There is
always some hold out to our willingness to do anything in life. As far
as healing is concerned, we all say we are willing to heal, yet none of
us are 100% willing to heal. So the question is:
“How
do we get 100% willing?” and “What is holding us
back?”
The major
impediments to being 100% engaged in life and in your healing are your
“Resistances”. We all hold a ton of resistance
within us - resistances we have accumulated for a very long time
(lifetimes in fact). No matter if we had the best of reasons for having
our resistances in the first place - we are now stuck with them. We can
say, “Resistance be gone”, but it’s not
that easy. After lifetimes after lifetimes of listening to and obeying
our resistances, they are deeply programmed (if not hard wired) into us
– which makes them very stubborn and very difficult to remove.
Because of
our internal resistances, most of us are also not 100% free to make
complete choices or whole hearted decisions in our lives.
That’s a pretty big statement, so let me explain.
Initially,
we had the freedom (“free will”) to choose whatever
we wanted – coming from a place of completeness and wholeness
- all our choices involved our whole selves, with no separations. To
choose whole heartedly is to live whole heartedly –
it’s not a matter of simply surviving but living with gusto -
no holes barred and no holding back! When we were able to be 100%
present and 100% aware and 100% responsive in every moment, there is an
intensity in our lives, a feeling of living fully - 100%.
It’s a pure direct engagement with the reality of life
“as it is”, and not as we think it is. But we are
not now complete and whole – most of us can access just a
small part of our entire selves, and the difference is like night and
day - the difference is between having “complete free
will” and “partial free will”. Most of us
can only access and exert a small portion of our whole will, having
given the rest up to our ego and its resistances.
Ego
Resistances Resistances are the
“undertones” or extraneous
“charges” or “interpretations”
we add to life’s numerous events. In other words,
“resistances” are the limitations our ego-minds
have chosen to “take on” - such as our prejudicial
thoughts and feelings.
Accumulating
all these interpretations (whether “positive” or
“negative”) is the typical response of the ego-mind
to imbue reality with its own meaning, rather than seeing reality
“as it is”. And if we accumulate enough of these
“charges” or “interpretations”,
the way we react to life can be complicated.
The more
and more resistances we have inside us, the more our resistances begin
to “react” for us... but not only react, they begin
to choose for us. And just like computer programs (or viruses more
like) our resistances may automatically run whether we want them to or
not.
Resistances
are those areas in your psyche that are like irritating sore spots or
buttons. If someone pushes just one, you are all over them, huffing and
puffing "You hurt my feelings - I don't like that - that's bad - you
are wrong". (I hope you get the picture). Someone can say even the most
innocent of things and there you go into those reacting patterns. You
can blame it on that extra pot of coffee you drank, your terrible
childhood, or on the person who brought such things to your
attention... and pressed those hidden buttons. If you are not
approaching life experiences as opportunities for self awareness and
growth, you will be in resistance and receive them as threats.
So now
these “resistance programs” have taken over and (to
one degree or another) they are altering and clouding our perceptions
of reality. Consequently, we are operating from a restricted
“less than” mentality – also considered
“poverty consciousness”.
And each
time our ego mind
imbues us with yet another limited conception of reality, it becomes
another restrictive filter added on to another restrictive filter that
we perceive from behind “a glass darkly”. The
consequence of having all these protective resistant walls around us
– they potentially keep love and happiness from reaching in
and touching us.
Let us ask:
What is locking these resistances into our being?
What is the substance of our resistances?
It is our
fears, mistrust,
pain, attachments, anger, hurt, insecurity, misunderstanding... the
list goes on.
One of the
reasons for this web site is to help address these resistances as
directly as possible through this medium.
Firstly in
the form of my words
(which I grant you has its limitations)
To address
misunderstanding
I share with you my teachings about spirituality and healing.
To address
fear and mistrust
I share with you who I am and what I am about
that you may come to know a little about me as a real person.
To address
your anger, attachments, hurts and insecurities
I share with you this healing work and the Spirit behind it
(which I hope you will come to know the boundlessness of).
It is the
best that we have to offer
but it is nothing without your participation.
Granted,
processing through your resistances and stuff is often uncomfortable,
but you will feel so much better afterwards... as they say "the truth
shall set you free". I recently read a bumper sticker that put it even
more succinctly. It said "The truth shall set you free, but not before
really pissing you off."
Surrender
Lord
grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Rarely does
a profound depth of healing occur on its own,
especially within the vacuum of our own space.There just comes those
times when we must seek for - outside ourselves - a powerful force or
higher consciousness that can intervene between us and our negative
thoughts, disharmonious energies, and resistant feelings. This has
traditionally been the role of the Guru, Guide, Priest or Healer (some
whose own lower self and ego are more closely surrendered and aligned
to their Higher Self and the Universal Mind).
No matter
who you attract as your spirit ally, you must bring the spirit of:
Humbleness - a
willingness to receive and an openness to be guided.
Trust - in whom your Self and Spirit Guides have directed you to.
Faith - in the outcome of the work and in the process.
Surrender - demonstrated on the material level as a gesture of your
sincerity to Spirit that you are willing to let go of your old
attachments. To be totally clear, the "surrender" is not to the human
ego or personality of whomever you call into your life, but to the
Higher Self for whom they represent.
I
Asked God
I asked God to make handicapped children whole.
"Their spirit is whole - the body is only temporary".
I asked God to grant me patience.
"Patience is a byproduct of tribulations - it isn't granted, it is
earned".
I asked God to give me happiness.
