I agree with what you said, too, Z3N, in that it is not our 'overcoming' .. but 'becoming'. Overcoming entails resistance that tends to keep what we do not want velcro'd to us.
Capitan, I applaud your breakthrough in seeing that it is your emotional blockage that seems to be tearing you up. I promise you, you WILL survive when you allow your emotions to flow. It might be quite a wild ride but you will be OK. Please don't give the 'wall' itself too much fear and power...you are STILL the master. The P's have this saying: Dealing is Feeling, and Feeling is Healing. I'd venture to say that every Rx drug on the market is aimed at preventing us from FEELING...and therefore actually HEALING.
I have always appreciated Seth's take on emotions. He said war is the result of a feeling of __powerlessness__ ... not aggression. We have been taught to avoid negative emotions!--therein lies the actual danger.
Also, thank you, Montalk and Pleiadian Healer for the great lists.
Not everything about the New Age was Pink Fluffy...or I guess as referred to on this list as woowoo. The GOOD thing about it was that it lent itself more to FEELINGS ... We can spiritually intellectualize til the cows come home, but unless it is accompanied by feelings, its imbalanced... at least that is my experience.
Actually, looking back, I enjoy some of the goofy memories I have about the times I really got into the Pink Fluff stuff. Hey! I had FUN. I didn't go so far as to wear the flowing white gowns and have an ameythist crystal taped to my forehead (I actually saw that once! ) but a lot of it was like vacationing in Disneyland after being caught up in my horrible religious experiences. (not a bad analogy if I say so myself! ...LOL )

What makes me wonder is how to draw a line between the predator’s mind as a foreign instalment and “my”  mind or positive higher influences. If I shut off anything that pops up in my mind I also restrict useful thoughts - that’s obvious. But, to perceive the quality of a thought I have let it appear on the “screen”  of my mind. So I have to let every thought become manifest in my mind and it never becomes still. To sum it up: How do I minimize the noise without suppressing anything?
If the internal chatter is a foreign instalment as Castaneda suggests, then the only possibility of getting rid of it, would be through shutting it off. Except, if it was an instalment that is seating directly in our mind, not as an attachment at our mind. As an analogy: your arm shakes, if someone grabs your hand and is shaking it. Your arm could also shake if you move it unconsciously. Now, if you want your arm to be still, in the first example you must get rid of the person that is grabbing and moving it, while the second example requires paying attention and just stop moving. A bit dumb analogy, but I hope it makes clear what I’m struggling with.

Nice hint. I’ll keep an eye on that.

I wonder what I am doing while meditation, when my mind gets calm.

Ever try forcing yourself to fall sleep? It feels like shutting off all thought and then pushing away even your own awareness and self-awareness so that you pass into unconsciousness. If successful, you get swallowed by oblivion and forget what happens next. That is the conscious sinking into the subconscious, the opposite of proper meditation because it reduces awareness. Trying to meditate this way by blanking your mind completely is like hitting the breaks without letting off the accelerator. Normal awareness is like driving in busy traffic with pot holes and speed bumps. Proper meditation is exiting onto a smooth and straight highway, shifting into high gear and cruising serenely, taking in the scenery while staying centered in your lane.

How to tell if you have lowered or raised your awareness during meditation? By the following: when you end your meditation, are you able to verbally articulate your thoughts with greater precision than normal, or do you feel too blank to talk or think and could just as well stare at a wall catatonically? The latter indicates you have forcefully suppressed rather than raised your awareness, with results similar to how psycho-tranquilizers affect the mind. What you do during meditation carries momentum well afterwards, and a stilled / clarified / sharpened awareness during leaves it so for a while afterwards. The trick is simply to be fully present in yourself and broaden the bandwidth of your attention while minimizing internal noise...thus you expand consciousness.

The internal babbler babbles, while necessary thoughts are necessary. Listen to your internal dialogue or internal narration and pay attention to how much of that actually needs to be internally verbalized. I don't need to say in my head "Let's go to the fridge and grab a snack" as I walk to the kitchen, yet the babbler says it anyway, and continues unless I take control of my mind and stop letting it waste my energy with all that redundancy. The babbler also likes to make me engage in circular debates with imaginary adversaries over trivial things, which according to Don Juan is a common way the predator/babbler extracts energy from you. You'll find that in most cases, the abstract, intuitive, audiovisual content can be kept and the babbling dispensed with. Like reading a book and directly seeing the scene in your mind's eye without verbalizing the words. It's a faster form of awareness.

