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To live with a Heart based consciousness is to live in Joy and for me that means to have your ego as your servant.

Read this great article by Nick Arrizza on his perspective of what can be done with the ego.

Are You Enslaved By Your Ego?

by Nick Arrizza M.D.

What we refer to colloquially as the “ego” is essentially the repository of all the needs that supposedly define who an individual is. I say “supposedly” because in fact that is “not” who they really are, it’s only who they “think” they are.

For instance how many times have you heard expressions like “you don’t meet my needs”? The “my” implies that those needs belong to the individual whose needs they are.

If you look at the impact that such needs have on an individual you will quickly see that they determine how that person’s entire life will unfold.

In other words they become the central organizing principles around which that person will find meaning in their life. That is because a need’s purpose is to generate a motivation to get it filled and as long as there is a need it will press the individual into action to fill it.

So as long as there are needs to be met there will be an internal pressure “forcing” the individual to meet them.

When one looks at the experience of having an unmet need one recognizes that it is not pleasant. It is often associated with feelings of lack, emptiness, anxiety, tension, dis-ease, frustration, sadness, irritation and so on. So it “pressures” the individual to appease the need in order to feel a greater sense of inner peace.

The problem however is that if one identifies one’s self with one’s personality or ego then there will always be needs to be met and there will never be a state of perpetual peace.

Now many of you are so caught up in the unconscious process of trying to fulfill your needs daily that you probably don’t even recognize the extent to which you are enslaved by them. You probably consider this situation as a normal one and dismiss it as such.

If you stop for a moment and notice how much energy it takes daily to meet these so called needs you will see that your entire life energy is being siphoned off by them.

If you are with me so far then you might wonder if there is a way out of this dilemma.

Well there is indeed. It requires dismantling the ego or personality once and for all. This means letting go of all those needs and allowing yourself to be in charge of your own destiny once again.

Yes, once again. Once, you see, you were in charge and then something happened and you were left feeling deficient or “needy”. What happened was that you were seduced, in a way that I cannot explain, into believing that you were something that you were not.

You were seduced into believing that you were in fact a being who was lacking the Divine ability to create whatever you desired whenever you desired it.

It’s like having a billion dollars in your closet yet being “brain washed” into thinking that you are a pauper.

Those negative beliefs, or lies about you, are also stored in what is called the ego or personality and they are anchored there by deeper lies that are unconscious.

It is possible to unearth these lies and permanently release them from your mind and body. By doing so the light of the truth of who you really are will shine through allowing you to re-experience your true Divine Self again.

All I ask you to do now is simply notice how you feel inside.

I suspect that for some of you what has been said will resonate at a deep level. If so simply notice it. This resonance is a sign that you are awakening from your slumber and beginning your journey to freedom.

Nick Arrizza MD is the developer of the Mind Resonance Process® (MRP) that powerfully and permanently erases negative memories.

Web Site: http://www.telecoaching4u.com or contact me at: drnick@telecoaching4u.com

Awhile back I headed over to the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk office to order a copy of my birth certificate and I was thinking about an Ilumine Ao radio show with my co-host was Nick Arrizza sharing our insights on “The Power of The Heart”.

During the show we discussed how coming into this reality we arrive functioning from our Heart, what I call our “original innocence”, having Love or what Nick calls “Life force” fully flowing through us.

We are born perfect, but as we go through our experiences in Life the purity we started with becomes tainted and our false inner “truth” that we accept unconsciously. At some point we start functioning and living basically from fear based values or the ego, and at the same time our Heart is trying reach out to us to keep us from what Nick calls “dying”.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could go over to an office like the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk and just like picking up a birth certificate, at the same time go back to our “original innocence” of our birth and have it as an adult? That way we would function and live from a Heart Powered consciousness.

Well… there is no office like that, but there is a book that I believe can guide you there.

That is my book called ‘BEing The Titus Concept’.

For OUR best and highest good, all ways… In every moment.

Ilumine Ao, Al Diaz

Listen to and follow your Heart(I don’t mean feelings or emotions) that should be your biggest influence in Life…everything else is guidance. Read this great article by J. Donald Walters.

Approval Not Needed

by J. Donald Walters

To be sincere with oneself means not to let his happiness depend on the approval of others. In the context of the quest for bliss, opinions simply do not matter. The only important thing is how to deepen that bliss, and how to spurn any action that obscures it. The judgments of most people are unreliable. Usually they are wrong, because influenced by delusion!

There is a story about a peasant who set out from home, accompanied by his young son, to sell a donkey at a fair. Because he hoped to get the best possible price for the beast, he and the boy walked. The donkey, meanwhile, trotted merrily along, happy for a change to be without any burden to carry.

They’d gone a little distance when they met another group coming the other way. One person in this group burst out laughing. “Just look at that stalwart animal,” he cried, “trotting along while those two silly bumpkins trudge wearily at its side. Why don’t they ride it?”

The peasant overheard this comment, and thought, “Well, I suppose it does look a bit strange!” He climbed up onto the donkey’s back, accordingly, leaving his son to go on by foot.

