Your internal state reflects your outer reality, from the way people treat you, to your financial condition, and your health. It all starts from within.
The world is never the problem; it’s you. A chaotic, evil world merely reflects disparate parts of yourself, an internal war.
The very fact that you are incarnated on this suffering Earth proves that your spirit needs to be purified.
Enlightened souls don’t come here. When they do, they don’t witness much evil. They have no conflicts within them to manifest it in the first place.
As Within, So Without
This old hermetic principle pertains to the Law of Attraction, a New Age concept that claims human beings can draw in people, places, and experiences that are in a vibrational match to their internal state.
There’s truth to that.
Body Omens & Your Internal State
If something is problematic in your body, study that area. It reflects a difficulty in your emotional state. Once identified, you can start to heal.
Certain areas of the body pertain to specific planets and certain emotional states.
- Liver: Jupiter
- Kidney: Jupiter
- Gall Bladder: Mars
- Pancrease: Jupiter
- Adrenals: Mars
- Spleen: Saturn
- Moon: Brain
- Sun: Heart and Bones
- Mercury: Lungs
Taoist master and author Mantak Chia writes about how various body organs contain trapped emotional energies. Doing specific exercises can release these energies and promote bodily health and longevity.
This is why celibacy is so valued in religions across the world. They understood that the sexual act is an attempt to play God. Redirecting this energy means that you will become more like God (brahmacharya). For example, the physical substance of semen represents the energy that creates a new life and, when concentrated correctly, will extend one’s lifespan.
The eyes, ears, and other body parts can be used this way.
Diseases and Emotions
Edema: water/liquid represents the emotions and emotional flow within the body (these are maladaptive, stuck)
Broken Bone: the core of your life, the foundation of who you are, these things MUST change.
Eye Difficulties: Refusal to see the truth of who you are; you dare not look internally.
The Human Collective and Its Nightmare Manifestations
Humanity is undergoing immense emotional turmoil. As a result, it’s manifesting a nightmarish external world right now:
- Poverty (hyperinflation)
- Violence (both individually and collectively)
- Division and hatred
Here’s why…
Media Manipulation.
The media fuels humanity’s hatred and anger. These emotions manifest negative experiences in life. Stop watching it. Choose to focus on positive, fruitful emotions. When negative emotions arise, inquire as to where they come from. Investigate. Find the root cause and come to terms with it.
Escapism.
We are chronically online, whether for work, socializing, or entertainment; you’re probably on the internet. It’s never been easier to ESCAPE yourself and live in a makeshift fantasy world where you constantly run from who you truly are.
It’s never been easier to avoid moving toward your emotions, integrating them, coming to terms with them, and soul-searching for the truth of who you are.
Why?
Well, for starters, facing yourself is a difficult journey. Most people don’t do it. They escape to video games, sports, pornography, workaholic tendencies, online politics, or whatever else scratches their itch.
Isolation.
Society is becoming very isolating and lonely. People feel wholly separate and individualized from one another, which is increasing crime.
We can commit violent, inhumane actions to one another because we do not see “other people” as part of ourselves.
Human beings are very disconnected. Ironically, we all share the same consciousness. It’s our individual egos, our personalities, and prejudices that prevent us from seeing the truth. We are one being.
How do we end the division?
First, unify with yourself. Get closer to who you are. Doing this will bridge the gap between others.
As within, so without.
If you can’t get intimate with other people, if you’re aloof and standoffish, it’s because you lack intimacy with yourself. You don’t like YOU.
This principle works no matter the area of life.
Need money? Enhance your self-worth and self-esteem.
Want love? Start by loving yourself.
More friends? Become a good friend.
Other people will see you in a negative light if you choose to point out their flaws and critique them in your mind. Even murdering criminals have something good in them. It’s hard to find, but it’s there.
Eliminate Your Self-Hate
I wasted years of my life hating and dwelling in anger. My hatred of others mirrored a hatred of self.
HATE is a wasted life. That other person doesn’t care that you hate them. They live rent-free in your head.
You are only hurting yourself, manifesting negative experiences, ill health, and all sorts of trouble.
There is no more hatred left in me. It all disappeared when I encountered my mortality and when I understood how little time I have left on this Earth.
The Donald Trump Test
If you hate — and I mean viscerally HATE — Donald Trump, then some part of yourself is entirely unintegrated and lurking in the shadows of your psyche.
Trump is mirroring back unacknowledged parts of YOU (and countless others). Personally, I don’t hate ANY politician that much. They are all scum, I agree.
You must choose. What matters more? Your life or your hatred? Your internal state from day to day, or the myriad of nonsense you hinge an identity upon: my career, my politics, my relationships, my “fill in the blank.”
The Final Realization: As Within, So Without
Once I understood that our universe is merely reflecting back the energies we give off, I could no longer harbor resentment, hatred, or feelings of victimhood. I felt free.
No matter what good things or tragedies occurred in my life, I knew (and still know) that I had to change my internal state, confront those deep-seated emotional issues, and align with my true self.
This spiritual realization was the key to the locked door of life. Without this key, you are just a victim of circumstance, pushed and pulled in every direction, powerless.
