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Using Gaming for Peace of Mind
“Gaming often serves the purpose of entertainment or a means of distraction from the roller-coaster of emotions and thoughts that you are experiencing during the day. When you re-purpose things you use in the world to serve the Holy Spirit’s purpose of inner forgiveness and surrender of self, gaming becomes a great way to open to an experience of the Peace of God. Where in the game do you experience anger or a lack of patience. Gaming now becomes a great way to save time. It can be used to notice your value in or misdevotion towards the voice that speaks against God in mind, so that you can look at it with the Holy Spirit and release it; placing devotion correctly in God all without living out the experience in your life.” Dylan Zoldyck
“As all form is neutral to the Holy Spirit, everything including gaming may be used for the undoing of the ego. All that is required is a change of purpose. One must have the willingness to let go of egoic motivations for gaming (such as prestige, competition, killing time, distracting away from painful life situations or difficult feelings) and allow them to be replaced by the unified purpose of healing the mind and coming to and remaining in present peace. In my own experience, this shift in purpose within my mind was the first step I took to use gaming for enlightenment. It was about holding peace of mind as the number one goal of gaming rather than making specific outcomes happen in game. Under this new purpose, I was able to see the true purpose of gaming (along with everything else in the world), what would bring the most ultimate sense of healing and subsequent joy, was using it as a background for mind training…” Brianna
Questioning Limiting beliefs and Fear-based conditioning With The Matrix Awakens (PS5)
Being vulnerable and authentic with the emotions you are experiencing is the first step in allowing you to realise that you do not like how you feel right now, being the gateway back inwards to invulnerability, inwards to the Peace of God.
What is unreal? Fear (the ego/devil). What is real? love (god and the fruits of the spirit).
The purpose of shifting one’s attention inwards is to be able to gently mind-watch. Think of it as cloud watching. The clouds pass through the sky, and it is very meditative to just lay on the grass of the park watching the clouds pass through the sky. So, too, is this similar to the mind and the thoughts arising and passing through one’s awareness, which can be like the sky.
Through calmly observing the mind with the Holy Spirit, you are able to gently observe the train of fear-based ego thoughts (or voice of the devil in mind) and see its falsity.
You watch the fear-based thoughts such as, “If only I didn’t do that in the past I would be worthy of approval; If only it wasn’t raining my day would be so much better and I would be happier.” You simply observe them. You watch them calmly with the Holy Spirit, Who does not feed into the unloving voice of the devil/ego.
The experience of Inner Peace is not about getting rid of unloving thoughts, emotions or perceptions…
but being able to observe them all without judgement. Through the Holy Spirit’s Wisdom and Discernment, you will begin to see them as false—when contrasted to the Real Thoughts of God. It is out of this observing and lack of value in the clouds that the Peace that has always been with one shines in the forefront of one’s experience.
It is here that you step out of the voice that speaks against God, along with its roller-coaster of emotions and perceptions of the world, where the true miracle is chosen: a shift in mind from fear to Love, a shift in valuing the voice of the devil to valuing the Voice of the Holy Spirit. It is here that a surrender of self occurs and you accept your Self in Christ, which is always unaffected by anything happening in the world. You become rooted in the Stability of God and His Peace, regardless of what is happening in your life. “The Power of Now,” as Eckhart Tolle describes it.
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Using Virtual Reality For releasing
fear and opening to Peace of Mind
Virtual reality is a great platform for facing fears that you experience during your daily life, within the comfort of your own chosen environment. Using the immersive experience of VR allows you to become aware of what is arising for you, emotionally and mentally, during simulated environments such as a VR roller-coaster ride.
With the aid of tools of prayerful inquiry, you are able to pull the fears and emotions felt during the simulated environment off of the VR screen and back to your mind.
Looking upon what is often distracted from and suppressed, with the Holy Spirit, allows you to accept all of the uncomfortable emotions and thoughts without pushing them down into the subconscious. Here, you have the conscious ability to meet them all with understanding, where you eventually overlook or surrender the voice of the devil and its fruits of anger, lack of patience and competition, to value the Voice of the Holy Spirit.
When you can go through the same simulated environment in peace and acceptance, is when you know the Holy Spirit’s Fruits are shining through. Your state of mind is your responsibility. Both the problem and solution to your experience has always been within!
The open-hearted Experience with Scenes
from the movie, “Free Guy” (2021)
Underneath all of the unloving rollercoaster of thoughts, emotions and perceptions of the ego is the experience of an open-heart, along with a depth of Being that transcends the limited box of this world.
Life, beyond the harsh thoughts of the devil and its self of sin, is soft. Life, beyond the rollercoaster of upsetting emotions, is grateful and loving. Life, being beyond the “voice of death” (ego/devil), is always there reminding and showing you, “I Love You. Here I am, I never left you. I have got you in every moment.”
Love will remind you who you are and what life is all about!
The ego will project what is available now through Grace—the experience of Peace and Happiness—into a future worldly goal. It suggests to the mind, “Only when you improve your sinful self in the future will you experience peace.” Yet, a work that has already been done is just an acceptance. It is Grace.
The acceptance of the Self in Christ is always calling you back to Itself saying, “Here I Am, My Love, I never left you.” It softly reminds one, “I am experienced through surrender of self, rather than an improvement of self. Rest here in the Peace, Love and Stillness of God.
Do you need to strive for a future goal if the glasses you were looking for are already on your head? Or does this realisation entail just a simple acceptance: “Oh my golly gosh, the glasses were already on my head. Silly me for forgetting about them while I spent all day searching for them.
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