Did you know that yesterday, Sept. 2nd, was National Beheading Day?  Heck if I know what that was all about.  Self Improvement Month I can wrap my brain around.

I’ve been thinking about the stream of well being lately.  According to Abraham-Hicks, there is a stream of well being that flows through and within every particle of matter in the Universe, and as self-aware beings of consciousness, one of the ways that humans express their free will is to either align their energies (thoughts) with that stream of well being, or to resist the stream.

Every time a desire runs through us, that sensation of wanting something is actually the ongoing experience of creation happening… our desires actually expand the Universe.  And as the Universe expands, that stream of well being moves faster and faster.  And it’s for this reason that it isn’t possible to take a neutral position to the universal stream of well being.  If we aren’t actively resisting the stream with thoughts that feel bad as we think them (or as an ultimate result of thinking them), then the stream automatically carries us with it towards greater and greater experiences of well being… well being is the natural order of our very existence.  If we aren’t experiencing well being in the form of good feelings, joy, and the fulfillment of our desires, then there can only be one reason for it… we’re thinking thoughts that turn us against the stream and against our nature.

Why would anyone think thoughts that inspire bad feelings when all they need to do is to knock it off in order to realize the fulfillment of their every desire?  Habit mostly.  Somewhere in the distant history of civilization, we (humans) forgot who we are: Children of God in physical form, extended directly from the Source for the purpose of continuing the expansion of Creation.  We made the ego as a tool to facilitate our interactions in this universe of name and form; the ego’s purpose is to name me and you, to define yours and mine.  And, like our Creator loves us, we loved what we had made, and we nurtured it, until the ego became so comfortable to us that we began to identify with it; we came to believe that “I and my ego are one.”  The outcome of this error in thinking is that we began to manifest all kinds of tricks and methods for making the ego more real to us than our Unity… we embraced our separation at the expense of our Unity.  We chose to lose ourselves in delusion.

This is all so much simpler than most people believe.  If well being and joy and the peace-which-passeth-understanding is indicative of our truest nature (our Unity which is alignment with our core being), then it also holds true that the opposite of all of that is the best method of clinging to our separation.  Negative thoughts, judgments, complaining, anything that makes us feel bad keeps us firmly anchored in our individuality, our separate state.  Negative thinking reinforces our ego-self, which holds us apart from our Divine Self.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not speaking out against the ego.  Ego is a wonderful tool for naming things.  With the use of ego I know which car is mine when I walk out to the parking lot, I remember which house I live in, which office is mine in the lovely office building where I work.  But my car is not who I am.  Neither is my house, my job, my body, or my thoughts.  These are all just really great tools for defining how I choose to interact in this physical Universe, tools meant to be used responsibly and with care.  This is really about balance, deliberate creation, living joyfully, and maintaining constant awareness of who I am and why I’m here.

Complaint: An expression of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.  A Grievance.
~~> The Free Dictionary.com

Complaining is one of the most effective methods ever of maintaining identification with the ego.  With every complaint that any of us thinks and/or voices, we make our ego stronger at the expense of our alignment with the stream of well being.  Pain, dissatisfaction, resentment and grievance all become intermingled within the mind and body, manifesting stress, anger, judgment, hatred, colds, flues, cancer, heart attacks and indigestion.  All in the name of maintaining a sense of me and you, us and them, mine and yours.  This is the complete breakdown of the intended balance in utilizing the ego-tool as a means of interacting within time-space for the joyful life experience of the collective soul.  All this stress and sickness is a direct result of fighting our way, with every ounce of energy at our disposal, up stream, against the current of the stream of well being.  And the vast majority aren’t even aware that they are doing this.

The good news is there is nothing easier than reorienting ourselves within the stream of well being.  It’s simply a process of getting past some bad habits.

Abraham-Hicks would say, anything that soothes is beneficial in this process of reorienting oneself towards consistently joyful experiences.  Reach for thoughts that bring relief and soothing again and again until the thought processes are slowly reoriented towards habitual good (or better) feeling thoughts.

Or simpler still, Eckhart Tolle in his book “A New Earth” suggests simply stopping all thought processes from time to time, everyday, as often as it occurs to you.  How does he suggest doing this?  Easy.  Simply stop what you’re doing and pay attention to your breathing for a minute or 2, paying special attention to the brief pause between inhaling and exhaling, and vice versa.  Peaches and I have found that this simple exercise, practiced many, many times throughout the day, is extremely beneficial for bringing our conscious awareness into the present moment, and when we’re in the peace of the moment, then for that moment we’ve stopped resisting the stream of well being.  And what we’re learning is that alignment with the stream of well being, however briefly, becomes very intoxicating and addictive.

Why not try occasional and brief conscious-breathing exercises for a day or 2?  You misery back if you’re not completely satisfied.