This week's article: Integrity of Mind Body & Spirit

by Owen Waters, Editor, InfiniteBeing.com and
author of "The Shift: The Revolution in Human Consciousness"


Integrity sounds like a moral issue, but it really isn't.
It's just plain common sense.

Integrity means wholeness, completeness. A person with
wholeness can focus their energies in one direction. A whole
person achieves their life's purpose without the dissipation
of energies caused by internal conflicts. They get things
done with ease, and then move on to the next activity which
further pursues their sense of inner joy.

Imagine, if you worked for an employer who really should have
given you a raise in salary many months ago. You want to go
and ask for your long-overdue raise, but you're thinking,
"Oh, God, I feel so GUILTY!" You may as well give up!
At least, until you've resolved the issue of guilt.

Guilt and fear are, of course, part of the tradition that we
have inherited from our forebears. That tradition is one of
separateness. Separation of people into sexes, races, colors,
religions. Then there's the separation of cities via
competing sports teams, the separation of nations through
battles and war. Even consciousness has been separated into
subconscious, superconscious and regular waking states.

Separation is the opposite of wholeness. Separation divides,
while integrity unifies.

It's the difference in viewpoints between, for example,
"Is your community Protestant or Catholic?" and the response,
"Our community contains both Protestants and Catholics."

Integrity is inclusive. Separation is exclusive.

Integrity is the ability to say "and" instead of "or."

Integrity is wholeness, or completeness. Wholeness allows your
energies to be directed towards any activity without them
being dissipated by inner conflicts. Integrity, therefore,
empowers effectiveness.

Integrity of mind, body and spirit begins with spiritual
integrity.

The traditions of guilt and fear come from the old reality,
which is one of separation. Guilt and fear were primarily
tools used to control other people. In the dawning new
reality, we find it our responsibility to transform these
tools of the dark ages. When your spirit feels crushed by a
heavy feeling of guilt or fear, you can either:

a) Go into therapy. In highly stressful or severe cases,
professional help should always be your first course of
action.

b) Go into meditation to trace the feeling back to its source
and find out who originally put that feeling fear or guilt in
you. Then, when you understand the original purpose of that
programming and its inappropriateness today, you can let it
go.

c) Blow it away now, regardless of where it came from, using
a statement of freedom, such as;

"I now release this old reality and replace it with the
unconditional love which flows through all of Creation.
I am Infinite Being."

Today's inherited cultural baggage includes many subconscious
archetypes. Among these are the ideas of oaths of obedience,
poverty and chastity. Whether you have made these oaths in
previous incarnations as a monk or a nun, or just inherited
them along with today's cultural mindset, they can be equally
debilitating. It is time for these unconscious, outmoded
restrictions to go.

Oaths of obedience serve only those in charge of an
institution. It has always been easier to be in charge as
the anointed leader if no-one asks silly questions, like,
"Do you really know what you're doing?"

Chastity reduces emotional problems in monasteries. However,
in otherwise happy marriages, the same sense of chastity
creates problems. Release any deep, inner suspicions that you
should be "chaste for life" before your partner wonders if
you're distancing yourself from them because you don't love
them any more. Then, instead, you can be chased for life!

Poverty allows monks and nuns to focus on serving their
institution. In today's commercial world, however, it causes
ineffectiveness. If you harbor the suspicion that your bank
account should be perpetually empty, then letting go of that
belief in poverty will open up huge doors of personal
freedom. In today's world, you can only pursue your greatest
joys, especially during retirement, if you have the necessary
resources. Travel, study, adventures and hobbies all take
funds. At one time, a vow of poverty let you focus on your
purpose. Today, however, it makes you miss out on most of the
potential fun in life.

Here's how to release outdated, subconscious oaths of
obedience, chastity, poverty, and anything else that crimps
your modern-day lifestyle.

When the time feels right for your own personal Declaration
of Independence, enter a quiet state, and then declare;

"By the power vested in me by my existence within Infinite
Being, I now cancel all of those unconscious vows and
obligations which no longer serve me. I release these now,
and I replace them with the unconditional love which flows
through all of Creation. I am Infinite Being."



This article was written by Owen Waters, author of
"The Shift: The Revolution in Human Consciousness"

http://www.infinitebeing.com/theshift

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