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How to rise above your past

Rising above your past is not nearly as difficult as it might seem. The simple fact is that the circumstances from your past that are limiting you in this moment of your life were all created by you. Thus, the empowering realization is that anything which you have created, you can also uncreate. You created the limiting circumstances through an unconscious use of your creative faculties. The fact that you could create these limitations demonstrates that your creative faculties are working. Thus, you can use those very same creative faculties to uncreate the limitations from the past. You simply need to start making conscious use of your creative faculties. This section describes how to do so.

Self-awareness
The foundation for your creative efforts is the fact that you have self-awareness. You know you exist and that you have the ability to create. Unfortunately, most people have diminished their self-awareness, often to avoid pain. The simple mechanism is that if you don’t think you can do anything to change your life, you would rather not think about life. This has happened over several times of living in a culture that is not particularly spiritual, even though it might claim to be religious. Thus, many people do not have a habit of observing themselves for the purpose of seeing how they can overcome

self-defeating beliefs.

The improvement that is needed is not that you begin to compare yourself to some man-made standard for how the perfect human being should be. Various societies have created such standards. What you need to do is to uncover your spiritual identity by reconciliations with God. Everyone is a unique individual, and the only evaluation that is relevant for you is to what degree you are expressing your Divine individuality as opposed to a lower identity that you have built over your life It is essential to realize that in reclaiming your Divine individuality, your conscious self will meet stiff opposition from your ego. Your ego will not voluntarily give up its control over your lower being, so you have to take it back with determination. This will require you to take responsibility for your life and your spiritual growth. You must overcome the tendency to rely on gurus, institutions or philosophies outside yourself. You must accept that you have everything you need inside yourself in the form of your Christ in you . Outer teachings or other people can be very helpful, but they must never become a substitute for the direct connection to your spiritual self.
It is also extremely helpful to realize, as explained earlier, that the ego has created a mental prison but that the conscious self can step outside that prison any time. The reason is that the conscious self is more than the ego and the ego’s beliefs. And when you no longer identify yourself with the ego, it becomes much easier to admit the mistaken beliefs of the ego. However, this can only happen when the Conscious You decides that it will once again fill its role of making decisions in your life. This opens up for a subtle shift in the way you look at life, and it can help you avoid the pitfalls of fear, guilt or shame. Instead of feeling guilty for your mistakes and seeking to hide them, you now see them as simply scientific experiments that did not produce the desired results. Thus, in order to overcome the unpleasant results, you want to bring your mistaken beliefs out in the open – to the level of conscious awareness – so you can leave them behind as quickly as possible.

Part of being self-observant and taking responsibility for your life is to recognize that you have made mistakes. The ego will never admit that it made mistakes, so it will try to pull you into an endless cycle of seeking to justify your actions or beliefs. The main message of the ego is that you either cannot change or that you do not need to change—meaning that you leave the ego in control. As part of this act, the ego will try to discourage you from acknowledging your mistakes by either making you afraid that you could have done something unforgivable, by making you feel so guilty or ashamed that you do not want to look at the past or by making you feel so prideful that you think you never made mistakes or don’t need to admit them.

However, this must not be misinterpreted into thinking you are not responsible for the mistakes made. The Conscious You is responsible for making decisions in your life. So if the conscious self decides that it will no longer make decisions, it is giving away its power to make decisions, but it cannot escape the responsibility for making decisions. Thus, you must recognize that it was a mistake to give power to the ego, but you must also recognize that once you take back responsibility for your life, that mistake is undone. You are still responsible for resolving the imperfect beliefs and misqualified energies created by the ego, but you do not need to identify yourself with the ego or feel bad about yourself.

The result of this realization is subtle, but very important. When you no longer identify yourself with the ego and the ego’s decisions, it becomes much easier to separate yourself from the ego. It becomes much easier to admit the mistaken beliefs of the ego and then simply leave them behind. The process of overcoming a mistake has the following elements:

The final element is the most essential aspect of spiritual growth. In the end you can never change what happened in the past. However, when you have risen above the state of consciousness that caused you – or rather the ego , The mistake no longer has any objective existence. In fact, it now exists only in one place, namely in your memory. Thus, the final act of overcoming a mistake is that you must forgive all people involved in the situation and then forgive yourself.

