Belittlement
Symptomatic Anxiety leads to horizontal, circular, self-medicating activity, or vertically to your Existential Anxiety level where you can then find your burning life question, specifically “What could I learn from this anxiety?” Within this anxiety-acceptance level, a door will open and you will find out not only the purpose of anxiety, but also the purpose of your life.
The major lesson of existential anxiety is the recognition of your unawareness of the Infinite. Existential means existence, or who you are. If you don’t find out who you are, your anxiety and its painful lessons will continue. When that door does open, you can enter the Kingdom of the Infinite Good. This discovery is the purpose of your journey here on this earth plane. Once this golden key of knowledge is in your hand, you can accomplish anything you wish. This Open Sesame, this Magical Genie, this Christ within, is who you are.
Otherwise, your self-esteem shakes with every wind that blows. Until you discover the Christ or Buddha within, you will be continually frustrated. You can continue as you think you are, but only for a price. That price is stress and suffering, and ineffective self-medication. There is no medication or “fix” on this plane that will correct the problem you have. Sex, money, fame, opinions, politics, power and youth will fail you. You will run out of gas, unless you find a source of renewable energy. That energy is Consciousness.
If you were conscious, you wouldn’t be anxiety-ridden. How can you get to your Source? That is a burning life question we rarely ask directly. It is not a horizontal path, but a vertical one. It can’t be found within time, it is trans-time. It is down some rabbit hole where you would never expect it to be located. If you think you can take the Kingdom of Infinity by force, good luck. It hasn’t been done yet. We have to “wait upon the Lord.” The ego has no patience. Unlocking the inner door requires a shift of attention from outward to inward. Learning a new language is required. Ego English won’t cut it. The forgotten language of symbology and dreams is needed.
It’s like learning to walk and talk again, right here in mid-life after a second birth. Sorry. That’s a necessity. You can’t skip it. More of the same won’t do. A leap is required. Quantum physics calls it a discontinuity. The gap between what you think you are and have, and what you want, is enormous. In that gap is where anxiety is generated. You have to go there. You have to learn to live there. That is where life is continually regenerated. It’s called living on the edge. There is nowhere else that is alive, free, responsible, and creative. Living anywhere else is a copycat existence. Mediocrity. The scripture calls this world a furnace of affliction. It has enough heat to melt away the dross, the trash, the toxins, as well as the old patterns of reactivity and negativity. Rejoice, not in the affliction, but in the renewal potential found here.
And so, anxiety arises from the gap we try to deny or avoid. This is a gap between who we are and who we think we are. Know thyself is a wise counsel, a life-long challenge and calling. When you put off this critical understanding, you establish habits of misperception which become harder and harder to break. You become more and more embedded and embittered in your egocentricity patterns. You are not an ego. Wise up. Wake up. Use your anxiety to help you.
My client resents the belittling that her husband does to himself. That resentment is just another face of anxiety. That resentment is just another ineffective self-medication. She believes that belittlement is real and that it makes victims of people because she feels she is its victim.
Belittlement thinking arises from misperception and carries a burden of stress with it. Let yourself become aware that belittlement is not truth. Don’t give it any attention, time or energy. Her husband is a god, and so is she. Belittlement does not befit them. Belittlement is just a mistaken human drama, an erroneous state of mind, a lie we tell ourselves. All judgments are belittlements. All anxiety arises from human opinion. Einstein said that he only wanted to think the thoughts of God. That is our calling. When we do not think the thoughts of God, we get stuck in human opinions, in belittling opinions.
It looks like if you choose to embrace anxiety you would just have more of it. But that is not the case. I am not asking you to embrace anxiety but to embrace its meaning. Walk into it. On the other side of it, is the door to the Kingdom of Infinity. Anxiety per se has no healing value. Just go there, just be there in the gap. You don’t want certainty. Certainty is dead. You want aliveness, change, awareness. If you want some kind of fake safety, good luck. There is no such safety because there is no danger. All danger is to the ego. The Self is never in danger. The Self is eternal. The ego is just a collection of opinions, judgments and fears. If you are not in danger, why should you seek safety? Danger is just a belief. If there is a safety, the thoughts of God are your safety, your refuge. Nothing else is needed. Nothing else exists. Opinions don’t exist, they just appear to exist. Shadows disappear when the light comes.
