Self-Sabotage Clues

I am eating RAW live food & herbs.. 

I am thinking the more connected we are to raw live foods and connected physically to the earth, the more we can hear the universe/God. God is good. Life is good.

Processed foods, cooked food... are dead.. (and LACK nutrients... maybe put us in LACK)

"Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food." Genesis 1:29 (NIV)

"And the Lord God commanded the man saying: of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat.… (Genesis 2: 16)

…and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field. "(Genesis 3: 18)

 I am Reading  Conscious Eating by Gabriel Cousens Md:

"A PRIMARY, ONGOING WAY THAT WE ALL CONSCIOUSLY or unconsciously relate to nature is through our food. Eating is an intimate way to extract life-sustaining energy from Mother Nature. In the process of digestive assimilation, the food, as part of Mother Nature, gives up its identity and takes on the identity of the one who has ingested it. We are actually assimilating the forces of nature— stored in our food— whenever we eat. Each bite we take brings us the experience of our loving connection with Mother Nature.

Food is a love note from God. Its letters are written by the rays of the sun. It says I love you and I shall take care of you and sustain you with the offerings of my earth. If we take time to read the love letter, by chewing carefully and feeling the messages that are stored in food by the sun, earth, wind, water, and even by those who have grown, harvested, and prepared the food, its assimilation takes on a whole new meaning. This is a specific way of receiving God's grace, a holy sacrament to be experienced slowly, carefully, and consciously....

The idea that each food, as a particular energy, affects us on an emotional, mental, and spiritual level is a new idea for many people in our industrial civilization. But for thousands of years Ayurvedic physicians, Chinese acupuncturists, ancient healer priests and priestesses, and Western herbalists have utilized this awareness in their work. According to The Spiritual Properties of Herbs, by Gurudas,

“An herb as a natural substance provides healing, but it also provides a spiritual message.”

Conscious, Subconscious And Superconscious

"The mind in action is conscious, subconscious and superconscious. We are aware of all conscious activity. We are aware of some subconscious activities expressed in our dreams, mingled with our conscious mentation, and in the functional operations of our bodies. The vast part of subconscious activity never rises to the plane of consciousness.

We know superconscious activity as it expresses in our dreams, in a vision, and consciously as a special illumination. The superconscious must express all its operations in symbolism, symbols created by the conscious and subconscious. Apart from these symbols, we cannot intelligibly describe the things known in superconscious."

http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTek-the-mental-highway-4.html

Okay, I still like your post a lot Randy, and we may be saying the same thing, I might just be arguing semantics but, here it is:  I don't think our subconscious has filters.  If our subconscious is where God speaks to us, there are not filters.  The filters lie in our conscious mind, our waking moments.  We choose not to here Gods message, we choose to distort the answers, and then we lie to ourselves.  The lie is conscious, the truth is subconscious.

Memes are only a part of our personality if we allow them to be there. Not God, society, not our loved ones, or enemies are capable of truly deceiving us, unless we let them.  The problem is the lies we accept are told to us when we are young.  It is difficult to undo those lies because they are near and dear to us, and they protect us.(or so we think)  The lies are apart of consciousness, the truth the filters can never get to, are in our subconscious.

Our consciousness rebels our consciousness lies, not our subconscious.  It is pure and it is good, no insanity there.  If God is our subconscious, it is the place we need to go.  However, it might take an army to get there, or literally the work of becoming conscious of the truth.  So, once again there are universal truths, and there are personal truths, and it is not possible to possess the complete knowledge of another person's truth.

I think we agree on this.  I guess  I would only change it  by saying.  "People can always here the message God is sending them, they choose listen or not to listen."

I get what your saying Randy, and I think it is very helpful.  I'm just wanting to clarify.

Craziness is a  disconnect with our truth, I believe that.  It is important for us to feel empowered though, knowing we can here God's message whenever we are ready to listen.  And the person or event or whatever forces us to hear, is very individual.

You know the insanity is trying to protect us.  Our insanity wants to protect us from pain, not from being sane.   But there comes a time when we don't need that protection anymore.

I agree when you say "more accurately, people hear the message through the filters they have."

However,I thought the idea of meditation was to help shut down or quieten the filters so we could hear the voice more clearly and accurately?

