Do you ever get the feeling that there is something holding you back? Something that stops you being who you want to be, doing what you want to do, or having what you want to have, but you have no clue what it is? It’s like a block or an invisible obstacle that hangs over you when you know everything should be ok?
These a Prime Concerns: Unfulfilled Values that are deeply unconscious, and cannot be fulfilled. They are like missing values, which is why they feel like a “hole” or “void”. They create loops or patterns in your life. We try to deny prime concern by ‘being busy’ – engaging in activities that don’t involve the mind being still. Usually involves in running around like a fool doing things that seems important but you, in your heart truly know they are not. This is one of the reasons people find it so hard to do silent, contemplation-types of meditation.
So, why we do have prime concern, and what can we do about then? In fairness, prime concerns is a bit of a fancy title from the world of NLP, but it doesn’t take from their deeper meaning. Let me give you an example, let’s say a womain gives birth to a child, but the child dies, and due to a complication, she is told that she can’t have any more children. She may come to terms with the grief and the implications, and evey say that “I have dealt with it” – and she has, from a surface level, but the deep seated values have never been addressed. The deep desire within herself to raise that ‘lost child’ and hold that child in her arms may result in a whole lifetime of substitutes. Working with children, or maybe having several pets that she calls her ‘baby’ – whatever the coping mechanism is, it’s will probably result in the same thing – a sense of not being true to your self when you have given something your very best.
In my case, I had rejected the Catholic Religious upbringing I had been raised with, and ‘found myself’ again through personal development and meditation. But it wasn’t until I looked at this prime concern, that I really could let it go and embrace the path I’m on now.
That path does not have a name, because I believe that Raising Consciousness does not involve laws, rules, religion, cults, creeds, or initiation. I believe that raising consciousness is something that naturally happens when one comes from a place of compassion, and that there is only one step between this and being an animal. That step is the distance from the Solar Plexus (3rd Chakra) to the Heart Chakra. What allows that step to happen? The belief that we are not alone. The fact that we work together better in a social group, like the bees of a swarm working as one, we can work as one to raise consciousness and build a better world.
Eastern philosophy suggested that we are born into a state of ecstasy, and anything that draws us away from that state, and away from flow will be one of the following: Something you are not doing, Someone you are not being, or Something you are not having.
So, as you listen to the following musical masterpiece, consider the following:
What are you not doing that you really want to do?
What are you not having that you really want to have?
Who are you not being that you really want to be?
Sat Nam.
