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Iman -
Personal Security
Everything is built on personal security or the perceived absence thereof. Personal security is the "Feeling" of Love. Love is the basis of all things but the manifestation of its perception is in the feeling of personal security. Iman in Arabic means many things. It's often translated as faith and belief, but trust, security and confidence fit into it also. So Islam (Surrender) brings Iman (trust through knowing and experience, and security through feeling) both of which come from and lead to the Perfection that is God (Ihsan). And confidence comes from the same source. That's why the confident teach and raise (Tarabbah) those with less. It's the nature of parenting (Tarbiyyah) and growing up, the process of maturation, of overcoming what we refer to as the natural inferiority (as in a child who does not know how to do and accomplish things overcomes his/her feeling and experience of ineptitude through the guidance of those who have mastered the process, whatever it may be.) Personal Security is only real if it abides during and withstands the testing of outward hardship. It's easy to feel secure if and when your circumstances are secure, but it's only superficial if it holds up only under secure outward circumstances. For this reason hardships exist and are expected, even desired portions of life. For they test and build the mettle of our interior strength and security, and force us to find it when it's missing. And all this is so that our transition, which is an inevitable reality of life and a common goal for us all, may be handled with the Reality for the realization of which life itself was created. Preemptive poverty is a deliberate defensive aversion. An aversive subconscious has been commanded so by the soul. The soul commands the sub-conscious as its mission is to protect the heart and its desires and creativity. And it is the sub-conscious that commands the body's real attractions and aversions while the so-called conscious mind pretends, wishes, analyses and desires. So while the conscious is planning, scheming and conniving to get rich or something, it is in reality simply affirming that it is poor (the opposite of whatever it is affirming it needs or wants) and rather than addressing the source of the problem, which of course it does not really want to do because it too is in obedience to the subconscious, it whiles away its time making excuses and dreaming of solutions. But it rarely works to focus on the imagined remedy. It's much more effective to focus on discovering and removing the cause of the problem. The reality of the problem is due to the power of control that the sub-conscious has over the body and its universe. This force continues because the decision that initiated it has yet to be reversed. The source of that decision is the soul. The source of the force controlling the subconscious is a command that the soul gave it due to a decision made for some momentarily strategic reason to protect the heart, and it is well known that the subconscious is an obedient servant. Until that decision is revisited and reversed, it will continue to be held and acted upon by the obedient subconscious. Only when the subconscious has realized that it is safe and has been thoroughly recognized for its power will it consider the possibility that that particular control is no longer necessary and release it so that the heart's true desires may actually come back into life. In order to release the force of the subconscious, the command of the soul must be reversed but this will not happen until the soul is convinced that the heart is safe. Convincing the soul that the heart is safe is accomplished through the liberation of self-realization. Liberation is the quest of the soul, for it is only in liberation that personal security may be found and the heart be freed. When the soul sees that the heart is free it can then consciously command the subconscious, and the subconscious will do as it is commanded. I can see clearly how, in my subconscious mind, I deny myself and refuse my heart's desires. My subconscious is programmed for denial, not for acquisition. It has adopted a permanent posture of preemptive self-denial. It simply says no, all the time, and thereby averts the no that it feels the world has for it. And where did it pick up that notion? You are what you are because that's what you subconsciously want. That's what your subconscious wants. It wants that for a reason that may not be up to date, but the subconscious takes commands, it does not work autonomously. In order to change your circumstance, you must change what is in your heart - the commands held by your subconscious. I am who I want to be, and I want to be who I am, that's why I am who I am because it's who I want to be - complete with all disfunctions which are also desired for some reasons that may be out of date. |