NOEMAYA

If I could summarize the wisdom of the ages that leads to human progress, success, and spiritual evolution, it would be this: make good company. If you can’t change yourself, then change your surroundings. It’s in the nature of the self, or consciousness, to adjust itself in harmony with its surroundings, like water that takes the shape of its vessel. Pick the people that have shared values and high standards, and by continuous exposure you’ll naturally want to be like them and eventually blend into that plane of reality.  

But “right people” is only a part of this interaction. You cannot fill up a leaking tank! One must make sure that the average plenitude of the surrounding landscape is higher than one’s own current altitude. Surroundings means people, places, and things. 

The things; it’s the things that cause our spirit to leak into the Netherlands. When I go home and give my attention and presence to mediocre shows, movies, social media engagements and reels, I am letting my spirit sink. I am letting in frequencies that put me out of tune. I might have all the right people around me to tune me into or toward my ideals, but if I let those strings of my soul get loosened by what I  watch and what I listen to, then I will be out of tune most of the time. And the most dangerous of all human attributes is that he can get used to anything, even painful things. He can get used to misery, for what’s most valuable and at once most destructive for man is his love of familiarity. 

So, be cautious of what you expose yourself to. Man is what he repeatedly does. If you surround yourself with mediocre stories, that will become your story too. 

But they say: we need to relax and put our minds at ease; it’s a necessary escape! But I say, this is how evil sounds like, and this is how man slides down. They say the same about a glass of wine, but the sober ones know that man can overcome even that necessary need, the idea so engraved in his mind. That most destructive attribute in man, his love of familiarity, is also a gift for him; he can get used to anything; he can be free of all these so-called necessary escapes and crotches and still feel refreshed and free, and even more so than before; because a noble spirit surrounded with noble things is an expanded soul and can take in more than a mediocre spirit.  

Some of the demons we pointlessly fight are active only in response to the spiritual plane we occupy; in a higher plane, they cease to exist, for they belong only to the structure of the plane and not the hero passing through these planes of existence.

Some of the things we constantly struggle to get rid of without success cease to bother us when we reorient ourselves along paths aligned with our core values. I personally know person A who for years dealt with a set of dis-eases of the heart, a set of behavioral issues for which he saw a therapist, tried anti-anxiety, etc. and eventually came to believe this was part of his constitution and he needed to cope with it by writing gratitude lists and sharing in support groups. A painful period in his life led him to make a big change and try to reawaken a dream and pursue higher education and change careers, something he’d desired to do 10 years prior to it but just didn’t because he didn’t believe it was possible. He moved to a different city for that program; a year later I had a conversation with him, and he seemed thrilled and thriving in that new setting where he’s constantly challenged by things he values, and he was performing beyond what he’d imagined. Much of his obsessive behavior and anxiety was gone; he lost weight, developed deep, meaningful connections in his life, and soared high, as he put it. I asked him how he’d dealt with the old demons that tortured him, and his response blew me away at the time. He said, “after a few months into the program and acclimating myself to the new life I always wanted to be in, the demons were not there anymore; I didn’t have to fight. It is as if their job, as annoying as it was, was to guide away, to push me out of that old life that didn’t belong to me, to choose alignment instead of comfort. Of course, I deal with other demons now but they’re more surface level than a deep nagging. I’m still human, but I am at ease with my path” 

Some of the problems we encounter are pseudo-problems and result from the way we have positioned ourselves in life. Much of the inner unease in our hearts is a message, an alarm, that we ought to change orbits; that we don’t belong where we have placed ourselves. And if we keep staying where we are, we start believing that a sense of not-belonging is a constitutional attribute of our being, and then instead of diagnosis and treatment, we buy ourselves into the endless business of managing symptoms.  

It is true! There will always be constant, minute adjustments we have to make to our course, like the way a plane traverses its path across the ocean. These small adjustments take much less energy than a major turn, or even worse a no turn and a wrong destination. The good news is that we know! To sense alignment is prefigured into our very Being; we don’t need analytical powers and gurus or self-help or therapy for it, all these commercial breaks that have made us believe we’re too stupid to live right, in spite of the fact that we’ve made it here through in this form as a result of a billion-year journey.

Trust. That’s the key. Silence the noise, and you’ll sense that alignment within you, and then let that alignment help you navigate through life toward your best version, for that’s what this inner compass is meant to do: to deliver you to your best version who can’t wait to see you soon! All journeys need vessels, people and places and things! When you’re tuned in with your sense of alignment, it will firmly and clearly tell you which vessels are taking you toward or away from that higher Self. The beauty of all it is that you, too, are at once a vessel for other souls, and we’re all on the path of converging and merging in with one Self, with …..