Sometimes the simplest ideas can be easily missed and this can leave us open to manipulation and hold us back. Personal evolution means removing limiting thought forms.. and there are plenty to remove!
Most of us can understand the idea of a template and the way that templates are used to define the way a thing will be done. Templates for drawing, templates for making music, templates for building houses and so on. Templates can be adapted and changed to make more unique results, but they ensure that each 'thing' that is made from them shares some qualities with the other 'things' that are also made from it.
Humans are also being molded according to templates. Standardised schooling policy is one of the main enforcers of template thought patterns and thus template behaviours. Religions also try to condition people (often children) with templates. We also create our own templates and inherit them from our ancestors.
Some mental/emotional/behavioural templates are beneficial - they help us to achieve things effectively. Since templates can contain pretty much anything at all, it is possible for some people's templates to be so open and adaptable that these people seem to be so free in their thinking - as if they have no templates. However, the templates are there all the same, in most cases.
Every person's mental/spiritual template is different, but some are MUCH more rigid and limited than others. Think about the millions of pieces of software and apps that are available for phones/computers - some have MANY more features than others, while some are totally broken. The templates in people are the same.
The KEY realisation to integrate regarding our own templates is that they MUST include the ability to EVOLVE. This is akin to upgrades for software in devices. Without upgrades, the device WILL fail as the world around it changes and evolves. If our own templates of thoughts, emotions and patterns aren't evolving, we WILL fail too.
The Driving Force of Human Evolution
Many people have thought that it is logic and thoughts that drive our destiny - but this is only part of the truth. Without the emotions and passion that guide our thinking, we lack the personal and vibrational power to truly evolve at all.
Without emotions letting us know that we like or dislike some things/patterns/choices - we are left only with judgements, guesswork and basically nothing substantial. Emotions and intuition need to be felt to be understood and those who do so consistently will soon reap the benefits. Note: this also requires us to clean out our thought patterns and stagnant emotions in order to receive the message of present moment emotions accurately.
Acceptance of Emotion
Many of us contain a variety of dysfunctional programs and conditioning within our inherited and 'gifted' templates that have us heavily denying emotion and thus which literally stop us from evolving, adapting and breaking free of unloving control.
By unconditionally accepting how we really feel, we are being loving to ourselves and by expressing all feelings safely and as sounds that vibrate - we allow our feelings to feel free and to evolve too.
Template Oppression
The more you understand the dynamics involved here, the more it will become apparent that certain groups in society have known about this for a long time and have sought to abuse their knowledge of it. Instead of sharing these understandings and empowering others, they have sought to control the templates of others and implant them with limitations - while also removing the understandings on how to improve matters.
They have done this in an attempt to win at a power struggle that need not exist at all. Such dysfunction is based on misunderstanding and struggle that needs to end now.
Every belief that, for example, says "I must not speak up" - perhaps that originates in schooling - or that says "Some of my emotions are wrong/unaccaptable" - that may result from alleged 'authorities' commanding us to be silent or 'sit still' - can all form the bars of our own silent prison.
Look at the similarity between the rules of schools and the rules of prisons and you will start to notice more of what I am pointing to.
Wishing you liberation!
Ura Soul
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