Changing Our Vocabulary


How do we get beyond having "bad" days in our life? Ishvara addresses this concern in words I have transcribed and edited from a talk he gave on September 23, 2003. - TG.

Ishvara:

There is the possibility for you to move into a position that a "good" day and a "bad" day cease to be part of your thinking. Instead, the day just Is. If you can do that, you increase your frequency, which will bring about a more harmonious flow of Life. As long as you are attached to it being "good" or "bad"--one can be just as attached to it being "bad" as "good"--you create a life of disharmony. Without the "bad" day you cannot recognize a "good" day, so both make up the stumbling block; you have to have both in order to experience the contrast.

When you proceed to stop that kind of thinking, when you are not having a "good" day or a "bad" day, but you are just having a day, period, you begin to balance things out, and it becomes an Is-ness. The intellect will say that experience is boring, because the intellect is looking for a charge. The intellect gets the same charge whether it is a "bad" day or a "good" day, because either interpretation is an expenditure of energy. However, you can find that you don't need to label the day at all; it just is. Then you stop going back and forth in the polarity of "good" or "bad." When you are successful with that, your frequency increases, and then what the intellect would have called a "good" day becomes a consistent experience, but you don't have the "bad" day to make the comparison so you can no longer say it is a "good" day. It just is.

So it is a practice; it requires an intention of transcending the polarity, the duality of "good" and "bad," and living in Is-ness. I find that in the success of living in Is-ness, the frequency is high enough so things harmonize, things flow, and I don't have a "bad" day. However, if I start saying it is a "good" day, then I will bring up the "bad" day. I have learned from experience not to name the day at all.

Of course, people have a habit of asking, "How was your day?" That is a trick question. The answer to that question is "It was." With that answer, the brain does not go into the polarity, the duality. Human niceties tend to trigger the polarity: "How are you feeling?" Those questions can force one into a "this or that" mode. The correct answers are "I am," "It is." That is the practice, the discipline. When you catch yourself labeling the day as "bad" or "good," back off and say, "Wait a minute; the day Is, period."

With this discipline, you enlist the aid of the intellect to serve higher awareness. You can use the intellect to remind you to say, "Wait a minute, this is, period." You can use the intellect to assist in this by creating road blocks to the idea of "good" and "bad." Those ideas make up a well-worn path in the brain, and so you want to create a hurdle to prevent you from automatically going down that way. Put a gate there to remind you to ask, "Do I really want to go there? Do I want to divide this into 'good' and 'bad,' or can I just leave it as 'Is?'" You have to create your own trick to stop the automatic thinking, because the intellect itself is very tricky; you have to trick it back.

Living in Is-ness requires very little energy, and consequently when you are using little energy, your frequency becomes naturally higher. Tremendous energy is consumed in polarity or duality, and you become tired, worn out. When you are "stuck in Is-ness," you have sufficient energy to keep the frequency up, and things flow. So the ideal is to be "stuck in Is-ness"!

So much of what you experience depends on the words that you use in your thinking. The best way to bring about a shift is to mostly eliminate "good" and "bad" from your vocabulary; don't allow your intellect to go into that polarity. Any time the intellect wants to say "good" or "bad," you can say "Is." Deliberately change it to "This is; this is what is happening now," and be present with that. That increases your energy flow, which increases your frequency, which in turn reveals a bigger picture where you see more harmony and balance in each situation.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


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