There is a law; irrevocably decreed in heaven
before the foundations of this world
upon which all blessings are predicated.
And when we obtain any blessing from God,
it is by obedience to that law
upon which it is predicated
– D & C 130:20-21
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In this article, I would like to share one of my favorite concepts that I have learned since I started learning about the Human Potential and the power of the mind.
It’s called – the principle of “Let Go and Let God”.
The other name I gave this principle is “The process of Submission”.
If we see the meaning of the word submission it says – “submission is the action of accepting or yielding to a superior force or to the will or authority of another.”
It doesn’t seem related to the concept of freedom. Right?
But I’m gonna tell you that it’s not just related, it is one and the same thing.
I am talking about the submission of our desires to a superior power for their manifestation.
If we look back carefully in our whole life, every one of us would find that there were moments in our life where we truly wanted to do something or have something but we couldn’t, because there was a wall of conditions, lack, powerlessness, fear, etc. which caused us to think that it is not possible for ‘me’, and we secretly or openly wished to submit this desire of ours to a greater power which can bring it into our life for us.
How amazing would it feel if there was a power in your life at your command asking you- what do you want to experience in your life, so I could make it yours?
How you would have lived your life then?
Think about all the years that you have spent on the planet and all the genuine desires you had during that time which just remain the desires.
Think about how you would be living your life today if you had experienced all of those desires?
Who would you become today in that alternate reality?
I am sure that in that alternate reality you would become someone that you would fall in love with, you would never wanna be anybody else but that version of you.
Now think about what would you be doing with your time in that alternate reality, what new experiences you would be adding to the beautiful canvas of your life, where would you be moving forward from today in terms of your physical, mental, and spiritual growth in that alternate reality?
Do you like this alternate reality of your life so much so that you would be willing to do whatever you have to do in order to exchange your present-day life with the rest of that alternate reality?
If yes, then I would like to tell you that this exchange offer is available, and it is available for everyone.
In order to make this exchange for you, you have to understand the power that is working with and through you, and then you have to learn the concept of submission.
The Omnipresent Universal Power
Throughout Human History all the religions have been teaching us about a power that is eternal, omnipresent, and almighty.
The problem with this is that they all put different names and symbols to describe it, so we get confused about what to believe and what not to.
Now, the best thing about this time is that science has begin to involve in learning about this power and how it works.
A scientific study of any force is based on observations to find some common factors to understand the force and how it does what it does.
In the same manner, a branch of science is now dedicated to learning about this field of intelligence that is all around us.
We may not be able to see it but we can feel its presence as we connect with it, and when we are connected with it we can improve the quality of our life and the quality of the world we are a part of.
This intelligence is a loving intelligence and we are a living part of it.
It is the universal consciousness that is aware of and connected to every form of existence and every one of us is an individual consciousness that is part of this universal consciousness.
What does that mean?
There are many ways to perceive it, to describe it, and to understand it. So I am going to express some of my understanding of this power that I call ‘The Eternal Spirit’.
The Eternal Spirit
The Eternal means which has no beginning and no end, and Spirit means the unseen source of life all around us that is giving us life.
So, the eternal spirit is all intelligent, all-powerful, all-knowing, 100% evenly present in all places at the same time, and it is connected to every atom that is part of its physical manifestation.
Now think of this as you are in the middle of a sea and you are going deeper in the water, it doesn’t matter where you go or where you are in there, the ultimate truth remains the same which says- you are in the water.
In the same manner, it doesn’t matter where we are or what we do, the ultimate truth remains the same- we are always in the presence of the Eternal Spirit.
Now, if it is always present and always paying attention to every form of its expression simultaneously, including us, then it becomes essential for us to understand how this power expresses and manifest itself within and through us.
Human beings are the highest form of its expression, and within us, it put the ability to identify ourselves as an individual self which is part of a greater self.
The eternal spirit expresses itself through all the other forms of life with a predetermined set of rules and those life forms always live into the boundaries of those rules because they don’t have the ability to choose or create, they are just the way they are.
When it comes to expressing itself through the human form of life, it didn’t put any limits.
There are no limits to the potential from which we can choose, and there are no limits to what we can create because there are no final boundaries for human potential and growth, it’s infinite.
We are a life form just like every other form, and there is a mechanism set in every expression of life, for example – mechanism of the growth of a plant, mechanism of growth in animals, and the mechanism in the growth of a human body. It’s all happening automatically or we can say subconsciously.
There is also a mechanism in place through which our thoughts and feelings are creating our experiences.
