The mind rules the body. Through my work, I have come to see just how true those words are. What we believe determines not only our health, but the physical stance and posture we assume, and that physicality becomes the way we communicate to others about who we are and what we believe. Our body is a transmitter of the energy we create through the thoughts we believe.

Each of us has adopted a bevy of thoughts with a central, most often limiting, belief that rules; these are our core beliefs. Core beliefs generally originate in childhood. Often they come from a thought lineage that has been passed down to us from previous generations and that consists of both positive and negative beliefs. However, when I use the term, core belief, I am referring to the limiting or negative core beliefs since they are the ones that cause us trouble.

Core Beliefs act like a magnet by attracting into their orbit other complementary thoughts/beliefs, and creating a belief energy field that becomes our identity. This limited identity often establishes what we call victim consciousness. In other words, we adopt core beliefs that define and shape an often painfully limiting victim consciousness, an energetic pattern of consciousness, or identity, that we then become totally addicted to — even though it may be a sorely dysfunctional and painful one.

We ‘wear’ these patterns in our body. They are carried energetically in the body and are visible through our physical habits and posture; these patterns form what we call our victim posture or stance that, though we may attempt to compensate for it, or hide it, it nonetheless transmits a ‘victim vibe’ that attracts to us people and situations that vibrate at the same low frequency. In other words, through our victim posture we invariably attract to us the people and situations that verify for us what ever victim belief we have adopted and are carrying physically.

Our body reflects our beliefs, and because this is so, we can use the body as a doorway to identify our negative, limiting core beliefs, and to clear them. How? By identifying the places in the body where the victim pattern has us out of physical right alignment and using those places of contraction and chronic discomfort to identify the belief that we are carrying there. Through observer consciousness (the antidote for victim consciousness) we investigate the painful beliefs we are carrying in our body and begin to bring ourselves back into a healthier alignment. Years of chronic pain disappears as we begin to release the troubling thought patterns that have been holding our bodies in contorted, painful misalignment and return to an alignment that restores health on all levels, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually

Through years of researching these ideas in my experiential work with clients (and on myself) I have verified them and continue to discover better ways of moving us out of our victim patterns and into alignment with our Universal Source which, when we are in alignment with it, heals and restores our health and sanity.

Learn more about the upcoming Core Beliefs In The Body www.lynneforrest.com/events retreat.

Blessings, Lynne

‘The choices we make are an accurate reflection of our own emotional frequency. There can be no mistake. Our life & the people in it, show us exactly what we believe about ourselves & the world around us.

This is life as it is designed to be. There’s nobody to blame, because it’s not a problem. Even when our emotional frequency is such that we attract painful circumstances, they are instructive for us & therefore they work.

As apt students, we stop blaming, and use our life happenings as “grist for the mill of consciousness” to transform our fear caused by limiting beliefs & move to a higher frequency of peace & “enough-ness.” ’

When we are sincere about clearing our own mental chaos, our outer world reflects our inner progress. The more we see the shifts and positive reflections that result from that clearing, the more sincere we become in “doing the work,” that clears the “inner lens”;  the more we clear, the more clarity we see in the world.

Therefore turn the light of consciousness inward, and question any concept you find there that takes you away from peace. Refuse to dwell in fear, and the world becomes a less fearful place to dwell. This is the real route to world peace. It is how it is we create “heaven on earth.”

Blessings,  Lynne

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What follows is a synthesis of Reality principles that I’ve been studying and sharing with others for forty years. These principles were found, presented in various styles and traditions, in resources of all kinds, and tried and verified by my own efforts, in the laboratory that life offers us everyday. They come from ancient truths that have been passed down, from master to student in the beginning, and now more openly, to help us better understand the world energetically so we can co-create our desires (as we are designed to do) in alignment with the Living Intelligence that is our Source and manifest inner peace.

This is, by no means, an exhaustive list. The ten listed here provide, I hope, a basis of understanding how our world operates, both inner world, and outer world. (As above, so below — As within, so without) I share them because I consider them to be essential for helping us find the place of return to Reality, the only route to peace.

I believe the most effective way out of victim consciousness is to align with basic Reality principles such as these I list here.

Ten Reality principles (my latest revision)

1. We are thought emanations of Source, the One Mind, that thinks and speaks all things into being, and that breathes life into us, and supports our every need.

2. We are vibrational beings who attract and are attracted to people and situations of a similar vibrational frequency.

3. The One becomes three, a holy trinity, when it is divided in two, totally opposite, principles: the dark and the light, the masculine and the feminine.

4. Energy travels in spirals and operates in cycles, including within the human psyche, which energetically cycles through particular life themes to help us awaken and that spiritually refine us.

5. The world is a mirror that reflects the present state of our relationship with ourselves and those around us.

6. When we believe what we think, we automatically feel and act as if its true, and then we react in ways that prove us right.

7. Energy acts as a fertilizer; it increases and expands what we focus on. We direct our attention, by setting a conscious intention on what it is we want more of in life, and we withdraw our attention from what we don’t want more of in life.

8. We choose what we think and believe; when we begin to awaken to that Reality we become conscious participants in our life experience; we understand that what we believe determines the quality of our life.

9. We project our beliefs and unhappy story on to the world, and then react as if what we projected is true which elicits a response from the world that proves us right.

10. We align daily with the highest frequency possible, by setting our intention on Source. This allows us to detach from the unhappy beliefs that hold us prisoner to our own thinking (victim consciousness). Instead of blindly believing the unhappy stories we think, we  step back into the witnessing self (observer consciousness), question these unhappy thoughts, and restore peace to an otherwise tortured mind.

Why not take one principle at a time and apply it with consciousness to the situations that come up in your day and see what happens?

Blessings,

And yet, when we look to the Christ example, we come to see that a big part of what He did was to demonstrate the power of forgiveness in the midst of unthinkable abuse. Jesus IS the ultimate model of what it is to experience total victimization without resorting to victim consciousness. Not once did Christ whine or complain about how unfairly he was being treated. He did not blame, nor attack, nor seek vengeance — although who would blame him if he had? Surely he was justified!

No, Jesus did not waste time in blame or victim resentment. And yet, I certainly don’t think of his example of forgiveness (“Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do.”) as being “pollyannish,” do you? He simply followed orders from Above,“I do what my Father tells me.” He walked in peace amidst terrible turmoil, and then told us we could do the same. (“What I have done, you can do as well.”)

And yet, somehow we tend to think this approach only worked for Jesus … that somehow He was the exception. But I have found that forgiveness IS the most powerful solvent for pain. Forgiveness is not to tolerate the intolerable, but to make peace with Reality, so that we can align with the Will of the Father, as Jesus exemplified. One of the ways, Christ “saved” us was by showing us how to live at peace, regardless of what circumstances we face.

How do we do this?

It’s simple, but NOT necessarily easy. We come to understand that though we may not control what happens (or happened) to us, we can choose how we see it. And how we see it will determine how we feel about it. We are never victims, regardless of what happens to us, unless we see ourselves as victims.

We apply the Reality Formula©, that says, when we believe what we think, we automatically feel and act as if what we believe is true, and when we feel and act as if it’s true, we act in ways that prove us right. In other words, by hanging onto the list of wrongs committed against us, we must believe thoughts that keep us feeling and acting in ways that cause us to suffer.

The word “forgive” comes from the Latin “to forego, ” which means to “let go” of the unhappy story that holds us captive to misery, for instance, to give up the story about what others did to us, to learn what we can from it instead — no, better, to understand that the life we live (and have lived) is the life we were supposed to live to facilitate our growing into the fully mature, spiritual, human being that we came to be. We either see life as a growing opportunity (with all the hard-knocks, and challenges involved) and expand our consciousness through the life difficulties we face, or we walk through life, embittered at the unfair ways we’ve been treated. It is our choice; one route leads to freedom, the other to bitterness and blame.

For these reasons, (and more) I practice and teach forgiveness. For I believe that it is ultimately cruel to ourselves, NOT to forgive; to do so leaves us burdened with unhappy stories about how we’ve been hurt, which we regurgitate over and again, to ourselves, if not to others, about what “they did to me.”

Please understand that forgiving has nothing to do with the other person, and it certainly does not mean we force ourselves to endure abusive relationships,or that we must subject ourselves to those who strike out at us out of their own unhappy story.

Forgiveness does mean however, that when we find ourselves in such company, we look for what they are reflecting to us about that part of ourselves that feels wounded, and that may have also been guilty of striking out in justified resentment. (We all have these parts of ourselves — there is nothing we accuse others of that does not also live, at least in potential, within us.) We find and forgive that wounded part of us who is capable of acting just as painfully as those we accuse.

We forgive, ultimately, as I’ve said before, for us. We love, even as we take care of ourselves, by establishing the space we need, by moving on with our lives when we need to; we forgive because it is the kindest possible thing we can do for ourselves. Forgiveness brings us peace and alignment with our Creator Source.

I do want to dispel a mythical, but wide-spread, belief that says, “Meditation has to be done a certain way, or it does not work” which then swiftly becomes, “… and I must not be doing it right, because it’s not working for me.”  Sound familiar?

Often, we start off on the wrong foot, by thinking that meditation is a ‘doing.’  It is not. It is not something we do. It is more like something we “un-do.”

