We are hybrid beings made up of body, mind, and soul. Of these three , body and mind are limited to this lifetime. With the soul being functionally
eternal, it is easy to deduce that the soul is in a body for a reason, a purpose. The soul has an agenda and is using the body and mind as a way to
interface with the world to attend to its agenda.
When we are born, we are pure soul sealed in an adorable little body. Over the next twenty one years or so, we are steeped in everything we need to
know to function in the world and in our society. Like little computers, we download programs from our family, school, church or religious group,
peers and seemingly endless media sources. These programs act as our software, and applications, all overlaid on top of the still, small voice of our
soul. All that programming stands between the soul we really are and the world. By the time we are adults, we are fairly well convinced that we are
our programming. We are sure that the mask we are wearing to interface with the world is the totality of who we truly are.
The behavioral software, or the sequential orderly way the mind is loaded, is like a mask slowly built over our true nature.
We learn the rules of this plane of existence. We learn what is real, in other words. We learn what believe in. These range from the practical, hot
and cold, to the more obscure like good and bad. We begin to download the belief surrounding who we are and what is expected of us. We learn how to
treat each other and how we deserve to be treated. These beliefs lay the foundation for the balance of our lives.
We learn about our emotions. Emotions are those things that move us. They make us do things, compelling us to action. One emotion would be fight or
flight. Love and courage. As well as anger, desire, jealousy, and others. An understanding of all these programs are loaded into us. We write many of
the emotional programs that are designed to defend the beliefs we established. For instance, if at age two we come to believe daddy loves our sister
more, we will write behavioral programs to deal with that belief. This could be acting out, flirting, or wanting attention. They are idiosyncratic to
the individual and conform to other beliefs within the framework of the family unit. Much of our pain and hurt from circumstances of our youth, along
with our joy and wonder.
If you believe the previous to quote to be true consider what it means. All your beliefs and emotions were uploaded as you grew up. They are real in a
sense, but only from the viewpoint of your mind.
All of your emotions, beliefs, and experiences which you believe to be “you” could very likely not be you at all. Instead they are programs
uploaded to your mind. It is easy to believe you are the programs instead of the processor underneath.
If these emotions, beliefs, and thoughts are negative programs must you keep them?
If these emotions or beliefs cause unhappiness why keep them?
If indeed we are souls experiencing life through a physical manifestation all can be changed. Whatever negative circles of anger, fear, self-hate,
addiction, or pain can be cured. It is only a matter of stepping out of the mind created reality.
Wipe your mind hard drive of malware. If you are an angry person change it. Look back at your past, and find what is the root program that began the
cycle of anger. Face that event, and erase it from your mind. It may not be easy, but it is necessary for breaking free. Do not let the past programs
slow down your processor today!
You must understand that those programs impact every part of your life. How you view new experiences. The way new people perceive you. What results
occur from your actions. All are colored by, or enlivened by what programs we let our minds concentrate on.
Any person can change their outlook on life at any time. It is merely a matter of stepping away from the mind, and the programs uploaded into it. Look
at your life from the outside in, and you realize you can change anything.
The key is to allow soul to use the programs as tools, not to allow our entire being to be used as a tool of the programs.
*Quotes from Seeing in the Dark by Colleen Deatsman and Paul Bowersox