When an epiphany comes to me, it's always as an audio-visual-intuitive "thought ball" ... then internal talking does come in handy to unravel it into linear form to express through speech or writing. So it's not the inner vocalization that is "bad", rather it is the hijacking of that faculty by a "foreign installment" that keeps the mind occupied with trivialities and annoyances all day. In conversation, you gotta stop speaking to listen. Likewise, inside you must stop babbling to receive an intuitive impression, but that does not mean shutting out all impression, it just means thinking and perceiving at a higher and more focused level. In conversation, just because silence is the key to listening doesn't mean you tell the other person "shhh, I'm trying to listen!" hahaha.

Is it just me?  When I'm typing, the blue bars turn yellow when it hits the background.  I mean at the end of the blue bars to the edge of the screen is yellow.  First time on last night it distracted me a few times.  I kept looking and the yellow bar extension would disappear.  It's still doing it!  Arrrrr!  I think I'm seeing the board's aura.

In high school I tried practicing the art of stopping my thoughts. Not only did I stop the internal babbler, but I erroneously suppressed everything else inside my head as well, assuming this was "meditation." Well, this screwed me up enough that when I was nervous, my mind would habitually go blank. Being in this state all the time would have made me a zombie fit for a TM cult, but I recovered.

Later I came across Michael Topper, Castaneda, Steiner, and Higher Balance Institute material that explained it was possible and necessary to stop the internal dialogue and runaway fantasies while actually heightening one's state of awareness rather than suppressing it. I think that's what you're talking about, z3n3rg. It's bringing the subconscious into the conscious rather than vice versa and sharpens rather than suppresses the mind. So hopefully everyone understands there's a difference between mindlessness and nonthinking.

Not everyone I have difficulties. You mentioned this a while ago – bringing the subconscious into the conscious. To me, that sounds very plausible. I wonder what I am doing while meditation, when my mind gets calm. Usually I focus my attention on the in- and outflow of the breath and “watch”  my mind. When I focus completely on the internal dialogue it immediately stops. It feels like my formerly shattered being merges into one and gets very dense. If the focus drifts away, various thoughts start to appear again. Do I pull the subconscious into the conscious then or do I restrict my thoughts and push them into the subconscious?
How do you discern between the internal babbler and other “necessary”  thoughts that pop up in the mind?

It's bringing the subconscious into the conscious

That's exactly it.

Your additions did my post well.  Thank you.

In high school I tried practicing the art of stopping my thoughts. Not only did I stop the internal babbler, but I erroneously suppressed everything else inside my head as well, assuming this was "meditation." Well, this screwed me up enough that when I was nervous, my mind would habitually go blank. Being in this state all the time would have made me a zombie fit for a TM cult, but I recovered.

Later I came across Michael Topper, Castaneda, Steiner, and Higher Balance Institute material that explained it was possible and necessary to stop the internal dialogue and runaway fantasies while actually heightening one's state of awareness rather than suppressing it. I think that's what you're talking about, z3n3rg. It's bringing the subconscious into the conscious rather than vice versa and sharpens rather than suppresses the mind. So hopefully everyone understands there's a difference between mindlessness and nonthinking.

It is definitely possible and fruitful to perceive, receive, sense, discern, contemplate, or do something without thinking, without the babbler redundantly narrating every step and tangent of the process and slowing it down. It's interesting to practice this "spatial awareness" - the power of Now and all, being present in the moment, inner silence etc... 

I agree that since posthypnotic commands are verbal scripts lodged in the subconscious, nonverbal states of heightened awareness would counteract mind control. Another useful practice towards liberating your mind...

Capitan:  Has anyone had to overcome anything similar?

I see the problem in one word above.  overcome

If you try to overcome you will succumb.  You don't overcome, you become.

The emotions are part of the infinite you.  Embrace them and they will teach you the lesson you need.  Then they will fall away.

Look for the emotions everyday.  Welcome them.  Allow them in their completeness.  Feel them without guilt.  Embrace them completely.

When you have learned their lessons then a new emotion will arise.  Joy.  Peaceful Joy.

I don't want to get into all the new-agey stuff but there was something I kept that relates here.  I don't remember where I got it from so I can't give credit.  In the following just replace "Fear" with whatever emotions you are having trouble with.

