{"id":3839,"date":"2015-01-20T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2015-01-18T19:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T00:01:26","slug":"the-way-out-of-habitual-dark-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2015\/01\/the-way-out-of-habitual-dark-states.html","title":{"rendered":"The Way Out of Habitual Dark States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your awareness of troubled thoughts and feelings roaming through you is the power that keeps their harmful and self-limiting influences from having control over you. Their aim is to get you to define yourself by identifying with their dark and defiling energies. Your aim is to remember that who you really are cannot be confined by dark thoughts or feelings any more than the light from a bulb can be contained in its glass.<\/p>\n<p>As with all true spiritual exercises, we must approach them with great intention and persistence. The habitual dark states that have been misguiding us up to now will not give up their place at the steer\u00acing wheel of our soul without struggle. Never mind any setbacks that you may experience as you put forth these new inner efforts. Whenever you find yourself a captive in the dark little kingdom of some unkind, troubled thought or feeling, just remember right then your wish to be. Drop whatever would define and limit you by bringing yourself back into the great and unconditioned Now where all is one. That\u2019s your part. The truth will handle the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your awareness of troubled thoughts and feelings roaming through you is the power that keeps their harmful and self-limiting influences from having control over you. Their aim is to get you to define yourself by identifying with their dark and defiling energies. 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