Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Wandering Mind of Victim Consciousness

Today, more than at any other time in our lives, we are challenged by our actions and reactions to people and things.  Whether it's economic turmoil or personal fears of gloom and doom, we act or react to whatever we believe is threatening us. And without thinking very much about how or why we respond to things in a certain manner, we continue inexorably into the cesspool of victim consciousness.

Each time we make a decision to act, we use something to prompt us to do so. And unless we make a determined effort to participate in the self-discovery process of understanding the nature of victim beliefs, we remain trapped and controlled by thoughts we know very little about.  These are the runaway thoughts that create all the daunting challenges we are always responding to.

Why would we ever devote any time to understanding our thoughts?  For most of us, it's just not that important.  We act the way we do because it's the way we have always acted.  And we believe, at least some of us do, that we have been very successful acting in this manner. 

So, we opine to ourselves, there's no problem with our actions.  The problems are caused by the people -- politicians, supervisors, ministers, doctors, bankers, and so on -- we interact with. And by the things -- banks, corporations, credit card companies, government, the media, courts, and so on --we interact with.  They are responsible for our problems.  We are mainly the victims of powerful people and their institutions.

Similarly, the daunting challenges facing us are mere reflections of our belief system.  We think it and then it expresses itself into people and things. This process of creating is problematic for those who desire to change how we think and live. By embracing this type of process we become victims of our own illusions without fully recognizing what's happening to us.

Nevertheless, as we become more enshrined in our illusions, we become more restless with our creative process. We lose control of creativity and become spectators of our wandering thoughts traveling aimlessly through our minds creating more and more victim beliefs.  And it's our victim beliefs -- thoughts of being powerless when facing difficult problems -- that render us helpless in understanding the great power contained within our thoughts and the beliefs that create them. 

Regardless to the magnitude of the problems we face everyday, we are the ones with the power to understand their origins and do something about them.  By understanding our problems we understand the process we used to bring them into our lives. Then we know it's an illusory process victims use to live and act as victims all the time.

When we enter into the self-discovery phase of our journey, we take the time to examine the nature and cause of our problems. We perceive them for what they really are, not what we believe them to be. This opens us to clearly understand that the things we endow with power are actually nothing more than illusions manufactured in our minds. 

During moments of great despair, we use our beliefs to create and recreate perceptions of things (illusions) outside of us all the time.  We give life and power to these illusions greater than that which we give to ourselves.  It's a strange phenomenon, particularly for people with such great power not to use it to live life more abundantly.

Meanwhile, whenever we victimize ourselves, we victimize our thoughts.  We lose control of them and they wander hither and yonder doing whatever they desire.   The truth about who we are is found in our wandering thoughts. There's nothing else to us, but our thoughts and beliefs.  We can deny who we are, but we cannot deny the existence of our thoughts and who controls them.

The wandering mind can become our friend.  Since it's a part of us we must teach it how to live within our consciousness.  This is the love and understanding that draws us closer to enlightenment. This is what we do when we take the time to understand the true nature of our problems.

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