Rick3
Padawan Learner
Hi everyone. This is the first time I am starting a new thread, so, if I get it wrong, feel free to move it or correct it in any way.
As a recovering alcoholic I 'work' the 12 steps of AA, NA, SLAA. They are all pretty much the same, one focusing on recovery from alcohol, the other from drugs, and so on. One thing I've noticed, having read about half way through Ouspenky's ISOTM, are the amazing parallels between G's 4th way and the 12 steps. The following meditation which I received via email (I get daily ones) may be a case in point, considering all Laura and the C's have said about the different densities, vibrations, vibrating at a certain level and so on. So here it is. I hope it proves as helpful to others as as it did for me.
Letting go of Faults
If there is something about myself that I don't like, I can let it go. My attachment to a negative quality in me can create a strong sort of hidden shame. When I can release it, I create a sort of vacuum that the universe quickly, even instantaneously moves in to fill. The vacuum I create by releasing rigid and dysfunctional thought patterns creates a kind of inner space - it allows room for something new to rush in. When I can elevate my level of vibration in this way, I grow. Negative thoughts and feelings are dense, and I can feel almost glued in place by them. They begin to have a life of their own, and that life is powerful within me. Consciously releasing them, letting them rise up and out of my inner world into space, even in what may feel like an unfinished state, can allow me to see and experience them and myself differently. It can open up new psychic space and let me live from a higher place inside of myself.
I am elevating my level of living.
When you have faults do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius
As a recovering alcoholic I 'work' the 12 steps of AA, NA, SLAA. They are all pretty much the same, one focusing on recovery from alcohol, the other from drugs, and so on. One thing I've noticed, having read about half way through Ouspenky's ISOTM, are the amazing parallels between G's 4th way and the 12 steps. The following meditation which I received via email (I get daily ones) may be a case in point, considering all Laura and the C's have said about the different densities, vibrations, vibrating at a certain level and so on. So here it is. I hope it proves as helpful to others as as it did for me.
Letting go of Faults
If there is something about myself that I don't like, I can let it go. My attachment to a negative quality in me can create a strong sort of hidden shame. When I can release it, I create a sort of vacuum that the universe quickly, even instantaneously moves in to fill. The vacuum I create by releasing rigid and dysfunctional thought patterns creates a kind of inner space - it allows room for something new to rush in. When I can elevate my level of vibration in this way, I grow. Negative thoughts and feelings are dense, and I can feel almost glued in place by them. They begin to have a life of their own, and that life is powerful within me. Consciously releasing them, letting them rise up and out of my inner world into space, even in what may feel like an unfinished state, can allow me to see and experience them and myself differently. It can open up new psychic space and let me live from a higher place inside of myself.
I am elevating my level of living.
When you have faults do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius
