The Cost of Sensory Gratification
The modern world offers many avenues to draw our attention, and hence our energy.
There are millions of ways we can get busy and distract ourselves, drag our attention away from our inner higher awareness and down into the bodily senses, emotional stimulation, and a perpetual bouncing around in a myriad of thoughts that serve no real purpose.
Many folks get swept into the titillation of the faculties of their incarnate selves! Yes, the world of the Personality is very alluring.
Like children discovering what their bodies can do through pushing their limits and by indulging to the greatest degree – many seem to not mature from this stage. They do not grow into the selflessness of the Heart, the true benevolence which ever seeks to use their capabilities towards the Greatest Good For All.
We must first release Material Identification, to awaken to our Spiritual Selves.
If we are consciously treading a genuine spiritual path, we must be exceedingly wary of the snares of the lower worlds. For we cannot awaken higher consciousness whilst continuously indulging in or focusing deeply into Matter! Identifying with the world of the senses traps our consciousness within our lower self and limits us to forever circling in the addictions of sensory gratification.
It is true that the Heart-Based Person will be working to improve conditions for all life in the physical world, but this cannot be well achieved when we are identified in and as our incarnate selves. We must draw upon a higher or greater force in order to wrought change – that is to say, we must work from Above-Down – from the objective dispassionate awareness of our Souls.
If we are working only in the horizontal, identified with and therefore limited to, the consciousness of our incarnate selves, we lack the objectivity required to be certain the changes we seek to create or teachings we wish to share are indeed positive. If they do prove to be truly useful, it is wise to seek the best way to bring them about. For this, we need our heart wisdom, our intuition, and our greatest intelligence – all of which come from our Higher Selves. However, our Spiritual Consciousness, above and within us, cannot be accessed if we are continually focused down and outwards, into Matter.
Tools for Transformation
If we are genuinely striving to align with and embody our Soular Consciousness, and if we are truly motivated by Goodwill or the Will to Good, by the Spirit of Generosity, or by Benevolent Love-Wisdom, we will usually have ideas, plans, and a conscious “purpose” we wish to achieve. If this is the case, unless we are a fully enlightened being, and even then, we need to carefully assess, and reassess regularly, what we want to do and offer.
A good place to start is with this question: Will this truly help to make the world a better place?
And then follow it with this: Is there any way what I want to create or offer could be used for harm or evil by nefarious people? If so, can my plans be adapted to avoid this?
If what you envision is genuinely positive and aligned to the Greatest Good For All; you need to then pause and ask another most important collection of questions – ones that are not asked nearly enough by people!
Is what I am considering the very best, highest, and most heart based I (and my group) can offer the world?
Is it something already being offered by many others – so, is there a genuine need for it?
Can I offer it to those who most need it?
Is it something I find easy, or is it sufficiently challenging, so that it creates a genuine opportunity for me (and my group) to grow? Will it test us?
A shorthand version could be: Is what I want to create or offer, useful, genuinely needed, truly benevolent, and the best I can offer?
May we all live and be Consciously Benevolent
Azure Seer