The True Reset
There are various moments on our journey toward reclaiming our sanity—which is another way of describing moving toward enlightenment—that we have an opportunity to begin again, or start over in our life. Some of these moments are during and after a crisis we’ve experienced, existential or otherwise. An example would be the genocides that are occurring in our world right now, and the lack of reverence for our planet. An appearance of loss or having a tremendous insight into Reality are other moments that carry the possibility of a great shift. Now, another popular moment in the world culture is the start of a new year. When the year on the calendar changes, people use this as a moment of greater resolve to change for the better in different areas of their life. Resolutions regarding exercise, eating healthy, meditating regularly, finding ways to contribute, learning a new skill or art form, finally making that move in one’s life that had procrastination written all over it before, or making an overall general improvement, flow into our decision-making for great change. In other words, we’re doing a reset.
The word “reset” is used intentionally here because it allows us to become aware that we are resetting, or coming back to, an original pattern or idea. In resetting our mindset, we know that the Divine Mind of the Infinite Presence is immaculate without flaw. We know that we are emanations of the Divine and have emerged as unique expressions of the Divine without flaw. As we have taken a human incarnation, our minds have been imprinted and even brainwashed with thought-forms and beliefs of separation, lack, scarcity, etc. which then manifest as our individual and collective experience (greed, wars, etc.). Through spiritual practices such as conscious intention setting, meditation, life visioning, daily forgiveness, activated affirmative prayer, and others, we come back to our flawless nature and become an avenue of true creativity, giving birth to something new and unadulterated.
Our heart space becomes purified and uncluttered of resentments and hate. Now as we think with our heart, which has more brain cells than the brain itself, love, compassion, and real kindness flow through us, and the possibility of peace and a world that works for highest within us all can manifest. It is a reset back to our original pattern, but through the impulse of Divine creativity, something new gets to be born. This is the paradox we are living in. As we come back to our original flawless nature and embrace our creativity, we are birthing something new that has never existed before. What a paradox to live in.
Richest Blessings,
The Rev