Since we are on the subject of Unity Consciousness, let’s take a look at action for a moment so that we better understand it in a broader context.
So often, we hear self-help gurus and motivational speakers talk about the importance of taking action because when it comes to living your dream life, action is definitely an important and necessary component of the success equation. It is true that you must take action, however, action need not be forced or rushed. Forced action is unsustainable and it is a sign that you do not really trust that things are working out for you. On the other side of the coin, it also doesn’t work to avoid correct action by taking other less productive actions as a means of escape.
Generally people fluctuate back and forth between forcing certain actions and avoiding certain other actions. This is because most people do not have a correct understanding of what action is or where action comes from. They do not understand how to align their thoughts and emotions correctly to produce True Action. Most people have a strange or even unhealthy relationship to action itself because they do not understand the appropriate relationship one should have to action, they do not see action as it really is.
Action is when we move from thinkingness into the doingness. We could say action begins at the point where our thoughts and emotions begin to interact with the physical world. In this sense, speaking and writing could also be considered a form of action. All actions have an underlying motivation. It is the “why” or reason for the action. One person may choose to exercise because they want to feel their best and live a long and healthy life. Another person may choose to exercise because they hate the way they look in a bathing suit. The underlying motivation matters in terms of the quality of action it produces. Two people could be taking the same actions from an outside perspective, yet one produces a positive outcome and the other does not.
However, discerning our motivations for action can sometimes seem difficult as we may have multiple motivations for what we are doing and some of these thoughts or beliefs may be unconscious to us. Unconscious beliefs impact us just as much as conscious beliefs, if not more. Their hidden nature wreaks havoc on our lives until they are brought into the light where they can be seen, understood and transmuted into higher and truer thoughts/beliefs.
When I say that you may be holding thoughts in your mind that are incongruent with each other (and the Truth) it is important to remember that unconscious thoughts are included in this statement. Many of the thought patterns that are playing out in our lives exist somewhere below our conscious awareness. In this way, it is entirely possible to have an ostensible reason for doing something while our actual motivations remain unconscious to us. Resolving our incongruent thoughts takes a willingness to examine ourselves and confront the truth of how we feel. We must have a dedication and loyalty to the Truth and be willing to take an honest look at ourselves if we want to live in a state of unity consciousness.
For example, when I was young, I had a calling to learn to play the piano. This desire to play the piano was a true motivation that seemed to come from a higher place in me. When I first heard my mother play, something clicked inside of me. I wanted to experience the joy of creating music. I was compelled to pursue more of this feeling and so I asked my mother if I could take piano lessons. Looking back I can see that this was an action that came from correct thinking; an inspired moment of intuition. This is why it ultimately led to my ability to play the piano which I deeply enjoy still to this day.
Even so, the manifestation of this ability was not a straight and easy path for me because once I started to get good at the piano, I noticed that people gave me favorable attention and love whenever I played. Since I also happened to have some deep and painful feelings of being unloved and unwanted at the time, I began seeking validation by playing the piano and singing for people. As I got older, I would feel uncomfortable around people until I could play a song for them and show them that I was valuable. They always seemed to like me more once they heard me play. Making music for others became a drug for me. It was a button I could push over and over again to temporarily feel loved, or more precisely, to not feel unloved. I wasn’t fully aware that I was doing this. These thought patterns were mostly unconscious to me. Even if I knew what I was doing, I didn’t know why I needed the validation so much or how to fix it.
While this was happening, the inspiration to feel the joy of music didn’t go anywhere. It was simply being displaced by another motivation (why) that was less true and less congruent with reality. It was not true in reality that I was unloved and unwanted. It was a feeling and story (subjective perspective) that had been playing out unconsciously. However, because I thought and felt that it was true (even though it wasn’t) it impacted me nonetheless. I had two thought patterns going on at the same time. I had both the desire for joyful expression and a compulsion to escape feeling unloved occurring simultaneously within me, yet the latter had become more predominant than the former.
Over time, as I became more aware (conscious) of these patterns in my thinking, I began to resolve these feelings of being unloved using the same insights, principles and axioms contained in this blog. Awareness was the key because it gave me the ability to choose to overcome or transcend this pattern that was playing out in my life. The more I understood that these thoughts were not the True Reality, the more I began to know and believe that I was lovable and wanted. Knowing this meant I could stop seeking external validation as a compensation for not being loved or wanted.
As I transcended these patterns (changed my thoughts) my music became predominantly about experiencing joy again. My true motivation had returned as my predominant motivation and so my thoughts, emotions and actions were more in unity with each other. I began to experience higher degrees of inspiration more frequently. Simply put, I was happier. My natural desire to play began to occur more frequently again. The songs I wrote felt more natural and authentic to me. Other people even started telling me that my music had gotten better, and although this was nice, I didn’t feel like I needed the validation anymore. I felt confident around new people even if they had no idea that I could play the piano or sing. My dream of becoming famous (for validation) morphed into making the best music I could for the sheer enjoyment of it.
Correct action is less about choosing the correct action and more about choosing the correct motivation. Read that again. When you get your “why’s” right, it will naturally inspire actions that produce a much more favorable result. It is your unconscious thoughts and beliefs that ultimately determine your motivations. If you think something is wrong, you will choose actions in an effort to fix what you think is wrong. Conversely, when you know that nothing is wrong, you are free to create your life, not to fix anything, but for the pure and natural joy of creating.