Day 10 - I will change my mind today
Now that you have done your best to identify both types of grievances you must take steps to neutralize them. To do this the seeker must start with the mind for both types. The reason we start with the mind with Type Two (emotionally based grievances) as well as Type One is that the mind may hold a subtle, but unrecognized grievance. You may think you have forgiven your father for what he did to you but maybe there still lingers a residual grievance in both your mind and emotions. Maybe you have not yet justified forgiveness in your mind.
Therefore, the first step for any grievance is to make sure the mind is not harboring any condemning thoughts toward others.
Reprogramming the mind requires a logical argument in a new direction. One has to examine how it is thinking now and talk it into changing its mind.
Let us take the accident with Jim and Bob. Jim’s mind enhances the grievance because it is thinking like this:
“Bob was driving carelessly. If he had been paying attention the accident would not have happened. Bob knew better than to take that corner so fast. The injuries I suffer are totally Bob’s fault and he should suffer and pay. As it is, he only had a few scratches and is not suffering at all.”
Notice the general trend of thinking which is basically this: The guy who seemed to cause the grievance is not suffering enough and needs to suffer more.
Fortunately for you, your mind is programmed by your conscious self. You merely have to make definite decisions about the direction of the programming.
Suppose you are Jim and want to release your friend from your condemnation. What do you send to your mind to change its program?
First Jim would start with the obvious. Bob has apologized and feels bad about the accident. He didn’t mean for it to happen.
Jim then thinks of the times that he was careless but was lucky enough to not have an accident that injured someone. There were a number of times it could have happened and then someone would have a grievance toward him. Jim could have been in Bob’s shoes numerous times in his life.
This type of reasoning is helpful, but it often is not enough, so Jim must go further. He must explain to his mind that holding a grievance toward Bob, not only hurts Bob, but hurts himself. Nothing good is accomplished by the grievance. Not only does the grievance cause emotional hurt to Jim, but it is physically dangerous.
Why?
Because a grievance causes blockages of the vital life energy which can lead to all kinds of physical debilitation and disease. It is not worth holding it for this reason alone.
But most important for this course is that a grievance places dark clouds between the seeker and the light of his own soul. The heavens will seem to be tightly closed to him who holds a grievance.
The seeker has a lot of logical ammunition to convince the mind to let the grievance go. There is no benefit in keeping the grievance and many benefits to letting it go. When this is realized no mind can make a case for keeping the grievance.
The assignment today is to examine any grievance that may still have an effect on you and reason with the mind about it, similar to what we have done here. Then end with this affirmation:
“There is no logical reason to keep his grievance. I have everything to gain and nothing to lose by letting it go. I now release it to be gone forever.”
For successful reprogramming you may need to apply this exercise a number of times.
Copyright by J J Dewey
Hunting God: A HowTo, Day 9 - The Two Grievances
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