New Causation
by Lorrie Kazan

This article appeared in the  KajamaTM Digest for the week of 6/21/2004

If you're currently in a difficult or upsetting situation, change your focus: declare a new causation. In the beginning was the word. What is your word?

Each retelling of your upset merely engrains that upset deeper into your unconscious. How do you feel when you keep focusing on something troubling? Most people feel their stomach tightening, jaw pain, constricted breathing. There is a place of catharsis, of being heard or understood, and then there's another place in which we're intensifying our own pain and strengthening the belief systems which underlie it.

What happens when you focus on a topic that is filled with possibility? How does your inner self react? In his book The Art of Being Yourself, retired Science of Mind minister Dr. Frank Richielieu says, "I want a whole new thought pattern from which to operate. I desire to change my lack consciousness into an abundance consciousness. I change my consciousness of separation into one of unity. I know that by approaching this from the inside out, my life will take on new patterns automatically. I will not have to work on each individual problem separately, for my taking care of the parent will cause those problems to be cleared up at the same time."

This declaration sets a new causation from which you can expect a resulting chain. Dr. Richelieu affirms that we are the "interior designers of our own consciousness." Throughout his book, he emphasizes, "We experience life according to our belief, according to what we give Universal Law to work with." That is, plant carrot seeds and carrots will grow; plant god seeds and god light will emerge.

Which feels better to focus on, the problem or the solution? How many times do you need to discuss and reiterate the problem before moving into solution? When I see myself do this, it's generally because I want to be right about something; the problem supports an old belief or might make me feel slightly superior in some way. If you have to feel superior, odds are you're dealing with feeling inferior.

The Buddhist concept of mindfulness might provide more freedom here. Rather than reacting or constantly reiterating, we can examine our reactions, fully notice what's happening physically, emotionally and spiritually, and use the situation to learn more about how we think. We do not have to be victims of decisions made in childhood. We can create new ways of being, simply by observing our "automatic" reactions rather than assuming them.

Create a new Causation. Right from where you are, you can make a new declaration. Here's an affirmation for difficult circumstances: Whatever has been done or said against me now works for me. I detach from all sense of wrong and misunderstanding, bless all situations with love and forgiveness, and I freely move on.

This may be easily said, but perhaps not as easy to live. No one wants to be misunderstood or unloved. How much of that pain is within our own brains? People say and do things based on their issues, not generally on ours. However, we may be with those people in order to have something mirrored for us. We can blame them, it, life, or try a new stance, using our minds, our hearts and our words to create a new chain of events.

We can create this new causation based on Universal Truth. That is: God is one, God is love, there is a divine order to the Universe, and I am an intricate part of that divinity. In my cosmology, the greater one's clarity of heart and mind, the greater one's contribution to raising the vibration of the planet. We can each be the peace and love we seek in the world and if something is with me, is actually in me, no one can take that away.