Just Leave the Movie Set Behind

It must must have happened to you that you were in big pain and you didn't know how to get out of it. You felt trapped. The harder you tried to get rid of this pain, the more painful the mental images were that entered your mind. Your heart was racing, painful memories popped up, and your mind entertained horrible scenarios. Like a truck stuck in the mud, the harder you hit the accelerator, the deeper you got stuck in it. Typically, time healed you. Somehow a few days later the problem didn't seem quite as overwhelming. You found a glimmer of hope somewhere, you calmed down, became hopeful and with it a remarkable turn-around started. The secret we want to pass on is that you don't have to wait at all. You can find a way out of your problems here and now. These are all energies flowing through you. There are bad energies and good energies, ego-created and God-inspired energies. The trick is to let the bad energies just pass. All you have to do is to find your idiosyncratic ways to put yourself in touch with the divine energies which are always at your disposal.

The problem statement is, who exactly is the "I"? When you are work, facing many deadlines and your boss comes to present you with yet another mission impossible, the "I" feels under attack. When you are at home and you are watching pornography just to let off some steam, the "I" feels aroused. Think of the " I" as a home entertainment center that can always flip channels, and with it, you access different energies. The "I" consists of your thoughts, your blood flow, the chemicals in your brain, your hormones, the memories that float to the surface and the meaning that the ego attaches to everything.  Often you activate these energies like in the example when you go home and consciously surf the Internet for videos that turn you on, and sometime life picks these energies for you, like your boss who puts even more work on your already crowded desk.

Imagine that you are an actor who has temporarily forgotten that he is in a movie set. Our spiritual discipline loves beating up on the "ego", but that doesn't get you far, the ego is you. All you can change is the energy that is circulating in your system and with it your blood flow, your hormones and your brain chemicals will change as well. You can only quiet the ego if you get in touch with something inside of you that operates beneath the surface. You can access the quiet voice inside, you can get in touch with God's energy. With God's energy you suddenly have access to symbols that heal rather than attack; your system slows down, you see solutions rather than problems and you experience love, joy and peace.

Meditation can connect you with this divine energy, as can nature or perhaps something idiosyncratic to your spiritual journey that can get you in touch with this energy. Without being able to flip to God's channel, you will be trapped in your mind. You cannot get out of your pain when you are trapped in a negative feedback loop. The more you stretch your thinking, the more you get stuck in the mud. Your mind and your thinking just extrapolate the problems they perceive, the attack that you think you experienced or the hostile ego symbols that you chose for yourself. Alternatively, your mind can reflect the love that surrounds you and it can express the boundless creativity that is inside of you. The choice is up to you how you want to put your mind in use. Your mind will just follow the energies that you or life have activated.

Meditation connects you with divine energy instead and starts overriding the worries of your mind. When you tune in with your True Self during meditation, you very fast experience how your worries disappear as fog does when the the sun comes out. Think about it, what exactly does meditation do? It calms your blood-flow, releases stress relieving chemicals to your brain and quiets down the noisy voice in your head. The actor is given a chance to remember that she is in a movie set. At this moment you understand that your pain and your problems are just illusions. They have been created by your mind and your environment.

This is why we encourage you to meditate regularly. When you meditate, you connect with God’s dimension, you connect with a higher energy, you connect with your source, with insights and inspiration. In real life, you are way too often thrown out of equilibrium by events that you perceive as negative and then you only make it worse by trying to override the pain with the help of alcohol, porn or mind racing. Learn to let go of bad energies by first accepting that they exist and then by letting them pass through your system. Find a way to sourround yourself with good energies and avoid the energies that drag you down.

Regular meditation introduces you to another dimension of life; it puts you in touch with the divine energies that you can access whenever you need. Heaven is here and now and you can always experience this state. Heaven is not when you achieve some goals in your life, or when you possess some special ability; the here and now is Heaven as long as you have the ability to connect with your divine energy inside whenever you so choose. You don't believe us? Stop everything right now. Count your blessings for a moment. Do you really experience more than you can handle? Isn't God generous and gives you everything that you truly need? Aren't you surrounded by love? These insights come from your heart. Your mind will never be satisfied and will look out to the neighbor's yard and will prove to you that the grass is much greener over there. Get in touch with your divine energy instead; your life will thank you for it.

Try to be thankful for all the blessings you have in your life. Appreciate the presents that God gives you, day in, day out. Recognize the many things your soul siblings are doing for you. This focus will connect you with the divine energy that is always yours to tab into. When you focus on gratitude and thankfulness, life will surround you with love and affection. On the other hand, when you run after ego symbols, you will not be able to appreciate the abundance life supplies you with. You are the creator of your own world! You are the actor who feels the emotions as she experiences the ups and downs of life, but deep down inside she smiles because she knows that she will be part of a magnificent love story in the next movie set. Be always in touch with your divine energy and create your own movie full of fun, joy and love.

By Christian and Su Zhen