You never know who might be temporarily possessed or influenced by dark forces. Your real enemy is never a fellow human being, to be exact, it is the dark principalities of this world lurking hunting souls so it would be corrupted. Never superficially hate on people who did shitty things, but be more cautious to notice and understand why they were helplessly being out of control in the first place: why they behave bad, irresponsible, destructive, lying, have negative intention or love screwing others? It is all because of unawareness, and the darkness can easily corrupt/control people if they are still blind. When you have a problem with other person, theyre living their hell while youre living yours, and those reactions between two hells only bring destruction. We can learn on how to see beyond it, beyond the darkness. It takes time but if you eventually get what I mean, you wont be reactive or personally feel attacked anymore. The problem is wider than just personal, its affecting the collective.
Pardon for the somewhat harsh tone in the written black and white words in the picture above. Sometimes when we are feeling low or encounter some troubles, we tend to try to find ways to calm ourselves down and try to make sure we are away from the negative energy surrounding us. We want to protect ourselves by any means necessary so that we won’t have to deal with any kinds of negative pressures anymore. This is understandable if the pressure can be too much to handle for an individual. But most of the time we don’t know how to really be in tune with the meditative state and reach the state of internal peace. This is because there is some kind of repression in our thoughts and feelings. When we sense danger or threats or pressure, some of us choose to avoid the struggles and not face the troubles directly with an efficient approach. Our flight or fight mechanism can lead us into bad or unprepared responses and this is because the repressed state of being is activated, into an unconscious state. As you already know we are mostly driven by our unconscious state. And if we have to deal with situations in our surroundings, some of the repressed thoughts or feelings still could show itself to the surface without us knowing. And it is in this kind of state where you wont be able to truly be in tune with the meditative state. Because all that heavy energy is still lurking and disturbing you because they still want to come out to the surface, they want to be acknowledged by you.
From my personal understanding of this situation, it is best for an individual to understand themselves first to see their concerns, worries and things that made him or her anxious or in fear. Before starting to find a way on how to be in the zone, to be still, to be meditative. As a matter of fact, I think it is through facing and dealing with your shadows first in your psyche’s labyrinth that you will be able to take over control of your own state because you already know what your weak side is, your struggles, and defects that you need to manage so you can improve. I find that discerning things in the dark can make you appreciate the light of awareness and you will find that light of awareness through that darkness. It is actually humbling and somehow it makes us feel less attached to the worldly situations that were previously disturbing or harming our thoughts and feelings. Through that dark path to self awareness, you are growing to understand that there are more things beyond our spectrum of perspective or point of view. We can improve our spiritual awareness through that fact. Since we are part of the universe, we would try to see that our struggles are part of the puzzle that connects to bigger puzzles. When you can accept yourself for who you are, and with the discernment of the universe connected to you, you will want to improve yourself better. I feel that in this way, you will become more serene and accepting and embrace gentleness to yourself. When you are at peace eventually in yourself, you will start to be one with the universe and reach that state of inner peace, or thoughtlessness, or in the zone, or in void. It doesn’t mean that you’re empty, for me it would mean that you are becoming one with the universe. And see existence as not just yourself but you’re interconnected with everything and see the branches from within you connecting to surroundings and everyone. This is something that humbles us actually. We are humbling ourselves down to accept the fact sometimes we have uncontrolled impulses, and the awareness that others too experience the same patterns in their ways. We will start to feel not burdened by the complexes if we can step by step resolve what is disturbing our psyche. But things are not always easy, not everything can be easily resolved within.
So this is why, one of the methods that for me really can help us to not be dishonest to ourselves is through being humble, have humility first to see our dark side, our shadow. Accepting it unconditionally would make us be at peace with ourselves. And this can help us to be more at ease when we want to meditate or to be positive to our surroundings. The key is to show that unconditional love from within you to yourself, this light will shine through towards your surroundings.
Mystic Serpentine 