To Guide Your Own Consciousness (Part 2)
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(Continued from last time)
★Deep breathing guides your consciousness naturally, without strain
The heart is truly deep, so even “just do things that make you feel joy,” as we said at the start, means you have to grasp for yourself what is joy and what is pain, and at the same time recognize what you should be doing now and what is stretching too far (too early for you).
As for feelings of joy, too, unless you can clearly tell whether the feeling you’re sending out is the joy of the ego or the joy that comes from divinity, you can’t guide yourself in the right direction.
And what we want to tell you as a way to resolve that situation comes back, yet again, to our usual talk about breathing.
Practicing the evolution of consciousness at random, without the faintest idea of what your true self, the self of divine consciousness, is like, is like shooting arrows with your eyes closed. If you keep sending arrows off in completely the wrong direction, you’ll never improve in the way of archery, right?
So, not quite “all roads lead to Rome,” but if you want to know objectively what you’re doing, it’s effective to hold it up against other paths and look at it in their light.
And here’s our usual talk: take the breathing you do unconsciously and make it consciously slow and relaxed. To put it in an extreme way, breathe in fully, feeling as if the tops of your lungs stretch up to the crown of your head, hold your breath firmly while declaring in your heart the words of divinity you wish for, and then breathe out slowly, thin and long, taking your time.
The reason we recommend stopping when you’ve breathed in all the way is that at that moment your consciousness is closest to the source of life, so declaring the image you wish for at that time is itself the development of divinity and encourages your evolution of consciousness.
We recommend taking your time breathing in and breathing out because that brings you closer to the breathing of the great universe itself. (To be continued)
