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from Jesus:
Let me begin by commending
you for going to therapy. As I have said before, if the modern forms
of therapy had been available 2,000 years ago, I would have had all
my disciples engage in some form of therapy. The blocks and wounds in
your psychology represent one of the major hindrances to your spiritual
progress, so if the tools are available for healing such wounds, why
not make use of them? Not doing so would be like refusing to take penicillin
to cure pneumonia.
I understand your confusion about anger, so let me give you some thoughts
on this topic. First of all, it is correct when many modern healing
techniques encourage people to go inside and get in touch with the anger
that has been suppressed. However, it is important to keep in mind that
the purpose for doing this obviously should not be to get people to
take their anger out on other people. In other words, the purpose of
these forms of therapy is not to get you to fly into a rage and beat
up on the first person that comes around. The purpose is to help you
get in touch with the suppressed feelings, so that you can recognize
them and thereby resolve them in a constructive manner. There is an
obvious difference between letting someone know you are angry at his
or her actions and taking your anger out on that person.
Feelings, or emotions, can be described as energy in motion. If you
will study my discourse on the levels
of the material universe, you will see that I talk about the emotional
body. The emotional body is meant to take the thoughts that are formulated
in your mental body and give them movement, so that they can manifest
in the material realm. Therefore, your emotions are meant to flow, and
if you attempt to suppress your emotions, you will block up the natural
flow of energy through your consciousness. This will inevitably cause
various psychological problems, and it is very significant and highly
beneficial for people to use healing techniques to go in and resolve
these blocks, so that the energy of their emotions can again start flowing
naturally.
The problem with emotions is that they simply give movement to anything
that enters the emotional body from the mental body. In other words,
the emotional body does not discriminate and discern whether something
is good or bad, right or wrong, constructive or self-destructive. The
emotions simply act on whatever comes into the emotional body from the
mental body. That is why it is necessary that you have some control,
with your conscious mind, over your emotions.
There are some situations where expressing anger would lead to negative
consequences, and therefore suppressing that anger is the lesser evil.
The problem appears when people constantly suppress the anger instead
of seeking to resolve
the cause of the anger in the mental body, and even in your etheric
body that anchors your sense of identity.
The simple fact is that while anger is an emotion, anger does not originate
in the emotional body. It originates in the form of thoughts in the
mental body, especially thoughts that cause you to think that life should
be a certain way and that if your outer situation does not live up to
expectations, then there is something wrong. These thoughts can make
you think that if the world does not treat you the way you think you
should be treated, an injustice has been committed and someone must
be to blame. This then causes the thought that another person is to
blame, and this releases the emotion of anger which can cause you seek
revenge or attempt to punish the other person.
The problem is that most people do not understand how their emotions
originate from thoughts. They have not learned to reach up into the
mental body and discover the process whereby thoughts are formed. They
have not made the effort to examine their basic beliefs and attitudes
toward life and see how those attitudes give rise to specific thoughts
that then release certain emotions, such as anger. In other words, most
people do not have an understanding of what goes on at the subconscious
levels of their minds, and both the emotional body and the mental body
are below the level of what is conscious awareness for most people.
So what happens to most people is that when they experience a situation
that violates their expectations, they do not see the thoughts that
trigger the emotions. They simply experience that their emotional body
starts going wild and they feel anger.
At that moment, the anger has already been produced, the fire has already
taken hold and you are left trying to put it out. Your conscious mind
now has to make the choice as to what it will do with that anger. Some
people do not have enough self-control to avoid acting out their anger,
so they act upon it in various ways. This often causes a negative reaction
from other people, which is reflected back on you. This can lead to
the creation of a negative spiral that produces more and more anger.
As the emotional energy continues to build, a vortex of energy is formed
in your energy field, in your emotional body. This vortex can eventually
become so strong that it overpowers your attempt to control it, and
you have then lost control of yourself. This is what causes some people
to develop a chronic anger that they cannot control.