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That baby one loves you absolutely and unconditionally and that baby one has struggled to make sure that you survive in a hostile world, because that is the belief. And the baby ones’ name is fear. And you have abandoned and betrayed, you have invalidated, you have tried to overcome, overpower and get rid of any way you can - fear. Would that be right? (Pause) And so we say to you, whenever you are in the emotion of fear - any emotion which is not love or joy - then you have a choice, you have a sovereign choice because you are powerful Gods and Goddesses. You have a choice. Remember you can only transform what you own in the NOW moment whilst you are in the emotion by embracing; and if the next time you are in the grip of fear simply stop and take some deep breaths and close your eyes and see in your minds eye a baby you, aged about 4 years.

And if you saw that little being standing in front of you heartbroken, terrified, what would you do? Would you try to overcome, overpower, invalidate, kick it out of your life? I don’t think so. You would indeed enfold that baby one to the breast of you and you would say "beloved of my heart, I love you absolutely. You have been a gift to me every day of my life and you have brought me thus far. I thank you. Never again will I abandon or betray you. I love you absolutely and unconditionally and I will never, never leave you. We are together forever, you and I, in this safe and wondrous place and together we are coming home. Together we are coming home." And if you would hold that baby one until you feel your body soften; until you feel a warmth radiating out from your solar plexus - if you would do thusly, the moment that you choose from your power and sovereignty in the NOW moment to reach out to that baby to embrace, to hold to the breast of you, you are BEING the Goddess or the God alchemist.
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What day to day things would you recommend people do now, in order to better align themselves with 4D?

Stop thinking.  You'd be surprised how powerful non-thinking is.  For myself, I get a new awareness.  A spatial awareness.

Also, not thinking goes a long way in stopping STS thought loops.

Can't mind control you if you aren't thinking.

Thinking usually takes us out of the present moment.  Past or Future, our thoughts wander to.

I've thought plenty in my life.  I read even more.  I'm learning to operate from knowing instead of thinking.

Thinking now feels like a wall.  When I stop it the wall is gone.

Awareness is restored.  The present moment is back.  Everything is Now.

The idea is to be STO.  Thoughts almost always have the self as the center.  Thoughts keep us in our heads.

A thought is like shooting star in the sky.  But we soon animate the thought until it fills the sky.  We forget the sky.

Just some thoughts to fill your sky.

I don't have any easy answer's here, and I could go on and on and give you all sort's of advice.   But rather than do that, I would like to suggest using some crystal necklaces.    The one I have in mind was ordered by a woman I know, and she said it was the best present she ever gave herself for Christmas.    I'm guessing by your nick that you are male, so even though this necklace seem's a bit more for a woman, I would imagine it can be worn by either.   It's called the "radient heart" necklace, since it help's awaken the heart and provide help with finding inner peace and can also, from what my friend said, make you feel absolutely wonderful and loved.    What it really does is just open the heart chakra, which is what get's closed down when you refuse to feel your emotion's.

Here's the necklace:

http://www.gemisphere.com/gemstoneMissi … ission.htm

If this necklace is not what you think would help, I would browse through the other's on this website, perhap's you'll find one that will be more healing for you.    My next guess would be amethyst, but of course it's up to you.

I had to spend the entire weekend lying around doing absolutely nothing before my body finally could relax from the stress I built up at work.  It is the first time I have been relaxed for a long time.  Here it is only Tuesday and I'm a wreck again.  I notice sometimes I get so tense that I have to tell myself to breath.   

Has anyone had to overcome anything similar?  I need to overcome this problem before I can make any improvement on any other fronts.

Here's what I found:
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Meditation on the Power of the Spoken Word

(Speak this each day in the morning, and wonderful things will begin happening for you.)

When I decree a thing, I know that it is so because the Great I AM Presence within me is All-Powerful and Unlimited. And so I listen to my Intuition, the Still Small Voice, the Divine Guidance of God within. Beloved Great Soul Being that I AM, Mighty I AM Presence, let me now express Your Divine Idea and Purpose in my mind, body, and affairs. I know that my I AM Presence is more than equal to every situation, for God is Love and Law. I start towards my Victory and Success by being glad I am myself, I forgive others, I forgive myself, and I know I am forgiven. In all my ways I acknowledge You, the Great I AM Presence of God within, and know that You will make plain my paths. I AM a good receiver and I prepare for all my blessings. I rejoice and give thanks, and know it will come to pass.

I know that my I AM Presence is All Powerful, and so I watch my thoughts, feelings, and words with all diligence, I overcome doubt, fear, and negative vibrations, Limitation is unreal and leaves no stain. I AM now immune to all hurt and resentment, for my Poise is built upon the Rock of the Christ Spirit, the Great I AM Presence of God within. I withdraw all Power from limitation and it is powerless to hurt. My Trust and Faith are strong in this I AM Presence and the Power of the Light. I take it easy and see my ever present Freedom and Salvation. I learn from the little things, they prepare me for greater Trust in bigger things.

