Recovering

Recovery

Step 1 (cont'd) - During this phase, comes a time when you just need to STOP talking about the hurt, anger, pain, etc and TAKE ACTION, take action to remove the pain, hurt, anger, etc. from your being or yes, I'm going to say it, your SOUL.  Because that is where everything is stored and where it affects who we are, alters who we are and where it hurts!


Tools - There are several tools I use to help me through the process and I still continue to use as my way of life. 

• Crystals - An amethyst is recommended for the initial healing process.  I carried mine around for a very long time.  It lessened my anxiety and literally helped alleviate the hurt I felt deep within me in conjunction with the other tool, writing and burning, which I mention below.  The following link provides more information on amethysts and its healing properties at http://tinyurl.com/ls4zfb7. 

         **Special note:  Clean the crystal in a small bowl filled with water and salt.  Let it sit for 5 minutes.   Once a month place the crystal in your window under the full moon for cleansing and energy. 

You should carry it with you all the time and hold onto it in your hand whenever possible to alleviate stress, anxiety and to help bring calm during the healing phase for at least one month.

New Way (cont'd)

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One of the areas we seem to find very hard to deal with is what people say.  then we begin to form our own thoughts, ideas or rebuttal.  How about we allow everyone the freedom to think and talk.  Everything someone says or does has nothing t do with US.

As we allow others the freedom to be without needing anything from what they say. Many free thinkers say many things that have nothing to do with anyone.  To watch every word or thought that one says has no freedom. This does not mean the freedom t harm others, but many people jump into the middle of your thoughts thinking they are somewhat involved. 

The path has no idle thought.  Much of what is said has meaning or purpose only for the thinker.  **Always look at everything without mixing yourself into it.**

The things that have become very clear is that  most people are so self obsessed they have no room for new ideas.  It is like saying hello.  They think what does he/she mean by that?  People who cannot weave their own dreams hook into the dreamer making it part of the expression they themselves would like to be able to do. 

Most that I meet will spend so much time on trying to fix, make something out of anything. They grab onto others words, mostly because they think they can't dream.

Without the dreams of what you wish to do or become you will never grow to the fullest.  You will listen to someone and weave that person's thoughts or off-handed remark into something you wish it to be. 

For example:

• You must be willing to give everything away to arrive at this new way of life.  The very first thing people will say, "no problem"  The next breath it begins to be modified so that soon we turn our will back over to our thoughts.  Unless we have some thought of the outcome we don't give anything for something new until the new has been captured or we have a 99% chance of getting it.

~Today brings more from Douglas Ray's writings, A New Way.  These writings are presented in page by page order as he has written them.~

A New Way

by Douglas Ray

Truth can not be spoken from a plain that someone is unaware of.  It would be like explaining how to swim if you never saw or understood water.  We never reach beyond the mask of here and now to uncover the realm of real. So if we only know this material realm how can we find truth, until we understand that we live in a plain of transition.  Always in a state of flux.  We have very little ability to understand permanence, so therefore, we change all the time.  We call it growth.  Nothing is made to last we don't even allow God to be.  We ask him over and over to correct things, so how can anything be right.  We think God has made a  mistake.  As long as we think and act this way we will never arrive at the moment of absolute total spirit truth.

As long as we find the need to seek more of everything we need to have attachment. When one can have no attachment to anything then he can begin to see that they are ALL THINGS not man made things.  People attach themselves to other people, places and things all the time to give themselves value.  And in value there is truth.....so we think.

Truth only comes with knowing not getting.  Direct knowledge is truth.

How does one know direct truth from verbal truth?  Watch everything around you. When you begin to understand the purpose, reason and meaning of all things you will be ready for direct truth.  Any new idea that seems to go against the norm...when something causes us to close our minds, I have found through allowing it, things are different.  They make one look in a different way at something.  As before, we attach to something new with any idea at what it is. 

Very few times do we experience anything real.  So when it happens we attach a feeling or action to it.  It's like reading about a person's path if they begin to explain it and we truly understand why are we reading it?  For the age old thought that someone else came this way.  But if we don't understand it or it causes no reaction we thing something is a miss.

From my time many things I read do not impact me at the moment, yet somewhere it develops.  A deal of time can pass then at some later time it explodes and thros us to another level.  When one seeks neither life nor death we are there.

We do the same things over and over.  If we fail we try it over again, modifying an old idea thinking it's new.  It is still at the core an old idea.

We change only if it hurts bad enough.  And only change to the point where we go up to pain.  The old saying, "give until it hurts", how about, "give until there is nothing left to give".  If you reach that point you have become limitless.

A New Way Introduced

This is a series I will be posting titled, A New Way, written by Douglas Ray.  It chronicles the spiritual journey of a soul seeking its fulfillment through honesty, awareness and ultimately realizing the five gifts of living.  Mr. Ray's writings will be featured in addition to the various social issues discussed in this blog.

A New Way

by Douglas Ray

Now to begin to understand the truth which I thought was so far away I could never find it. So many words of so called truth.

Everyone has a thought what they think truth is or is not. Without the direct knowledge from the soul truth will always be just a thought. We dress it up with words.Sometimes action, but we never get to the core of truth. We hear "to think own self be true" . What does that really mean? We read books and stories of men and women who have lived in a way that the books call "the golden rule", the guide to God. Many different ways of saying what? That they found truth.

Truth can not and has never been explained due to it being a total spiritual experience only shared between your two selves. I have heard many people express what they feel is truth, yet as time moves along and I listen to the words people say it has very little to do with truth. It has much to do with how one sees the word. Most of the time truth, as people express it, is covered with ego, self grandeur and "better than" image of one's self.




***More of Mr. Ray's writings to follow.***