Initially, in my experience, I noticed how much the intuitive guidance and prompts of the Holy Spirit were disregarded for the enemy’s dictates of “should” and “have to.” The Holy Spirit plays an important part in guiding one moment-to-moment to the experience of consistent Joy. Yet, the voice of the enemy comes in with the compromising “should” and “have to” to distract one away from the Joy of God. This is where the inauthenticity of people-pleasing and self-sacrifice come into play in one’s life. And then one wonders why one feels shallow.
If you bring the perception of needing to please people and compromise to the level of mind, the level of thoughts and beliefs, you can begin to question why it is even important for me to do this. What is the purpose of people-pleasing? What am I so afraid of?
Through shifting one’s attention inward from the world to what is arising in mind, you can begin to see the false thoughts of the enemy underneath the uncomfortable emotions saying, “You need to do this to be approved; you have to just sit here when you know you don’t want to because you will hurt their feelings; you need to compromise here so you have future security; you need to compromise here so this consequence in the future doesn’t happen.” We want to gain clarity around the magician’s tricks so the mind doesn’t buy into them anymore.
Through prayer and shining the Holy Spirit’s Light on these thoughts, you can begin to see that they always speak against the Authenticity, Happiness, Peace and Love of God. If you take it a step further you can also see, from shining a light on these false thoughts, that: “Oh wow, I seem to believe that I need the approval of some other to be happy. I believe if I don’t compromise I can lose something! I believe my happiness and peace depend upon a particular outcome or a perfect future condition,” where it is never actually found.
This interior prayer and insight, where you are just bringing the lack of peace back off of the perception back to the mind level, is just an inroad. This inroad is to allow you to recognise the root desire on the mind level—what you are desiring to experience in each moment. In any moment of lack of peace there is always a split desire in mind to value the voice of the adversary, and then act out its backwards motives for future peace and happiness. As long as you are not choosing God, it is quite happy watching you be distracted by the world of smoke.
This is the ego’s ploy; as long as it is valued, to distract one away from the present experience of the Fruits of the Spirit. If one is fixated on being peaceful some time in the future—carrot-chasing something that will never come—then one has totally forgotten about the Peace and Fulfilment that comes from God instead of the world.
To the world, it seems like compromise is necessary to be approved, to be peaceful, to be happy, to have security of some kind or whatever it may be. Yet, through coming back to the root desire on the mind level you recognise that if I surrender and accept the Self I am in Christ, I don’t need to compromise in any way to get what I have already been given by Grace. If I allow myself to be peaceful, loving and happy right now by being with God, then I no longer need to compromise in any way to get what I already have accepted and have been given.
You always have the option to pause and notice the enemy’s motives: of needing to be approved, to get something in return for something, for some sort of future happiness or future peace. You realise that you don’t need to play these games anymore.
In recognising the falsity of the voice of the adversary, one rests back into what has been Divinely Given. This had just been overlooked while you thought what you wanted or needed came from the world.
The Holy Spirit is always available moment-to-moment, yet it is only useful if Its Wisdom is listened to and followed through on. It guides one to the experience of consistent Happiness and Joy. It helps shift the mind from the enemy through being uncompromising in not heeding the small calls of the adversary to self-sacrifice through straying away from God.
Any feeling of unhappiness is merely a signal that this has happened. The enemy is a compromise on the Holy Spirit. There are always two ways to approach everything: through love or fear, through compromise or inspiration. This is simple logic right here. If you compromise on happiness only unhappiness can be the logical result. If you compromise on who you truly are in Christ you will, indeed, feel unhappy. Trying to be something you are not does feel like death. The wages of sin is death. The wages of valuing the voice of the adversary in unhappiness and spiritual death.
The fear of judgement that seems to arise from stepping into the Authenticity of the Holy Spirit is seen as nothing but another distraction or trick of the enemy. For how could you fear something you truly want? It is illogical. That is what the enemy is. It can only try and distract one away from the Peace and Joy of God. One doesn’t have to listen to it. It is not that anyone will actually judge you, as it is just the voice of the adversary placing its own false judgement on the world and judging itself.
We were told by Jesus to judge not. This is important because if we value the voice of the enemy’s judgement in mind we are instantaneously going to feel judged. Cause and effect are together, they are simultaneous. The desire to value the enemy’s voice of judgement will simultaneously mirror a judgemental world, but the world is not actually doing anything but mirroring one’s state of mind.
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” Matthew 7:1-3
The fear of judgement from the world is really just the voice of the adversary’s fear of the Love of God. When there is a misidentification, its own fear of being judged seems to become ‘my fear.’ The mind takes on the false sense of responsibility for the enemy. The Self in Spirit is beyond the enemy, therefore, beyond the fear of judgement, being Whole.
Therefore, it is helpful to get real clear on purpose—which is on the mind level—between the enemy and the Holy Spirit. When one can discern between the enemy and the Holy Spirit, what is false is joyously laid aside. As the ego is laid aside or overlooked, the Fruits of the Spirit are left shining in full Light.
You are never responsible for the whispers of the adversary. You are only responsible for the correction—the Holy Spirit.
Resting in the Grace of God is an exuberant experience. This is what allows you to shine and extend the Fruits to everyone else, near or far. When you follow through on the Authenticity of the Spirit you stay in and as Joy, and this Joy is shared and radiated to everyone and everything. This exuberance is how authenticity is expressed in everything that is thought, spoken and acted upon. It is selfless, it is not only for you. Just as you were once in a pit calling for help, God will use the Authenticity that is being beamed through to help others.
You are only authentic when you remain true to the Self in Christ. The Self in Christ is a renewal of heart and mind that transcends past learning, transcends past conditioning. I reached a point where I was questioning why I wasn’t joyful. I had to get honest and look at where I was acting out of accord with God, where I would act out of conditioning, where I would be acting out of fear, and where I would compromise on Authenticity to be liked or get approval from the world.
It wasn’t until I became non-compromising for God that I recognised that that is where the safety lies, that is where the joy lies and that is where the integrity lies. Whenever I remained true to the Spirit, the deeper and more meaningful each encounter was experienced because the Joy, the Meaning or the purpose behind the action was there. So, it was recognised that authenticity was synonymous with being truly helpful for the whole. Capital ‘S’ Self-full is lowercase ‘s’ self-less.
People-pleasing drops away as the joy and strength of Authenticity, that is of God, takes its place. You are here to express the Authenticity that is the Movement of Life in a very real and alive way in each moment. The will to die—unhappiness and depression—comes from expressing the voice of the adversary’s dictates which go against God. You are here to demonstrate the will to live by expressing the Fruits of the Spirit to everyone and everything.
Let the seeming masks dissolve in the Light of exposing the self to the Self in Christ. This is a non-compromising decision that eradicates the need for one to claim to be who one is not.
Play, have fun and be like a child knowing you will always be taken care of with this. The mind will resist this idea at first, but this is okay. Remain gentle with yourself. One’s Self in Christ is the goal that the world seeks.
Remember to laugh, Loved One. You are loved just as you are!
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One Silent Mind 