Comments for What Causes Suffering

What Causes Suffereing - Response
by: Gavin, Unlock Your Happiness.com

Gavin's response (continued)

Once one starts to see some light, we desperately want to 'get there'. And when we hear others talking knowledgeably about oneness, and being in the Now, and all those glorious concepts, if we believe that in reality that is how they actually experience life, and we compare ourselves with them, then we can find ourselves suffering, because we want to experience life that way too. "Why can they have that, but I can't seem to experience it?"

What we can do is accept that those concepts about oneness and divinity are true, but only in that state of consciousness where the physical body and nervous system can actually allow our God-essence to flow through us, consciously, in its fullness.

In the meantime, we can do what we know to be right for us in every moment of the day by following our inner prompts for what is right ... what feels truly good. And, we can help our nervous system to become cultured enough to sustain higher states of consciousness, by taking our ego-self-consciousness daily towards universal consciousness in that place where thoughts drop off and we are left in the quietness of the fourth state of consciousness.

Also, we can be vigilant to discard old habits that perpetuate our current fuzzy state of being. And for me personally, that includes not focusing on things I don't like, but rather swivelling my attention around to what I do like. This shifts energies inside and takes us to a better 'place'.

One thing that I think people do find tricky is that when one is suffering physically (illness, pain), it is not easy to shift your attention to something more uplifting, something that feels better. If the headache or the backache is there, it is there, and it pulls our attention to it. But what I have found we can do a little more easily is to not talk about it. That's a good starting point. I'm not suggesting that we deny what is. But we can at least not talk about it. That reduces the amount of attention-energy we give to what we are not happily experiencing.

So ... to end off ... there is some truth in the saying, 'ignorance is bliss'. Once we know there is more to life, and we want to live it, it can be quite a challenge to endure the current reality we experience on a day-to-day basis - be it unhappiness, illness, pain, circumstances. Going beyond thinking is one key worth continuing with (e.g. Conscious Mental Rest). And the other good habit is to shift our attention to something better when we notice that we are giving it to something that makes us feel not so good.

It's a challenge, I know. And I am also not 'there' yet. But the real 'there' is actually right here, in this present moment.

~ Gavin