Why do our negative thoughts always want to crowd out our positive thoughts? Is it because we've programmed our minds like that? I keep working on that...

That's why I loved watching that show House.. fascinating and hilarious to watch a guy so brilliant do incredibly stupid , self-destructive things and know he was doing it and not being able to stop himself.. driving his car into his boss's living room was the topper I guess... haha!!!!

Awesome, Randy! I absolutely love this topic! Now, though I have made great strides in many aspects of my life, I would like your opinion: Having you as one of my most influential inspirations and mentors, and knowing part of your history in network marketing where you made huge sacrifices to go to events, I am about to "over-invest" (compared to the norm and general advice) once again in my education & personal development, by travelling in October... I feel "internally compelled", knowing in my heart  that it will make a difference, yet there is this "mind virus"? that tells me to save that money that I have not cashed yet... I am being hyper transparent here, because I want YOUR PROFESSIONAL OPINION... THANK YOU!

Great food for thought. 

I have 2 inner voices - big and small ...

Big voice encourages me to grow. The small internal voice calls to be at peace and comfort. In addition, she usually  pleads with love of my own and others. I gradually began to distinguish them. How?

The first sign of little voice is fear. If  I feel fear, it means I must do exactly this.

The second feature- the little voice all the time looking for some support, someone who is smarter or more experienced. The little voice before decisions is looking for confirmation from the outside.

Big voice calls me to act unpredictably, encourages and finds creative solutions. It doesn't look for any smarter. Because it is already the Great Wisdom.

I like. :)  One of the snafus I run into is that, I can comprehend with great clarity the truth of my situation, but the emotion and actions might take awhile to catch up.

!so fondly detailed explained that one can not miss your message!

And that one has to hear the inner bell ring, when.....

Something I stay in tune with  both for myself and when dealing with others is the ability to take into account a new perspective. If I shun a new thought, I realize that to the degree I resist, everything stays the same. And I am guilty of resisting with all my might on a regular basis. And I'm aware of it.

The same holds true with others. Making a supportive observation met with resistance means that the self sabotaging thoughts and beliefs are firmly in place. And like your example at the end of this discussion, it's that sort of response that we look for. Werner said it best years ago about the subject of Attraction: "People that are attractive are Interest-ED; People that are BEING Attractive, are Interest-ING". We ALL need to be interested in receiving guidance  and letting go of what does not work. End of story. 

This idea that we self-sabotogue even at the very subtle level of our "inner guidance" is a new awareness for me....awesome!  Got it now. 

I will be watching myself even more carefully for my resistance to new ideas - hadn't recognized that the resistance itself is evidence of guilt, lol.

So be aware right ? If we are, what should we do next ? Just only reprogram our subcounsious mind ? Is it really that simple ??

Yes,and we keep sabotaging ourselves because we have beliefs such as I don't deserved... and to avoid pain and feeling empty.  So,what were you hiding when you were doing drugs,drinking whiskey, and jumping from one relationship into another?

Thank's Randy for yet an awesome post!!!

I know I'm sabotaging my own prosperity, and I'm working hard on that. My bug has been in the financial area. Success with what I'm doing is actually great - untill we come to the money part, but I have no doubt I'll succeed there too, by continous replacing negative thoughts with positive ones.

Thank's for all your help :)

I agree Randy!  Both blog posts regarding memes are spot on!  Many of those memes are created from our childhood and enhanced by the actions we take.  So a meme can lead us to engage in a certain behavior, which feeds upon itself.  Including self-sabotage.

Randy,

Yet another thought provoker.

As the late, great Jim Rohn has said, "Results is the name of the game."

If we are not getting the results that we truly want then there are only two things for us to examine in order for us to move forward:

1. What we are thinking

2. What we are doing

If both of these things are not congruent with the result we are looking for then we will fail every time.

But when both are in line with the end result, we will hit just about anything that we set our mind on.

We can think all the positive affirmations that we can come up with but if our actions are taking us in the opposite direction, again we fail.

Uncovering those subtle subconscious thoughts that could be sabotaging us is truly up to us as well, and actively listening to our thoughts will help in this area.

Keep up the thought provoking messages!!

As Always, Here's to Your LifetoSuccess,

God Bless you,

John Clark

http://www.lifetosuccess.com