Abandonment Mask Removed
by John Randolph Price
A consciousness of abandonment may begin in early childhood with the
death or divorce of a parent, the father taking a job in another town and seldom
seeing the child, or perhaps feeling lost in a large family of brothers and
sisters and not receiving enough attention. Other factors to consider are lack
of affection from parents resulting in a high degree of childhood insecurity. As
the child matures, all pleasure in life is seen to be exclusively in the outer
world of form and experience.
A neurotic need then develops for someone "out
there" to fulfill all expectations of life, and to take the responsibility for
loving, protecting, and caring for the individual. All the time there is an
unconscious fear of desertion -- and this fear is projected on love partners,
family, father figures in the workplace, and mother figures among friends. This
energy repels, pushes people away, and leads to that self-fulfilling prophecy of
abandonment.
Removing the Mask
The only way to peel away this mask is to change your mind, and the first
step, of course, is forgiveness -- forgiving yourself for your miscreative
thoughts, and forgiving others for what you think they have done to cause your
unhappiness. They really haven't done anything but act out your projections on
them. Consciously withdraw those projections now, knowing that you must change
the inner before anything positive can happen in the outer. Then you become a
sponge (consciously) and soak up the full Presence of your true Identity and let
your Holy Self live in and through and as you. Look not to the external world of
effects for your love, joy, and peace, but focus only on the world of Spirit
within for everything in life. It is a complete abandonment to Spirit and Spirit
only.
Here is a meditation from The
Jesus Code that will help you move from a focus on effects to a
deeper consciousness of your Source.
I understand that the effects of this world are from the past and are not
creative. One effect does not birth another, for everything emanates from
consciousness.
I affirm with mind and heart that no person, place, thing, condition, or
situation in the external world has power over me, or has the power to
create anew for me.
I place my total dependence on Spirit within, releasing everything to the
presence of God I AM, knowing that Love has met my every need, want, or
desire even before they were experienced in mind and heart.
I am a Whole Person, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically.
And my world reflects that Wholeness.
Remember that your world is the result, or a product, of your thoughts, and
miscreative thoughts can make for a hellish world. If you plan a project or take
an action specifically to yield a particular result in the external world --
without divine guidance or the flow-through of creative wisdom that instructs on
a spiritual level -- then you are serving ego. You are trying to create effects
that the ego wants in order to fulfill its desires, and when the effects "fail"
you -- that is, they do not provide the harmony you are seeking -- you feel
forsaken. Maybe this was followed by turning to Spirit in prayerful meditation
to energize the effects, to make them what you wanted them to be, to make people
do what you wanted them to do. And when nothing seemed to happen in the material
world to your liking, you felt deserted by God.
The problem, of course, is trying to find supply, support, happiness, and
harmony in the external world rather than in the activity of Spirit. When that
didn't work, you believed that by being more "spiritual" through meditation,
your desires would be fulfilled, which was nothing more than a continuation of
the previous thought process, an uninterrupted focus on the effects even while
contemplating Cause. I know. I've been through this. I have placed my investment
in worldly things instead of Spirit, and when I finally understood what I was
doing, I forgave myself and once again turned my life over to God. In one
particular instance, the peace that came over me was indescribable. Behold, I
make all things new was the message, and I was then content to let a new
bright and shining world flow forth from the love of God within to replace the
limited world that I had created with my ego thoughts.
To work with the planetary energies rather than resisting them, cut the
psychic cords on anyone who you feel has deserted you, and begin to love them
with no strings attached -- unconditionally. This means to stop judging by
appearances, and accept everyone as they are -- spiritual beings temporarily
living in a physical world and adapting to the dense energies of the
third-dimensional plane. We are all as one, living and learning together in our
climb back up the mountain. As we move even higher in our seeing, we acknowledge
the Holy Self as the only Truth of Being of every man, woman, and child.
Also, think about what you can do to provide a greater service -- and yes,
you as one single individual can make a major difference in this world. Think on
these thoughts, not as something to come, but as a present reality.
I accept my responsibilities in life.
I have the ability to come up with new ideas and make them work.
I grasp new concepts quickly. I am creative.
I have great energy and vitality.
I am willing to face change creatively.
I look to the future with joyful expectation. I am optimistic about life.
I love harmony and beauty.
I am compassionate and understanding. I can laugh at myself.
I have intuitive wisdom.
I live happily and productively.
These statements will open your mind to new vistas, and the energy radiating
from your consciousness will attract opportunities to provide a real service
based on your skills and talents.
To remove the ego projections on the causal powers within, those governors of
life, work on your stubbornness, possessiveness, jealousy, and your tendency to
worry over nothing. Learn the value of empathy, cultivate a sense of humor to
displace your irritable disposition, and stop making material things your
exclusive goal in life. You may want to write down these points in your journal
and begin a program of building a solid base in consciousness from which the
living energies will perform their cosmic duties.
Look carefully now at what you consider the reason for your feelings of
abandonment: the loss of a loved one, lack of affection (or even acceptance)
from others, friction in any relationship, a sense of failure in fulfilling your
life's purpose, financial insecurity, or seeming delays and obstructions on your
path of life.
Now go back to that emptiness, loneliness, loss, and futility that you are
feeling in mind and heart, and ask yourself, "What is the advantage of this to
me? How is this less-than-ideal situation in life benefiting me?" Let the answer
come to your mind and write it down. Understand, as I've said before, that any
challenge, problem, or negative influence in your life is something that you
have chosen. No one else decided on it for you; there is no conspiracy. These
aspects of life and living have been chosen on some level of consciousness;
otherwise they could not be. Perhaps you didn't say, in effect, "Let this be,"
but in the fabric of your mind, you wove an outcome usually based on some
feeling of guilt from the past. And this choice, although it may have been
hidden under layers of self-hatred, insecurity, and unfulfillment, was made to
compensate for what you considered a transgression of the law of harmony. But
that law sees no transgressions; it simply is; and it works to lift you up
rather than bind you.
Whatever that feeling of abandonment, look at it again and ask, "What is the
advantage of this to me?" And the ego's answer is, "To atone for my guilt for
causing others (or someone specifically) to suffer in some form or other.
Therefore, I must suffer." Recognize this as a decision that you have made to
pass sentence on yourself. Acknowledge it and couple it with the acceptance that
there is absolutely no advantage for anything less-than-positive to be happening
in your life. This acknowledgment and acceptance removes the guilt you imposed
upon yourself, the sentence is lifted, and you can move back into the stream of
the natural order of life.
This article is excerpted from the book:
 Removing
the Masks that Bind Us
by John Randolph Price.
Reprinted with
permission of the publisher, Hay House Inc. www.hayhouse.com
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About the Author
John Randolph Price is the recipient of national
and international awards for humanitarianism, progress toward global peace, and
for contributions to a higher degree of positive living. He and his wife Jan,
also an author, are the founders of The Quartus
Foundation. John is the author of
Removing the Masks that Bind Us,
as as well
The Abundance Book,
The Jesus Code,
Living a Life of Joy,
The Alchemist's Handbook,
The Superbeings,
A Spiritual Philosophy for the New World,
and
many more.
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