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Evolution: The Emotion is the Key
An earlier version of this article was published as "Spiritual Growth: The Emotion is the Key" in Echo Magazine, (Charlottesville, VA) September 2010, page 27
You’ve read the book The Secret (www.thesecret.tv).
You understand the “Law of Attraction.” You know that you can manifest
by focusing your thoughts on what you desire and by sending that
information to the Universe so you can attract it into your life.
But if you are like me, at times you have found yourself asking the
question, “Why doesn’t it work for me?” or perhaps you have thought,
“Why does it only work sometimes and not others?” At the deeper
levels there are complex reasons why the Law of Attraction appears to
work for some people and not for others or in some cases but not in
others. But simply stated, we are either manifesting what
we don’t desire into our lives, or we are blocking what we do desire
from coming to us. Most likely, we are doing both. By
unraveling these issues, we can clear the way to manifest what we truly
desire and experience our personal evolution. The emotion is
the key to unraveling the issues. More specifically, negative
emotions provide the links to the issues that are blocking us from what
we truly desire, and they are the key to releasing the beliefs that
hold the issues in place.
The funny thing about negative emotions is that we often think that
they are the result of other people. We say things like, “He made
me so mad,” or “She really hurt me.” But when we explore the
emotions, we discover that they are really coming from within us.
I like to use traffic as an example of how negative emotions work,
because it is something we can all relate to, and in the extreme, we
hear about it on the news as cases of road rage. Who has not
driven down the road and found himself or herself feeling angry about
the car that sped ahead of the long traffic queue and then cut in many
cars ahead of us. Or, how about the little red sports car that
cut me off by pulling into my lane way too close? When we really
think about it, however, there is a problem with blaming our emotion on
someone else. While I may blame the red sports car driver for
making me mad, the emotion is actually coming from me. There was
no physical contact between our cars. In fact, the driver
probably does not even know that I exist. He probably did not
even see me, and that was why he cut me off. So how is it if the
other driver did not touch me, did not look at me, and did not know I
was alive, he is responsible for my anger? How did he make me
mad? There is only one answer; he didn’t make me mad. The
emotion is all mine.
Through the work of Jerry and Esther Hicks and the teachings of Abraham
(www.abraham-hicks.com), we know that the emotion is a reflection of
the level of alignment between our thoughts and our inner being.
A positive emotion, such as joy or love, is a sign of close alignment,
and a negative emotion, such as anger or hate, is a sign of
misalignment. This means that the anger I feel at the red
sports car driver is actually the result of misalignment between my
thoughts and my essence. (I use essence to refer to the core of
my spiritual being, my connection to Source. Some people may be
more comfortable with the term soul.) So when the driver cut me
off, I created a thought that was inconsistent with my essence.
Perhaps it was a negative thought about the driver, “He is such a
jerk.” Or, perhaps at a deeper level it was a negative thought
about me, “I always let people take advantage of me.” In any
event it is the thought, either conscious or subconscious, that drives
the emotion, and these thoughts remind us of other negative thoughts
that result in a chain reaction that provides a much more forceful
emotion than may appear appropriate for a red sports car changing lanes
close to my vehicle.
It
turns out that these emotions are linked together in our mind in a
way that provides a roadmap to the issues that block our true desires,
and by following the path of our negative emotions, we can find the
blocks and unlock our ability to manifest what we truly desire.
This is one of the key tools of Conscious Personal Evolution and
what we refer to as the CPEvolution Process. Another key tool is
the guidance from our higher
self and guides to find these issues, to understand them, and to
release them. The CPEvolution Process is a systematic
approach that was developed through years of meditation and exploration
into the subconscious mind to find a way to unravel the blocks to
manifesting the life we truly desire. While we are all
experiencing different paths through our lives, there is a common way
in which these blocks are formed and how they keep us from our grandest
desire. While our internal programming is complex and the issues
can be difficult to unravel, our higher self and our guides have a
bird’s eye view, and through their help and the use of our emotions as
a roadmap, we can be guided directly to the blocks to find and remove
them and begin manifesting our true desires.
About the author:
John H. Longo is a business executive with over 20 years experience in
a variety of leadership roles. In 2009 he founded The Guided Path
to Spiritual Growth, a forerunner to CPEvolution, to share with others
the CPEvoluton Process he learned from his guides through his own
personal journey of evolution and awakening over the last eight
years. John
has been coaching individuals in the use of these techniques for
several years and is now bringing this capability to enterprises to
maximize the performance of organizations.
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