I AM strong, I AM: fearless. My word is my wand filled with Magic and Power. The Great I AM Presence is my Light and Victory in all things. In whom shall I fear? To all negative thoughts I answer: my Supply comes from God and now appears like mushrooms overnight. God appreciates me, therefore man appreciates me. Nothing can interfere with my Divinely Designed Success. The Invincible Power of my Mighty I AM Presence sweeps before me, and I ride Its Waves into my Promised Land. I only desire that which God desires through me, and I claim that which is mine by Divine Right and under Grace in a Perfect Way. My heart is not troubled, neither am I afraid. I AM awake to my Good, I know that whatsoever I ask or speak in the Name of the I AM, the Christ Spirit within, that it shall be done, that God may be glorified through me. I do not ask amiss, but I ask with Praise and Thanksgiving, to the Good of all concerned, so that I may see the Glory of the Law in action.

I change my world by changing my thoughts and my vibrations. I AM a Master workman: my tools are my thoughts, feelings, and words: I build according to Divine Plan. With all my getting I ask that I also get the Understanding of the working of Spiritual Law. I AM practicing the Law of Laws: I do unto others as I would have them do unto me. I have the Single Eye that sees only Good in all people and in all circumstances. I am undisturbed by appearances. I do not allow selfishness or personal will to bring defeat or failure. I know that unless the Great I AM Presence “Builds the house”  that my labors are in vain. And so I see myself bathed daily in the Great Violet and White Light of the Christ Spirit, and It dissolves all appearance of lack, loss, limitation, or disease.

Peace is within my consciousness. The years the emotions have eaten are restored to me. I know that whatever I desire or require is already on my pathway. My Understanding brings me Peace. I have Loving Dominion over my thoughts and words. I learn to let God: to get out of His way so He can harmonize and adjust the situations, If I experience any doubt, I call on the Law of Forgiveness and the Violet Flame, and I do something to show my Faith for Faith without works is dead. My active Faith keeps me in touch with God and impresses my Subconscious with Expectancy. My Intuition is my unerring guide: I practice It in little things and I learn to trust It in bigger things. The Great I AM Presence of God goes before me each day and all battles are won. Peace is within my consciousness and Prosperity within my being, I have great peace because I love Thy Law, and nothing shall offend me. I practice the Law of Nonresistance: I resist not limitation, but overcome limitation with Good.

By my words I AM justified. I do not joke destructively. I do not speak while angry or resentful, because whatever I speak, I attract. God's Inexhaustible Energy is released through me by my Goodwill. I do not allow resentment and intolerance to rob me of my Power. I watch my thoughts and I watch my words. I direct God's Dynamic Force within to heal, bless, and prosper: to Waves of Good to the whole world. I feel Rich and I attract riches, I feel Successful and I attract success, I feel Love and I attract love. I picture in my mind only Good and know that is the Land I am given. I cultivate the feeling that Miracles and Wonders are coming to pass: I cultivate a Success Expectancy. I am an awakened being who knows only one Power: God; and one condition: Good. I do not look back on “hard”  times, but I give thanks far the dawn of each new day, and look forward to the joyful and miraculous events of the day. All that I desire or require is already on my pathway and I am wide awake to manifest it. The walls of lack and delay now crumble away, and I enter into my Promised Land under Grace in a Perfect Way. I think of Truth, Honesty, Justice, Purity, Loveliness, Good, Virtue -- and I give praise.

In nothing am I anxious; I AM not fearful. I believe in God's Power and that all things are possible. And in everything in Reverence, Gratitude, and Thanksgiving I let my desires and requests be made known unto my Beloved Great Soul Being, the Great I AM Presence of God within. I follow my intuitive leads in spending, for my Supply comes from God. I have the Spiritual Realization of doing the things I desire --the feeling that I am already there. I AM in its vibration. My Vision allows me to see clearly where I am going. I establish the Vibration of Assurance. I know that whatsoever I ask of the Great I AM Presence, it will be given to me. My active Faith and Expectancy keep the machinery of asking and receiving in Perfect Divine Order. When I pray, I believe I have it; in nothing am I anxious; I stand still and see the Salvation of God; I do not limit my Beloved Great Soul Being, the Great I AM Presence. My Realization is Manifestation. I speak and decree with Authority and Love, Praise and Thanksgiving. I am nonresistant, poised, and peaceful, expecting Good to come to pass. I AM the receiver, God is the Giver: I allow Him to create His Own Channels. I say, “If this is according to Divine Plan, then I receive it with Praise and Thanksgiving; if not, then I ask for its equivalent or something better.”  I am careful not to force anything not Divinely planned. I put those I love under the Law of Divine Protection. I prepare for my blessing and follow my intuitive leads. I now give God the right of way.

