Elsa Lo Monaco - Heaven on Earth

We have to get rid of projecting blame onto others, and become aware that all our projections in the end turn against us. If we release them, we release ourselves, and this is the great secret to find happiness.

Chapter 6

The belief in problems

One of the biggest mistakes we make is when we listen to our divided mind, and believe in lack or in need. Living as if we were separated frightens us and makes us think that things can happen to us regardless of our own will. We feed our desire associated with the belief in lack, which makes us feel divided, and anxious.

We come to imagine that in our life we can lack the most elementary, we believe in scarcity, in that there is not enough for everyone, and this makes us accumulate things in anticipation of future evils.

Furthermore, we do not realize that we ourselves constantly create our reality, that our small Universe is the faithful reflection of our mental state and that everything that surrounds us is a mental projection.

We attract to our lives a series of people and circumstances that create us problems, and we think that they are the problem, and we are the victims.

“Only you can deprive yourself of something. Do not resist this fact, for it is truly the beginning of enlightenment. Remember also that the denial of this simple fact takes many forms, and that you must learn to recognize them and to oppose them without exception and firmly. This is a crucial step in the process of awakening.”

The initial phases of this commitment are often quite painful, because by not blaming what is outside, there is a marked tendency to house it inside. At the beginning it is difficult to realize that this is exactly the same, since there is no difference between what is inside and what is outside.

We have to make this point very clear in the process of awakening that we can not be aware of something if we refuse to accept that it is possible. We live in the reality in which we believe to live in and, therefore, we fabricate it. We can deny that this is true, but we can not avoid that so it is.

The mind creates continuously. It does not stop, it is always occupied in trifles, in small things to keep us busy and, in this way, distract us, so that we are not realizing that we are always thinking about the same thing,

turning over any issue, believing that only we can find the solution. This is how a mind is living, that believes to be separate, and therein lies the source of all problems. Stories repeat themselves because we give the same solutions to the same problems in an endless circle.

Every problem is the expression of a divided and separate mind, it is the manifestation that something external can cause us harm and suffering.

“What makes you happy causes the ego pain, and as long as you have doubts about what you are, you will continue to confuse happiness with pain.”

As long as we continue to think that this confusion is possible, situations for living that belief will be presented in our lives.

“A problem can manifest itself in many ways, and this is what it will do as long as the problem persists. There is no use in trying to solve it in a special way. It will be presented again and again until it has been definitively resolved and will no longer arise in any way. Only then will you be free of it.”

The only problem, the basis of all problems, is the belief in the separation of the Source from which we come. This error makes us believe that it is possible for someone to win and for someone to lose. If so, the separation from God would be real and, indeed, He would be cruel. Let us heal this perception and let us suffer no more. Let‘s give this perception to the Spirit of God and let Him remind us who our Source is, to which we are always united.

Every problem is an error. It is an injustice against the Son of God, and, therefore it is not true.

“You are in an impossible situation only because you think and believe it is possible to be in such a situation.”

“The Spirit of God will give you the answer for each specific problem as long as you believe that the problems are specific. The answer is both one and many as long as you continue to believe that who is One is many.”

Abundance will manifest itself in our lives when we feel and understand that we have everything, because we are part of God and God wants us to have everything.

Chapter 7

Time

When the Original Mind projected itself in the hologram, it had to be done leaving the timeless coordinates to live time separately, because the hologram is the experience of separation.

If someone feels separated,then he must separate, and an easy way to do it is to put space and time in between. The ego feels very comfortable with the perception of past, present and future, and to live it fully it uses guilt. When we feel guilty, we unconsciously ask for punishment, and this is presented in our lives through situations and relationships in which guilt reigns, which is the cause of all our anxiety.

The perception of time would not exist without guilt. This is the rock on which the ego church is built. Cause and effect are never seen together because between them there is a lot of space and a lot of time. We are not aware that we are the cause of what happens to us, which is the effect of our thoughts and beliefs.

Guilt makes us live in the past, always thinking of a moment that already happened and that we relive in what we call present and this is the reason why the past is the same as the future. Thus, a way of living the present is to turn it into a wonderful moment in which we forgive ourselves for believing in guilt.

The way to get rid of guilt is not to go to the ego, which lives from it, but to the Spirit of God, and understand that your role is simply to make your thought return to the point where the mistake was made, to forgive yourself and others and to give it there to the Atonement in peace. Forgiveness is always for yourself. When you forgive then you are at peace, you are free. Forgiveness is strength and the understanding that you are the one who needs forgiveness.

When we hold on to anger and guilt it is like we were drinking our own poison and expecting the other person to die.

The ego loves to waste time, it loves to make us believe that we must wait to reach a goal or to achieve something. It has us so trapped in this premise that there is not something without time in between. The ego says that everything needs time, and we are so convinced of this that we say things like, “Time heals everything”, “everything is a matter of time”, “time puts things in their place” and so on.

Our perception of time has us trapped in this experience. We live the perception of time in many ways. We live as if we lack time, and this creates a lot of anxiety. Worries and anxiety take away our peace and feed fear, which we then project in the future. We fear death and the passage of time, which is inexorable. Time is a great ally of the ego, which uses it to worry about the future, and also to remind us of old wounds. It makes us constantly look to the past so that we forget to live a beautiful present. With this, it makes the present become a hell. In this way, the ego makes our past equal to the future, so that our present is a sea of anxieties and anguish. Although nothing important and dangerous happens, we keep thinking that the tranquility we are living in is taking too long and that after the calm the storm will come.

Time as such does not exist. We live time as a mental illusion, a consequence of the separation of everything and everyone. In the Original Mind – without space or time – everything is an eternal now. Therefore, the perception of time is so particular. There are people who, according to what they are doing or who they are with, live an hour as if it were a few minutes. On the other hand, minutes can be converted into hours. This shows that time is mental.