It has recently come to my attention that I’ve been stuck in the mud up to and just over my eyebrows! I’ve been angry and frustrated for years, I even stopped writing blog posts. I couldn’t see the point. I could see what was happening in the world of lies and propaganda and felt helpless to make a difference. I’d look up and see a beautiful blue sky ruined by chemtrails forcing my fist up into the air cursing – not to mention I’ll be breathing that crap into my lungs! I look at food labels and feel disgusted. The water from the faucet smells strongly of chlorine. Taxes are being raised and the cost of living is through the roof causing needless suffering. People aren’t getting any better health wise, just the opposite in fact. Many families are having a hard time keeping up. It’s all so very depressing here on planet earth from where I stand . . . here in the mud.
Fighting against this reality had the effect of pulling me deeper into that world, causing my perceptions and beliefs to become stronger. “It shouldn’t be this way!” “Why do people believe the lies?” I sunk deeper and deeper into helplessness and depression. My life force dwindled and I became very pessimistic and negative. If this is the way it is, I want out. Enough!
In other words, what I resisted, persisted.
What to do. The past couple of weeks I’ve been experiencing a pain in my right side. I thought it could be a grumbling appendix, so I went in search for help. Living on planet earth had become a pain in my side. I had a session with a Theta Practitioner and what showed up was quite profound.
In the session, my spiritual guidance teams showed up and gave me a visual – they showed me buried deep in the mud up to my forehead. My whole life had become about what I was seeing and experiencing in the mud. I was living my life from all the perceptions, beliefs and disappointments that exist in the mud. From now on, every time I find myself upset about something, my team invited me to say “I realize I’m in the mud”.

So I’ve been doing just that. I saw chemtrails the other day and before I started to grumble, I said: I realize I’m in the mud! I could feel something profoundly change within me. It really made a difference. I’m in the mud – of course there’s chemtrails – they exist in the mud. What do I expect? I fret about the cost of living or the multitude of lies I’m hearing – I say: I realize I’m in the mud!
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. – Byron Katie
If you’ve read my past blog posts, you may remember me talking about living on a prison planet. You also know I’ve been trying to be free on this prison planet with little to no success. There are times when I am being creative that I feel free, but it’s so easy to fall back into the mud reality. My teams shared with me that the mud is only one possible reality and I know that getting stuck there feels horrible and limited. I also know now that freedom can’t exist in the mud reality, nor can peace. It’s impossible. All that exists there for me is victimization and suffering.
Werner mentions in the above video that there’s a ‘payoff’ for my protest/racquet regarding “prison Earth” – I get to be right and make others wrong, I also get to feel justified. What’s probably the most interesting payoff for me is – avoiding being dominated. That’s a big one. Seeing all the problems here in the mud keeps me in the illusion that I can’t be dominated because I know the truth. However, the funny thing is my whole entire life is being dominated by this racquet!! As I said, there is no freedom possible. There are no answers here. Possibility does not exist.

Step 1 – I realize I am in the mud. It feels really good to say that and like I mentioned, the resistance disappears and my expectations and negative beliefs about ‘things should be different’ also fall away. THIS IS THE MUD – what do I expect? Nothing now, except what is – is. The resistance stops and it is now possible for me to lift myself up out of the mud! That I suppose will be step 2. Stay tuned.
For now, I’ll continue to do my homework of realizing I am in the mud as soon as I noticed I am stuck there. Anything is possible from here.




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