You carry many images of who you are that sit in a matrix of energy around your
body. What are images? They are pictures of reality you hold in your mind. You
use them as models to judge if you are good or bad, decide how you will act and
speak, and whom you will be with. They also create your boundaries and limits,
and determine how far you can go. A lifetime is a journey out of darkness into
light, through evolving your images you can bring more light into your life.
All of you have basic definitions you live by. You may see yourself as being
strong, hard-working, intelligent, fun-loving, generous, kind, friendly. You create
your experience of reality based on your image of yourself as a man or a
woman. Your particular images determine your limits. If you see yourself as
generous, for instance, you will either have to be generous all the time or judge
yourself harshly when you are not generous.
YOUR DEFINITION OF YOURSELF AS A MAN OR A WOMAN GREATLY
INFLUENCES YOUR BEHAVIOUR
Group images of women tend to involve serving, taking care of others, being
responsible for relationships, being nice, being liked. Images of men focus on
being assertive and strong, and ignoring feelings.
Many viewpoints of reality come from religious upbringing. For a moment, pause
and look within. Go back to your childhood and ask what images you carry
within you about the nature of the universe that come from your upbringing. you
may think there is a God who punishes you when you are bad and rewards you
when you are good. You may be afraid of the dark side of yourself.
You might think you have no religion, yet everyone has a religious orientation,
even if it is the belief in intuition and your creative self. Religious or philosophical
beliefs are among the strongest images people have; they determine what you
think about the nature of the universe and how you respond to it. Do you imagine
you will be rewarded if you are good? Do you think that certain types of
behaviour are good and others are not? Those ideas often come from your
religious background.
Your parents passed many of their images on to you. You selected your parents
for the images they would give you that would bring into consciousness the inner
and outer self you chose to work on in this lifetime. Think of your parents for a
moment. Think of some
of their beliefs about money and abundance. Do you have feelings about those
beliefs, either good or bad? Think about how your parents feel or felt about there
relationship to each other. Take the parent that is the same sex as you. What
does he or she believe about being a man or a woman? Do you share those
images? Think about your parents of the opposite sex. What images does he or
she have? Do you see yourself with any of those patterns in your relationships?
Imagine that you are standing in the center of a circle and around you are all the
people you are close to each friend holds a vision of who you are. As you stand
In this circle, allow yourself to bring to consciousness the images you are
receiving from them. Pretend you are facing someone you are very close to - a
husband, wife, friend a loved one. Who is this person? What pictures is he or
she sending about who you are? What images are you sending to this person?
As you think of what you are sending, look at this person's soul right now and
ask if there are images you could send them that would help them evolve. You
can help people grow by focusing on their potential. What pictures would you
like the person to hold of you? See him or her sending you those images.
PAY ATTENTION TO THE PICTURES YOU SEND PEOPLE. ARE YOU
HOLDING THEM BACK, OR HELPING THEM RISE HIGHER WITH YOUR
IMAGES?
People absolutely pick up the images you hold of them. Often, long-term relationships
cannot survive because people are not willing to change their picture of each other. One
may hold onto an old image of the other as immature and irresponsible long after the other
wants to change that behavior. Because of that image, it may be harder for the other to
change. All of you have experienced yourself around our parents, who may hold onto very
old images of you. Sometimes you get them with your newfound strength, grown up and
mature, and you within five minutes you are acting out old, immature roles.
Rather than feeling unhappy with yourself, use the opportunity to look at the images your
parents hold of you, and realize how affected you can be by other people's way of who you
are.
The minute you become aware of other people's pictures of you, telepathically send them a
higher image. Often you accept their pictures without question, and not only accept them,
but act them out. When you do so, you are living other people's scripts for you, rather than
writing your own. You are dancing on their stage. As long as you do this, people who do
not hold high thoughts of you will be detrimental to be around.
But once you learn to recognize their images, you can begin to change them by sending
them new pictures of yourself. Then you can be around them without being affected by their
images- if you choose to be around them.
One way to free yourself from the grip of a rigid inner image is to exaggerate it in your
mind. Say you are criticizing yourself for acting like a child around your parents, or falling
into old behaviour. Rather than resisting acting this way around your parents, exaggerate it
in your mind.
Really get into acting like a child. This enables you to see more clearly what those images
are. As you exaggerate your images, you stop running from and fearing them, and they
cease to control you. Often as you exaggerate behaviour, it triggers your humorous side,
which also frees you from the grip of that behaviour.
You can change or eliminate those obsessive thoughts and pictures you flash over and
over in your mind. Sometimes they are pictures of pain, or memories of a time when
someone abandoned or hurt you, or of a time when you did not get what you wanted. Many
people experience a constant flow of negative pictures.
Much of it comes from a cultural image of scarcity, that there is not enough, that you must
work hard and struggle to get what you want, that someone else's success takes away
from yours. That is an image I see people uniting to change. Pioneers of the New Age,
those people who are learning about spiritual transformation, higher consciousness and
love, are working to broadcast new, higher, lighter images to the world, including pictures
of abundance.
