four things

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I think there are four basic things or tenants that can carry us through when we are, or will be, developing our soul in a positive manner.

These are simply; truth, emotions, action and faith.

I have little experience with these but I do have some, so I will be writing from my own experience and not from something I learned from someone else. I have heard these words from someone else but it is only through my own experience that I will speak.

These four things never stand alone. One leads to another, or one works best when all are combined.

Truth. It is easy to see how lack of truth has decimated our societies. It is not necessary to see all the details that lack of truth has done to our world and us. It is necessary however to come to understand that many if not all of our beliefs are built on a very poor foundation and that working on one of those foundations is not going to take us very far in soulful progression because there are so many untruths we rely on that picking away at each one is going to take us forever.

All of our institutions are based on many false premises and beliefs, whether it is in politics, religion, education, justice, medicine, and much of our science and technology.

This is the environment we live in and we have absorbed much of the world as is. We must look at our own upbringing and see the lack of truth there and what we have been taught.

However the most important truth we need to look at is how we may be living in a false way ourselves. Can we recognize when we are telling ourselves what is not true and when we are living with false beliefs?

Any addiction we have is a truth barrier. We develop addictions to hide ourselves from what we don’t want to feel. An addiction is a dependency on something outside of ourselves. If we have dependencies we are not living a free life, we are bound to the dependency. Of course there are many addictions to substances but the largest dependency usually is our codependent relationship with other people.

One of the greatest barriers to truth then is addiction so it is impossible to see truth as long as we continue with our addictions.

Personally over the past 8 years I have been gathering what I consider information closer to the truth than I had been in my life prior to that time. It really started with Trump’s presidency and then moved on through George Floyd’s death and then escalated with the covid fear fake pandemic. Through learning many facts I considered to be true I moved into looking much closer into the lies I had been telling myself my whole life and I began facing my own truths which is the process I have been describing in this blog.

Emotion.  It is impossible to recognize the truth of our own emotions when we are busy denying many of them. When we have feelings we are afraid to feel we find a myriad of ways to avoid or deny them and much of that happens through our addictions.

To get to the truth of who we are we must feel our emotions. We can tell ourselves that we are feeling our feelings but with any addiction any of our feelings are greatly suppressed.

I can say that I want to know myself but if I am doing a lot of things that stop me from knowing myself, knowing my feelings, then it is not true that I want to know myself. This is one big way that we are not true to ourselves. If I did want to know myself there would be nothing stopping me from doing so.

To begin soulful positive development then is for us to learn how to feel all of emotions. We need to feel what our soul is wanting to express, whatever it may be and whether we think it is good or not.

The largest emotion that we repress would be fear and it is the repression of fear that does extensive damage to our feeling of all emotion and to our completely honest assessment of the truth.

Over the past eight months I have been feeling emotions that I had denied, and repressed for all my life. This process will continue for I don’t know how long. It is getting easier to access these emotions, and usually now I can go into this emotional space quite quickly.

Action. Personal action is necessary to move ahead with soulful progression. Looking for what is true is good action. We can take action by recognizing and removing the addictions we have. By giving up addictions one will feel many emotions, as the barrier to these emotions will be lessoned. Then we can look for ways and take other action to feel emotions.

As I described in this blog I have been taking the action of removing my addictions. This has been quite successful though I can go back to some of them for short periods of time. It takes longer to get through the feeling I have when an addiction is removed than it is to remove the addiction. Also when I feel the underlying feelings then the addiction urge is lessoned or in some cases completely disappeared.

I have been taking the action of getting to my feelings. I do this as much as I can during the day and evening, or when I lay awake at night.

Another necessary action is to develop faith and I am taking the action of feeling faith in god, of having the wish to have faith in god.

Faith. I don’t think we can progress very far unless we have faith. Faith in god really but also faith that we can advance, faith that we can come to know the truth; faith that we can feel our emotions is a very positive advancement. When we take one action and see some results then we can have faith that the next action will see results as well.

Without faith it is difficult, likely impossible, to proceed in the progression of the soul. Without faith it is difficult to look into the truth of who we are and who we have become. It is difficult to let all of our emotions come out in us, it is emotionally and physically demanding. So one of the necessary actions is to develop or have the willingness to develop faith.

I have not practiced faith prior to this time in my life. It is a wonderful thing.