Clearing Old Mind Patterns to find God- The aim of life is to see God and achieve bliss and union in God according to many spiritual writings.
This doesn’t make a lot of sense if you are involved in the wonderful pleasures of the material world. But when you get to feel and see just a small part of the bliss that moving towards God can produce it becomes a very tempting proposition.
If your aim is to enjoy life, be happy and find peace then it makes perfect sense once you get a taste of it. If you are lucky enough to find a bit of spiritual bliss then sooner or later the bits of old mind patterns start to pop up and get in the way.
To see more of this light or bliss and more often, you need to become lighter and this involves discarding some surplus baggage. When you start to follow God this surplus baggage starts to appear and floats to the top of the ego and makes itself known sitting in front of the mind.
You may or may not notice it. Other people usually do and point it out. It’s as if this bit of mind pattern, ego or baggage becomes prominent In front of you and can cause some issues. A worry pattern may set in, or anxiety or usually whatever is your weak point.
It’s important to become aware of this process as once it starts it keeps on happening and if you have no way of clearing it this accumulation of stuck patterns can cause issues or the mind can become overactive or overwhelmed by these loose patterns floating In front of you.
There are many ways they can be cleared sometimes through travel, moving to a new area, changing job, a new sport. Sometimes they can be caused in part by the death of a friend or relative. Other times clearing through the focus of spiritual yoga, Tai Chi, meditation, flower essences, a spiritual practice, healing etc. The possibilities are many.
In my life what I have found distinct and powerful is clearing these old patterns which can sometimes represent as fear, anxiety, greed, lust. These patterns are often cleared initially in the spiritual but then must be played out and worked on in the physical world.
The physical life usually throws up something which will challenge the pattern and one of the challenging emotions of anxiety or fear (or other patterns) will try to attach itself to the physical task or event.
This is an interesting game where you try to separate the emotions of fear or anxiety from what it is attached to or being caused by. It’s not often that I have found these patterns cleared simply by healing or meditation. This is usually just the start of the process and life is there to live through and clear these patterns through constant awareness of them.
For example for me a recurring pattern is either anxiety, worry, fear or loss and this emotional pattern then seems to sit in front of the task I am immersed in. It could be a really simple task and the emotion is out of all proportion to the task in hand but the pattern of say anxiety and worry will be very inflated. For example one time when I had given up my job to travel and I had plenty of money in the bank, my mind would play on the fact I had no regular income any more, but it was obvious that I had plenty of money in the bank. To calm the fear I would look at my bank account every morning and prove to my stupid mind that there was indeed enough money there. Quite ridiculous. This pattern persisted and has done again in later years on the same issue but much weaker and on other parts of life too. So this is what I am trying to explain. There was quite obviously no problem with money but the old pattern was sensing a weakness, a change and was attaching this old patter of fear or loss to the fact I had no income even though logically I still had plenty of money. These nice straightforward worries are really helpful in splitting the pattern off from the even in the physical life to show the 2 are separate events and allows you to become more aware of certain patterns using the upper discerning mind.
Again the way this happens can vary person to person. Just simply moving house or jobs could be the entire process you needed to move on with no spiritual input at all and the patterns may just clear with the move.
Deaths of relatives is another key aspect of clearing and if you aren’t ready for their death it can be a forced clearing as they release their patterns attached just to the body in that life which you are linked to. This can leaver you feeling like you have a hole in your energy field.
So releasing family as they near death or after death is so important especially the emotional release attached to the heart. Like it or not you are part of your families patterns and they are part of yours. Everything is interlinked. As you get older or relatives do these old patterns start to get looser and can be released easier.