The major lesson of existential anxiety is the recognition of your unawareness of the Infinite. Existential means existence, or who you are. If you don’t find out who you are, your anxiety and its painful lessons will continue. When that door does open, you can enter the Kingdom of the Infinite Good. This discovery is the purpose of your journey here on this earth plane. Once this golden key of knowledge is in your hand, you can accomplish anything you wish. This Open Sesame, this Magical Genie, this Christ within, is who you are.
Otherwise, your self-esteem shakes with every wind that blows. Until you discover the Christ or Buddha within, you will be continually frustrated. You can continue as you think you are, but only for a price. That price is stress and suffering, and ineffective self-medication. There is no medication or “fix” on this plane that will correct the problem you have. Sex, money, fame, opinions, politics, power and youth will fail you. You will run out of gas, unless you find a source of renewable energy. That energy is Consciousness.
If you were conscious, you wouldn’t be anxiety-ridden. How can you get to your Source? That is a burning life question we rarely ask directly. It is not a horizontal path, but a vertical one. It can’t be found within time, it is trans-time. It is down some rabbit hole where you would never expect it to be located. If you think you can take the Kingdom of Infinity by force, good luck. It hasn’t been done yet. We have to “wait upon the Lord.” The ego has no patience. Unlocking the inner door requires a shift of attention from outward to inward. Learning a new language is required. Ego English won’t cut it. The forgotten language of symbology and dreams is needed.
It’s like learning to walk and talk again, right here in mid-life after a second birth. Sorry. That’s a necessity. You can’t skip it. More of the same won’t do. A leap is required. Quantum physics calls it a discontinuity. The gap between what you think you are and have, and what you want, is enormous. In that gap is where anxiety is generated. You have to go there. You have to learn to live there. That is where life is continually regenerated. It’s called living on the edge. There is nowhere else that is alive, free, responsible, and creative. Living anywhere else is a copycat existence. Mediocrity. The scripture calls this world a furnace of affliction. It has enough heat to melt away the dross, the trash, the toxins, as well as the old patterns of reactivity and negativity. Rejoice, not in the affliction, but in the renewal potential found here.
And so, anxiety arises from the gap we try to deny or avoid. This is a gap between who we are and who we think we are. Know thyself is a wise counsel, a life-long challenge and calling. When you put off this critical understanding, you establish habits of misperception which become harder and harder to break. You become more and more embedded and embittered in your egocentricity patterns. You are not an ego. Wise up. Wake up. Use your anxiety to help you.
My client resents the belittling that her husband does to himself. That resentment is just another face of anxiety. That resentment is just another ineffective self-medication. She believes that belittlement is real and that it makes victims of people because she feels she is its victim.
Belittlement thinking arises from misperception and carries a burden of stress with it. Let yourself become aware that belittlement is not truth. Don’t give it any attention, time or energy. Her husband is a god, and so is she. Belittlement does not befit them. Belittlement is just a mistaken human drama, an erroneous state of mind, a lie we tell ourselves. All judgments are belittlements. All anxiety arises from human opinion. Einstein said that he only wanted to think the thoughts of God. That is our calling. When we do not think the thoughts of God, we get stuck in human opinions, in belittling opinions.
It looks like if you choose to embrace anxiety you would just have more of it. But that is not the case. I am not asking you to embrace anxiety but to embrace its meaning. Walk into it. On the other side of it, is the door to the Kingdom of Infinity. Anxiety per se has no healing value. Just go there, just be there in the gap. You don’t want certainty. Certainty is dead. You want aliveness, change, awareness. If you want some kind of fake safety, good luck. There is no such safety because there is no danger. All danger is to the ego. The Self is never in danger. The Self is eternal. The ego is just a collection of opinions, judgments and fears. If you are not in danger, why should you seek safety? Danger is just a belief. If there is a safety, the thoughts of God are your safety, your refuge. Nothing else is needed. Nothing else exists. Opinions don’t exist, they just appear to exist. Shadows disappear when the light comes.
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