Metanoia
Are you open to a new understanding?
METANOIA = transcendence of intellectual limitations; mind as total Beingness rather than a mechanical device to grasp conceptions. Meta = higher + Noia = mind.
QUESTION: Are you open to a new understanding?
STORY: Our intellectual mind is locked into habits and beliefs that we learned as we grew up. Our habits, beliefs and patterns pretty much construct what we call our life. Then, all of a sudden - something happens - we lose our job, break our arm, get in a car accident, our landlord gives us a notice to move. Whatever the problem - we typically fall into old habitual reactions: fear or anger. BUT we can get curious. We can take our view of the problem and place it on the Altar of Truth. Then we open up to the possibility of a new understanding. Translation® is a very valuable HIGHER MIND tool that I’ve used for 50 years to help me develop a LOVING TRUST in the Higher MIND or Consciousness. The Higher MIND lives in the Present Moment, is intuitive, formless, ever present and always available for us to do the WORK of letting go of our mechanical intellect, our limited notions and to open up to a new Higher understanding of life. Are you open to a new understanding?
QUOTES
“The idea of metanoia returns again and again in my life. The purpose of life is to see what you do when challenges come your way, and the value in that experience is seeing how you handle those challenges.” ~ Jeff Lowe
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ~ Lao Tzu
EXERCISE
STOP.
Sit quietly. Assume an erect posture. Sense the breath.
Sit calmly and appreciate your life as an educational opportunity to WAKE UP to your True identity as Consciousness. We are all in school.
Get your pen and paper and write words or draw lines expressing a problem. Then, imagine taking the problem to the Altar of Truth where the Higher Mind dissolves it.
Move forward into your day open to a new understanding.