Dislodge the Busy Beaver From Your Mind

You see now how the slightest negative emotion will cut you off from your Higher Self and prevent the flow of wisdom. You indulged in worry about your editing projects and getting them done on time. You failed to accept what is and be grateful for lessons learned. Instead, you stewed in the emotions of worry and fear and accompanying thoughts and emotions of self-recrimination and regret.

Negative emotions and thoughts are like the logs that dam up mountain streams. The ego is the busy beaver that cuts the trees and puts them in the stream of consciousness to damn it and cut it off from the Source of Wisdom. Eventually, the ego takes up residence in its lodge in your mind so that you're in a constant state of negativity, otherwise known as insanity.

What you must do to avoid this fate is to dislodge the busy beaver. Focus on one particular log, one negative thought and accompanying emotion and neutralize it, disidentify with it through the Three Pillars of The Way taught at awarenessnow.com. If you can do that, it will cause a breach in the dam and allow the flow of love and wisdom. The pressure of this flow will dislodge other negative thoughts and emotions, and, soon, the entire lodge will be swept away in a mighty flood of cosmic consciousness.

The ego is also like a parasite, a tapeworm for example, that takes up residence in your intestines and interferes with the flow of nutrients. One way to eliminate or dislodge a tapeworm is to stop feeding it. If you stop eating, it will shrivel up and die. So, go on a mental fast, a meditation retreat and avoid negative thoughts and emotions for a week or more. That will dislodge the ego from your mind so that you can use the energy from God for only positive, constructive things.

Focusing on one negative emotion and thought and going on a meditation retreat are just two ways of dislodging the ego and reestablishing flow and communion. There are many other ways. To find them, think of other examples in nature where there is a blockage to flow and how to correct it. For example, look at the collection of plaque in blood vessels. What is the cause of that and what is the cure? And what does the cure tell you about how to remove the egoic plaque from your mind?