A Story of a Sensitive Soul

Most people know that stress has been called the silent killer. Yet, they continue to work themselves to death without ever truly realizing that they can only go so far before the mind and body begins to say,"enough is enough."We often need to awaken and"smell the coffee."If we don't drink coffee, then tea. Better yet, take some time to smell the roses.

Stress is a sneaky villain. This rascal steals the very life we'd love to live if we could only relax and enjoy it.

Stress is a fearful pressure, an unmerciful tyrant often leading us to repression. When we do that which we do not want to do long enough, we can't seem to do what we want to do and we become depressed beyond belief.

Man wasn't born to be subjugated by any person, place or condition. Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man rather than man made for the Sabbath. The same is true in regard to the earth. Man was not made for the earth but the earth was made for man. He is to take dominion (reign) by making a place for himself to be, to see, to enjoy the heaven of himself upon the earth plane.

The human known as the man or woman is a spiritual being who is talented with the Creative Intelligence of what we call God. He is ingenious in recognizing that he's more than an animal. He's capable of realizing that he's the animated life force of the Homo Sapien. Without him, the spirit, the Homo Sapien would be a corpse. With him, the spirit, he can give unto the Homo Sapien the kind of heavenly lifestyle that he has been empowered to have without question.

I believe that freedom is the essence of life. Without freedom life isn't worth living. Man begins to free himself from ignorance when he realizes his true station in life is that of being in the Presence of the Living God. In other words, feeling wonderful about himself.

Whatever God is man is also. God and man are One and the same, as are the Sun and sunshine. Each is to the other as akin to one another. They are affiliated because they are alike. It is impossible to separate them in reality. There isn't any difference between the two because the two are One in mind and One kindred spirit. God is free of undue influence. The same is to be true of man. He must learn not to allow himself to be influenced beyond sane reasoning. Whenever man is lead away from his own creative genius he is apt to go insane sooner than later.

There are three levels of consciousness that man must learn before he experiences fulfillment. First, he is to ensure that his survival needs are taken care of. Food, clothing and shelter are bodily needs. Second, he is to ensure his emotional needs are taken care of. The desire to love and be loved are affections personal unto himself. The third begins when the other two are secured. Man will then relax and begin to enjoy being the best charitable person he knows how to be for Christ sake.

I help a lot of people release psychic stress. When I finish with them they feel wonderful and pleasantly relaxed. All I do is get their attention as I am now doing with you. I tell them similar things as I have done thus far. I don't try and make them relax when they are so uptight that they can't think straight. I help them to temporarily take their mind off of the problem. I wait for them to cool down. I get their attention on me instead of themselves. I share with them things about myself that they would love to know to help them trust the fact that I know where they are coming from.

I believe that revelation breeds intimacy. I reveal myself to them as the way to help them relax with me. I don't try and act as though I am some professional therapist. God forbid! I do unto them what I want them to do with me. I relax myself in front of them. This helps them relax in front of me. I take the time to build a rapport with them. I not only give them my undivided attention I demand their undivided attention.

I let them know first hand that I know what they are going through. I've been there more times than I care to remember. There isn't any magic trick to unwinding and relaxing. It is just a matter of taking your attention off of what you don't want to experience and putting it on what you do want to experience.

I know the people who come to me are often uptight, searching for some therapy that will relieve them of the psychic stress they feel is unbearable. I wait until they calm down enough to hear what I've got to say that will be helpful. Before they realize it they are relaxed and releasing the frustration. It is then that we can work together to uncover the source of the problem with the intent to remove it. Afterwards, they are much clearer in their perspective. It is then that they begin to realize what appropriate actions they need to take to make the necessary changes in their life for the better. It seems ironic why it works, but it works time and time again.

I remember this one guy I worked with. He was the type of character that other people didn't want to deal with. They looked at him as someone who was trouble with a capital "T". In simple language, he had a bad attitude. I put myself in the place of the man and felt compassion for his sorry state of mind. As far as I was concerned, he was no different than other people. He had just let himself down so much that he was his own worst enemy. I'm the kind of guy that must give credit where credit is due. He was t he most determined man I've ever met. Not only was he negative but he was prepared to prove he had all the right reasons for being and staying that way.

It took us awhile to settle down with each other. I said a few things to him. He said a few things to me. We both could feel the tension in the air. If I didn't know better I would have sworn that I was going to get nowhere in being able to help him. I became more determined than he ever thought of being.