The ones who do not have an understanding of this mechanism, for them, their past experiences create their thoughts and feelings, those thoughts and feelings produce the same kind of experience, which attracts more thoughts of the same nature which produce the same experience, over and over again.
However, the ones who do have an understanding of this mechanism, they learn and practice to control their thoughts and feelings, and then they create the experiences they desire and live a life full of love, care, compassion, abundance, and they found a sense of completion within themselves.
The Universal Mind
There is only one mind ‘The Universal Mind’, and you and I have individual minds that are part of this universal mind.
This universal mind is an infinite source of information or thoughts and when we start paying attention to something or someone we start drawing thoughts from the universal mind.
This mind knows everything, it knows all the possible ways to turn our desires into physical experiences, it has no limits on it, the only limits it has, are the limits placed on the channel through which this universal mind expresses itself as individual mind i.e. you and me.
How the Eternal Spirit flows through us
Most of the time, almost 95%, we are operating through our subconscious mind, only 5% of the time we operate with our conscious mind.
The subconscious mind is the spiritual mind or we can say the mind of the Eternal Spirit that is connected to our conscious mind which is the intellectual mind or we can say the mind of you and me.
Desires are the beginning of all creation, and desire begins in the conscious mind.
When we desire something and think about it, and dream about having that desire fulfilled, then we would start attracting thoughts in our conscious mind in two opposite polarities.
One of them would try to tell us why this desire of ours can’t be fulfilled, and the other would try to tell us the possible and probable ways to fulfill that desire.
Out of those two sides whichever side we choose to focus on would determine what would be the outcome of our efforts.
Most of the people focus on what they don’t want to experience rather than focusing on what they do want to experience.
Very few people understand and learn to control their thoughts and feelings through which they can focus only on the thoughts of what experiences they want to have, they build in their mind a vivid imagination of their desired experience as if they are already having the experience.
They visit back in their mind and relive it, and they do it over and over again because they know that the subconscious mind does not know the difference between a real experience and an experience created through an imagination by thoughts alone, to the subconscious both experiences are as real.
They change their frequency of vibration into a harmonious match to the frequency of that experience, and then that experience and they start being attracted towards each other, and they in a matter of time live and experience the physical manifestation of their desires.
Submission
When you have a vision in your mind and you have decided that you are going to stick with your vision and work for it every day, no matter how hard or long the path is, then you have activated the creative side of your being.
When you reach that definiteness of purpose and a state of mind willing to stand by it through anything, you reach on to the highest side of your being.
When you have a clear goal and a clear intention with a clear vision of your desired life, and you believe in your heart that this vision will manifest into your physical reality at the right time, and then you let go and let God, you are submitting this vision to the Eternal Spirit for its manifestation.
The process of submission must be understood if we truly want to control the results of our life, I would like to share my simple model of understanding of the process of submission and the flow of the Eternal Spirit to and through us, which I have also shared in my book “The Law of Life – Basic Principles for a Better Life”,
“I believe that I am a part of the Eternal Spirit, and the Eternal Spirit is perfect, which means a part of me is perfect.
The Eternal Spirit is expressing itself through different forms of life and I am one of them which means that the eternal spirit is expressing itself through me as well.
Here is the interesting part-
It put limits of its expression through all other life forms of creation, but when it came to expressing itself through human form, it did not limit itself.
It gave Human Beings the ability to think and put infinite potential within them and leave the choice on them to decide how much of this power they want to use and how they would like to express this great power.
It means I have the same ability and potential through which I can choose any image in my mind that I want to experience, feel it to be real in my heart, and turn it over to the Eternal Spirit and then it will express itself in my life according to my image.
My faith in its perfection and my expectation of the manifestation of my image will determine the speed of the process of manifestation.
Eternal spirit always expresses itself perfectly which means if I am having trouble in getting the results that I want; the problem must be somewhere in my thinking or in my faith.
If I can bring order in my thinking through faith, the Eternal Spirit will express itself accordingly in order to bring the results that I want.
The eternal spirit is a power that wants to give me everything I want, but it won’t give me anything until I become ready to receive it.
So, I must always be ready to receive the good that I desire, which means I have to do my work first, and the roots of all the work that I have to do, is in my thinking.
So, My day now begins with deciding what kind of thoughts I am going to carry in my mind today, and it ends with analyzing what was the order of my thinking.
And then I learn from the mistakes that I made, so I could hold better thoughts and demonstrate better behavior the next day.
