Everything Is Worth It


Below is the conclusion of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk given by Ishvara on November 14, 2004. - TG.

Ishvara:

When you think about how the neural pathways in your brain have been in the process of becoming established from day one, you realize that you have been programmed from babyhood. As an infant, you looked out on your world, you saw your environment, your parents, your brothers and sisters, and you began to decide how things are. By the time you were seven years old, you had your mind made up about the whole world.

Essentially people are seven-year-olds, doing self-serving things, while being fearful, struggling, selfish, argumentative, resistant, attaching and manipulating. You can see all of those things in a seven-year-old; that's where it starts. There are many neural pathways devoted to that kind of behavior.

We say, "Get over yourself; just stop it." I realize that can be far too light. To get over yourself, to stop it, is not an easy thing to do. You have neural pathways dedicated to that emotional stance, that emotional positioning. Trying to block them, to force them to shut down, or even to control them, is a most difficult work.

In this process I have seen that, as you co-exist with the world around you, higher aspects of your brain can learn to co-exist with your emotional aspects, your limited aspects, your conditional aspects. As you cope with the life around you, various aspects of your brain cope with other aspects. You don't have to try to delete everything. That is why awareness is more important than action. As you develop awareness, you see through a lot of the programming. You may be frustrated because you can't stop it, you can't change it, but you see it. That is the important thing, because every time you see something happening in yourself or even in the world, you have an opportunity to exercise a clear understanding, a grounding, a connecting. You have an opportunity to look and say, "Yes, that's the old program running. That's the way I've seen the world for most of my life." But the very fact that you can see that is a "plus" for your brain, because through that the brain is beginning to exercise a higher awareness which will eventually delete those neural pathways of consensus, deception, and separation, without a great deal of work on your part.

I recently read an article about how people go to psychoanalysts or psychologists for years and years, or practice all kinds of methods in hopes of undoing the past, in an attempt to make it all right, to confront and overcome fear. Some therapies involve denial: "It never happened; get away from it; don't go there." There are various methods that have been developed to try to eliminate or control those neural pathways that have been running, even ruining, your life. The article ended with the conclusion that there is no easy answer. "We've done this and that and that, but these things don't seem to work," the article in effect said; "Maybe we will come up with a drug that will allow people to delete those neural pathways and be free of them." That is the hope, because it is all about chemicals. Neural biologists know what these chemicals are; they know the effect the chemicals have on your brain, but they just don't know how to counter them, other than perhaps severing the duct that transmits the chemical. The problem is that the chemical is used for other purposes too. If you simply shut off the chemical, you may lose something else that is important to your well being. One chemical, for example, is the instigator of fear. The production of that chemical was stopped in one woman as a result of an injury she received in an accident, but without that chemical she could no longer recognize faces. So these chemicals serve dual or multiple functions.

Artificially altering your chemistry is not going to be the solution for the brain. Consciousness is always the solution. The new species will be exercising a greater consciousness, a greater awareness, a greater connection, seeing possibilities where others do not see them, making use of things where others don't know what to do with them. That is the accelerated brain.

You quickly find that the past doesn't really matter. What people did or did not do doesn't really matter. The problem is that you keep going there, you keep dwelling on it, you keep being stuck with it; that's the real problem. It is not so much what happened; it is the attention that it gets. As you look at the brain, you recognize that it has capabilities of moving and changing, redirecting and re-positioning. It seems to require a statement: "That is no longer important." When you have an old emotional reaction come at you, you can say, "That's no longer important." That statement gives the brain a bit of a wedge; it brings in a higher function of the brain. The brain may think, "Well why isn't it important?," but by then it is too late, because "That's no longer important" has already begun to take over.

There are other things you can say when you experience an emotional reaction, such as, "What do I want to do that for?" or "Who says?" All of those sayings are ways that give the brain a step up, a moment to shift gears and move into a higher phase of operation and go beyond the limitation, the emotional hang-up that has been there. It can become simplified as you begin to master allowing what-is, without impatience, without resistance or attachment. When you are able to totally allow what-is, something else begins to inject itself: a higher awareness, a bigger picture, and you suddenly realize, "Oh, that's not so bad; that is just what was. What-is is far more exciting now."

It is a process, a life-long process. It is a way of being in the world, a way that you intentionally begin to put into practice, with purpose. As you do it, as you become more successful with it, you become an example of what it is to be a connected being, a being that is not operating in a vacuum, a unique expression of The Consciousness, the new species, on purpose. You are not too hard on yourself; you are not terribly concerned with yourself. There is moderation in everything. You are not completely ignoring yourself, but you are not completely concerned with yourself either. You find a middle ground. You are not selfish, but you are not so detached that you don't know what is happening to you. You find a place where there is balance, where you can allow, where you can be.

Moment by moment, the brain establishes a greater territory. New neural pathways take the place of the pathways of limitation. Beliefs and concepts begin to fall away in the face of direct experience. All of these things that I have been talking about for months and months and months really mean something to the brain. It is a language designed to facilitate the brain, to allow the brain to move into its rightful place in creation. This involves seeing the brain as not simply operating your body, but as a point of connection in the mind field, a point of awareness where energy flows freely, where awareness happens, thoughts take place, physical cells move and evolve, accessing greater awarenesses.

The whole physical body benefits from this kind of awareness; each cell, each tissue, each organ is in communication. So you need not be in suffering. You can begin to embrace and expand, through allowing, the deepening awareness of the possibilities that Life has to offer you: the brain, your brain. To awaken to the potential, the possibility, is what it is about. After that, you realize that it was worth everything you went through to get here. Everything you have put up with, everything you have let go of, everything you thought you had to let go of--everything is worth it. Everything.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

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