Other people, often guided by religious attitudes or doctrines, adopt
the belief that feeling or expressing anger is always wrong. Therefore,
they use all of their willpower in an attempt to suppress the anger.
Some people are successful in doing this for a time, but again of vortex
of energy will start forming in the subconscious mind, and eventually
it can become so strong that it overpowers people's conscious willpower.
Other people have such strong self-control that they can suppress the
anger for an entire lifetime, yet doing so will have various effects
on the psyche and the body. Many diseases are simply the physical effects
of suppressed emotions, including anger. My point is that the approach
taken by many Christians, namely to suppress all anger, is not the most
healthy approach.
There are two things you can do to develop a more constructive approach
to anger. The first one is to use various modern healing techniques
to uncover suppressed anger and resolve those feeling permanently. This
means expressing your anger in a way that does not create a negative
spiral between you and other people. In other words, it is not healthy
to take your anger out on other people, although it is healthy to express
it in a more controlled environment. Certain modern healing techniques,
including gestalt therapy, can help people get in touch with their anger
and express it in a way that actually helps them reestablish the natural
flow of energy through their emotional bodies.
The problem with such healing techniques is that even though expressing
your anger is helpful in terms of reestablishing the proper flow of
energy, the anger you expressed still represent a certain amount of
misqualified energy. As I explain throughout this website, there is
a constant stream of energy that flows from your spiritual self through
the various levels of your mind. When you engage in negative thoughts
and feelings, you misqualify energy and the energy will remain in the
misqualified state until you do something to purify it.
It is precisely the misqualified energy that accumulates in your energy
field and creates a negative vortex that acts as a block to the natural
flow of energy. So unlocking that block through therapy is beneficial,
yet expressing your anger does not transform the negative energy. Therefore,
it would be extremely beneficial for yourself, and for humanity as a
whole, even the planet as a whole, if all modern therapists would become
aware of the need to transform the negative energy. This is precisely
why we of the Ascended Host have released techniques for transforming
negative energy, including the Violet
Flame and the rosaries
that you find on this website. I would therefore strongly recommend
that people combine therapy with the use of techniques for transforming
negative energy. This would greatly speed up the process of healing
and lead to much better results.
Now for the second step in the healing process. As I said, your emotions
originate as thoughts. If you truly want to heal your psyche, it is
not enough to get in touch with your anger, to express that anger and
to transmute the negative energy produced by the anger. After you work
through your anger and reestablish a proper flow of energy through your
emotional body, you need to go to the next level, which is to go into
the mental body and uncover the thoughts and attitudes that lead to
anger. You then need to realize that these thoughts spring from certain
decisions you made about how you see yourself, how you see God and how
you see your relationship to God. When you uncover these thoughts, as
described in the last part of the book The
Inner Path of Light, you can then begin to replace the limiting
decisions that lead to anger with better decisions.
What I am talking about here is a process of taking command over every
part of your being, including your mental body and your sense of identity.
This process really is the path to personal Christhood, and as you walk
that path, you will gradually replace all limiting attitudes and beliefs
with higher beliefs. At the end of this process you will end up being
in complete command of yourself, so that you can respond to whatever
happens in this world without having that response dictated by blocks
in your emotional body, limiting decisions in your mental body or even
a limiting sense of identity in your etheric body. You will then live
up to the saying that the prince of this world comes and has nothing
in you whereby he can manipulate or control you.
When you have achieved this inner freedom, you will never feel the human
anger that most people experience. This form of anger is an anger that
is always based on a sense of injustice and a sense of blame. Someone
has done something wrong, they deserve to be blamed for doing it, and
you are going to let them know so in no uncertain terms. This form of
anger always springs from a desire to punish someone, either through
physical actions or through making them feel bad about what they did
to you. This can include punishing yourself and making yourself feel
bad for mistakes you supposedly made.
Incidentally, anger that is not directed at another person (for example
out of fear) will end up being directed at yourself. That is why many
people who were abused as children feel an, often hidden, anger against
themselves, and they need to make an effort to forgive themselves and
transmute the anger.
