This is an additional resource page for the article “Flying too low? Think like a pilot”
Please read the article Think like a pilot first to make sense of the content below.
On seeing feeling states as weather
An explanation of seeing feeling states or attitude as altitude and Pressure as fuel follows.
Strata in the collective field
Distance in Earth’s atmosphere is measured in feet or meters, called altitude, above sea level. The depth of the atmosphere weighing on you wherever you happen to be at any moment is called air pressure.
In the collective human field we are talking about something equally fluid but the yardstick is frequency, mood or vibration. Dr David R Hawkins called the layers or strata in this field “attractor fields”, which are rather like radio frequencies that you either tune into or out of. If we see this field as a weather system, with highs and lows, it is easier to follow Thomas Huebl’s advice of “letting it swing through you” rather than being swept away with the tide.
According to Hawkins, the levels of consciousness are ranked according to energetic values from 20 to 1000, The lowest being shame, guilt and despair, through grief, fear, craving, anger and pride to courage the midpoint, and then up through trust, willingness, forgiveness, understanding, reverance, serenity and bliss and pure consciousness.
Each level has a different life view, God view, emotional feeling state and process or way of responding.
Why is this important?
With turbulence, or in a depression or regression, we plummet inadvertently, unless we are conscious of what’s happening and take course correction. Says Huebl, when we are affected in this way we are no longer able to think or act the way we did previously. We can only tune in to the ideas of the frequency of mind that we are currently resonating with.
I saw this happen to a meditation teacher who I have always respected as a master teacher of mindfulness. The shift in mentality was radical. This shows us how severe this storm in the collective field currently is. If this can happen to a master teacher, what about ordinary people with no map?
We can use the “map of consciousness” chart from Hawkins as a map or a GPS. “Where am I in this moment?” rather than “who am I?”…Seeing one’s thoughts as belonging to the field that we are experiencing allows for self compassion and also compassion for others.
Your daily GPS re-calibration:
G = gratitude
P = pattern recognition (where am I?)
S = self compassion
For example:
The USA knows how to put out a storm.
How? solid ground.
Where is it?
In the “I”
Wherever each of us is gathered together fully present with no story.
“United States” again. A state of mind?
How?
Feeling whatever is arising
S = surrender to the feeling (Hawkins “letting go” technique) rather than recreating past
T = take the released chi as up current (shift to future)
0 = radical no story
P = pressure is fuel (yang)
P = present is receiving (yin)
Resources
The map of consciousness is available in his book “Letting go” and also in Power vs Force and more recently the compilation “The Map of Conscousness”
David R Hawkins on his map of consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8fZlPu2AJ4
Everyone, says Hawkins, is automatically accountable for the universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCJo3seMZoU