instant, you see the whole vista, and you orient yourself. You see where you are.

Like wars, plagues can make us see where we are, shake us into a new understanding of the world, reshape our priorities, and help us judge what really matters and what actually doesn’t. Testing kits matter. Twitter not so much. Politically, who knows? Much will depend on the skills of the politicians grasping this moment for their various ends. But a lot is at stake, and I suspect that those who think COVID-19 all but kills Donald Trump’s reelection prospects are being, as usual, too optimistic. National crises, even when handled at this level of incompetence and deceit, can, over time, galvanize public support for a national leader. As Trump instinctually finds a way to identify the virus as “foreign,” he will draw on these lizard-brain impulses, and in a time of fear, offer the balm of certainty to his cult and beyond. It’s the final bonding: blind support for the leader even at the risk of your own sickness and death. And in emergencies, quibbling, persistent political opposition is always on the defense, and often unpopular. It requires pointing out bad news in desperate times; and that, though essential, is rarely popular.

Watching Fox News operate in real time in ways Orwell described so brilliantly in Nineteen Eighty-Four — compare “We had always been at war with Eastasia” with “I’ve felt that it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic” —  you’d be a fool not to see the potential for the Republican right to use this plague for whatever end they want. If Trump moves to the left of the Democrats in handing out big non-means-tested cash payments, and provides a stimulus far bigger than Obama’s, no Republican will cavil. And since no sane person wants the war on COVID-19 to fail, we will have to wish that the president succeed. Pulling this off as an opposition party, while winning back the White House, will require a political deftness I don’t exactly see in abundance among today’s Democrats.

On the other hand, even further incompetence or failure on Trump’s part could finally, maybe, puncture the cult, and deliver the White House to Biden and the Congress to the Democrats. And the huge sums now being proposed by even the GOP to shore up the economy and the stock market at a time of massive debt, as well as the stark failures of our public-health planning, could make an activist government agenda much more politically palatable to Americans. “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” as Rahm Emanuel once put it. And if a public-health catastrophe doesn’t bring home the need for effective universal health care, what could? This virus is also an opportunity for the left to move away from its unpopular woke identity obsessions toward a case for structural economic change fitting for the scale of the epidemic.

Or maybe this epidemic will merely accelerate some of the worst cultural trends of our time. One of the more fascinating theories to explain why Italy has been hit so hard in this plague is that Italian society remains more humane and human than others in the West, involves much more social connection and community, and brings generations physically together, where they find both happiness … and viruses. Maybe our comparative loneliness saved us some lives this time, and this plague’s “social distancing” will permanently and tragically entrench an American way of life that has already stripped so many of community and connection.

For the weeks and months ahead, we’ll be spending much, much more time at home, or communicating entirely virtually. There will abruptly be less work to do, and less money coming in, and marriages under the acute stress of unending cohabitation. We will retreat into our online worlds, where viruses only affect computers, and withdraw from our neighbors when we could do with coming together. Online delivery will replace restaurants; Amazon will continue to displace local retail outlets; packages will just be left on the doorstep, no human interaction required. Our society will disperse inward, and the loneliness will be at times intense.

During the AIDS epidemic, those of us in the thick of it grew closer, caring for the sick and each other, hugging, supporting, bonding, or just showing up when we were needed. Or we’d get together in groups to remind ourselves we weren’t alone. This time, that kind of physical solidarity and comfort is impossible — because, with this virus, we cannot touch each other without risk of infection. It’s now been two weeks since I got a hug. And those weeks may become months. What will we do to cheer ourselves? How do we have sex without fear of infection?

Good will happen too. Surely it will. The silence in the streets portends something new. The other day, I realized I’d been texting a lot less and calling a lot more. I wanted to make sure my friends and family were okay, and I needed to see their faces and hear their voices to be reassured. As we withdraw from each other in the flesh, we may begin to appreciate better what we had until so recently: friendship and love made manifest by being together, simple gifts like a shared joint, a head resting on your shoulder, a hand squeezed, a toast raised. And in this sudden stop, we will also hear the sounds of nature — as our economic machine pauses for a moment and the contest for status or fame or money is canceled for just a while. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Pascal said. Well, we’ll be able to test that now, won’t we?