Some distance further they passed another group, from which a voice rose in outraged protest. “What arrogance!” it cried. “See that grand fellow, seated proudly astride his donkey while his poor child goes limping along in the dust!”

The peasant overheard this comment also, and thought, “Well, I don’t want people thinking me arrogant!” Down he got, therefore, and placed his child on the donkey’s back instead.

They passed a third group. One person in it covered his mouth as if to show tact, though he was speaking quite loudly enough to be heard outside the group. “What a comedy!” he guffawed. “See that little fellow, in the glory of his youth, ensconced there like a king while his poor old dad hobbles along, trying his best to keep up! Imagine the paucity of discipline in that household!”

Well, the peasant didn’t know the meaning of “paucity,” but he got the general idea. “I don’t want to be considered a nobody in my own home!” he thought. Hastily, therefore, he clambered up behind his son. And so they continued, only the donkey now going by foot ? or, more correctly, by hoof.

They passed a fourth group. Suddenly there came a stifled cry of horror, “Oh! what heartlessness! Such a heavy load on one poor creature’s back! How can they be so unkind to their faithful servant ? yes, their friend! Ah, how painful, to see such ingratitude!”

At this point the travelers found themselves on a bridge that crossed over a river. The peasant, reflecting that by now he’d been criticized for every possible choice he made, dismounted the donkey in disgust, lifted his son down, and pushed the animal into the water below. And so the two of them returned home, empty-handed.

The moral of this story is, of course, that one should not care excessively about others people’s opinions. Where the quest is for bliss, especially, one must decide for himself what course he will follow, then stick to it unswervingly.

Dear reader, I offer this counsel for you personally. Let others urge you to follow whatever course they like. Good advice, of course, should always be heeded. Above all, however, be guided by your own desire for freedom and inner bliss.

Right now on a local, national, and international levels there is something going on. What is somebody’s perception of what is going on comes from all of their beliefs they have accumulated. There are also some who seem to have the freedom and the kNowing of creating their lives purposely.

We are evolving into a new paradigm; this is a great opportunity for all of us. I’m not sure of what is going on personally in your world, we all have different circumstances, but I do know that what we do Now is going to create a ripple effect for ourselves later in our own Life and for our future generations.

If you sit around and basically hope for the best, you become dependent on someone or something else. It is time Now to take charge of your own Life. It is time Now to start living the Life you desire and require from within.

You can start the process of becoming more independent by reading my book ‘BEing The Titus Concept’ so that you can have any area of your Life as you wish it to BE.

For OUR best and highest good, all ways… In every moment.

Ilumine Ao, Al Diaz

What are your thoughts? What are you focusing on? My thoughts right Now are that you and I are blessed to BE here. I went through an evolving process to have arrived with that understanding. Read this great article by Louise L. Hay.

For our best and highest good, all ways…

Ilumine Ao, Al Diaz

Are You Willing to Change?

by Louise L. Hay

“I am willing to change.”

I know — you want everybody and everything else to change. Your mother, father, boss, friend, sister, lover, landlord, neighbor, minister, or government official must change so that your life can be perfect. It doesn’t work that way. If you want change in your life, then you are the one who must do the changing. When you change, then all the other people in your world will change in relation to you.

Are you willing to change?

If you are willing, then you can create the life you say you want. All you have to do is change some thoughts and release some beliefs. Sound simple? It is. However, it’s not always easy. We will explore some of the things you may have beliefs about in different areas of your life. If you have positive beliefs, then I urge you to keep them and expand upon them. If you find negative beliefs, then I’ll help you let them go. My life is a good example of what can happen when you change your thinking. I went from being a battered and abused child who grew up in poverty, with little self-esteem and many problems, to a well-known woman who’s able to help others. I no longer live in pain and suffering. I’ve created a wonderful life for myself. You can do it, too.

I encourage you to be gentle with yourself. Every new choice you make is like planting a seed in your new mental garden. The seeds may take time to germinate and grow. Remember, when you plant a seed, you don’t produce an instant apple tree. Similarly, you may not always get instant results from doing this work.

I would like to review the basic beliefs that support my philosophy. You may remember them from You Can Heal Your Life.

What I Believe
Life is very simple. What we give out, we get back. I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for every experience in our lives, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our experiences by the thoughts we think and the words we speak and the beliefs we hold.

Beliefs are ideas and thoughts that we accept as truth. What we think about ourselves and the world becomes true for us. What we choose to believe can expand and enrich our world. Each day can be an exciting, joyous, hopeful experience; or a sorrowful, limiting, and painful one. Two people living in the same world, with the same set of circumstances, can experience life so differently. What can transport us from one world to another? I’m convinced that it’s our beliefs that do so. When we’re willing to change our primary belief structures, then we may experience a true change in our lives.

Whatever your beliefs may be about yourself and the world, remember that they’re only thoughts, and thoughts can be changed. You may not agree with some of the ideas that I’m about to explore. Some of them may be unfamiliar and frightening. Don’t worry. Only those ideas that are right for you will become part of you.