I love and praise God, for His Love and Mercy endures forever, I stand still and let God run the situation, I face each day and the lions of lack, fear, limitation, or dread, knowing that God goes before me and all battles are won. It is Heaven to be unafraid and to live in the Now. By my words of Truth I make new my mind, body, and affairs. My Faith gives me a sublime assurance of my good. My Unlimited Supply is waiting to be released by my Faith and my spoken word. As Jesus taught, I harness and direct my thoughts. My imagination is the workshop. I transmute fear into Faith, for Faith registers ideas in my Subconscious from whence they objectify and become. I AM Successful and Happy, Poised and Balanced, in Rhythm and Harmony. I trust God.

I change my words and I change my world. My affirmations build constructive ideas in consciousness. My faith creates Expectancy. I do unto others as I would be done by, for any violation of the Law of Laws causes a short circuit. God is Immutable Law and His principles are unchanging. His Divine Ideas are Immutable, not subject to change. The Divine Plan of my life is a Perfect Idea of God and cannot be spoiled in any way. I know the Truth and the Truth gives me Freedom. I ask believing and know I shall receive. I am interesting to people because I am interested in something; I AM enthusiastic. I transmute all failure into Success, injustice to Justice, unforgiveness to Forgiveness, and resentment to Love. I: know that with God all things are possible, and so with Divine Enthusiasm, I bless what I have and look with Wonder and Thanksgiving at its increase.

There is no limitation. There is no absence of Life, Substance, or Intelligence anywhere. Pain, sickness, poverty, old age, and death cannot master me, for they are unreal. There is nothing in all the Universe for me to fear, for greater is He that is within me than he that is in the world. God is all Life, Love, Intelligence, Substance, Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence. I am a Child or Manifestation of God, and every moment His Life, Love, Wisdom, and Power flow into and through me. I AM one with God and am governed by His Laws. God, manifest as Life, Wisdom, and Power is now flowing into my entire being and out through me to the external world. I AM Spirit, Perfect, Holy, and Harmonious. Nothing can hurt me or make me sick or afraid, for Spirit is God and God cannot be hurt or made sick or afraid. I manifest my Real Self through this body now. God works in me to will and to do whatsoever He wishes me to do, and He cannot fail.

Beloved Great I AM Presence, let Thy Will he done in me. Let Thy Life flow through me anew while I wait. You are the Life within me. You are the Answer to all my questions. You abide in me, You have all Power, You are the Answer to all that I desire. Radiate Thyself Now from the center of my being. Fulfill Your Highest Thought in me now. So Be it!

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Things today are easier for several reasons:  1) more people have the opportunity to find and manifest their full potential due to technology improving the spread of knowledge and standard of living

I'm commenting on this because I think these unique times are too easily rationalized away.  The opportunities afforded in this time/space may be rare, and moments that are not spent are not saved.

The explosion of knowledge in (literally!) the last ten years is overlookable because a lot of the knowledge is low quality.  But the gems make up for the mud.

It's easy, too, to enumerate the never-before negative conditions of this time and place, but they are nothing but a testament to our strength.  The fact that we're awakening while our water and air is poisoned, with lies coming to us from all sides, having to pay dearly for what was once free (like food and land), being under psychic attack, blanketed with alpha-inducing vibes, is astounding.

So I'm writing this post to validate those who are carrying on right now.  And to validate the incredible nexus of opportunity now.

Personally, I'm continually returning to gratitude.  Then, I heal.

I'm sensing great resistance at certain times these days.  It comes and goes.  I've studied powerful teachings from diverse cosmic directions.  Different levels, different star systems.  They satisfy and disappoint.  My higher mind is watching my surface mind get aggitated.  It feels like "a war of the gods". 

So I continually push for a more refined source.  This may be the journey to my next divine home.

I believe prayer is valuable, but I don't know what level may prayers are received.  So as a practice, I pray to "the highest source that is willing to listen . . . connected to the closest source that can take effective action".  This is my God/All That Is  . . . that I choose to participate with.

The Cosmic Currents keep changing.  NR's helps me surf my way through.