Well said Chris!

When I see the impact that the modern 'disposable' era has had on Mother Earth I can't help but feel that the economic slow down is filled with countless blessings.

I hear more people considering car sharing, buying local (supporting independent producers and stores rather than supermarkets etc) as well as turning financial limitations into resourcefulness and greater sense of community. I hear of all kind of community groups springing up.

Many people around here seem to be preparing for economic meltdown - yet they are doing it with joy, seeing that the reshaping will be of huge benefit to harmonious living. It requires a restructuring of many tenets of everyday life. Mother Earth openly embraces those who honour and respect her.

Hi Chris and all,

I personally find that the global events that are happening help highlight my attachments to the external drama.

When I hear or read about global events i feel varying degrees of fear arising. As the fear arises I can trace it back to find what I am attached too. Facing, feeling and surrendering to the fear, as opposed to distracting myself away from it seems to dissolve a bit of the attachment. Each time this happens it feels as though a part of the attachment has been dissolved away, and when it arises again it doesn't carry as much energy. I can see that these events and the fear they provoke will help a lot of peoples unfolding.

Best wishes

david

you must face the fact: the final age of this world is to be a time of troubles. Men will love nothing but money and self; they will be arrogant, boastful,and abusive;with no respect for parents,no gratitude,no piety,no natural affection;they will be implacable in their hatreds,scandal-mongers,intemperate and fiece,strangers to all goodness, adventurers,swollen with self importance.They will be men who put pleasure in the place of god, men who preserve the outward form of religion,but are standing denial of it's reality. (Timothy 3)

maybe seems more relevent now than when written.

Before we all either jump for joy or descend to the pits of despair at the possibilty of "economic melt down" I think we should take just a moment to contemplate the full implications. whatever our thoughts are if this deck of cards collapses it will inevitably lead to conflict and wars the beginings which have already started in places like Kenya.
Whenever recession is about then individually we all have to tighten our belt and consider our lifestlyes which is no bad thing Chris and Trinity and all those who speak on the same lines are very right that it is the disposable era which has led to a draining of natural resources which cannot continue as it is. Mother nature is very resiliant and can recover and at quite a miraclulous rate given help and support.This is seen in many marine conservation projects and very dramatically with the dropping of the necular bombs on Japan when days after grass began to grow again.
Is economic slowdown a blessing or curse? Both !! There is no doubt it will bring great hardship to many people, yet there will be those who will prosper from it.
I often find a wry smile when I hear people talk of return to the good old days and wonder when those days were??
For me my perception the good old days have not yet arrived to return to but somewhere to journey towards.
On that journey we should all remember that every choice,every decision and action we take causes a ripple on the pond. Contemplate every action with understanding, should we all change our lifestlyes ?

Abandon what is wrong, it is possible to abandon it, Were it is not possible to abandon what is wrong. I would not say: Abandon it. But because it is possible, therefore I say: Abandon what is wrong. (budda)

I leave with one final thought "WHAT ACTUALLY IS MONEY ????"

Eden

Hi David,

Sounds like we are on the same page
Thank-you for the insight into your own experiences. I feel a strong resonance with your sharing!

Trin
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Hi David,

A very warm welcome to you here on the forum

Thanks for your post concerning attachments. Yes I totally agree with you. It feels very strongly that we're moving into a global transition of consequences where each event seems to be synchronistically configured to provide an ever changing mirror - just how much are we attached to this external drama?...

"The Universe is nothing but an illusion
to test your consciousness of immortality"
Paramahansa Yogananda

How right you are when you say that the attachments that we dissolve in the moment keep reappearing afterwards but each time we work to dissolve them they get less strong.

From my perspective we're dealing with two aspects of the same thing here - attachments and distortions. Attachments tend to arise because of our karma. We store past life experiences in the causal body which connects directly to the heart chakra. The causal body is so called because it is the cause of our incarnation.

Our past life attachments are recreated in this life by our causal body. When these attachments are activated as young children, if they are sustained by our parents, then conditioned behavioural patterns develop forming fixed neural pathways in the brain - these distort the authentic actions of the soul - we may call them "distortions".

So for an example, lets say as a child we are very exuberant and questioning of life; it might be that in so doing we are very challenging to our parents which pushes their inner buttons making them frequently tense and angry. Now the child may either take on the blame and feel inwardly crushed, or alternatively they may become rebellious and overtly challenging.

Now a cycle of combative behaviours develop in the interplay leading to the generation of fixed neural pathways in the infant (the parents too of course!). These fixed neural pathways take time to dissolve - whilst we may suddenly realise our initial attachment and dissolve it instantaneously, we cannot just dissolve the distortion that has arisen from it.

From my perspective and experience, the best way (perhaps only way) to genuinely dissolve distortions is to confront them in the moments they arise and instead choose the higher truth - that aspect of divine beingness of the soul. If we do this, then over time (just as you point out), the distortions will dissolve and we'll be left with true authentic expression of the soul.

If anyone reading this is interested further, you might like to check out Openhand Approach which is a process people can apply in their daily lives for overcoming such distortions. We teach it on our second level course Way of the Heart.

Once again, thanks for the post David.

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your reply, another bit of the jigsaw has slotted into place.

David