The following segment has been received, word for word through a psychic process known as channeling. It is an invited procedure. The teachings always serve to guide us through the journey of life.  

TO LIGHTEN YOUR DISTRESS 

 

There are very many reasons to be agitated or ill-at-sorts in today's world, and not so many obvious ones to be at ease and at peace.  But this is fallacy, and we would like to address it.

 

The state of one's mind is always subject to amelioration.  Distress is a subjective experience that is always amenable to change.  Distress is a perception of life that doesn't need to be held.  There are teachings about How to De-stress, and these are worthy.  Techniques such as breathing, yoga, and various methodologies are now more available than ever.  But the chief new concept that is being presented does not require expenditure or experts.  It only requires a new awareness.

 

The very things that you hold in your mind as thoughts and as viewpoints are the commodities that you carry that have weight and feel as burden.  Distress is a component of that weight.  It is the tonnage and pinch that is the price to pay in carrying this-or-that thought.  If it were laid down - by which we mean, questioned, dropped, and refused - the weight would lift and you would automatically feel relieved.  If you do not believe this, try it.  (The belief that can't possibly be done is simply one more of those weighty distressing thoughts in your suitcase.)

 

Once you have tried it - that is to say, tested the possibility of letting go, if only for a quick moment, of lumbering beliefs - you will prove to yourself that your light exists always, just on the other side.

 

Distress will dissolve.  The world will still be here.  So will you.   So will your tasks.  Only they will be approached afresh, as encountered, to be solved in the moment and not carried like an elephant on your shoulders.

 

Thus, a new day.  A lighter heart.  An "easy" remedy.

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