These weeks of confinement can be seen also, it seems to me, as weeks of a national retreat, a chance to reset and rethink our lives, to ponder their fragility. I learned one thing in my 20s and 30s in the AIDS epidemic: Living in a plague is just an intensified way of living. It merely unveils the radical uncertainty of life that is already here, and puts it into far sharper focus. We will all die one day, and we will almost all get sick at some point in our lives; none of this makes sense on its own (especially the dying part). The trick, as the great religions teach us, is counterintuitive: not to seize control, but to gain some balance and even serenity in absorbing what you can’t.

There may be moments in this great public silence when we learn and relearn this lesson. Because we will need to relearn it, as I’m rediscovering in this surreal flashback to a way of living I once knew. Plague living is almost seasonal for humans. Like the spring which insists on arriving.

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HOW TO ACCESS YOUR INNER STRENGTH DURING TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES

by Mateo Sol 

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ALMOST ALL OF US HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME KIND OF TRAUMATIC OR SHOCKING EVENT.

When I speak of trauma, I don’t always mean extreme situations such as natural disasters, instances of abuse, rape, murder, and accidents. While traumatic experiences often are severe and horrific, they can also be seemingly “mundane” experiences such as losing a job, daily stress, divorcing, and moving somewhere foreign. Trauma also can, and often does, come as a result of the spiritual awakening process in which our entire self-concept begins to crumble and we’re thrown into the abyss of an existential crisis.

Trauma is unique for each person. While we might find changing jobs just another daily task, another person may find the switch highly distressing. We should be very careful about judging other people when it comes to trauma. Every person is different and possesses different levels of sensitivity.

HOW TO KNOW WHETHER YOU’RE GOING THROUGH A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE

A traumatic experience is anything that severely threatens your emotional, psychological or physical well-being. Essentially, trauma is anything that causes us to feel like we’re losing or have lost control. Feeling traumatized is often accompanied by the experiences of feeling:

• Numb or disconnected from the world
• Sad and hopeless
• Anxious and fearful
• Hypervigilance (constantly looking out for danger)
• Confused and unable to concentrate
• Shocked and/or in denial
• Angry or rageful
• Moody and irritable
• Guilty or ashamed
• Self-hatred
• The need to withdraw from others

The danger with coming to terms with the fact that you have been traumatized is the tendency to adopt the role of a victim. While a person may have been victimized in some way, that person is only a “victim” until they make themselves one.

If you have read this list and discovered that you’re going through a traumatic experience, I want to invite you to notice the tendency to start attaching to the idea that you’re a victim. While it’s important that we come to terms with our trauma, it is very harmful, disempowering, and addictive to start thinking of yourself as a victim who is at the mercy of others/life.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TAPPING INTO YOUR INNER STRENGTH

Trauma is essentially the consequence of an extreme absence of power. But here’s the liberating truth: power comes from within. Whatever goes on outside of you is nothing compared to the courage, clarity, and compassion that already lies within your soul.

Learning how to tap into your inner strength – the power of your soul – is really about developing self-compassion. When you’re able to access this self-compassion, you will discover that nothing can truly harm you, because nothing can take away the untouchable divine strength of your inner Self. And when you realize that nothing can truly hurt you at your core, you will feel empowered and able to deal with anything that comes your way.

HOW TO ACCESS YOUR INNER STRENGTH DURING TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES

Like most people, I have gone through traumatic experiences such as emotional abuse, having a drug addicted mother, going through an awakening process, dealing with mentally ill family members, feeling like I’m going crazy myself, among many other things.

Two of the most powerful and life-changing tools I discovered during these dark times were self-compassion and thought inquiry. Learning to take care of myself with loving kindness and discovering that believing thoughts actually create suffering freed me from a lot of anger, fear, and shame.

Here are some key ways to access your inner strength during periods of extreme stress, illness, loss, vulnerability, and pain.

1. TREAT YOURSELF WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION

Notice the tendency for the inner critic to start judging you for “not having it all together” or for “being weak.” Counteract any critical thought with compassionate and encouraging words. For example, you might say to yourself, “It’s OK to feel this way,” “I’m doing the best I can,” “I love you no matter what,” or “I’m here for you.” How would you speak to a child who has experienced what you have gone through? If it helps, address your kindness to your inner child. Treat yourself with love and compassion.

