"But-Head"

For those who were at service on Sunday, November 18, 2012, a few bullet points to jog your memory:

• Please don’t take this the wrong way.  I have to ask, “How big is your “but?””

• The “but” I’m talking about is your, “Yeah, I know, but…” followed by a reason why some good idea (aka application of spiritual principle) won’t work for them.  “But… thinking” is what keeps us stuck in our experience.

• I hear, “yeah, but…” a lot as the reason why people aren’t willing to choose a different path of thinking that will lead them away from the experiences that come with their entrenched habits.

• “But thinking” is a choice that keeps us stuck.  Is being a “but-head” working for you? :o)

• We are here to find freedom.    
• Freedom is having a sense of complete well-being regardless of our circumstances or conditions 

• We find freedom by choosing to live by proven spiritual principles, (aka a God-centered life, Christ consciousness) in any given moment. 

• Spiritual freedom is a choice.

• We want to push away our feelings – I hear this all the time – “I don’t want this, I’m tired of this, I want to get rid of this feeling.”  Then I might suggest a spiritual approach and that’s when it comes out, “Yeah, I know, but…” Have you ever heard yourself say this?

• I once heard a man say, “The healing is in the feeling.”

• I believe we have to feel our feelings in order to heal them.

• What we resist persists… looms larger.

• Feel your feelings and act from spirit no matter how loudly your feelings invite you not to.

• Freedom is a choice.  Make a commitment to choose Spirit over fear.

• A woman tells a story about the day her son came into her office to tell her he was going to make a parachute jump the next day, what he was going to do and how he was going to do it the next day when he made that jump.  She said she could also hear the fear in his voice.  “Yet,” she said, “it was about feeling the fear and doing it anyway.”

• The next time the pressure is on and you want a change, don’t fall back into old patterns of pushing away the pressure…don’t be a “but-head…” feel the pressure and choose to express Spirit. :o)

 
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To read the complete text of "But-Head " from Sunday, November 18, 2012,  click here.