With better thoughts, I would feel better, and with better feelings, I would provide better service.
The eternal spirit would take care of the rest. “
Natural Order of the Creative process
The Order of the creative process can be seen anywhere in nature.
For example, the creative process of a seed becoming a tree, in the beginning, there is a little seed, it has a frequency at which its energy particles are vibrating, and this frequency is connected to the potential tree that already exists in the unified field of energy and information.
Understand that the seed and the potential tree are in harmonious vibration which means they are bound to attract each other and become one, but until the seed is put into the earth the attraction process will not begin.
Once the seed is put into the earth and given proper nurturing, the attraction process will begin to work immediately, and then the energy particles in earth would start moving towards that seed and it would start growing, it would slowly come out of earth as a little plant, then it would attract more energy from the field and would grow more branches, and with a predefined speed of growth, it will eventually become the tree it was supposed to become.
Now, come to you and me, we are the highest form of life on earth.
Our body is composed of five basic elements earth, water, fire, air, and space.
Each of these five elements carries in it a unique essence or information. As our body is composed of those elements, we carry in us the essence of those elements.
So if you ever try to ponder over one of those elements you are actually learning about yourself.
So, when you have a goal in your mind or a desire that you want to experience. What you actually have is a thought or an idea in your conscious mind; it’s exactly like that little seed which has not been put into the earth yet.
Now, as long as you have that idea in your conscious mind, it has a frequency at which this idea is built, and it is connected to the potential expression of that idea in the unified field of energy and information, but the process of attraction will not begin until it is planted in the subconscious mind.
In order to plant that idea or goal image in your subconscious mind, you have to sit in a relaxed state and imagine yourself as the person who has already achieved this goal.
Think of how you are feeling in there at that moment, and try to bring that feeling into your body.
As you know, the subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between a real event or an event we create in our mind through imagination by thoughts alone, it will take it as the event is taking place and it will start preparing the body for the experience.
It’s like putting the seed into the earth, once it’s there then natural order of the creative process will kicks in, and what you want would start to manifest in your life, just like that seed which became a plant, then a bigger plant, and finally a tree.
Your thoughts would become more focused on your goal, you will be feeling the upcoming success, and you will demonstrate it in your behaviors, and then it’s just a matter of time before your dream becomes your reality.
Once you have planted your idea into the subconscious mind, you have actually submitted this idea to the Eternal Spirit, then the Eternal Spirit would take over and it is a power which works in a perfect order, so it would bring your idea into your reality in a way that it would most benefit you in order for you to grow into a greater expression of yourself.
Now, most important thing to understand is that when we start to entertain a new idea in our mind and it is not consistent with our current belief system then the old conditioning or belief system in the subconscious mind would send signals into our brain, and we would start hearing voices in our head which would try to convince us to give up this new idea and return back to our old conditioning.
It would feel like there are two minds, one is thinking about what do we want, and the other is thinking about why we can’t have it.
Each of these minds would try to influence the other, in order to become ‘one’ mind.
Now, if we respond to those voices, which says it doesn’t feel right, start tomorrow, you are never going to change, you have so much work to do, etc, as if it’s true, then the old conditioning of the subconscious would take over, and it would cause us to think the same old thoughts, which will cause to feel the same old feelings, which will cause to demonstrate the same old behaviors, and the same old experience would be drawn into our life all over again.
However, if we make a firm decision that I am going to stick with my goal and I am going to work for it until I achieve it, and we silence those voices through the understanding of what’s causing them.
Then the conditioned mind would have no choice but to make this new belief system as a default conditioning, and once that happens then the mind and the body would be working together in harmony, then what you want would have to come to you because that’s the way creation of human mind works.
It would be exactly like a seed which has been put into the earth and its nurturing has been taken care of, then as sure as this seed will become a tree, your dreams would become your reality.
If you want to learn more about the process of submission and the power that is flowing to and through us…
Read my book – The Law of Life – Basic Principle for a Better life
There are two chapters by the names ‘Submission’, and ‘TheTruth’, read them carefully and multiple times.
For a greater and deeper understanding of this power and how it works,
Read Gregg Braden’s book-
The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles and Belief
And if you want to get a simple and easy understanding of this concept of submission,
read Bob Proctor’s book-
There is a chapter by the title ‘Let go and Let God’, read this chapter very carefully, read it as many times as you have to, until it becomes part of your personality, and then it will set you free.
Thank you very much for your time.
Er. PARVEZ ALAM
(Author of The Law of life – Basic Principles for a Better Life)