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Break Out! On earth we learn that many circumstances and conditions control what we can or cannot do. Our experiences from living on earth have taught us that the only way to transcend a limitation is to change the outer condition that appears to limits us. In other words we have believed that the only way to change our life experiences is to change something outside of ourselves. That is one reason why we hang onto the belief that if everyone believes as we do, then everything will be ok. The truth is we have convinced ourselves that our beliefs have to be the only right way to believe, in an effort to help us feel good about ourselves and about the path we take. Many of our outer experiences or conditions are the direct result of how we see ourselves. Countless civilizations have fallen because they lost the belief that they were worthy and they simply conformed, to no voice and no inner knowledge that they were more than slaves to other people's ideas. Our inner belief of ourselves directly affects our will to live and our will to become better. Our faith that we are more than mere human beings struggling in a confusing world is the foundational power that will help us to transcend everything we currently experience on earth. Sometimes we do have to remove ourselves from situations in order for us to begin to grow. But when we do this it's important to understand how growth takes place. Temporary growth happens when you are freed from difficult circumstances and you take a road that reflects the same beliefs you carry inside. Real growth begins when you are willing to see that your beliefs have kept you from going beyond the view you currently have about what life is about and you are now willing to see new ideas. Real growth begins when you know there is much more to understand and to use as a building block for further growth. Changing how you see life and how you see yourself opens new possibilities of growth. This takes a willingness to understand, with love for yourself, that it's ok to grow beyond your current understanding about yourself and life. When you love yourself based on no conditions you don't label the past with condemnation but you see it thru loving eyes as the path you needed to walk to in order to get to the place you are now at where you want to learn more. When you judge or condemn yourself you remove yourself from the force that created you, God's Unconditional Love. The Bible speaks of judgment and to leave it to the Father. Why? Because the Father only wants you to come back home and His judgment is to help you turn from your ways. But when you judge yourself you remove opportunities waiting to help you grow closer to God. You change the energy in your own beliefs of yourself where you cannot be one with God's love for you because you are overwhelmed with fear and guilt. You cripple your ability to remove yourself from decisions you have made that hurt your growth. Oneness is the goal with the Father but if you are united with an energy that opposes the energy that created you then you have chosen to remain separate for now. To become one with the Father you have to return to the energy He used to create you, the pure force of Unconditional Love, before you can join Him. It really is that simple and your ability to take back your life begins with your willingness to see beyond and to understand more. Many people in life are very angry and fearful simply because they have lost their ability to see themselves as they truly are, spiritual beings having a human experience. If you cannot gain power over the external conditions that you think control your life experiences then what can you do? If you asked the question differently you might find the answer. Do external things really have power over us, or do they have power over us ONLY to the extent that we think they do? In other words, where is the center of the power that keeps us stuck in our situations? Is it outside ourselves, meaning we can't do anything about it, or is it in our minds, meaning we CAN do something about it? How we see things is determined by the level of understanding we are currently at. To raise your understanding of life and your ability to have victory over experiences you encounter in this life can only happen when you see things from a higher perspective. Taking back your life is what begins a path of freedom from the feelings of entrapment you experience from external conditions in life. Much of what we think has power over us in this world, has only the power by what we allow it to have over us. To gain a deeper understanding of why things happen and who we really are begins with a choice to see there is more to life. First understand that we see thru filtered lenses of which we have chosen to be as all there is to know about life. We believe that what we know is all there is to know in an effort to feel secure about everything. This is why many people feel that their view of something is the only truth. It's their way of feeling safe in their world. This need to feel safe in our world is a survival mechanism but because we are meant to be creators along side with God, never greater than Him, we cannot accept remaining in a place where growth isn't allowed. We find moments where we want to break out of the four walls we have formed around us in an effort for security. Religion no longer answers our greater questions and near death stories open our minds to a greater God than is taught. If religion is meant as an avenue for God to talk to us, then religion needs to open up to a higher message. We are ready to break free of the prison walls that have kept us from growing and embracing God and His Greatness. We take off the colored lenses to find incredible joy and beauty of God and His love for all of us and we will no longer settle for a primitive teaching that is actually crying out to share more. It's time we take back control over our own growth and no longer settle for old ways of living. War is a primitive way that must go and it's time we settle our differences in a civilized manner. Get out of the battles of needing to be right and look for ways we can learn to know each other. When we feel understood, we are more willing to see how we can make things work. When we cannot hide our inner prejudices and judgments, we then must lay our differences on the table and find a solution that will help each to become better people. This is not about our way as the only way. God made us different on purpose. Look at the flowers in a field that are different and yet the beauty is magnificent. Our differences, when connected to the heart of Oneness, can bring together a magnificent creation, which creates beyond our imagination. When we learn and feel how our choices affect everyone, knowing we were created to unite with the Greater Whole, we will want to make different choices. In feeling how our choices affect others, we gain a direct experience that opens up our understanding. We relate directly to how our choices affect others and this changes us from within. To see that the real root problem on earth is our lack of love and acceptance for ourselves, we would understand that our selfish choices are created to help us feel good about ourselves. If we felt the love and acceptance He has always had for us, we would not search for anything outside of God's love, because we would already know we have everything we need. Our lack would cease to exist. Therefore the real problem that keeps us from growing and becoming all God created is our inability to connect with God's Unconditional love for us. We are created from the pure force of this very personal Unconditional love. It is in us, it is the force that keeps us united with Him and we have never been without it, but we can't feel it. Why? We can't feel it because we have lost connection to it, to God, within. Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within each of us. Salvation has no affect if you do not connect to God. A prayer without heart leaves you without God once again but the way to the Father is to connect to His love. To connect to His love you must choose to love yourself unconditionally in order to open the energetic path that sends a direct current of pure energy to God's Love. You cannot pretend or force this but it must be a choice. Like you plug a lamp into the current of electricity to light it up, you must go within yourself and purposely plug back into God's love. Remember that your darkness within, your doubt and fear within about yourself, exists only because there is an absence of light. It truly is that simple and it is your choice to break out of the mindset that has kept you trapped in darkness.
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