I decided to work with him just as long as he was willing to work against my effort to help him. I finally told him,"You must have one hell of a good reason to come to me. I don't think you came here just to prove to me that I can't help you. After all, it would be a waste of your time, energy and money."It was then that I saw an inkling of a smile upon his face. It was more of a smirk than a smile. Nevertheless, it was a beginning. The defensive mask was cracking. We were making progress. To be more exact, he was making progress in spite of his resistance to get the help he was seeking.

We continued having a conversation about his likes and dislikes for a few more minutes. I said to him,"Sam. Have you ever been hypnotized!"Hell no!"was his reply."I don't believe in that sort of thing."I didn't say anything. I just looked at him. He again spoke and said,"Some shrink tried to hypnotize me a long time ago. It didn't work. I can't be put under. I'm too strong minded."I started to laugh out loud. I must have laughed for about thirty seconds before he interrupted."What are you laughing at?"he s aid most seriously. I responded firmly."I've never seen anyone lie to themselves so well. You say that you have a strong mind and that you can't be put under. Take a look at yourself Sam. I mean a good look. You're so stressed out that you have one foot on the banana peel and the other in the grave. What do you mean you can't be put under? If you're not careful, you're subject to visit the undertaker. Who's kidding who?"What do you mean?"he snapped.

Sam! You are the kind of guy who knows he needs help but is so afraid that he will get the help he needs that you sabotage yourself before you begin."He didn't say anything. He just stared at me. His eyes were riveted upon my eyes very much like your eyes are upon this paper. His face was dead serious. He had opened up and expressed himself. Now he had to deal with the response I gave that pierced his heart. Rather than show some sort of emotion, he just stared at me. If looks could kill I was at that mome nt as good as dead. I just kept my composure while looking back at him with compassion in my heart. In a few moments I spoke.

Sam! Have you ever thought of making love to a woman but couldn't because the clothes she was wearing were in the way and kept you from getting down to it?

What? What in hell are you talking about? What has making love got to do with my problem?"he said arrogantly.

"Nothing", I said. He shook his head back and forth trying to clear the state of confusion. He couldn't believe he had heard me say what I did. I continued speaking my train of thought."Making love has nothing to do with it unless you look at it symbolically. See! You want help like you want to make love to a woman. You desire help just like you desire to make love. You can't get past my ego because of your own ego anymore than you can get the clothes off of the woman to make love unless she is in agreement.

Are you saying that you don't want to help me?"he inquired.

I have no problem helping you."I responded.

Then, what are you saying?"he asked.

I'm saying you are having a problem with your ego structure. Your mind is clothed in hypnosis. You are hypnotized by your upbringing. You are having a problem with anyone who represents an authority figure. So, in a funny way, you could say, go figure', because it does figure. If you were your own authority the whole world would seem right side up. It is upside down because you have lost control. Your imagination is running away with you.

"What do you mean?"he said.

You wouldn't be on the defensive if you were in control. You are imagining what is not true. I asked you if you were ever hypnotized? You said, no. I believe, that you believe, you aren't hypnotized. It doesn't change the facts. In truth, you are hypnotized. You've got a negative outlook because you are projecting the fears you imbibed at an early age. You're not really seeing people as persons. You're caught up in your head watching your dirty little movies.

You want help in dumping the excess garbage but are afraid of letting go. It is like fear has become an old friend as well as an old foe. This is why you are turning into your own worst enemy instead of your own best friend. All you know to do is pretend you are in control when you are not. It saddens you that you must defend yourself in the way you do.

He remained silent while I stared back at him. I waited a few moments and continued, but not before I noticed I had captivated his attention the same way I have done with you. He looked at me like I was the only person in the world that dared to talk to him this way.

Sam! Believe it or not, you are not the only one who has this problem. Millions throughout the world are hard on themselves. When you are hard on yourself, you are hard on others until you hardly have a friend left in the world, including yourself. People have been taught to be hard by their parents and every kind of imaginable form of peer pressure. It is not your fault anymore than it is the fault of others. In truth, deep down beneath the psychic stress you are probably a wonderful guy that everyone would love to get to know and cherish as a great friend. Your problem is that you don't know it. Oh, you might sense it. You might have had a glimpse of it every now and then. But, it isn't like you actually know it firsthand by experience. You haven't felt wonderful in your entire life and until you do the pain of frustration will get worse as long as you keep pushing away the greatest pleasure of getting to know yourself.

