Elevate Your Consciousness

Today we're going to look at a set of three quotes. Let's start with this one: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light."

What does it mean? First of all, when you read "the eye is the lamp of the body," it's not speaking of our two physical eyes, but the eye as in the awareness of everything that is moving under the surface—the unconscious processes that can be turned conscious. The eye of your being is a vibrational awareness, and if your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

How? How does light work? You take sunglasses with a rose-colored lens. You shine the light through the lens. Everything from that lens outward will be the color of the lens. So the light can be distorted via the lens. So if the eye is the lamp of the body and your perception is malleable, then what do we do to have this awareness, this eye, this lamp, be transparent so that there isn't ink in the water?

The moment you drop ink into a nice cup of clear water, it's distorted. Now, if your eyes are healthy, what happens is that you can understand the nature of the distortion, and when your body is full of light, then the moment the ink is dropped into the cup, the light pulses through the distortion.

What this all means, if we look a bit simpler, is understanding that you see the theme: The clarity of perception brings inner illumination. But how do you actually get clarity of perception? Well, it's almost not about asking or seeking for clarity, but by understanding the nature of what corrupts clarity.

As you look at the ink, whether it be emotional turmoil—you could take that chart of consciousness and understand very clearly that if you're helpless, it is a state of being frozen. Then you ask, you ponder, you question, you bring skepticism in relationship to: "Okay, is me being stagnant and frozen, feeling helpless at all aligned with a clarity of perception?" No. But still, how did I get here?

The theme of what we're employing here is a Socratic type of questioning where when you inquire and you don't back down, then you move up the hierarchy of vibrational states. So let's say you start with apathy. What happens then when you question that sense of helplessness is you realize that you get a lot more out of life when you don't stay still in stagnation. Of course, physical stillness is another thing—I'm talking about mental complacency.

When you notice apathy, then you give yourself a chance to move up to fear. A fear of "What if I don't move? What if I remain helpless for the rest of my life?" That fear can at least inspire change. So when you're in a place of stagnation, when your perception's clouded, we have to be extremely vulnerable and good at understanding the variables involved in how we created our current state of being.

See, sometimes the states of being we have created them by not letting go, by holding on. When you look at a sense of helplessness, how would you get there? Somehow, some way you've put yourself in that box—a box of repeating certain thought patterns and not questioning specific reactions which are expressed in the vehicle of emotion.

But if you can feel your emotion as it's arising every day as you move through life and you notice your reactions, the way that your mind transforms one thing to another thing to another thing, and you can start to see that you've moved through a bunch of states in your life—you've been free of fear, you've been free of anger, you've had moments of courage—it's almost tapping into that eye where you realize it's a choice to be what you are.

The theme: Mastery of inner perception leads to harmony; confusion within leads to suffering. So our relationship to the mind's programming is fundamental to unlearning mechanical, habitual, unconscious, perpetuated habits and wounds. And this is essentially when we look at the initial quote and it mentions the eye of perception—you need to do certain actions in your life to have the space to understand the mind.

In this context, the word "conquered" is used in relationship to mind, but is it something that we actually forcefully conquer? Not exactly. And I'll give you a breakdown of using this form of awareness where you could use the word "conquer." I bring it up because it implies a form of force. Now in life, you're definitely going to have to be aggressive and put in effort at certain points in your journey, but for the mind to really be relinquished and let go of—not resisted—for the mind to no longer be the greatest enemy, you have to understand it, and that is almost to befriend it, meaning that you are not in a battle with your mind.

But you are watching the way that your mind works, not solely out of curiosity, not out of seeking, not out of wanting your life to be changed, but out of an undeniable sense—meaning that you don't know exactly this contrast between awareness and mind. But you can sort of feel moments where the time-space continuum breaks, it falters, and that is when you are purely in a state where thought and sense of self has dissipated.

That is another way of saying "for one who has conquered the mind." But the mind is extremely tricky, if you will. And as you walk through your journey, you're going to see that old patterns will arise and that the work is almost never-ending. And it is something that you can't be wanting to finish or seeking to complete.

The big thing here is what can inspire you to change your relationship to the mind: the moments of harmony that you feel in your life. When you feel intense harmony, or you get hit by moments that are irrefutably powerful, it's important to create space to understand and let those moments distill into you, because a lot of the times what will happen in your life is you'll have a moment packed with so much power and potency that you run away from it initially, and you don't juice that lemon.

But sometimes you gotta come back around to those moments and extract the meaning from them because you'll see that your mind in the past—maybe in apathy, in confusion, in fear and anger and jealousy—will have taken an experience and painted it a certain way. But when you look at it anew with a clear, fresh mind, you'll get these insights and epiphanies with true depth, meaning within moments that your mind had painted meaningless.

And now we'll look at the Quran: "Did we not expand for you your chest and remove from you your burden?"

Theme: Divine guidance relieves inner heaviness and creates spaciousness of heart.

So how do you set yourself up for divine guidance? And in relationship to the quote, what is the expanding of the chest and the removal of the burden? The theme we have here creates spaciousness of heart. Spaciousness of heart is—I won't say necessarily an outcome because it's what is also necessary for divine guidance to be born. But that being said, it's a great indicator to pay attention to how much space you have in your being, in your life, in your heart.

What I mean when I use that word is essentially: What are you feeling in your waking hours? How aware are you of the alignment or misalignment in your life? Are you doing actions on a daily basis, action by action that just keep you weak? A set of examples would be: you're scrolling, then you're consuming useless entertainment, then you're eating junk food, and then you're just scrolling again. I'm sure you understand the essence of weak vibrational actions just by that structure I've laid out there because you see the truth.

Sure, I could go on and create a list of 500 actions that you probably shouldn't do, but that's not it. You need to be your own authority.

You see, in life what expands your chest is often not what your mind may desire. Your mind may want comfort and ease and everything to maybe even be given to you. But that's not what expands your consciousness. That's not what expands your chest.

The removal of the burden is in relationship to this whole journey we're walking. Sometimes things feel heavy, hard, dark, but you remove that by actually feeling it when it's present. Because that in itself is expanding your chest. It takes courage to feel what your mind is used to running from and painting and sort of camouflaging to avoid. But when you feel that burden, it gets lifted. Your chest is expanded when you show that courage.

And naturally, it really makes sense. If you think about the simplicity of the body—when your chest expands, is it natural that you have spaciousness in the heart? You have to go through the mud, but you must be aware of your attitude. Your attitude as in the emotions that you're feeling. Can you just feel them and not judge yourself? And then can you understand the emotion rather than judging?

Because to seek to understand yourself—this is one of the cornerstones to awakening, to doing this work—not seeking in terms of desire, but a courage to look, a courage to see. And with this openness you show God, you show the source of all creation that you're ready to live a meaningful life.

When you put out that energy into the world, that comes back to you. And then it's just a never-ending sort of adjusting process to the new revelations that you see in your consciousness that you see to be true. So it's beautiful because this inner heaviness can fade and you can live your life in a way where you're not projecting your wounds onto others because you're actually aware. As they arise, you look at it and you kind of let it go. As that happens, you expand.

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