How to open your mind to non-physical perception.
“I choose to transform my fears by embracing the unknown.”
Open Your Mind.
The seeming continuity and consensus view of reality is the manifestation of the harmony of the unity from which we all birth, and yet … it is also an illusion. As eternal consciousness, we designed the human mind to automatically fill in perceived gaps or inconsistencies in our mortal experience.
The purpose of the mind — beyond allowing for unconsciousness to exist — is to make sense of your experience and assign it meaning. This is the meaning you live within, and it forms your unique experience of self. Any information that the mind is unable to assign an acceptable meaning to is quickly dismissed as not mattering or not being of significance by means of a value judgment.
There are many dimensions / layers to reality besides the physical, temporal, mental, and emotional. These layers have become hidden through our choice of beliefs. Therefore, it is us who have come to hide from them (through how we avert the focus of our experience away from them).
If we do happen to perceive one of these layers — in what feels to be a weird, psychic, or magical way — we have powerful mechanisms that tell us we did not perceive what we thought we just did. These mechanisms primarily operate through the fear of being insane, abnormal, or different (or the fear of being perceived as mad by other people). Additionally, an underlying fear of change can drive our ability to simply ignore or dismiss what we do not understand. If you evolve your belief system — by opening your mind — to include more than is physically apparent, you will start to perceptively translate these ‘hidden’ layers into your experience.
To meet all that you are, you must be curious, open to change, and open to new experiences. You may emulate a closed system — a separate individual — as much as you like; however, know that beyond your individuated focus, you are an open system. You are a focus of the one consciousness, and ALL things flow through you (whether you acknowledge them or not).
To be open is to make new choices … and that is to choose change. To be open to change is to be open to the unfolding of all that you are. Even when you express all that you are into reality, you will still always change because all that you are — when expressed into linear time — is an expression of change. You are an evolving journey — not a destination. Only a person with a mind that is open to change is open to a reality created in transparency and consciousness.
Only a person with an open mind is open to experiencing the magical potentials that surround us.
CLARIFICATIONS & REFLECTIONS
Within human form, we have a narrowly focused perception that concentrates on our physical reality, our emotional reality, and our mental reality. This is not to say that we only experience that which is physical, emotional, and mental — it means that no matter what we experience, we translate it into the physical (including temporal, as time-space is one thing), emotional, and mental. Hence, things that can be perceived are not singularly physical or non-physical, emotional or non-emotional, mental or non-mental. Anything that can be perceived can be translated into a physical manifestation, an emotional reaction, and / or a mental thought.
To access what may be felt to be the ‘hidden’ layers of reality, you do not need any special knowledge or powers. You do not even need to know what to expect. All you need is an open mind — a mind not limited by fear. A mind that is open is curious and seeks what is unknown (instead of fearing it). An open mind assigns space for new meaning (instead of trying to make all experiences fit into what is already known).
- A closed mind atrophies through its need for consistency.
- An open mind wants to expand and change.
With an open mind, it is not that you will suddenly experience a new layer of reality as if someone turned on the light in a dark room. It is that you will start to experience new physical, emotional, and mental sensations that feel slightly ‘different.’ A new level of perception is subtle at first, such as having memories unexpectedly emerge through which you remember something from a time that offers a meaningful perspective on your current situation. Or, you may start experiencing a new depth of emotional excitement around a particular choice or an unexpected emotional resistance to a particular person (which you cannot see a logical reason for). You may even start to see colors around people or feel the energy in an object (perhaps as a heat-like experience).
It is usually the quality of how it unexpectedly enters your perception that becomes the clearest flag that you are opening your perception. How you react to that perceived newness / magic will determine if the experiences continue to build or are blocked.
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