Finding The Good

When we are in emotional pain, we have to find a way to be free of it. 

Emotional pain for me has been my salvation, it taught me what I had to let go of. My emotional pain was my barrier to loving myself and my life. My anger and resistance were my gurus, showing me what I had to release to live a happy life. 

It's not an easy road but the alternative sucks waaaay more. 

The important part - they key - is taking the immense power of our awareness and focusing it on finding the good. 

Finding the good is a muscle. 

The more we use it the more powerful it gets until we are finding good in everything, even the things that most people would consider bad, challenging, scary. 

Negative images of reality drop away because anything negative becomes an access to salvation. To finding the good.

Finding the good is using the power of awareness to transmute reality - burn away the veil of our mental projections. Our egos are rooted in fear. Our egos are a bundle of thought-forms that have accumulated together to form an identity designed to keep us psychologically safe. Our physical safety is hard-wired into our biology. We don't think about dodging a thrown rock or a moving car. 

The ego projects its version of reality on top of what actually is. That's why some people are afraid to leave the house - the world isn't actually that terrifying, but to the ego's projections, it is that way. 

To find the good is to look beyond what the ego is projecting, to burn away the screen that the ego projects its images up on and to see reality as it actually is in the moment. 

That is what perceiving truth is.

(Modified from a letter to a friend)