Become an Allow-a-Holic

[Akeia]

Become an Allow-a-Holic
By Jafree Ozwald
www.EnlightenedBeings.com

The reason why we suffer is that we are trying to have a different experience than the one that is happening to us right now. We are not allowing for the current feeling, thought, or experience to be happening in our body and resist it immensely. By not giving it "space" or permission to be here now, we are denying that the Divine exists within everything. By internally fighting with our current experience, and trying, wishing, hoping or praying that it will change, we are not honoring the Universe as our most powerful teacher. The ironic thing is that the very moment you start allowing yourself to FEEL the apparently negative feeling and or experience exactly as it is showing up in your body right now, you stop resisting it and thus the suffering ends instantly.

Becoming an Allow-a-Holic is letting the Universe be exactly as it is. The truth is that there is very little you can do to change the entire Universe, and you might not necessarily even want to change it. If you take a step back and look at the entire massive cosmic picture of it all, it's amazingly synchronistically perfect just the way it is. Your ego may not agree with the way things show up in your personal situation here on planet Earth because the ego thinks its role is to fight, argue, and try to manipulate Reality so that it can get what it thinks it needs to be happier. True happiness is a state of inner balance that allows for everything to be exactly as it is. While your ego may not like this way of defining happiness, experiment with the state of allowing and notice how your body reacts.

No matter what your situation is, how stuck you think you are, or how profound your pain is, you have the power to shift it completely right now. The power is in learning to allow for it. Give each negative FEELING you have full permission to be here now. Allow it to be 100%, not 99.99% because that small .01% means that you are not really letting go, and experiencing the magic of doing so. The moment you let go and really hit 100% allowing, your suffering will disappear. When the suffering leaves, you will learn something very valuable about yourself. That you are the master of your life and have the power to release anything you need to from your life.

[mandala]

This sort of reminds me of a book I own called "The Power of Now" by Eckart Tolle.

It's about keeping your mind in the present, not the future or what happend to you in the past. It sounds easier than it is. However, I always go back to Tolle's book and catch myself when I'm ruminating too much.

[Lena]

Funny you mention it, mandala, yesterday I went to the bookstore to browse through some books. That one really caught my attention. Plus, he has another one that's titled: "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose." I read a few pages, and was hooked on his writing style. But there is also a connection I see between the so called Ascension, and what he is saying in his book. We must let go of our ego based ways, and create a new world.

Thank you for posting this article, Akeia, it certainly goes right along with what I've heard a few members mention on here, when you look at a negative emotion, really take a look at it, it becomes weaker, and eventually disappears.

[sundogs34rcher]

This is similar also to Deepak Chopra's writings in "Book of Secrets". To acknowledge fully the feelings of fear,anger etc in order to release the negativity. I like the Allow-a-holic definition. As Mandala says it sounds easier than it is, but even just keeping a key phrase in mind; like Allow-a-holic, can be a great help for staying aware.

[osiris]

When the world around you supports nothing but EGO than its going to be hard to escape. As you all said really in this post find yourself and in that you can live free. Thats why we try to have a differant experiance than what is right in front of us. We see so much wealth and material forced and in your face in everything. I try to look at it from a point of view of yes i will be around for the end and what will matter than? Not money not movie stars. Every step i take i can see the temptations and how they have been added to this world so subtley over years and years. By the way if you are interested this topic is alchemy based very heavily i will have a thread on it at some point but just take a look on google or something. Turn your life from the base lead to gold(the philosophers stone). Not by massing wealth by finding you...Thanks for the great post Akeia. Ill be sure to check out the link...

[Akeia]

Your welcome all!
Yes, it sounds easier than to do it, but if we try, at least try to do something, it already means something. You need to take a baby steps, one step in a time, and i cannot say i have fully done that for a long period of time, lived in Now, but for some time, maybe 10 minutes or some hours i have tried it, and it worked. Sometimes feelings inside of me helps to do that, too. I have that book , too, yet i need to read it fully, im talking about "The Power of Now".
I know of the saying, stand in the face of your fear , or how it was. Face your fear, it will set you free. If you will run from your fear, negative emotions, they will grow any stronger with time and untill you have let them go, they will be there still.

[sundogs34rcher]

mandala said:

This sort of reminds me of a book I own called "The Power of Now" by Eckart Tolle.

It's about keeping your mind in the present, not the future or what happend to you in the past. It sounds easier than it is. However, I always go back to Tolle's book and catch myself when I'm ruminating too much.

S'funny, I walked into a spiritualist shop a couple of days after reading this topic and saw 'The Power of Now' on the shelf reduced to £4.99 - so I bought it. I like what I have read so far, interesting and well expressed. Good one Mandala!