"I give you blessings. Happiness is up to you".
I asked God to spare me pain.
"Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to
me".
I asked God to make my spirit grow.
"I will prune you to make you grow".
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life.
"I will give you life so that you may enjoy all things".
I asked God to help me LOVE others as much as he loves me.
"Ahhhh, finally you have the idea".
Music from CD: FAITHGROOVE by Faith Rivera
Choices - Free Will
One of the
most important considerations in determining whether to work with
someone or not has to do with their willingness to heal.
In other
words...
Healing is a choice.
You either chose to heal or you chose not to heal.
That’s
what
“free will” (and life) is all about –
making choices. It you don’t want to “get with the
program” of healing, that’s your prerogative. I am
not here to force someone to so something if - for whatever reason
– they do not want it. The most profound healings
don’t work that way. If a healing was forced upon you against
your will, nothing (or very little) would happen in a session.
Ultimately,
it’s not your Higher Self’s lack of willingness to
receive the healings that’s the big problem –
it’s your human self that must be engaged in the process by
constantly choosing to receive the healing work. You must demonstrate
your willingness to your own Higher Self (and to the Great Spirit) by
continually saying “yes”, pay for and receive the
work. It’s just that simple.
Considering
that your will contributed to creating your resistances, we will need
to re-engage the will (at least that much of it that you can rouse) to
neutralize against your resistances. It’s an interesting
contradiction: your "will" (and you) are still resistant, yet you are
using your will to counteract your resistance. On second thought, it
makes sense... we often are of two minds when we want two or more
conflicting things (“we want our cake and eat it
too”). Again, another example of our inability to be 100%
committed to any one thing. This can be rectified, but you have to
start making different choices at some point along the way.
It is
imperative that we are given the opportunity to choose. The more we
chose and follow up on our choices, the more we become engaged with
life. If you realize that we are the sum total of all our choices, you
realize this is an important "Rite of Passage" into "Becoming".
Besides, if you were not tested, you would stay stuck in that between
place on the fence, which is a sort of “no mans
land” or “limbo”.
In relation
to the healings, it is easy enough for me to tell what side your human
self favors most: if you were more willing to be healed and to be whole
– if that was what you found of greater value than to remain
stuck in your resistance (and thus be your resistance), you would pay
for and do the healings. The main way I challenge you to make this
choice (one over the other) is through pushing your money buttons. For
of all the things we are willful and resistant about, money is the
biggest one. By confronting you with the choice to pay for your
healings or not, this exercises your ego-will enough that you either
open up to the healing process or you don’t. Again, this life
is about making choices – you chose to follow your ego-mind
or follow your Spirit. If you want to live your life 100%, you
can’t be wish-y wash-y in your decisions –
it’s got to be one or the other. That’s a big
reason why Spirit brought us here in the first place – to
make these choices on the most material levels of our being. For most
people incarnate in this day and age, money is the magic ingredient
that tests the mettle of our convictions. (It just works, so I use it).
For some
people, if it was just a matter of money, this whole thing would be so
easy. However, we all know that there is more to this healing work than
simply putting down your money and setting up sessions (but this often
is the biggest hurdle).
The next
big problem is that the human self must also be willing to continually
subject itself - over and over - to the “spiritual
fires” of this healing process... the energies of which
(ultimately) lay the self bare and vulnerable to God and His universe.
This can be very scary. Having trust and faith that such
“discomfort” is all part of the healing process is
not easy, especially if you have trust issues - which most people do
(starting with a lack of trust in ourselves - to a lack of trust in
Spirit). Most of our deep spiritual issues involve this subject of
“trust”, and so (in order to heal our trust issues)
they must be addressed, tested, and exercised - as it is (safely) done
in this work.
Tolerating
the discomforts and irritations of this healing process is not always
so easy, but it does get better after a time. There is a light at the
end of every tunnel - if you stay on course and keep doing the work you
will get to the end. I can be of some support and encouragement to you
along your journey, but no one can force you to do this work but you.
Rings
of Power
Every
healing session you do helps you step that much closer into what may be
called your "Rings of Power". Each ring (or layer) holds many old
unresolved issues and energies, some that have been lying in wait for
eons. As one goes deeper and deeper into all that resides in these
"Rings"... facing these ancient challenges... healing and overcoming
them... not only does this lead you further and further into deeper
more central core layers of your being, but it also energizes, empowers
and expands your energy field (this being your “spiritual
energetic immune system”), frees your consciousness from
limiting egocentric fixations, and allows you to become more and more
involved with (and affect) the greater multi-dimensional universe.
Being
In Your Power
Everyone has all the divine qualities (attributes) hidden within,
though they may not be in touch with or aware of them. We have learned
early on that in order to survive, we must follow the pack and do as
our elders and peers and those in authority (who also seem to have the
strongest egos) tell us. We have learned early on that it is not safe
to stand out and affirm our own inner truth, this being a threat to the
status quo. However, by following the pack and accepting the societal
norms, there is a price to pay, and that usually is the beauty, light,
freedom and loving power of our souls.
However,
every time you follow through on your choice to receive another
healing... and every time you follow the guidance of your Higher Self -
standing up for your inner truth... you move that much closer unto
completing another rung on the circle of your "Ring of Power". These
"Rings of Power" surround your being in progressively expanding
circles, each one touching upon different energies and
dimensions. As these layers are filled in with more of your
spiritual power, it becomes that much harder for the outer forces to
get into your space and manipulate or control you by threat or fear.
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1999
- 2008. David Raphael Isaacson. No portion of information in this
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