Sam began to speak candidly."What can I do?

You can begin to get to know yourself like no other, Sam!

How do I do that?"he asked.

You take it upon yourself to receive the gift of life"I responded.

What is the gift of life?

It is the knowledge of the Self within yourself, Sam!

How do I get that knowledge?"he asked in wonder.

Sam, it is the easiest thing you'll ever do. It is just a matter of opening up to it. It is simply a matter of letting go of what you are pretending to be, seeing for yourself that it has gotten you nowhere. You're sad because you've wasted your time. Now you can be glad that you have come to the point in your life where you can't afford to waste time anymore. The pain is telling you that you only have time left to do it. So, you invest whatever time you have left, to go right, into yourself until you disc over the truth firsthand.

I quit talking and looked directly at Sam. He didn't say anything for a few moments. When he realized I was waiting for him to respond to what I had just said, he opened up and spoke.

I don't know how to do what you are talking about.

You do and you don't"I responded.

What do you mean?"he asked.

Consciously, you don't and Unconsciously, you do. See! You consciously believe that you are Sam and/or the body personality of the flesh. You are unconscious to the fact of life that you are a Divine Perfect Spiritual Being that is absolutely aware of knowing all about what you need to know for safe keeping of your sanity. Do you understand what I am saying?

"No", he replied.

See! That proves my point. You are unconscious to the fact of life that you are not Sam and/or the body personality of the flesh. This is why you need to go inside and see for yourself that I have not lied to you. You are a Divine Perfect Spiritual Being who is on a mission to help the reformation of the mental body within the physical body. Get it?

What you are talking about sounds like psycho-babble. Just tell me what I have to do. The more you talk the more I am getting confused.

That's good, Sam. It means you are going to put yourself into a trance state. Everyone who gets confused puts themselves in a trance state. The confusion technique is a hypnotic principle of inducing a trance state. Hypno-therapists use it all the time. In fact, that's how politicians get themselves elected Sam. They shovel out tons of rhetoric upon the minds of the populace. In other words, confuse them to no end. By election time the electorate is entranced by one of the candidates, more so that the othe r. Consequently, like sheep going to slaughter, they line up at the poles and do the bidding of their hypnotic master. You're hypnotized Sam. You're just in a bad trance, that's all."

I thought we settled the subject of hypnosis"he said.

We did, Sam. You believe you can't be hypnotized. I disagreed with you. I believe you are hypnotized. In fact, I believe everyone is hypnotized by their upbringing. People go in and out of a hypnotic state everyday in every way. Whatever captures your attention for any length of time will put you into a hypnotic trance. You've done it when you've read an interesting book or a good story such as this. When in a hypnotic state you begin to feel pleasantly relaxed.

Can everyone be hypnotized?"asked Sam.

I sensed Sam was trying to play prove it with me. He was trying to make me into the shrink that he said tried to hypnotize him long ago. I thought carefully before I answered. I just looked at him intently without showing any facial expression. I knew his thought. If I said, yes, he was going to tell me that I couldn't hypnotize him. So, I just kept looking into his eyes while allowing my eyes to look as though they were tired, drowsy and droopy. Then, I responded.

Sam! Of course! That is to say, anyone with normal intelligence can be hypnotized. Everyone but the few who make themselves into idiots because they like to play dumb.

Sam remained quiet. He didn't say a word. He just stared back at me. What Sam didn't notice was that I could see his eyes looking tired, drowsy and droopy. He was blinking more now than before. His eyelids were getting ready to flutter. He was calming down. Soon he would tire in fighting what he wanted the most, simply to relax and release the psychic stress that had come upon him by incorrect thinking in relationship to himself and others.

Are you open to suggestion, Sam?

What do you mean?"he responded.

I want to tell you a short story. I suggest you listen to it because I truly believe it will help you. In fact, it would help everyone who hears it. Could you bear with me for a few minutes? I think it will be worth your while.

Go ahead"he said.

All people have ears but not all people listen. All people have eyes but not all people see. So, I suggest that you listen while you hear that what you need to see is what I am talking about so you'll get the message of the story.

All right, already, get on with the story"he said impatiently.

I just laughed at him and began my story.

I am a man like any other man. I have two natures. One I like and the other doesn't like me. The one I like doesn't like me and the one I don't like loves to control my mind.

I feel I am like all men.

I have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind.

