Chapter Four

God is Spirit

Words of Wisdom

1 Samuel 16:7 - for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

proverbs 21:2 - Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

Matthew 15:18 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

Matthew 7:21 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Step 3 ~ Acceptance

Acceptance is when you make the choice to accept that you have taken on a false belief about yourself. This can be difficult to do depending on what that false belief is.

Where these false beliefs come from is more often times from just about every person in ones life, and can start from when one is very little, which these false beliefs carries over into every aspect of ones life.

These false beliefs can come from family, friends, school, co-workers, bosses, spiritual teachers, and even church members.

If any of these people have been important to you and you looked up to any one of them, your chances of believing their opinions about you is very high. You most likely would not have realized during those times, that their opinions may be clouded in hear-say, being judgemental, condemnation, criticism, gossip, jealousy, misunderstandings, and possibly even slanderous lies they have heard or made about you.

These false beliefs can cause a person to take on an altered personality that is based on these false beliefs that you think is who you are, but really isn't.

When you come to the realization that you have taken on false beliefs about yourself, you can then accept that you took on these beliefs. It is the Third step when healing from ones past inner wounds.

Acceptance of False Beliefs

It may sound a bit odd that I'm saying you need to accept the false beliefs you have taken on about yourself throughout your life. But if you aren't able to accept these false beliefs then how would you ever be able to change those false beliefs to true beliefs.

The purpose for accepting the false beliefs is so you can face them instead of ignoring them, or hoping those false beliefs will go away on their own, or you may live your life in a way that you are always proving to yourself and to others that you are not these false beliefs. But deep down inside yourself, you still feel like you are those false beliefs, and it can hurt when you think about those false beliefs.

People who stuff the feelings that false beliefs can create in their Beings can still affect how you see yourself and how you live your life. Those false beliefs have shaped you into who you are today, and most likely without you realizing it.

You will know how they affect your life when something happens in your life that doesn't go right for you.

False Belief Example

This example of false beliefs is a continuation from Step 1

Lets say the person who slipped and fell on the ice isn't you, but is a lady named Laura. And Laura is this lady who had feelings of being stupid and embarrassed after slipping and falling on ice.

If Laura is on the path of Self-Transcendence, she would want take the opportunity to work on healing the false belief of feeling stupid for falling on the ice. Because she now knows the truth that she isn't really stupid, even though the feeling is still there.

She also knows that when she fell on the ice, it was really a blessing for her, which she can see that it was a blessing. Why? Because slipping on the ice helped Laura to become awake to the fact that she thinks she is a stupid person at certain times. Once she became awakened to this, she would then go on to the next step of having determination to follow through to the end of eradicating this belief from her consciousness.

Laura knows the truth at this point, but she still has the feelings in her of being stupid, which is when she needs to take the next step of working towards healing from her past.

Which the step she would take now is to look into her past to see where she originally accepted this belief about herself. She would be looking for the who, what, when, where, why, and how this belief of being stupid began. So as she reflects back over her life, she finds that her first memory of being told she was stupid came from her childhood.

Laura is able to remember being told she was stupid by a kid who was in her third grade class. She realizes now, that when that kid called her stupid, she somehow believed him and she accepted that she was stupid, so for all these years she is finally able to discover that she still believes what this kid said to her.

And she knows she still believes that kid, because every time something doesn't go right in her life, she think she is stupid and those feelings resurface of feeling stupid, just like she did when that kid called her stupid.

She knows this belief and feelings of being stupid at times is a block that is keeping her from Being More I AM, which she knows this block needs to go bye-bye from her life. Which at this point in Laura's life, she has accepted that she took on this false belief and accepts this belief as being part of her. So, now she is ready to go onto the next step of healing, which is step 4.