Our subconscious mind accepts whatever we choose to believe. The Universal Power never judges or criticizes us. It only accepts us at our own value. If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become the truth for you. If you believe that you’re too short, too fat, too thin, too tall, too smart, not smart enough, too rich, too poor, or incapable of forming relationships, Then those beliefs will become true for you. Remember that we’re dealing with thoughts, and thoughts can be changed. We have unlimited choices about what we can think, and the point of power is always in the present moment.

What are you thinking in the present moment? Is it positive or negative? Do you want this thought to be creating your future?

When we were children, we learned about life and about ourselves from the reactions of the adults around us. Therefore, most of us have ideas about who we are that were merely someone else’s opinions. And we have many rules about how life “should” be lived. If you lived with people who were unhappy, frightened, guilty, or angry, then you learned a lot of negative things about yourself and your world.

When we grow up, we have a tendency to re-create the emotional environment of our early home life. We also tend to recreate in our personal relationships the ones we had with our mother and father. If we were highly criticized or abused as children, then we will seek out those individuals in our adult life who will duplicate this behavior. If we were praised, loved, and encouraged as children, then we will re-create those patterns.

I do not encourage you to blame your parents. We are all victims of victims, and they couldn’t teach you something that they didn’t know. If your mother or father didn’t know how to love themselves, it would have been impossible for them to teach you how to love yourself. They were coping as best they could with the information they had. Think for a minute about how they were raised. If you want to understand your parents more, I suggest that you ask them about their childhood.

Listen to not only what they’re telling you, but notice what happens to them while they’re speaking. What is their body language like? Can they make eye contact with you? Look into their eyes and see if you can find their inner child. You may only see it for a split second, but it may reveal some valuable information.

I believe that we choose our parents. I believe that we’ve decided to incarnate on this earth in a particular time and space. We’ve come here to learn specific lessons that will advance us on our spiritual, evolutionary pathway. I believe that we choose our sex, color, and country, and then we search for the particular set of parents who will enhance our spiritual work in this lifetime.

All that we’re dealing with is a thought, and a thought can be changed. No matter what the problem is, your experiences are outer effects of inner thoughts. Even self-hatred is only a thought you have about yourself. This thought produces a feeling, and you buy into that feeling. However, if you don’t have the thought, you won’t have the feeling. Thoughts can be changed. Change the thought, and the feeling most go.

The past has no power over us it doesn’t matter how long we’ve been in a negative pattern. We can be free in this moment.

Believe it or not, we do choose our thoughts. We may habitually think the same thought over and over so that it doesn’t seem as if we’re choosing the thought. But we did make the original choice. We can refuse to think certain thoughts. How often have you refused to think a positive thought about yourself? You can also refuse to think a negative thought about yourself.

The innermost belief for everyone I’ve worked with is always, “I’m not good enough!” Everyone I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred or guilt to one degree or an other. “I’m not good enough, I don’t do enough, or I don’t deserve this,” are common complaints. But for whom are you not good enough? And by whose standards?

I find that resentment, criticism, guilt, and fear cause most of the problems in ourselves and in our lives. These feelings come from blaming others and not taking responsibility for our own experiences. If we’re all responsible for everything in our lives, then there’s no one to blame. Whatever is happening “out there” is only a mirror of our own inner thinking.

I do not condone other people’s poor behavior, but it’s our own belief system that attracts this behavior to us. There’s some thought in you that attracts people who exhibit abusive behavior. If you find that people are constantly mistreating you, then this is your belief pattern. When you change the thought that attracts this behavior, it will stop.

We can change our attitudes toward the past. It’s over and done and can’t be changed. Yet we can change our thoughts about the past. How foolish for us to punish ourselves in the present moment because someone hurt us long ago.

If we choose to believe that we’re helpless victims and that it’s all hopeless, then the Universe will support us in that belief. Our worst opinions of ourselves will be confirmed.

If we choose to believe that we’re responsible for our experiences, the good and the so-called bad, then we have the opportunity to outgrow the effects of the past. We can change. We can be free.

The road to freedom is through the doorway to forgiveness. We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but if we’re willing to forgive, we may begin the healing process. It’s imperative for our own healing that we release the past and forgive everyone.

I’m not saying that it’s all right that someone behaved in a misguided way. However, we must be aware that the past is over. We only carry the hurt and the memory in our mind. This is what we want to let go of — the pain we’re continuing to cause ourselves because we won’t forgive. Forgiveness means giving up, letting go. We understand our own pain so well, yet it’s hard for most of us to understand the pain of someone who treated us badly. That person we need to forgive was also in pain. And they’re only mirroring what we believed about ourselves. They were doing the best they could, given the knowledge, understanding, and awareness they possessed at the time.

When people come to me with a problem — I don’t care what it is — poor health, lack of money, unfulfilling relationships, or stifled creativity — there’s only one thing that I ever work on, and that is loving the self.

I find that when we really love, accept, and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, everything in life flows. Joyous self-approval and self-acceptance in the here and now are the keys to positive change in every area of our lives.

To me, loving the self means never, ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we’re trying to change.

Try approving of yourself and see what happens. You’ve been criticizing yourself for years. Has it worked?