Anticipation

One of the level four defense mechanisms is “Anticipation”. Level four, meaning that it is universal amongst all human beings, and can sometimes be healthy. And sometimes not. Why? Simply put, it sometimes means that we are planning for our own future discomfort. And we are all guilty of that. It does not only affect our relationships, but also has a profound effect on the psycho-somatic functioning.

Yesterday I read a new channeling by Master Hillarion, which prompted this post. He urges that we cleanse the Self from any negativity, impurities (mental and physical) and start living our truth. This made me think. As always, the Ascended Masters sometimes gives us information which needs to be mulled over in our minds, and the resulting truth that is extracted, will be exactly right for us. So, they allow for us to express and determine our own truth. Talk about allowing free will.

Maybe you are perplexed by the terms “anticipation” as a defense mechanism. But all that it really means is that we sometimes do things, expecting certain results, which then turns out not to be what we expected. It can also mean that we sometimes procrastinate, which implies that we do not express feelings, avoid certain tasks or just plainly ignore some very necessary duties or chores.

The problem with this is manyfold. When we do not express to another how we feel, simply as we are very fearful of the ensuing confrontation, we “bottle up” emotions and feelings. Sometimes we ignore situations, simply because we want them to go away. We allow others to dictate our personal environment for us, rather keeping quiet and not expressing our needs for autonomy, or at least consideration, as to our needs for we are scared of confrontation, or upsetting the status quo.

Worse, as resentment grows, we start enacting a more serious defense mechanism, called Passive Aggression. When employing this defense, we sub-consciously do things to irritate others, or we withdraw our emotional attention and play the ignoring game. We may also withdraw to the extent that our primal needs are masked, and that we start denying our relationships of its main mechanisms, namely honesty, trust and respect. What we are creating here is a condition which will lead to our future discomfort.

In the ensuing aftermath of our emotional reactions, the resentment and miss-trust grows to become evils that we encounter every day of our lives. Anger. Distrust. Resentment. Hate. Plainly our actions have now allowed us to manifest more little defense mechanisms. Now we face lies, deceit and hostility. And why did we do this? What is the underlying reason for this manifestation?

Quite simply, it is the achievement of global and social enculturization. We have been bred to not express, over millennia. The archetypical nature of the human, expressed in it’s Ying and Yang formulation, male and female, anima and animus, whatever you prefer to name it, has finally achieved it intended outcome. It is Freud’s Super-Ego in action. This simply means the enculturized Self.

Once we learn that we have been taught to act in certain ways, as determined by our upbringing, peer pressure, and the institutions that shaped our basic framework of reference, we can start thinking of returning to our original template. And our original template allows for us to be Authentic. Be our Authentic Selves. Just look at a newborn baby. What do they express? What are the basic human emotional impulses?

Trust. Hope. Love. Acceptance. Innocence. Gratitude.

All these terms implies simplicity of being. Yet, as human beings we have been taught that gaining in whatever form, is our way of being, and the basis of our existence. Gain can imply many things, and it can express in many vehicles of personal attainment. It can make us feel secure. In the expression of financial gain, making ourselves secure, can be the vehicle for greed. In the expression of personal growth, it can a the vehicle for self-discovery. In the expression of re-claiming our own spiritual nature, it can be the vehicle for reconnecting to the God-Head.

As always, there is a distinct difference in these mechanisms. Attainment allied to greed and other negative expressions, is not simple. It takes hard work, both physical and mental, planning for gain. It takes hard work sitting down and devising all these nifty little plans to make money, take others for a ride (knowingly or unknowingly), plan our next moves and just make life damn complicated.

It is also hard work planning for our future emotional discomfort, ignoring our own authentic impulses, and rather let sleeping dogs lie, than confront those issues that have the potential to shape our lives as we negotiate our life paths. Being psycho-somatic beings, ie, what affects the mind will affect the physical, we also breed disease. The body will express disease if we bottle up or keep on feeding it with negative vibrations. So why did the sudden flu arrive? Or this headache? It is the body reacting to our own self-imposed limitations of fluid-love expression. Block it, and you will be sick.

What Master Hillarion implies in his wisdom is that we need to take action. We need to clean up, and stay clean. Express when we feel that an injustice has been done, or is being created. Express when we are being denied our rightful place in the personal environment. Express when we feel that we are being done in. Express to someone else when we feel that our own emotional state of being is compromised. Otherwise we create our own dis-ease and resulting discomfort.

We need to re-invent ourselves, and the way we act as Human Beings in this new global emergence. Enculturization is an evil that we can transmute. It allows simply for a social, ethnic and global cult-consciousness the be expressed. We do not think for ourselves any more, or express our own feelings anymore, simply as our super-ego has been indoctrinated with a way of being, devised by others, in a time when that may have been appropriate to the level of development and evolutionary expression of being human.

But that time is over. Welcome to a new way of being, a new consciousness that is now being expressed on the planet. Take back your true authentic power. Be you. Express yourselves. Express your needs. Keep it simple.

After all, in the final analysis – who is to be blamed, or to be lauded? Only you. You make the choices, no-one else. So wise up. Time is up.

Much Love and Light.