Connecting to the Light and Power Within

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Bethany Fischer

April 7, 2024

I went through the majority of my life under the mercy of my emotional state and thinking. I just went along with however I felt, believing it had control over me. When I woke up feeling irritable, or insecure, I just decided that was how I was going to feel today and went along with it. It wasn’t until I gained self-awareness and understanding of my inner power and capabilities that I could change my emotional state of being and begin to manifest. I began a process with the help of my guides that gave me charge over myself and my life, with a lot of practice but nonetheless very doable, so I wanted to share some of the techniques I learned. This process began after a long period of hardships, trauma and addiction, as I reconnected with my authentic self and my life. The key is connecting to the light and power within that is more powerful than thoughts, emotions, and anything in the outer world, and learning how to access and use it.

The first part of this process was realizing how my thoughts influenced my emotions and then behavior, as in the Cognitive Triangle below. Knowing that the experience of our outer world really begins within us, we can change our perceptions and manifest our reality starting from within. As I’ve said before, the majority of what makes up our experiences is our own mind and unique perspectives, worldviews, beliefs and so on, and these all contribute to our thoughts and emotions. Bringing awareness to how our thoughts and emotions interact can help you guide yourself to create the inner experiences you want, and steer away from those you do not want. We can start to take charge of our feelings and emotional state by changing our perspectives and beliefs, as we often do when we incorporate our spiritual beliefs and greater understanding to bring light and healing into the past and present state, but to harness your inner power and capabilities by connecting with your true self within. Also called your I AM Presence or Higher Self, it is the Divine light within that is the expression of your true self.

By taking this process further to go within, it brought about a new state of being, and way of experiencing that I could incorporate into my everyday life and interactions. By learning how to navigate and guide my inner experience, I began to manifest the types of feelings and thoughts that I wanted that brought me joy. This inward journey was a start to realizing and working the amazing powers within that we can all do.

The easiest way to begin exploring this Divine light within is by meditation and feeling its presence, to relax the body and mind, and shift your focus to your inner being, specifically the area in the upper body and chest. This area is defined by the heart and solar plexus chakras, the energy centers for love, intuition and inner power, for those who know your chakras. There is a presence within that can be experienced by feeling rather than thought alone. As you shift your focus from the outer world and into your inner being, you connect to the light within, best described by feeling its presence, and then being this presence.

The more you meditate and recognize this inner experience of your true self, the easier it becomes to bring it into your everyday experiences. It becomes more than just a feeling or presence, but a way of being. We can change how we experience from thinking, doing, and feeling to just being, and being present in this light. Throughout the day, practice clearing the mind and bringing your focus from your surroundings to this inner presence. This allows you to connect to your intuitive power to use your “gut” or inner feelings to guide you, versus being driven by the emotional body alone. This experience of your true being is unique to you, it is vast and cannot be described by words alone, nor is it limited or defined by thoughts or emotions. In other words, this feeling or presence within is not our emotional state, nor our mental state, although these are usually all experienced together. The more we become aware of this inner state of being, it becomes stronger than the emotions and thoughts that had once defined and controlled you and led your experiences. Your true inner self that is the Divine part of you that is unchanged by outer experiences except by expansion and growth, your light that can never be hurt or broken.

As I began connecting with my inner knowing, I began to believe in myself and the validity of my inner experiences. There are subtleties within that can be felt that give direction, we can pay attention and trust this guidance. I dropped all assumptions and what I had been taught, opened my mind to all possibilities, and connected to my intuition to guide me by my inner truth or knowing. We can recognize a new way of guidance and direction that is by this inner feeling, rather than just thought and emotion.

We never want to fight or force our thoughts and emotions to try to change them. They are there for a reason and we can use them as indications of something we should look at, or an experience to learn from. By navigating them with greater understanding, they do not need to take power over us, we can use them to our advantage and then release them however appropriate. When we need, we can let them go, shift our focus away from unwanted thoughts and emotions and move our awareness into this other inner experience that we often access during mediation. This is your true self, your power within. It is important to be aware that our true nature is that of love and to venture inward with positive belief and self-perception. Remember we are Divine infinite beings with limitless potential, each with a Divine purpose here on Earth. This light and truth within are more powerful than our surroundings or anything else that comes our way, and we learn this as merge this light into our everyday life and state of being. We learn to just be in a way that is aligned with this inner presence and truth. Our life can become a living meditation and continual spiritual experience.

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April 7, 2024

You write, “Our life can become a living meditation and continual spiritual experience.”