PICTURES ARE EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO PICK UP THAN WORDS
As a spiritual teacher, I am constantly broadcasting energy, transmitting images of love
and peace through my thought-impulses. If you would like someone to change, send him or
her images. For instance, say you want a person to be more productive. Rather than
criticize ( which sends a negative picture that reinforces bad behaviour you would like to
see changed) image the person being productive.
Rather than point out the person's lack of accomplishments, acknowledge and praise each
instance of the productivity you would like to see more of. You will be assisting him or her
with your picture. And, whether or not the person changes, you will find the energy between
you lighter.
Obsessive thoughts and feelings about a relationship such as jealousy or pain, are keyed
into your emotional aura, which is often very underdeveloped compared to your mind. You
are taught to value your mind and intellect more than your emotions, so there is much more
attention paid to evolving the mind than the emotions. How free are you from the grip of
your emotions?
It is essential you become aware of the picture you are carrying in your mind. When you
find yourself flashing a negative picture over and over, it is simply a cry from your emotions
for attention and help, and most of all, for Love.
For instance, if you are feeling exceptionally jealous and are constantly flashing pictures in
your mind of your loved one seeing someone else, there is a part of you that is feeling
rejected or abandoned by your own higher self.
Your soul is integrating all the parts of you and bringing them up to a higher consciousness.
Images that are obsessively painful are a cry from that part of you which most longs to be
nurtured, to be loved and united with your higher self. If you catch that part showing you
negative pictures, convert those into symbols. If someone is pushing you away, see him
symbolizing energy within you. Imagine that he represents
a part of you that is pushing your higher self away, and imagine yourself embracing and
loving this part.
Everyone has a side that does not want to be light, joyful or high in its image or thoughts.
Take that side and imagine you are exposing it to sunlight, letting it breathe fresh air;
visualize light coming into your dark or gloomy side. Within hours, you will feel less
negative. Every time you do not allow this side to take over, you strengthen your will and
increase your connection to your higher self.
Beliefs such as "I am a good person, I am a spiritual person, I am a loving person" both
determine your behaviour and can limit you. If you define yourself with a fixed images such
as "I am a nice person" you will constantly be judging what you do as nice or not nice. If
nice is defined rigidly for you, such as "nice people always say thank you" and someone
you like doesn't say it, you will have to either change your definition of nice or judge your
friend as not nice.
An inflexible image will trap you in the world of polarities; right vs. wrong, good vs. bad.
Expand your definitions of who you and other people are. Examine and unlock your
images, let them become flexible and open rather than judgmental and closed. As long as
you are comparing all your actions to fixed images of how you should be, you will be
caught in a world of judgment and unable to evolve into higher levels.
To release images, become consciously aware of them. Honour your conscious mind. The
time you spend analyzing yourself, from a peaceful state, brings your unconscious into
consciousness; through the process of evolution occurs. Everytime you find a negative or
limiting self image, imagine light coming into it. You need not do anything else. (If you want
to put more energy into it you can find a symbol and play with it, healing the symbol).
Simply imagining light coming into the picture will change it. Use your imagination
consciously.
What do you want? You may spend a great deal of time thinking of what you do not want,
filling your mind and spirit with pictures of injuries or wrongs that were done to you. Every
time you flash those pictures in your mind, you are literally sending the out into the future
and creating them again. Negative things happen to you only to show you good. Thank
anything you respond negatively to, anything you see as a problem, for bringing your
attention to a part of you that needs healing and more light.
USE YOUR IMAGINATION TO PICTURE THE HIGHEST HEALING PATH YOU CAN
TAKE, TO CREATE A VISION OF WHY YOU ARE HERE
Ask yourself, "What is the most spiritual thing I can do with my life?" Beyond the forms you
create, what is your highest aim? What is the most important thing you want to do? It may
be that you want to evolve your soul. You may want to grow as fast as you can comfortably
handle, or broadcast healing. Hold that vision every day. Go as high as you can with your
imagination. Fantasize about your perfect life. The higher you go, the more quickly the
images and thought forms that do not fit your growth will dissolve.
Do not reach ahead just a year or two, but ask, "What could be my greatest
accomplishment during this lifetime?" Do not worry about the form or how you will do it.
Every time you create a picture or vision, you open the door to an even greater picture.
hold an image in front of you. Let the energy of that image come into your body. Become
consciously aware of the light in everything you do, and you will evolve rapidly in this life
time.
Know that other people will reflect back to you every image you carry within. If they say
something negative to you, and evoke a strong response, thank them for reflecting back to
you an image of yourself you need to change. When you carry images such as "I am
powerful, I truly love and value myself, I have enough money, enough love, etc." you will
begin to see those images sent back to you. Consciously send others higher images. Hold
a vision of your higher self in everything you do. Honour the higher self in everyone you
meet, and you will find it honoured in you.
Taken from Sanaya Roman- Personal Power through awareness