You must decide to simply let the situation go and forget about it, thereby fulfilling the process of erasing any record – written with the energy of your thoughts and feelings – so that the universe is literally restored to the same state of purity as before the mistake was made. Therefore, it is as if the mistake had never happened. What was written with the low-vibration energies of the material universe has now been unwritten. It was simply written in sand and you have now erased it. Most people misunderstand forgiveness and think that if they forgive someone, they let him or her off the hook. In reality, when you forgive everyone, you let yourself off the hook because you are no longer tied to the situation or person and can now move on without being burdened by the past. Until forgiveness is complete, you are not completely free of your past.

The importance of these concepts is that as you grow on the spiritual path, you need to rise above the sense that you are an imperfect human being or perhaps a miserable sinner. You need to let this sense of identity go and accept that you are a spiritual being, a co-creator with God. It is only when you let go of any human elements of identity that you attain the full spiritual freedom that comes from rising above your ego and its false sense of identity.

Imagination
As has been explained, any form begins as a mental image in the mind of a self-conscious being. This mental image is then superimposed upon the Ma-ter Light which eventually takes on a physical form that outpictures the image. The mental image must be formulated by using imagination, the ability to envision a form that you cannot see, even a form that has never been imagined by anyone else.

The logical conclusion is that your ability to create is completely dependent upon your imagination. You cannot create what you cannot imagine, so if your imagination is limited, you have no way to rise above those limitations. If you cannot imagine that you could escape the mental prison created by the ego, you literally have no way to escape.
The most important fact about imagination is that the Conscious You has unlimited imagination, and this gift can never be lost. Thus, no matter how you see yourself right now, you still have the ability to begin to imagine that you could rise above your current circumstances. However, the key to doing this is that the Conscious You must take back the role of imagining your future instead of allowing the ego to do this.

The Conscious You was created in the spiritual realm, and therefore it has the ability to imagine the spiritual realm and your spiritual identity even before it actually experiences it. This imagination of a higher reality is what opens the door for your inner experience of that higher reality.
In contrast, your ego was created in the material world, and it simply cannot imagine anything beyond this world. Thus, the ego’s imagination is limited to the conditions that it sees in this world, meaning that it thinks you really are a human being with very limited powers. The ego firmly believes that there is nothing you can do to change your physical conditions by using the power of your mind. It thinks you need to use the ways of the world to get your way, and the ego has no morals or ethics. The basic philosophy of the ego is that, “If it works, do it.”

The ego is completely self-centered and essentially believes that it is the center of the universe. Nature and other people are simply here to serve its needs, but unfortunately other people stubbornly refuse to accept this fact. Thus, it is necessary for the ego to try to control them, and it is acceptable that the ego uses any means to attain this goal. After all, nothing is more important than the ego’s survival.

It now becomes obvious that the key to improving your situation is that the Conscious You must separate itself from the self-centered world view of the ego and begin to use its imagination to envision a better future. You must dare to dream, dare to imagine that you are more than the ego, more than the world programs you to be. You are a spiritual being who was created by a loving God and fully worthy of the perfect love that casts out all fear. Whenever you become aware of a limitation in your own psyche, such as a self-destructive belief, you must imagine a better belief and imagine yourself free from the limited view.

You must dare to imagine better outer circumstances for yourself and create a mental image of the situation you want to experience. You must then use your imagination to see yourself in that situation, experiencing how you would identify yourself, how you would think, how you would feel and how you would act in that situation. You must then use the full power of your imagination to hold on to this image with the firm inner knowing that it WILL manifest in due time. As the Bible says, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). The meaning is that true faith begins with the imagination of what is not seen, not yet manifest. Yet when imagination becomes a firm inner knowing – based on the promises of God– the imagined image is superimposed upon the Ma-ter Light and the light takes on the envisioned form.

When exercised correctly, the process cannot fail. Imagination is your ability to reach beyond the material universe and even the contents of your four lower bodies. You can then grasp a higher vision for your life and by holding on to it, you can gradually lower it through the four levels of the universe until it is manifest as a physical reality.

Higher reasoning
The material universe is created as a scientific laboratory or cosmic schoolroom in which new co-creators are meant to learn how to use their creative powers by experimenting. You do this by using your imagination to envision a form you can manifest or an action you can take. You then put your envisioned image into motion, and the material universe mirrors it back to you. Thus, the universe can be compared to a giant bio-feedback machine that is designed to help you learn by seeing your mental images outpictured in material circumstances.