I am put in mind of the walk I regularly took when I lived in another town, a walk that brought me along a quarter-mile Rails-to-Trails path that was remarkably quiet and wooded despite having the town’s main street rumbling right across the Mad River that flowed alongside. (Interestingly, the Mad River flowed into the Still River, a waterway which confuses me to this day because unlike every other river I know of in New England, it flows from south to north–and, its name notwithstanding, it has on its course a rather wild waterfall followed by a rocky chasm. “Still”? Hardly.)

So I need to tell you about Joe. Joe was a real character, often inebriated at times of day when many people hadn’t yet finished their morning coffee. But he got on fabulously with one of the dogs in my charge, and who can dislike anyone who’s a favorite with your dog?Years earlier, when I was moving into my first apartment in that town, I arrived late with a far-too-big bookcase I’d salvaged from a giveaway pile en route. The only parking space available demanded that I drag the shelves step by step to the apartment doorway half a block away. I was worn out and panting well before I reached the door, wondering how in the hell I would get this beast up the long staircase. Along came a stranger, who mumbled something in my direction. Wait a minute, was it an offer of assistance? I could smell the booze on his breath, paused a nanosecond to assess the risk and went for it. “Sure! Thanks.” With that the drunk grabbed one end of the bookcase, and when we got to the stairs, positioned himself at the heavy bottom end. He looked like he had a few years on me (I was wrong about that; he was actually a few years younger, but I guess that’s what an alcoholic life will do) but he was strong. When we got to the landing, he made sure to stick around and help me position the shelves exactly where I wanted them. That was how I met Joe, although it was a long time after that when I finally made a point of asking his name.

Sometimes, on that short stretch of trail, we walked together, me and the dogs and Joe, and there was always a bit of conversation, at least half of which didn’t make a damn bit of sense. Joe mumbled and slurred ever time he spoke. But I was game, cheerfully nodding in what I hoped were the right places. Truth is, I was always pleased to bump into him.

Early on this particular day it was misty. I thought, for the briefest moment, that I saw Joe sitting on his usual bench, right before a bend on the trail. My encounters with him were always by chance, but it had been a while since our paths had last crossed. He seemed to be looking my way, and then, with his left hand, pointing at something he could see beyond the bend. But the mist was heavy, and it was just a glimpse, and then I looked down to see what one of the dogs was doing…and when I looked back, Joe was gone. Or was it Joe? Or had anyone really been there? I suddenly had a vivid recollection of a figure I’d glimpsed in a mirror, pointing his left hand at me. I came to call that visitation (hallucination? momentary daydream?) “The Green Man,” because that was the flash of colored clothing (costume?) I thought I saw. Was this another sighting of that mythic entity?

I walked past the empty bench, and as soon as I was around the bend the mist lifted and a crow flew low and slow directly ahead of me. It settled on a limb of a nearby tree and uttered several loud caw!s. I stopped, puzzled. That bird was, I swear, looking right at me. It took flight, landed on a different tree a bit farther along and called to me (to me? really?) again with what seemed to be the same urgency. Then it flew back to the first tree it had been on and repeated the process. I was rooted to the spot as this back-and-forth attempt at avian-human communication was repeated three or four times in sequence.

And then the crow stopped, and looked up at a tree midway between the pair it had been settling upon. Higher up in that tree was another crow. And now that crow turned to look at me. Silence. Then the pair flew off, in widening circles, cawing all the while.

Something had been staged for my benefit, but I could make no sense of it. It baffles me as I write these words.

I never did see Joe on the Rails-to-Trails again. Other drunks took over his bench. Months afterward, I asked a friend who’d grown up locally and knew most everyone a first-name basis, “Hey, what happened to Joe?” Well, he’d died, of course. Before I saw whatever I saw that may or may not have been Joe, pointing toward whatever it was that the crows wanted me to see.

“Continual spiritual experience,” indeed, if we are ready for it.

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[which leads to this on the Inner Jukebox:]

“There is nothing that is stronger than the feeling that you get
When your eyes are wide open
There is nothing like the feeling, you can never forget
When your eyes are wide open
Daytime was a feeling but it’s not over yet
Are my eyes still open?
We come a long long distance and we’re never goin’ back
Got my eyes wide open

I got both doors open
I got both doors open
I got the back door open
I got the screen door open”

–David Byrne, “Big Blue Plymouth”

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I’m Bethany

Welcome to my blog, this is an open journal of my life experiences as an avenue of expression for the spiritual, recovery, and healing processes that I am continuously going through, as I continue to learn and explore. Both as a hobby for fun and for inspiration. I am a 38 year old mother of two autistic children, a recovering alcoholic and addict, former environmental scientist, and most of all spiritual being working with my guides exploring various ideas as they come to me, in the effort to use my life experiences and the ideas, concepts and processes I go through to try to help others. I am pursuing a degree in psychology.

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