Most people think that using the Will means being obstinate or stubborn or asserting yourself over others. In fact, this is not the proper use of the Will and this type of assertion over others is one of the major causes of humanity’s problems.
The Will is our innate ability to direct, decree, determine, create and define.
Proper use of the Will requires no force or struggle. In fact, whatever we struggle against we are adding more resistance to and therefore creating more of it our lives!
It takes no effort to direct our attention and since our attention is our power, our life force, we can direct our power as easily as we direct our attention. If you decide to shift your attention to the ceiling or the floor or to the words you are reading here on this page … it is simple to do.
However, the challenge for almost everyone is that their attention is fixated on certain things and this fixation is caused by judgment. When judgment is charged intensely enough – it creates a gravitational pull on our attention.
A great example is if you have a lot of judgment on your body … say you feel fat or unhealthy. If you try to “think positive” or keep attention off how you feel about your body … you may maintain that avoidance for a while, but eventually you will use up your energy supply avoiding those feelings and get tired and then – those nagging thoughts about your body – will come back.
This is why “positive thinking” does not work in the long haul. Since our feelings indicate what we have judgment on (either “good” or “bad”, desired or resisted) … allowing our feelings to arise in each moment and not resist them allows this gravity, this emotional charge to release, so we can shift our attention toward our ideal.
How much of the time is your attention on problems and resistance during a normal day?
Spend more time observing your thoughts and the underlying feelings attached to them (the feelings are at a deeper level of consciousness and generate the automatic thoughts).
To practice developing the power of your Will, practice directing your attention into the Present Moment throughout the day. This alone is a very powerful tool for becoming more powerful, creative and alive!
Now, this sounds simple … and the mechanics are, however, the skill development is not easy and requires specific tools because we have developed deeply ingrained habits at unconscious levels that keep us locked in these old gravitational patterns.
Also, the ability to go beyond the mind and to operate from Source Awareness (our True Self, our “center”) is necessary to be able to operate our free Will with deliberation and to create our reality as easily as shifting our attention.
The skills to operate as free Will from Source summed up are: the ability to stay in the Present Moment; the ability to find emotionally charged judgments, beliefs and to release them; the ability to direct our attention toward what inspires us – our ideals – and to take action from Intuitive Guidance.
Anything less than this skill set is very fragmented and limited and this explains why so very few people are getting real and lasting results from the “self-help” paths that exist in our modern world. In fact, most people are discouraged or do not believe there is an effective way to manage their mind and emotions.
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Copyright Rob James, Self Discovery Group LLC