It is essential to realize that you were created as a new co-creator who had limited self-awareness, limited awareness of God’s laws and limited experience with the material universe. Thus, you were not expected to be perfect, just as a baby is not expected to walk on its first try. You were expected to take certain actions that could be considered as mistakes because they produced undesirable consequences. Yet by learning from your actions, you would grow and thus any action can become a learning experience. Once you learn from a mistake, it is no longer a mistake but has become a stepping stone for growth. And your growth is the very purpose of your existence, as will be explained later.

The conclusion is that you will grow only as long as you are willing to learn from all of your actions, even the ones that produce undesirable consequences. Yet how can you learn? You must use your self-awareness to observe yourself, your imagination to envision the highest possible outcome and then use your reasoning ability to compare the actual result to the highest potential. When you see a discrepancy, you realize you could have done better, and you can then use your reasoning ability to analyze how you could have done better.
Unfortunately, when the conscious self refuses to make decisions, your higher reasoning ability is neutralized. Instead, it is the ego’s limited and self-centered reasoning ability that takes over. The difference is considerable:

Will power
The very center of your personal growth process is the fact that you have free will. It is by making choices and experiencing the consequences of those choices that you grow. Your free will is located in your conscious self. However, your conscious self can refuse to make decisions, whereby your ego takes over and makes decisions for you. This is what has happened to most people, and their egos have then created a downward spiral that leads to increasing suffering. The reason being that the ego cannot recognize the spiritual laws (it cannot access the Christ mind) and thus it cannot make life-supporting decisions. All decisions made by the ego result in limiting consequences and misqualified energy.

It now becomes clear that the key to turning your life around and creating an upward spiral instead of the ego’s downward spiral is that you must come to a turning point. The Conscious You must make the decision that it will take back the power to make decisions. What will it take to bring a co-creator to this turning point? There are two basic options:

In many cases, people keep doing the same thing until they do experience a crisis. This finally awakens them to the fact that their actions have negative consequences – which the ego denies – and out of fear of a worse consequence (dying, going to hell or whatever) they turn their lives around. This can clearly lead to growth, but it is essential to recognize that a growth based on fear will only take you so far. In fact, it is possible that you can get stuck at a certain level of the path, and you will not get beyond it until you raise your motivation from fear to love.

The simple fact is that the spiritual path is a path that leads to oneness between the conscious self and the spiritual self. You will always run away from what you fear and run toward what you love. Thus, as long as your conscious self is motivated by fear, it will run away from oneness with your spiritual self—encouraged by the ego. Only when you are motivated by love will you run toward oneness with your spiritual self.

As has been explained, the path is a process of giving up imperfect beliefs. You can do this out of fear because you are afraid that if you continue to act a certain way, something really bad will happen. Yet the higher motivation is to do it because you realize you love something more than the self-centered beliefs of the ego. You love something more than your ego and the “things” of the material world. Many spiritually interested people have already started the process of moving from a fear-based to a love-based motivation.

For example, many people have a sense that they came into this lifetime for a specific purpose, that they have a mission to fulfill. Planet Earth is currently in a transitional phase during which humankind is meant to rise to a higher level of awareness. Many co-creators volunteered to take embodiment at this time to help facilitate this growth in awareness that can lead to a more peaceful and prosperous world. The key is to realize that your ego is preventing you from fulfilling your mission, and when you recognize how much you love your mission, it becomes much easier to let go of the self-centered beliefs of the ego.

What does love have to do with will power? Many people have attempted to change their lives by willfully imposing restrictions and discipline upon themselves. This can be a useful temporary measure, for example it will take some will power to escape an addiction. Nevertheless, in the long run, using will power as an external force will actually increase tension and division in your psyche.

As explained earlier, the ego’s beliefs can be compared to computer programs in the subconscious mind. For example, an addiction is the result of a subconscious computer program that seeks to pull you into a specific pattern of behavior. When you use will power, you are creating a new computer program that seeks to override the old program by pulling you into a less destructive pattern of behavior. Yet this does not remove the old program, and thus you will continue to struggle with a conflict, often for the rest of your life.

The higher way is to rise to a love-based motivation, whereby you do not have to counteract the destructive program. You can instead remove it because you realize you love something so much that you are willing to give up the old program and the entire consciousness from which it originated. Thus, will power that is based on love is always superior to will power based on fear. The fear-based will can be useful for taking you out of a very destructive situation. But only the love-based will can take you all the way home. The new creature that live in you is made as the same image of who create it “ Jesus Christ” Christ in You The Hope of glory.