Louise Fisichella...
Louise Fisichella has studied Comparitive Religions,Yoga, nutrition and health for over 30 years
ARE YO REDEEMED YET?
The topic of Redemption keeps surfacing in my life? It is nearly Spring, and Easter is around the corner, I would like to touch on the topic of Redemption. We usually think of some kind of Spiritual redemption as being linked to our Sins? We make a moral connection to the word. Turning it into something ambiguous? Redemption is action. It is something we do, not think or say, or prayers about,... hoping by some act of Magic we will suddenly wake up Redeemed? Redemption is a Process.
I began redeeming my own life in the year 2000, when though a crisis, I was "reborn" in a sense. I quit drinking and smoking within the same week. This decision caused a cascading effect in my life that hasn’t stopped yet. Through years of exercise, including Yoga, right diet (or so I thought at the time), rest, sunlight, and plenty of water, I “righted" my physical self, I redeemed myself on the physical plane. This ensures that I can listen to my body and trust what I hear it saying, because we are in harmony with each other and balance is being maintained. Now my body loves me and I love it! One of the wonderful benefits of Redemption, is a return to balance through Renewal. The body will continue to renew its self as long as we stay focused and energized with plenty of Will and Prana.
Seriously committing to and working on the Purification of my body, awakened an increased desire to use my Mind. I began to read again and now in earnest. Books about health, self-development, and Spirituality fortified my efforts to redeem my whole self. Self-teaching is the best kind for long-term change. Once some change makes “sense” to you, logic and rational thinking get in and it is hard to keep fighting it? It took years of “detoxification” of my body and brain to heal. Once the poisons began to leave, my ability to focus and concentrate improved making learning more possible. Thoughts cleared up and the process of identifying my thoughts began. Now I stand the chance of changing my thoughts, and redirect my thinking. Allowing Right thinking to be re-inforced is a redemption of the Mind. Your thinking is free from toxins and poisons. Logic and Rational thinking are now dominating your state of Mind.
While getting in touch with my Emotional Body, the Astral Body, it is far easier to deal with emotions after healing the physio-etheric bodies….when we watch our thought go by from a detached point of view, it makes them easier to identify. So, I can feel “in-explicably”irritated with, “the woman in the blue dress talking to my friend” and ask more questions? Is it the outer appearance of the woman or does she re-mind me of someone I know? Maybe she looks and seems to act like someone I once knew, or maybe the husbands ex-wife? Point is that I can stop and think about feelings. Look and ask, “could be I am harboring resentment?” So, there is opportunity to act! Confronting and overcoming my prejudice, fears, anxieties, jealousies, are some of the steps in the process of Redemption. This kind of “detachment” is necessary to controlling the Emotional Body. You must learn to view yourself from outside your Self, in order to “see” what you “feel”. That is the key to the “Observer” perspective. To rise above your own Being, ones Self and clearly see the motivating force behind your emotions, to befriend them & Nurture your way past them.
The Emotional Body needs the kind and loving patience of Wisdom. Wisdom is rather cold at first impression, seemingly un-emotional. Because there is this detatchment and Wisdom based partly in fact, reason, and logic, Wisdom must remain above the emotions in order to aid and guide those who are stuck in emotion. Only catch is, those who are stuck in their emotions often LOVE it there??? Many people are “emotional junkies” in one way or another??? You would expect this from a Society that is being poisoned. Where you find hormones in the Public drinking water? Along with a whole host of other toxins and poisons, you would expect to find emotional illness. Not to mention that far to many people take pharmaceuticals instead of looking at other healthier treatment? So, with the Emotional body, we need detachment and Wisdom. Both earned through experience, practice, and desire to be clear in mind and emotion. Grow up, so to speak?
Spiritual Redemption…. how do I put it into words? I knew I was “redeemed” Spiritually the first time I noticed my Soul had filled-up the place where the “I” in “I’ used to be? I looked down at my arms and felt the sensation of being “fulfilled”, or the “occupying” of my physical Being by the radiant Soul! Working consistently on communication with the Soul over a period of years, gaining its attention, keeping focused on the relationship, nurturing and investing time, energy, and love of Soul. I found ways to entice my Soul into my life. When the Personality is willing to “step aside” and allow for the Soul to control your life is Redemption. I take it for granted now, in part because it feels like I am at “home” and just seems like this was the way I was meant to be from the beginning? My Personality has come FULL circle and feels more “childlike” each day. Lately I have been saying a Mantrum with a line about, “many ways my feet have trod”…and it is so true for me. Like striking a note of harmony and beauty on the Piano, these words rang in me and opened my heart up to the World again. That is how I Knew.
What did I do to have these Mystical and Magical experiences? Studied, Meditated, did Service work when asked. It is THAT simple. Your brain may fight it, but your Mind is relieved to hear it! Simplicity is the Path. All-be-it that what I study is far from simple, one must start somewhere? Spiritual Knowledge and growth cannot be found in Harlequin Romance books? This is the information age and there is little to no excuse not to educate your Self on any topic you choose, World Wide, for as far back as we can trace the written word?? That’s a lot of studying to do! Really, what else were you planning on doing while you are here? If not to learn and keep learning, what is the point of Life? Live, grow, learn? Our Souls thirst for the Human experience and our Human nature thirsts for the Transcendent experience of the Soul.
Sometimes I like to think of it as, “the Quantum Leap of Faith”. After all I live in the Age of Aquarius and this mantra is “I Know”. How can I know anything, if I am weak and insecure about my Purpose in life and what my Being consists of? To build up the Energy to make the next highest leap I must be internally convinced that I am ready, willing and able to do so. Cowering in a corner, afraid of my own power is a waste, like a Hell on Earth. So, I built up the momentum in my Life, took the deep breath and here I am, Spiritually Redeemed.
Today, I make sure I have done all I could to Serve. I maintain a cruelty-free diet, exercise and do Yoga, study, meditate on World Peace every day, help in any way. I can be the example I would like to follow for myself, my family, and my community. I am creating my Path out of my Self, my motives and intentions. Notice how much of what has been talked about is practical, everyday things we all can do to improve on what we already have….that is Redemption. You can live it on a moment to moment basis. Each passing thought is an opportunity!
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