It was and is --not easy!

  It involves a 'process' of learning.

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In teaching riding, and coaching, I recognized that ‘something’ happens to the rider when thinking or concentrating too much on their riding.  I almost ‘see’ something around the shoulders, head and neck of the rider, --that is difficult to understand.  There is ‘something’ there, --that keeps getting in the way of rider progress.  

The head tilts a little, and the shoulders --round themselves.  There is a ‘concentration of something’ --within this area, --almost like an imaginary ‘ball of energy’.  It is distracting --OR attracting, --to the rider, --and seems to 'hold' the rider down, or rather --'back'.

It almost taps the rider on the shoulder, to remind them to –‘think’.  My constant reminder, to riders, to help 'release' this energy, is to 'blow down'.  This only makes only 'temporary' correction for the rider.   I asked ‘why’ do I have to repeat this so often, to help the rider. 

This seemed like another natural phenomenon.  Is this a human instinct?  Impulse?  Or what is it?  So we continued to ‘search' for the answer.

With more study, we begin to understand that the human Ego, as not only --our definition of ‘self’.  It can also be a hindrance to our higher being, or, --our ‘Spiritual’ Self.

I even question IF we should say spiritual and ‘self’ together.  The ‘Spiritual’ is VAST, --universal, --omnipresent.  To identify our ‘self’ with this phenomenon --is to pacify self, --for the human ego to feel complete, --within it's 'self' (or own) identity.  The ego needs or desires to feel it has ownership of the ALL.  The ego wants It’s OWN existence to be it’s own ‘oneness’! The EGO does not want us to believe that the Spirit (of God) is more important, than the ego (or self).

Isn’t it a shame that the ‘little’ self (or ego), has the need to say, --‘Hey, this is ME!  Look at ME, for this is who I am’.  This little ego, is ‘nothing’ ---compared to the universe, -the ALL, --ye, --that ridiculous ego still rants to become ‘self’ defined.  Pay attention here. This isn’t easy!

 This ball of ‘self’ energy is the tough one to conquer.  It is persistent!  It constantly reminds us, --that we are NOT of the universe (connected to the ALL knowledge), but just 'ME', or the 'I'.  And you then --only learn, what that ego (the me) gives the ‘me’ --privilege to learn.  It is a power issue!

Instead of being allowed to ‘absorb’ knowledge or truth (as with the Spirit), the ego places all kinds of trickery into our heads.  You are told (by the ego) that ‘this is what must be learned.  

You may actually question --why you should learn this.  

There becomes a challenge within your own mind.

You struggle to concentrate, even now --to train, or allow yourself --to learn.

  This is not natural!  It can become a difficulty.  

To learn naturally, you absorb knowledge.  To work at learning what the ego says you ‘must’ learn, leaves you with a struggle.  Herein, lives the argument of both responsibility, and concentration. Have fun with this one.

For some, concentrated effort, comes easily.  God Bless them. For others, it is difficult.  There are some simply ‘logical’ people, and then there are the others, perhaps the searching, or the spiritual.  

Is this the struggle between right brain, and left brain?

  Do we seek ‘balance’ or preference, or do we feel compelled to be both?  

Logically, and 'Intuitively'?

Finding our own (so-called normal) ‘path’ is a dilemma, --placed on us by society and family. We must find our own way to contribute to the ‘whole’ of our futures, or we would be classified as --worthless. 

Just for fun, --is someone with family money, who does not have to work, or want to, --worthless?  Why?  

I would bet on an argument with this one.  Why work, if you don’t have too, right?  So what will happen to this person?  Will they have to find something to identify themselves with?  Will their ego seek definition?  How?  Just look around.

Why do people get into trouble?  Why do some make their ‘self’ known by un-acceptable behavior?  Crime?  Being Carefree?  etc etc…  Is it to define ‘self’, --to be recognized? Perhaps for the EGO?

The ego MUST be recognized, or the ego will let you know how unhappy you are, because you are 'nothing' --to the EGO.  That ego will haunt you, and hunt you ‘down’.  It is powerful!  Look around!  Just watch it work!

 How many people are having difficulties with mental health issues, like depression, anxiety etc?

 This ego --is just like the evil I studied in 1980!  THIS was a real revelation for me.

 The ego IS the same as evil, --in the lack of respect for our true selves, --being in God’s image, or ‘Spiritual’,  being of God, --of the ‘Spirit’.

 You can not be a master of  TWO GODS, so scripture says!  Now, this begins to make more sense.

 Yes, I too, thought this second God --meant physical idols, -the occult, Buddah, the whatever or whoever belief, --in place of God -or the Trinity’.  Is this meant to confuse the religious, or the non-religious.  NOT AT ALL. It is to understand the self, --who we really are. And, to continue to question this, and to grow in understanding.

In fact, I now believe that the second God, we make the mistake of worshiping, IS the HUMAN EGO, or --the SELF!

Ego struggles for our attention, --to trick and divert us --from our real source,  robbing us of truth!   It claims itself -the you, --you are convinced you are, --as being so important to have all this self power! 

 Bear with me… This is not religion class!  

I  have news for you.  You are ‘nothing’ more than a grain of sand –without God, -without knowing the ‘Spirit’ of God.  You will struggle and worm around, seeking some other kind of power, but it will not satisfy you, --other than to convince you, that ‘you’ are enough.  You might even believe it for awhile.   Your ego will relish, --in trying to make those who do know the Spirit pf God, --miserable!

TEST THIS ONE!  Check out the others you meet!  Why do they do as ‘they’ do?  Is it the lack of a belief or awareness in the ‘spirit’ of/or God?  Or is their belief in the ‘self’? Why do people struggle so, --within their own ego?

Is this the confusion, the ego wants to plant in us?  Is the ego the deception, or -the deceiver?  

Is it not evil or the devil, --but is evil the human ego, --that deceives us.  Good food for discussion or debate.  Have fun!

 This may take time to figure out, to get settled, --in preparation for the ‘spirit’ (of God) to dwell within, --to fill you with awesomeness.   You will eventually be 'spilling over' --with inner peace and joy.  Enough!  Become aware!!!

I am sorry if we have seemingly --attacked –you!

 It is the ego we want to attack, and I am sure that you 'feel that.

We have also challenged you to ‘consciousness’!  Did we?

In his master work, Quantum Healing,, Deepak Chopra says that remissions of cancer in "terminal" patients have one thing in common: a major shift in attitude or consciousness.


  More work, in process!  Check back OFTEN!  Rose M Foreman   

"The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought."

-- Eknath Easwaran

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."

-- Swami Vivekananda

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