Written by Mathew Naismith
As I have been stating for sometime now, the betterment of our existence is determined in how aware we become, not how much control we express and desire. All that is needed is awareness, but an awareness in the absence of bias and desires and yes it is this simple. A true sense of #awareness naturally builds up #resilience to change. Let's be honest, everything material is forever changing. We can passively coexist within these changes, go with the flow of these changes and cycles of the material, but only if we build up resilience to these changes. It is again this simple, go with the flow in the absence of trying to control the natural flow of material changes and cycles.
How aware is the material conscious mind of the material subconscious mind? A lot of people can't even remember their dreams, so the conscious mind can be quite unaware of how the subconscious mind is thinking. Even scientifically this is very well known.
Now, let's equate the immaterial to the material subconscious. How unaware are a lot of people to the immaterial? As a lot of people's material conscious is unaware in how the subconscious is thinking, so is material consciousness to the immaterial consciousness for a lot of people!!
So what is the point of becoming aware of the immaterial, which a lot of case studies support the existence of? Even assertive critics of the #material mind existing in an immaterial existence have no answer to the evidence that case studies have shown to exist.
The point is, becoming aware of our #immaterial existence, makes these natural changes and cycles of the material immaterial, in that the material is of no great importance to the immaterial, for it is forever changing anyway. However, to our material selves, the material is important but when the material self is aware of the immaterial as well, the non-physical, the material self simply goes with the flow, not against it. Within this kind of awareness, resilience is naturally formed by the material self to the changes and cycles of material worlds/realities. How resilient does our conscious mind become to the way the subconscious mind thinks, once the conscious mind becomes aware of how the subconscious mind is thinking? It is the same thing between material and immaterial existences.
So does this mean we simply go with the flow of a very controlling therefore destructive human consciousness? No, you simply become aware in a true honest sense, which means to become aware in the absence of bias and desires therefore control!!
Is my own resilience to do with me coming from the bush?
Many things in life can make us resilient to life's challengers like for instance, learning from our experiences instead of suffering from them, spiritual/religious practices and awareness as a whole and so on. In the bush, you learn quite quickly to go with the flow of the environment, certainly not against it.
Whatever nature deals you, you take it as it comes. You certainly don't simply sit there praying/manifesting for a better deal, you deal with what you have to deal with and move on. Whatever you're dealt with, you take it and make the most of what is dealt to you.
I had a person recently who injured both their arms wanting to swap injuries with me. Their injury is short lived and neither arm is actually broken, simply of soft tissue injury with a hair line fracture in one arm bone.
I have had a broken/dislocated right arm since I was six years old, I am now 56 years old. My injury will only get worse; my injury certainly isn't fleeting in any sense.
While fitting out a shop, with a right arm that is literally broken, I had an accident and tore my left shoulder joint three inches from its socket, the injury resulting in serious soft tissue damage. I went back to work the next day fitting out the shop I was working on. I didn't just do this with a broken right arm and soft tissue damage to the left arm, I did this without painkillers. Fitting out a shop isn't what I would call easy work physically.
I think coming from the bush you become more resilient. Resilient means to Recover readily from adversity, depression, or the like, of course there are other ways to become resilient to what life deals you at times as well.
Coming from a material environment that naturally builds up resilience to material changes, is just like the awareness of the immaterial building up resilience to material changes and cycles. We so often don't bother trying to build up resilience to these changes, mainly because we are tying to control these changes in the material, so in the process suffer more from these changes in the material world/reality!!
You could say I was lucky in life, as my material environment and the awareness of the immaterial both made me more resilient to material changes and cycles in life. If I stayed with being a westernised atheist, more of a material atheist, I have no doubts I would have suffered a lot more. I certainly would have been on prescription drugs to start with, which in my case would have lead to further suffering.
Simply, we need not suffer as we do, no matter what the changes may be........