[wolfgang]

Originally Posted by m18pak

I get the feeling that a lot of people want to dismiss my theory outright as they're uncomfortable with the idea that they might not be in complete control of themselves. I don't understand why some of you seem to find the idea of an aura affecting the subconsious mind and emotions hard to even consider, since it's scientifically validated that there is a energy field around the human body, and that everything is energy, including your thoughts and feelings. Thus it rationally follows that your thoughts and feelings can leave impressions on your aura and gradually over time alter it in subtle ways. We humans are composite beings, so it only makes sense that our personal energy field acts upon our physical and mental systems to color our moods, thoughts etc...

It's a chicken and an egg issue. Is it the energy field or our thoughts getting in the way? Our personal energy field is a side effect of the some total of what we are. I tend to agree with you on the points that people try really hard and get nothing because they have set up an energy field in a certain way - even to get in the way to feel what that's like. The energy field is like thought momentum that resonates with predominate thought patterns.

Some people have talked about how you need to just consciously and deliberately choose your thoughts; well, I too would like to be in conscious control of my thoughts all the time, but I think it's pretty obvious to all that it's not gonna happen. Get real. I'd say that we can be in conscious control of our thoughts maybe 5% of the time, maybe 10% if we try really hard.

I have started thinking that thoughts just are like breathing. We can only let them occur. You may think we can have will over them but not so much. At best we can choose which ones to reinforce or not. Or push our brain in a direction and see what happens.

The essential message of that attitude is that you just need to have better self-control. It's unrealistic and irresponsible to promote such an ideal as the solution, to say the least.

Control is what we delude ourselves into thinking we have. We do have some choice though - but not control.

The undeniable truth is that we have very little control over our subconscious, and what I'm trying to say is that I believe the subconscious is to a large extent influenced by the subtle energies and images in the aura. It's highly naive and simplistic to say that all you have to do is to choose to change your thoughts and then you'll be able to do it.

The subconscious is the aura. They are mutually arising phenomenon. The aura is just the subtle electromagnetic emanations of our subconscious. It may also be part of the divine influence on you showing up in the aura. Our fields may actually be a blend of what we have stored as experience with what the master plan is for our lives. In that case the aura is something to get groovy with since it has seeds of the divine for us to resonate with. Then what we can't get is because of this divine influence - that we don't accept what that is (but if not accepting this divine influence is part of the plan or part of what it wants to experience).

I'm willing to bet that many here will testify as to how they when they try to do just that they feel as though there is an actual opposing force actively resisting them.

That's when allowing and accepting works better. Pushing and striving outside of your current situation and divine path doesn't work. You are not ready to do the things that don't work for divine reasons. It's given to us form source - the master plan. Our part is to see our master plan and revel in it with rapture. Once you feel that, your path becomes what you want. Until then your path is to see what banging your head against a wall feels like.

Look, I think some people might have gotten the wrong idea about what I'm trying to say. I'm not trying to shift the blame, so to speak, by suggesting that it's all the aura's fault. What I'm trying to say is that it's time we seriously take into account the fact that self-improvement is a lot harder than it reasonably should be, and consider why this might be. Self-improvement is not as simple and straightforward as popularly presented, which is why it is presently falling far below its potential. The majority of people get very little results to show for their effort in the end, and I think it's because we're not getting the full picture. I think a lot of people will know what I'm talking about when I say that at times you wonder if there's something wrong with you, since you sometimes feel like something is actually fighting you and your attempts at change.

We fight ourselves for the experience of it. To know what it's like to push for ego's desires and see that difficulty. Until we are ready to move on, then we can have goals that work. And being ready to move on is allowing and accepting what is right now.

I didn't actually expect so many people to reply to this thread to be honest. I was going to put up PART II today which was going to be my solution to this problem, but now I guess I'll have to do it tomorrow.

Is there really a solution? Personal development is often at odds to spiritual development. Personal development is about desires and wants and making the self better - but is that what the spirit wants? sometimes but not always.