Working on Yourself

[AnthroHeart]

Is working on yourself through meditation or energy work considered STO? Or is it STS?

[Mirror]

According to the Confederation talkers, meditation is the most direct way out of the sinkhole of indifference, and one could add that this is because it is the most direct way of knowing the self outside the context of the illusion. Knowing the self leads to greater polarisation; whether this is put to positive or negative purposes is up to the individual.

So, your answer is, “yes,” it can be either positive or negative.

[AnthroHeart]

Thank you for that. I try meditation but I can’t get that deep. I always feel the pressure of energy on my chakras, and don’t know how to get around it in order to go deeper in meditation.

In between helping others energetically I help myself. I just wasn’t sure if helping yourself was STS.

I think I need to get past the STO/STS labels. Maybe STO is an allowing/accepting.

[Mirror]

Everyone has something or other come up to impede their meditation, it’s an integral part of the general process of moving from separation to unity.

To meditate is to seek the self that can only be known inwardly. This part of self is unknown to the outwardly-known self, and the outwardly-known self does all it can to keep your attention moving outwardly to the tangible world because its afraid to venture outside its own element. This would include chakras and everything which is in flux.

From here there are various approaches, but some would say that the key is feeling how every thought which arises pulls in one direction while quiet observation of consciousness itself pulls oppositely in an inward direction. Once you find orientation–feeling the inward and outward directions–it gets easier to intentionally go one way or another.

When that poise is found where one sits observing consciousness, waiting for that which seeks to be born from within, this is where meditation begins, some would say. In that space the outwardly-known self becomes a partner with the inward self with a new understanding of unity.

It’s quite simple, really, but not easy because the discipline requires that every aspect of self focus and yield and contribute together for the same purpose. No part of self is left unturned, if you will. To be silly about it, it’s like dropping all those quarters into the washing machine at the laundromat. You do inner work again and again and again, over and over, and not until you drop in that last quarter does the machine come alive and begin doing its sacred dance…sort of.

[Patrick]

@https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2007/2007_0211.aspx Q`uo

…In this regard we would suggest that the skillful choice is always to work on the self without regard for working with other entities. Service to others, working upon what you perceive needs to be done in the world, begins and ends within yourself. Until the point at which you are asked specific questions that you may answer in what you hope is a spiritually helpful manner, the work you do on yourself is sufficient and more than adequate in terms of how you may affect the consciousness of planet Earth. Change yourself and you change the world. That is how powerful you really are…

@https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/1995/1995_0924.aspx Q`uo

…The focus upon the self in the means of balancing distortions and looking for ways to understand more of what is occurring within the self is an activity that may seem to some to be full of pride and ego, yet we would suggest that such a concentration of an entity’s attention upon its own self in that manner is a means by which a seeker grows, for it needs to be aware of the activity of intellect, of emotion, and of the spirit that moves within one’s own being. Yet that information is used only to temper the steel, shall we say, the character of the entity, and not to impose this character upon another…

@https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2001/2001_0204.aspx Q`uo

…Many times, it seems to each, that there is no way that one person can be of service, that one person’s light can make a difference. However, this instrument is fond of saying that in a dark place the light of one candle can be seen for quite a distance. Metaphysically, this is far more true even than the physical truth of candles and sight. Each of you makes a significant difference to the lightening of the planet as well as to the lightening of your soul. For when each of you does one, each of you is doing the other. To work on the self is to work on the world. Indeed, to work on the self is the most direct and effective way to work on the outer world in a metaphysical sense…

@https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/1980/1980_0518.aspx Q`uo

…You need only to work upon yourself, so that you are a clear channel, unmoved by the ridiculousness of many situations, and in great humor when others find a situation quite grim. For you see, you dwell in the midst of a great cosmic joke and a great cosmic tragedy. And the ability to see both polarities of this truth equally is a very helpful one in dealing with yourself. And when you have dealt with this polarity within yourself, laughing at your grief and solemn in your joy, you may be of balanced help to others, for you may not then be touched by their difficulties to the point where you will be unable to respond in the way the Creator within you would respond…

@https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2007/2007_1124.aspx Q`uo

…in that same general run of seekers there is often a prejudice against working on the self, for it seems selfish to be absorbed in the processes of the self. It is our opinion that it is in healing yourself that you heal the world. It is in learning to love yourself that you learn to love others. It is in finding compassion at last for yourself that you are finally able to have compassion on others. It is in blessing your own suffering by respecting it, honoring it, and forgiving it in yourself that you become able to behold the suffering of the world in its massive and almost infinite depth…

80.11 Questioner: Could I say, then, that implicit in the process of becoming adept is the seeming polarization towards service to self because the adept becomes disassociated with many of his kind?

Ra: I am Ra. This is likely to occur. The apparent happening is disassociation whether the truth is service to self and thus true disassociation from other-selves or service to others and thus true association with the heart of all other-selves and disassociation only from the illusory husks which prevent the adept from correctly perceiving the self and other-self as one.

99.8 …The right-hand and left-hand transformations of the mind may be seen to differ by the attitude of the conscious mind towards its own resources as well as the resources of other-selves…

19.15 Questioner: Then the newest third-density beings who’ve just made the transition from second are still strongly biased towards self-service. There must be many other mechanisms to create an awareness of the possibility of service to others.

I am wondering, first— two things. I’m wondering about the mechanism and I am wondering when the split takes place where the entity is able to continue on the road towards service to self that will eventually take him to fourth or fifth density.

I would assume that an entity can continue— can start, say, in second density with service totally to self and continue right on through and just stay on what we would call the path of service to self and never ever be pulled over. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The second-density concept of serving self includes the serving of those associated with tribe or pack. This is not seen in second density as separation of self and other-self. All is seen as self since in some forms of second-density entities, if the tribe or pack becomes weakened, so does the entity within the tribe or pack.

The new or initial third-density entity has this innocent, shall we say, bias or distortion towards viewing those in the family, the society, as you would call, perhaps, country, as self. Thus though a distortion not helpful for progress in third density, it is without polarity.

The break becomes apparent when the entity perceives other-selves as other-selves and consciously determines to manipulate other-selves for the benefit of the self. This is the beginning of the road of which you speak.

[AnthroHeart]

@https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2007/2007_0211.aspx Q`uo

Service to others, working upon what you perceive needs to be done in the world, begins and ends within yourself.

This really cleared things up.

[flofrog]

Whoa Patrick ….

Anthroheart, all my love as usual !!!