What Will Be New in 2016?
The Spiritual Technology of Happiness
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What will change for you in the New Year?
Maybe last year just wasn’t your year. Too much chaos? Too much suffering and pain? Maybe you lost your loved one? Filed bankruptcy? Lost your home, your health or worse?
Maybe the economy scares you? With the uncertainty and the world in flux, are you finding it difficult to feel peaceful and optimistic about the future?
What if it is actually your responsibility to remove all the negativity from your life? What if both the internal negativity and the external negativity in your life are your responsibility, and yours alone? What if you’ve had the power to remove the negativity all along?
Where did we get the idea that someone else would come and do it for us? How did the programming of helplessness and passivity become so ingrained, so much a part of our modus operandi? Where did our will power and initiative go?
Is there any part of our lives for which we are not responsible? Who do we expect will come and do it for us?
I often say that my life is my responsibility. If I were to think thoughts that made me blue and miserable, then it is my responsibility to change my thoughts!
If I was hanging out with negative and annoying people, then it’s my responsibility to change who I hang out with. If I was to eat junk food and pour sugar snacks into an already overweight body, then it’s my responsibility to use my common sense and change what I’m doing to my body.
When the Israelites were fleeing from Pharaoh and found themselves penned in by Pharaoh’s chariots from behind and the Red Sea in front of them, they did what most of us would do, they cried out to God, “Please, help us!” They felt that if help didn’t come from ‘someone else’ or somewhere else, they were certain to either be annihilated by soldiers or drowned in the depths of the sea.
Imagine thousands of terrified people screaming ‘Help us!’ But what does the Almighty say? “Why are you praying to me? Va’is’u! Stop crying out to me. Jump into the sea!”
What? What does that mean? You mean that You, God, aren’t going to do anything? You’re not going to help me? What do you mean ‘Jump into the sea?’
I can imagine the fear, the paralysis, the confusion and uncertainty that flooded the minds of the people. Only one person grasped the words and meaning of ‘Jump into the sea.’ A man named Nachshon ben Aminadav did just that. He jumped into the sea. He took responsibility to do what he could, an action of mind over matter.
At first the waters did not split! While the people continued to scream out in terror, Nachshon kept walking until the water was up to his neck and then, only then, the sea split.
What is the message for us in this story?
The message is about our part, our responsibility to do what we can do in every situation and then, only then, will heaven help. The message is about certainty, trust, and the ultimate consciousness of mind over matter.
We already have all of the spiritual technology necessary to control both our lives and the physical realm. We are responsible to improve our destiny, and to remove the chaos, pain, and suffering from our lives.
We do this by learning to focus our consciousness, learning meditation, perfecting energy modalities. We practice these techniques until we have learned the spiritual technologies of mind over matter well.
We learn to abolish worry, fear, and the negative brooding that creates the chaos in our lives. We learn the art of weeding the mind of ‘thought weeds, and the crab grass of life.’ We learn to avoid ‘the fire swamp of despair.'
We have a whole generation of people who are cry babies. We expect someone will come and do it for us. We’re entitled. We’re spoiled. We’re lazy-minded. We even use religion as a crutch. We have yet to learn how to walk on our own.
Take responsibility in the new year and become empowered. In 2016, we all need to jump into the sea!
Blessings,
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