2. ALLOW YOURSELF TO FEEL WHAT YOU FEEL

One of the greatest causes of long-term suffering is repression of our emotions. While it’s not always possible to feel our emotions after a traumatic circumstance, it is vital at some point to re-experience anything that we have shut away inside. Whatever we repress or suppress tends to have a way of building up within us like volcanic lava. At some point, we need to let it all out, and this will either happen from our conscious intentions, or as a catastrophic reaction (just like a volcanic eruption).

In order to “feel it to heal it” you need to find a healthy form of catharsis. For instance, you might seek out a therapist to speak with, journaling, artistic expression or more traditional forms of catharsis such as crying, screaming or physical workout (such as punching).

3. BREATHE DEEPLY

During traumatic circumstances, our minds tend to race and our breathing becomes shallow. The more shallow our breathing becomes, the more anxiety we feel, and the more our minds go crazy – and vice versa. To break this loop, breathe deeply from your stomach. Deep breathing stimulates the vagus nerve in the body which sends signals to the brain to calm down. If you’re struggling to breathe deeply, try noticing your in-breath and out-breath. Mindfully focus on the sensations in your body and what it feels like to be scared. If you can, try to become curious about what is happening in your mind and body. Breathing deeply and paying mindful attention helps to create more space inside of you to calm down and become balanced again.

4. GO SLOWLY

Working, moving, and speaking quickly tends to add to the stress we feel during painful circumstances. Allow yourself to slow down and reduce the tempo. Give yourself the space to process what is happening. Notice your addiction to working quickly and how it tends to cause the mind to get lost in thoughts of the past and future. Do one thing at a time, and ignore people who try to pressure you. Your health and mental wellbeing are paramount. The world won’t end if you slow down, but it will feel better to inhabit.

5. LET GO OF SELF-VICTIMIZING THOUGHTS

When we believe our thoughts, we suffer. But here’s the thing: your thoughts don’t actually mean anything about you unless you believe they do. Thoughts are simply fluctuations of energy. We don’t control our thoughts, otherwise, don’t you think we would always choose to think happy thoughts? We can’t even predict what the next five thoughts in our head will be. Therefore, if we don’t control our thoughts, how can we actually be our thoughts? How can our thoughts be true?

The root cause of all suffering is believing and identifying with thoughts instead of witnessing them and letting them go. When we experience trauma, the mind tends to create thoughts about how terrible our lives are and begins to create an identity around suffering (known as the victim complex). The moment we begin believing self-victimizing and self-pitying thoughts is the moment we experience intense suffering. But when we notice and become aware of these thoughts, and don’t identify with them, we don’t suffer.

Learning how to access your inner strength is about teaching yourself to become aware of these intrusive thoughts and realize that they only mean something if you believe they do. Otherwise, these thoughts come and go without hassle or worry. One of the best ways to stop identifying with your thoughts is through a regular meditation practice and self-inquiry. I recommend Scott Kiloby and Byron Katie as two excellent self-inquiry teachers.

6. REMEMBER A SITUATION IN THE PAST THAT YOU SURVIVED

If you are struggling to trust your inner strength, try recalling a tough situation in the past that you got through. Simply remembering that you got through something difficult in the past can help strengthen your resolve in the present.

7. ASK FOR GUIDANCE

Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s actually a sign of inner strength! When you seek help, you are being courageous and admitting that you don’t have all the answers, which is perfectly normal. Try seeking support from a trusted loved one, trained therapist or praying to a higher power such as your Soul. If you are in desperate need of guidance, I recommend seeking out a therapist or spiritual teacher.

8. KEEP IN MIND THAT EVERYTHING PASSES

No matter how much pain or suffering you’re going through right now, remember that everything passes, everything. Think back to a problem you had in the past, perhaps five or ten years ago. Where is that problem now? By reminding yourself of the philosophy “this too shall pass” you will bring yourself out of the narrow focus of the mind to see a bigger picture.

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WHAT NOW?

Now that you have explored how to access your inner strength, focus on one of the points above that appeals to you. Try to dedicate the next week to implementing whatever point of advice you choose and notice how you feel.

Most importantly, remember that self-compassion and thought inquiry are essential tools for tapping into the innate strength you carry. At first, it can be hard to believe that you carry strength within you at all, and this is because the mind tends to obscure your soul with thoughts. However, the more you become aware of these destructive thoughts, the more you will feel your natural inner radiance shine like an eternal sun. Cultures and spiritual traditions through the ages have called this inner presence your Buddha Nature, Higher Self, Consciousness, God/Goddess, Atman, and Soul. This sacred place within you is the source of all love, strength, peace, and understanding you need.

My hope is that this article can help you find relief from suffering. Please share whatever has helped you overcome trauma below.

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WHY THE LAW OF ATTRACTION CREATES INTENSE SUFFERING

by Aletheia Luna 

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BEFORE I START, I WANT TO CLARIFY SOMETHING.

It isn’t the Law of Attraction itself that creates intense suffering, it is our usage and interpretation of the LOA that harms us. (Try to put that into a single title!)

Since the launch of the mega-popular books like The Secret in 2006, the Law of Attraction has skyrocketed in popularity. These days you can find LOA principles sprinkled everywhere over social media and in endless self-help articles aimed at helping you to “find happiness.”

Although many of these memes, articles, and websites have good intentions, the majority of them misunderstand and misapply the Law of Attraction, leading to stress, anger, frustration, and sadness.

WHAT IS THE LAW OF ATTRACTION?

The Law of Attraction is a philosophy that is based on the simple premise that whatever you think, you attract. Therefore, if you think positive thoughts, you will “manifest” positive things. If you think negative thoughts, you will manifest negative things.

To an extent, this is true. What we think usually does become the reality we live in. As the trendy cliche goes, “Your vibe attracts your tribe.” And it’s true: whatever you think, you become. Whatever you focus on generally tends to appear in your life sooner or later.

Naturally, this reality is very appealing to people because it suddenly feels like we have control! In fact, the LOA starts feeling like a magical fairy wand that we can wave and use to manifest every single one of our heart’s desires!

But here’s where the catch comes: the moment you use the LOA to intensely manifest your desires is the moment you open the door of suffering.

WHY THE LAW OF ATTRACTION CREATES INTENSE SUFFERING

I find that focusing on manifesting is limited and exhausting since it leaves God out. It often involves a shopping list of what the ego wants to “get from the universe.” By its very nature that’s profoundly limited. – Tosha Silver, Outrageous Openness

Simply type in “the Law of Attraction” on places like Pinterest and Facebook, and you’ll see picture after picture, and blog piece after blog piece, instructing you on how to manifest your heart’s desires.

You’ll see pictures that say things like, “Believe you deserve it and the universe will serve it,” “Be the energy you want to attract,” “Create the feeling first, then the having will come!” “It’s OK for me to have everything I want,” etc.

You’ll also see blog posts entitled things like, “7 Secrets of Manifesting Money INSTANTLY,” “How to Create a Vision Board That Works,” “6 Daily Law of Attraction Hacks,” “How to Design your Ideal Life With the Law of Attraction,” “11 Ways to Manifest Weight Loss,” and so forth.

Can you see the overarching theme here?

The Law of Attraction has become so massively popular in the spiritual and mainstream world because it is all about get-get-get!

In fact, the Law of Attraction has become the face of what famous Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa calls Spiritual Materialism. In other words, the LOA is being used as a way to spiritualize desire and attachment – both of which create endless suffering.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to have more money, find your true love or achieve your goals. But when you believe all of these things will bring you the happiness you want, you’re stuck on another hamster wheel of suffering. The LOA starts to reinforce enslavement and obsession with desires rather than being a valuable tool to use mindfully. The more you try to chase and “manifest” things, the further you get from the truth that true happiness can be found right here, in the present moment, regardless of what you do or don’t have.

Even when you DO get what you so desperately wanted, you start fearing that it will be taken away from you! So you start clinging to, protecting, and fighting to keep what you’ve been given.

Does this sound like a recipe for peace or well being to you?

