Finding Your Way Through the Year By Lynn Tosello, PhD.
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hat guides your moral compass? Where is your North Star? Do you live your life to please the people around you, or do you follow your own dreams? These are important questions to ask yourself as we live through these first months of 2022. Social media takes up so much time, calling you to see the latest post, and you’re in there for an hour. Add in that you can binge-watch a program on your phone, all day, if you like. You’re too busy to see the value of quiet moments alone with your own thoughts. With so much terrestrial entertainment drawing your attention, the value of spiritual guidance seems harder to recognize. Let me tell you a story that I know from experience. Say, you watch tv programs every night. You enjoy the characters and think of them as real
people. Entertainment “news” programs encourage you to like certain series which reinforces your feeling connected to them. You may imagine yourself interacting with the program characters as if they were real. Then you find yourself following a certain actor’s career, and then trusting what that actor says about world affairs because you would
trust the character he or she plays on their series. You may even daydream about the storyline of the program you love to watch while you’re doing a “mindless” task. But stop. If you do this, you are giving your birthright away. Your birthright is freedom to live, love, and be creative from within your own being. This birthright comes from the Creating Consciousness, the Creatrix, the Great Mother Goddess. She would never imprison you in a mental world of fantasy that depends on your addiction to that fantasy. You must wake up from this to actualize your desires. To do that, you need to block out all that hype. This is the struggle between the ego and the Goddess, between the left and right brain. The ego, sense of pride, desire to belong, need for control and mastery, leads you away from who you were born to be. It blocks you from receiving and entices you to go toward the entertainment, ways to simply “pass the time,” or to become a ‘rat’ in its
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