{"id":6300,"date":"2019-08-12T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=6300"},"modified":"2019-08-05T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T22:36:18","slug":"choose-bring-negative-states-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2019\/08\/choose-bring-negative-states-light.html","title":{"rendered":"Choose to Bring Negative States into the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our resistance to dark thoughts and feelings does not put distance between them and ourselves; just the opposite is true: our attention feeds them, strengthening their grip on us, which is why &#8212; just like being caught in quicksand &#8212; the more we struggle, the more we sink into the unwanted state from which we hope to escape. Nothing changes in such fights save for the arena in which we find ourselves pinned again by some recurring pain. It&#8217;s time to walk an entirely new path &#8212; one that appears only in the light of the following higher self-knowledge:<\/p>\n<p><em>Everything in the universe is created to change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nothing in existence is static; everything is always being acted upon by a trinity of forces whose celestial purpose is the revelation and perfection of all upon which they act. In exactly this same manner, what moves downward is designed to assist and help lift what moves upward; their connection is timeless, even though this invisible relationship is revealed only in passing time. And this grand theory of dynamic reconciliation applies directly to our negative states. They too exist and are created <em>for the purpose of being transformed into something else.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everything that appears within us, with no exception, is part of this beautiful process: transformation and transfiguration is the great law of life. In our physical world, the light of the sun &#8212; in any one of its infinite expressions &#8212; drives these changes. But what we&#8217;ve yet to understand is that this exact same principle holds true when it comes to any indwelling dark state. So now, let&#8217;s bring this same higher understanding down into our everyday experience and see how it can help lift us above dark thoughts and feelings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Any negative state that we choose to bring into the light of ourselves will be changed by that same awareness into which we bring it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This conscious choice &#8212; to be self-illuminating in the face of what seems to be dominating us &#8212; changes our relationship with the matrix of all that is real. Now life, its light, fights for us. Its authority cannot be challenged, which means that whatever we bring into its living light transfers this authority over to us. Dark states are now used for the higher purposes they are meant to serve, which, in turn, serves our true purpose in life, which is to be increasingly whole and free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our resistance to dark thoughts and feelings does not put distance between them and ourselves; just the opposite is true: our attention feeds them, strengthening their grip on us, which is why &#8212; just like being caught in quicksand &#8212; the more we struggle, the more we sink into the unwanted state from which we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,8],"tags":[115,155,13,2359,1899,21,1056,736],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-thoughts-2","category-negative-states","tag-change","tag-depression","tag-negativity","tag-reconciliation","tag-recurring-pain","tag-resistance","tag-transfiguration","tag-transformation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Choose to Bring Negative States into the Light - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Choose to Bring Negative States into the Light - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our resistance to dark thoughts and feelings does not put distance between them and ourselves; 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