What hurts the most is when your desires aren’t fulfilled, and you’re left feeling frustrated, sad, desperate, and inadequate. You’ll hear people in the spiritual community telling you that your “vibration must be too low,” or your thoughts are not positive enough … even if you have been passionately “following all the rules” for months or even years. This, of course, further deepens your bitterness, emptiness, and feelings of being a failure.

YOUR THOUGHTS AREN’T RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS

One of the cruelest misapplications of the Law of Attraction is towards other people’s suffering.

Because of our mind’s tendency to think in black or white terms, we tend to become dogmatic about certain ideas very quickly – and this has happened with the LOA. Soon, we start believing that people who lose their children to suicide or develop cancer do so because “their thoughts are attracting their reality” or “their vibration is manifesting these events.” However, not only are these beliefs insanely simplistic and short-sighted, but they also express an implicit lack of empathy towards others.

While our thoughts do have the tendency to create our reality, they are not the sole causes for certain situations in our lives. If our thinking was always 100% responsible for our reality, then we would always get precisely what we want, when we want it. (Let’s face it, this notion is precisely why people obsess over the LOA so much.)

Also, if our thinking was entirely responsible for our reality, then whenever we think negative thoughts, our lives would always take a turn for the worst. But have you ever gone into an exam and thought “I’m going to do terribly and fail,” but later, found that you passed and did well? Have you ever gone to a job interview and thought “I’m so nervous, I’ll screw this up,” and pictured yourself near-homeless, but received a phone call saying that you’ve been hired?

The fact is that our thoughts aren’t solely responsible for our reality. Our vibration doesn’t always attract experiences that “match it.” Otherwise, compassionate people wouldn’t die horrible deaths, and cruel people wouldn’t live fantastic lives.

We desperately want to make the Law of Attraction explain everything in life because it makes us feel safe and like we’re in control. That is understandable. But if we truly want to experience unconditional love and peace, we need to admit that there are some holes in this theory. We need to find the courage to be free of ideas that are inherently limiting.

THE LOA (LUST, OBSESSION ATTACHMENT)

As I mentioned before, the Law of Attraction (LOA) is not the problem here, it’s people’s use and interpretation of it that is the problem.

When used by and understood through the ego, the Law of Attraction becomes more about lust, obsession, and attachment more than anything else.

We start believing that happiness can only be found in the future when we obtain or change something. But there is a serious flaw in this philosophy.

Sure, on the surface it may be fun and exciting to finally “attract” what we have been manifesting, visualizing, and creating vision boards about. This is equivalent to getting a shot of heroin. But afterward, when the buzz dies off, we start looking for more and more to manifest. We start viewing our lives through the lens of “what can I get more of?”

Very soon, we are constantly chasing-chasing-chasing what we believe, deep down, will finally “fulfill us” or bring us happiness. We become obsessed and addicted to a vision of what our lives “could be” if only we could just raise our vibration high enough and manifest all that we want.

Paradoxically, the more you try to think positive thoughts about what you want to attract, the more negative thoughts and feelings arise about how inadequate your life is or who you are as a person. In the back of your mind, you start feeling more and more anxiety, frustration, and desperation. These nagging feelings are either repressed and explode at a later date or are fought off with “positive thinking.”

Essentially, a war arises inside of your mind, in which you are constantly battling yourself in an attempt to get what you desire because you believe it will make you happy.

Can you see how messed up this all is? What a fiasco!

TRUE ABUNDANCE AND HAPPINESS

As Sol and I have explored in numerous articles on this website, true abundance and happiness is not something you get, it’s something you are.

Thankfully, there is no need to give a shopping list to the Universe of all your desires, because the Universe (which is you at your core), already knows what is best for your growth and well-being. Sometimes you will be thrown challenges or things that appear “bad” at first. But later, you will discover that they actually helped you to evolve and find true joy. Other times, you will experience “good” things which may turn out to harm you, which may later help you to grow stronger. Can you see how nothing is linear? Everything is connected. And everything is perfectly orchestrated. There’s no need to worry.

As endless spiritual teachers and masters have pointed out through the ages, true abundance and happiness can ONLY ever be found in the present moment. Not in the past, not in the future, in the present.

source:lonerwolf.com