Of course, there are ‘doings’ that are helpful. There are LOTS of techniques that can provide support as we move towards becoming ‘vessels’ or “containers” for that state we call, “meditation.”

For instance, any of the following can help us to align and prepare for that state of inner quietness we seek:  yoga, pranayama, qigong, prayer, chanting, mantras, all these — and including zazen meditation, which is to sit in complete stillness. These are powerful ways to align the physical and the emotional with the spiritual and Source; they are tools for alignment.

Even still we do not come to the inner space we seek with just these alone.

There are other helpers too, worth mentioning; tools such as, visual mandalas, imagery, music, sacred dance, and candle light. These things can serve to set a tone, to create an environment, for our “un-doing.”

This inner place we seek, although we may not know it in the beginning, is found through our willingness to surrender our independent, fear-driven selves to That with which we have intentionally aligned. We align physically and clear mentally, (whatever stands between us and the unimpeded Flow of the Source Current or Holy Spirit), so we can come to a complete state of rest in Source. Only our willingness to implicitly trust that Source is eternally Loving (God is Love), allows the let-go described here. To trust that completely requires we first surrender the fear-based stories that hold us captives in a scary world. (The  process of clearing story is a meditative act.)

Once we have ‘emptied,’ once we have “undone” the angst provoking chatter of the limited-story mind, then we arrive at the inner space we seek. We become relaxed as sleeping newborns, but consciously so; we are in the aligned relaxation that we can find only in the arms of Source. It is physical rest so complete that no mental noise is heard. We arrive to the sweet melody of silence.

Not until we let go, mentally, emotionally, physically, into that state of complete rest (you may find, as I have, that the body cannot fully relax until the mental chatter ceases). Through alignment, clearing the mental chatter, and surrender,  a merger occurs.

Having become empty of limiting story, we are more like light hollow reeds in a pool of shimmering Goodness, being buoyantly carried along by the Light Current of Source, that flows in, and around, and through, us. We are transformed; inch by inch, moment to moment; we are transmuted into the same Light and Goodness of the Flow that carries us. We become That with which we choose to align.

Through daily connection with Source, we are alchemically altered. Through that everyday surrender we are made anew. The old story of a limited, inadequate, self no longer exists. We become instead, a higher version of  ourselves. We become a Self that chooses Source, and we no longer need the world’s approval.

We see Source actively supporting us through our day, and we experience the shining approval from Source that we previously sought through others. Nothing else is needed, except that daily Connection.

Spending regular time with Source takes care of all our needs, so the argument that we, as ego’s often like to use, of being too busy or, of having too much to do, to spend precious time with Source, is laughable, once we realize the total rejuvenation and on-the-ground support that Source provides through these times alone together, just the two of us, Source and a fully surrendered Self.

But you will never know these things first hand unless you go there. Find that inner sanctuary, that secret garden, where the Messenger, your Inner Beloved, Source awaits. Once you find it, wild horses cannot drag you away.

This Living Intelligence that is Source walks, not beside us, nor does it lead — Source Current fills us, and flows through us; it  carries us on it’s Current to (always) Higher Ground.

May these thoughts serve to encourage your visits to that inner space.

Blessings,

So we “make them pay.” We punish them with our resentment, and we gossip to our friends about how they hurt us. Do we feel better now? Really? Oh, I know, there’s that fleeting “hurrah” inside, that, “boy, did I show them!” glimpse of revenge –but then we spiral right back into the pit of seething resentment (not a fun place to be!).

Forgiveness is not about letting them off the hook — it’s about taking ourselves off the hook!

Forgiveness allows us to give up “judgment duty,” and to let go of our obsession with rehashing in our mind all the ways “they hurt us.”  But, who’s hurting us now!? We make ourselves suffer to prove them wrong? Surely this is not right! It might even be a working definition of insanity.

Resentment does not resolve hurt … it does not make them change, or to act better; we cannot not make them regret their mistakes. Quite the opposite, we are more likely to see them so distracted by the need to defend themselves from us that they never have to evaluate their own motives or behavior. … Come to think of it, could it be that we are just as caught up as they are in  “nursing” our resentments? Have we recognized our part yet?

No, we do not help ourselves, not anyone else, by housing hatred.

As a matter of fact, by doing so we put ourselves in danger of becoming converts. When we nurse grudges we often become that which we hate in them. We become offenders who sound, look, and even end up acting like the very people we resent!

Forgiveness is not something we do for them — we do it as a kindness to ourselves. To forgive means to let go of the story against them that keeps us in misery. We forgive because we don’t like to punish ourselves for someone else’s confusion.

We forgive because it’s the fastest way to peace. Forgiveness sets us free.

Blessings,