What Is In Your Cup?

When trouble or difficulty arrives the way out is to immediately turn to God in prayer. Praying for wisdom, guidance and strength to address the problem and most importantly pray for any other individuals involved, regardless of how they may have or are attempting to harm. By living in this way we raise our consciousness, building a bull work of peace and serenity, remaining free and unharmed in spirit. We never, under any pretense ask God to do harm or cause ill to befall anyone, for if we do we invite negativity into our consciousness and needlessly subject ourselves to suffering. Seek always the higher ground of raised consciousness, for each reaps as they sow and if we sow seeds of hate, anger, resentment and contempt we should not then be surprised when our harvest is comprised of these crops. It is the unwise man indeed who pours a cup of poison, drinks from it and then expects those he hates to suffer.

© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit All Rights Reserved

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Rehearsing, Rehashing And Outlining

Difficult problems seem to have a life of their own. We have taken the indicated action (both spiritual and secular) to address the issue, seemingly putting it to rest but it then sneaks back into our consciousness, darkly clouding our thoughts. Typically these thoughts creep in silently, hidden behind a mask. One of the most insidious ways this happens is through outlining. Outlining starts out innocently enough, just weighing the pros and cons, talking it out etc but in short order we begin outlining how a situation or trouble should work out, in essence telling the universe how to solve our problems, on our terms of course.

This type of thinking builds up expectations and feeds resentment for the level of our serenity is directly proportional to our expectations. Living on the Spiritual Basis our expectations and resentments are placed in God’s hands and His shoulders, so when we find ourselves outlining we stop as soon as we become aware and thank God for knowing Him better. To quiet the mind we repeat some simple set prayers like “Be still and know that I am God”, “There is no power greater than God” or simply “God is with me.” When I ran the world I outlined constantly, for it needed my help. Living on the new basis, I leave the running of the world, and my life, in His hands for He does a much better job of it than I ever did, for today I have ceased fighting everyone and everything and know in my heart of hearts that “God is with me.”

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Discordant Thinking

Has someone said to you or perhaps you have suggested to someone else“don’t think like that?” It is one of those silly things we say to one another without really having thought it through. Like “a watched pot never boils”, yes it does, every single time and without the origin understood for context it is just nonsense. When it comes to thinking, as soon as we are told not to think about something the first thing we do is think about it. No? OK, don’t think about oranges.... How did you do? We are powerless over the thoughts that float through our minds eye; however we choose the action we take upon becoming aware of these thoughts. Oranges and teakettles are not much of a problem, but there exists in all of us a voice of discord and negativity embedded in the subconscious that consistently looks for a reason to be upset or outraged. The origin of the voice is secondary, the action we choose to take paramount when it chimes in. Having embarked on Living on the Spiritual Basis the action is to turn from the lower to the higher by way of prayer and meditation.

 When a negative thought is persistent engage in some distracting activity such as a phone call to a friend inquiring about them (do not speak of the negative thought), an engrossing book, exercise, etc. If possible find a way to be of service. Nothing relieves us of the bondage of self, and all negative thinking binds us in self, as being of service to others. The key is to substitute positive thinking and action for the negative thoughts. Simple but not easy, when we begin this way of living it will feel clunky and somewhat uncomfortable, but just like learning to ride a bike, as long as we are diligent and consistent, in time it will become second nature.

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