When you rise above this human anger, you will not necessarily always
go around being completely soft-spoken in every situation. There are
so many things that happen on this planet that are clearly out of alignment
with God’s law of unconditional love. Therefore, it is quite appropriate
to challenge the wrongdoings of other people, and this might include
expressing strong feelings that most people would see as anger. However,
as you begin to reach a certain level of Christhood, you can speak sternly
and directly without falling into the lower vibration of human anger.
You are not expressing feelings in order to blame someone. You are expressing
strong feelings in order to shock people out of their current state
of consciousness, so that they might see that what they are doing is
out of alignment with the laws of God and therefore can only lead to
negative consequences for themselves.
I am aware that as long as people are still trapped in the lower vibrations
of the carnal mind, they will not be able to understand this distinction.
Yet there is a very clear distinction of vibration between human anger
and what we might call holy wrath. How do you tell the difference between
holy wrath and human anger? Holy wrath can be powerful, but it will
instantly disappear once it has accomplished its purpose, and it will
not permanently affect your view of or feelings toward the other person.
Anger will linger with you for a time after it has been expressed, like
a smoldering fire that takes a long time to burn out. It will color
your thoughts and feelings about the other person for a lifetime, or
at least until you fully forgive that person.
Holy wrath is really an expression of the unconditional love of God,
which is not the soft, mushy love that most people think it is. Unconditional
love will not let you stand still in a limited sense of identity. Therefore,
if you insist on holding on to such limitations, a person who has reached
a certain degree of Christhood can become an open door, whereby the
unconditional love is expressed. This unconditional love can be expressed
in a very stern way in order to shock you out of your current state
of consciousness, a state of consciousness that will eventually lead
to your own destruction. Obviously, unconditional love does not want
you to destroy yourself, and therefore it is willing to be very direct
in letting you know that you are on the wrong side of the laws of God.
My point here is that I did personally become an instrument for this
unconditional love of God on several occasions that are recorded in
the scriptures. These instances have often been misinterpreted as human
anger, and throughout the centuries many people have actually used this
as an excuse for expressing their own human anger. This is unfortunate,
because it prevents people from resolving the cause of their human anger
and thereby rising to a higher level of consciousness.
I will admit that I did on occasion express human anger, and one example
is when I cursed the fig tree, as explained elsewhere.
You see, contrary to the idolatrous beliefs held by so many Christians,
I was not the perfect human being and I had not completely resolve every
aspect of my psychology before my crucifixion. I would have reached
that point if I had been given a little more time, but as events unfolded,
I did not quite resolve every aspect of my psychological wounds and
blocks before the crucifixion.
Let me say that anger is not hard-wired into the spiritual part of your
being or into your soul, it is only hard-wired into the carnal mind.
So the key to overcoming human anger is to rise above that state of
consciousness, to put off the old man of the carnal mind and put on
the new man of the Christ mind. This process is what I explain throughout
this website.
Finally, let me comment on your feelings while giving the rosary. Let
me commend you for giving Mother Mary’s rosaries, which are extremely
powerful tools for transforming your psychology, including transforming
negative energy. It is extremely important that you don't use these
rosaries to feel guilty for having the negative emotions that the rosaries
are designed to transform. The whole point of the forgiveness rosary
is to help you forgive yourself, not causing you to condemn yourself
for feeling anger.
To avoid this reaction, it will be helpful to be aware of the fact that
whenever you use a spiritual technique, the light invoked through that
technique will flush out its own opposite in your energy field and subconscious
mind. In other words, when you give the forgiveness rosary, it will
flush out anger in your subconscious mind. This anger will then surface
in your conscious mind, and what you need to do is to simply let it
go. You might visualize that whenever a spike of anger comes up, you
forgive all people involved and you see the anger pass into my Sacred
Heart or the Immaculate Heart of Mother Mary, where it is instantly
consumed by the spiritual fire.
You simply need to keep giving the rosary for a time until all of the
anger and nonforgiveness is consumed. This will happen over time, and
that is one of the reasons behind the saying that in your patience you
will posses your soul.
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