I like the pleasure all men love.

I had a mother and a father and I am the child of both.

I believe that people don't know anything about me but I had at least an average education; I went to grade school; I have lectured to people in nearly every walk of life; I had learned to count to twenty easily. I could count to twenty; by one, by twos, fours, fives, or tens; I could write my name. Twenty was a counting game I played with my friends when there wasn't anything else to do. When I count to twenty I feel wonderful, relaxed and happy with myself. In fact, everyone who learns to count to twenty like I do can't help but experience the same wonderful feeling of pleasant relaxation. It is just a matter of understanding the purpose of counting to twenty.

Now, of course, whenever I count to twenty, you can go into a hypnotic trance that will change your polarity from negative to positive. I am talking to you, Sam. I could let you read the story like I do others, and you could just as easily enter into a hypnotic trance as they can and do. I don't have to tell it. I can just let people read the story. They could just as easily enter the hypnotic trance state as the people who hear me tell the story. It doesn't matter whether I tell it or write it. The whole idea is that counting to twenty can put everyone into a positive hypnotic trance state where they can experience well being.

I like eating meat and potatoes. I guess I do because I am Irish. That might not be a fact but it could be part of the reason.

I like strawberries for dessert after eating a great meal.

I like coffee after I eat.

I like to take a walk after dinner.

I looked intently into the eyes of Sam the same as these words appear before your eyes on the paper and said,"I had four boys and four girls - that makes eight. They really come cheaper by the dozen, you know.

With that, guess what, Sam immediately went into a trance state where he greatly relaxed and released the psychic stress causing him to be insane.

Sam had come to me for help. Help that he didn't know was help. I helped him enter into his subconscious mind by distracting his conscious mind, the critical mentality that had blocked him from taking control of the imagination that had run away with him. As I looked at Sam, he seemed relieved because he was enjoying himself as I hope you do while reading this story.

Sam didn't know what a hypnotic trance happened to be. He came in hypnotized but didn't know it. What he didn't know was what I knew. He was in a negative trance state of being down rather than up on himself. I used the same principles to help him that hurt him. He confused himself by misunderstanding himself and other people. I intentionally confused him to side track his conscious mind that was acting like a guard dog, preventing him from getting the help that he sought. Namely, to close down the analyzer so that he could clear his mind of the negative mentality that was causing him to feel uptight. By spending time with him, getting to know him, taking the path of least resistance, I was able to let Sam, as well as you, do unto himself what you need to do as often as possible. In other words, RELAX.

Now, I don't know about you. I do know about Sam. I looked at Sam for a few minutes. I let him savor the experience. Then, I told him things that I would have loved to hear if I were in his place and position. Things of truth that we all need to know for safe keeping of our sanity.

Sam! Listen to me carefully. Your eyelids are open and staring at me. You have a far away look in your eyes. The problems you had when you came in here have disappeared. So, in effect, what was bothering you is not bothering you now. I could have just as easily had you read what I am saying than to say it to you aloud. You could have sat in a chair and read the words I speak and feel the same way as you do now. In fact, everyone in your situation can experience the same wonderful feeling of pleasant relaxation. It is just a matter of following along. In other words, flow with it. It doesn't have to make sense. It just has to be interesting.

I am interesting. You are interesting. All is interesting when we take an interest. We have had an interesting time together because we've taken an interest in the other and what the other needed to do to help and be helped.

You are a wonderful person. Every cell in your body feels loose, limp and relaxed. Your subconscious mind is open and free to expel every ounce of negativity. In fact, it must because the subconscious mind operates upon truth when it is affirmative.

You will know when the negativity is being expelled because there will be tingling in your hands and/or fingertips. Also, you will begin to experience an undying urge to yawn and your life force energy will be liberated. When you feel the urge to yawn, allow it to take place. The more you do the clearer your mind will become for the better. Problems will fade away like clouds being cleared away by the sun. Colors will appear to be brighter.

Sam was helped by me. You may have been helped without first knowing it. If so, I am happy for you. All that happened was you allowed yourself to enter a trance state where your subconscious mind responded to what I shared in written word. You are open to a great life because the great God of your Creative Intelligence is working on your behalf. You are a Divine Perfect Spiritual Being that is unlimited in potential. In other words, a sensitive soul who can hear and see what is good for him or her.

When you feel free enough to do so come visit us and explore the greatest power you'll ever know - namely, yourself!

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