INTEMPERANCE
When we lack the ability to apply our Will to our Purpose, streamlining our Behavior, Thoughts, and Actions to Right disciplines, Intemperance occurs. Whether that means indulgences in food and drink, sexual endeavors, spending, or risky behaviors, a pattern of Intemperance can throw us from the path and keep us from the path, traveling indefinitely in circles. How do we identify this, and how can we rectify it?
We have spoken to you before about circular thinking, and about looking for the places at which you attach your energies. Begin there, in seeing where your patterns lie. Quite often we attribute behaviors to part of our character—as colorful or unavoidable quirks—when we should be looking at these behaviors as aberrances and intruders. Upon finding these impediments to Right-Willed behaviors and Positive-Growth behaviors, we should immediately begin to negate them.
Chocolate is a pleasure to those who crave it. To have it in moderation is wonderful. To have it in such quantities that it replaces nourishing food and disrupts the body’s chemistry is destructive.
To consume alcohol is a delight—until pleasure has become an addiction—until the body begins to suffer and fail—until the social and work life are lost to its effects.
To seek sex, drugs, violence, or other high levels of stimuli at addictive frequencies can bring ruin. All of these examples are quite obvious. But what of the quiet, tiny, and white-noise type behaviors that run disruptive programs in the backgrounds of our days and nights, working as silent directors, driving our lives without our conscious knowledge?
What of the small anxieties, covetous fears, arbitrators of low self-esteem, fear-based greed, indecision, bullying, manipulation, and silent hate that flows through our thoughts, and manifests in so many outcomes each day? How many of these Intemperances—that we call human behavior and personality quirks—are self-allowed faults that keep us from personal and cosmic harmony?
Be honest; not perfect. Be aware; not willfully blind. Notice the plank in your own eye before pointing out the splinter in another’s.
This is not easy work. It is painful. It is destructive to the ego. It is necessary.
Which of your behaviors is most circular, most tiring, most demanding? Which behavior has you believing you are the least capable of changing? That behavior is riding at the surface, waiting for your attention—demanding your attention.
Look at this behavior as an un-involved observer would study it, outside time and social restraint. Can you see this behavior as if you have just come to your own culture from another time and another galaxy? Can you see this behavior in the context of Great All, how it works, from the aspect of how it affects the person perpetrating the behavior, and how it affects those persons influenced by the behavior? You will see that, observed in this way, the behavior looks very different to you.
Quite often, unmasking the behavior in its true form is the only thing needed to overcome its false power. You will begin to un-power the behavior, and deconstruct its forms and pathways, those automatic responses it has created in your thought structures. Let us say that you are working with a chocolate addiction.
You have just unmasked your ‘love of chocolate’ as a food addiction. You now realize that you crave this substance, using it as both a reward and a punishment. You realize that you eat this substance so often that you replace nourishing meals with its un-nourishing calories. You have been told by health professionals that your teeth and your organs are suffering due to your chemistry levels. What was once a ‘personality quirk,’ joked about with your friends, is now an Intemperance that you intend to correct.
Establishing the Intemperance is a crucial first step. You understand that a behavior is out of balance. The ideas of reward and punishment are universal and deeply rooted. Treatises to deal with those matters are out of scope for these communications at this time. Our intention is to make you aware of your subconscious habits, to understand that personality quirks and character flaws are often something more.
In the rules of microcosm/macrocosm, when we overpower anything through the use of Right Will, we form a template, an everlasting pattern that becomes part of our Song. Encountering any emotional condition becomes more manageable when we have a frame of reference, a template onto which we may apply its main points and study it. When we may look at things in the light, in diagram, in their reality if not their Truth, we have the opportunity to respond with greater authenticity.
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
Archives: April 8, 2015
photo by Pushpak Dsilva
