Mark Okita, a remarkable Energy Healer from Hawaii, answers questions of our readers.
What is the current pandemic trying to teach us?
The pandemic and all world events are expressions of a Universal evolutionary force. This Intelligent Life Energy is encouraging us to let more of it into our being. What is in the way is our clinging to the FAMILIAR – the obsolete beliefs, emotional blockages and destructive ways of relating to each other and the world. In the same way that the growing body of a child cannot fit into the clothes of the baby it once was, Consciousness can no longer fit into the limitations of the out-moded human mind. Rigid and solidified beliefs of ANY kind circumscribe and distort the full and unadulterated experience of Reality — which is the Loving and Perfected flow of Life. When we open to this Intelligent Life Force, a new more unified and Loving way of being will naturally blossom forth.
How to recover from losses?
There is no need to recover from losses. Losses are a natural part of any physical form. In fact, “loss” doesn’t exist except as a concept invented by the ego-mind. From Nature’s perspective, there is no loss, just the perfectly orchestrated flow of Life. Loss and Grace are equivalent. They both help us let go of the real cause of suffering, which is our inner conditioning and beliefs. This is hard to see, but everything else is not truly liberating and only reinforces the root cause of suffering.
I can’t understand how my pain can be an expression of universal love. Or if I am unconditionally loved, why am I forced to go through all these challenges?
The vast majority of pain is caused by believing (much deeper than the usual idea of belief — more like an assumed reality) that we are not Unconditionally Loved. As usual, the ego has things in total reversal. We are actually perpetuating this misapprehension through our inner convictions. The world is not harming us. How could it? Life is always life-affirming. It is so simple, but as humans we have disconnected ourselves from this truth. In fact, the very questioning of why there is pain and why we are forced to go through things has the inherent assumption that we are not fully Unconditionally Loved in every way. Again, I know this is hard to believe and even harder to see because of eons of conditioning, but unless we begin to directly open to Life Energy and Love, which has no fear or beliefs, this lie of non-Love will continue.
Children are free from personal limitations and constraints. Why are they suffering from diseases, hunger, and abuse?
Children are not blank slates. This is obvious to any parent with more than one child or anyone who just observes children. They come in with unique attributes whether through a long history of past lives or through the DNA (and maybe they are different expressions of the same thing). Children are not any more or less “innocent” than an adult. How can mere age affect the Reality of what we have experienced and what we are here to do? We are ALL evolving through the Love and Direction of the Higher Self. When children are born they are initially usually more connected with the Divine realm from which they came and appear to be more innocent and pure, but gradually, past conditioning begins to get triggered and is reinforced more and more by our response to the world. This is not a mistake but yet another opportunity to complete the lessons and tasks for which we incarnated.
Does our ego help us or hurt us?
The ego has every intention to keep us stuck forever, mostly using fear and attachment (addiction of every kind) to that end. But the Soul/Higher Self has an above the forest view and sees how the ego’s attempts to enslave will actually eventually lead to Freedom. For example, the ego thinks being born into a victimized situation will make the person feel even more strongly identified with being a limited victim. But what the ego cannot see is that this experience can impel one to finally break free from the victim identity, either through being totally done with it (i.e. “hitting bottom”) or through Divine intervention – when one is inspired to go beyond. Usually it is a combination of both. You could view Jesus as someone who was born with the ability to surrender the tendency to judge and feel victimized through alignment with a Higher Love (Christ Consciousness).
Furthermore, the extraordinary journey of going from the illusion of being unloved and separate, which occurs when we first incarnate as a human being, to finally awakening to the Truth that we are Unconditionally Loved makes the experience of Love even more immutable and awe-inspiring than without having gone through such a challenging ritual. You could say that God, Consciousness, has created scenario where It can experience Infinite Love in the most challenging and unlikely places. This is extremely satisfying, blissful and Love-affirming beyond imagination. In other words, Love and Liberation is easily realized when we experience ourselves as spirits abiding in an infinite ocean of Bliss-Aliveness. But what happens when we incarnate as human beings and feel that we are separate, solidified and vulnerable individuals – when we experience all sorts of events and feelings that do not seem Loving? When the Truth of Love and Liberation is realized even from that seemingly solid and limited position, the experience of Love becomes even more indestructible and astoundingly beautiful. If it seems impossible for someone who experiences death, loss, suffering and injustice as absolutely real to awaken to a fundamentally different Reality where there is ONLY Love, THAT is precisely why having an ego and then realizing the seemingly impossible that we are Free, Loving and Powerful is such a monumental evolutionary event!
What’s wrong with over-thinking?
Thinking is imagination. It is a beautiful and awesome tool for invention and creativity. But when this powerful force of ingenuity is aligned with fear, greed and insensitivity the results are catastrophic. This is why going beyond thinking is so critical at this juncture in human evolution. Real Life and Love is the ENERGY, the Life Force. It cannot be found in thinking – information, concepts and imagination. Most of us are not living LIFE, we are “living” in our head of mental concepts.
If evolutionary forces are Loving us so completely and unconditionally, why does there seem to be even more conflict and division in the world now?
In times of immense change and uncertainty, in an attempt to regain a sense of security and safety, we tend to even more forcefully and desperately assert our view as being right, superior, more intelligent or more loving. We blame, judge and attack other people’s points of view from our fixed position, while they themselves are also desperately trying to affirm and cling to their fixed position. This is the cause of much of the strife we see in the world today. We like to think that the problems in the world are caused by “ignorant” people doing “bad” things because their point of view is “wrong.” However, the real opportunity now is to free ourselves from our own inner limitations so that we may begin to open to Universal Life.
In other words, just when evolutionary forces are trying to help humanity let go of having a fixed position so that more Life, Love and Intelligence can enter in, our knee jerk reaction is to resist and assert our solidified point of view.
So how can I open to Love rather than resist it. How can I receive the blessings that you say are raining down upon us at this time?
Practice the meditation offered in this publication. It helps us let go of over-thinking by focusing on Energy, rather than thoughts. It also helps to reveal the fact that thoughts are wispy mirages that seem so powerful only because we take them to be real and feed them with so much attention. Persistence and consistency is the key. Do the practice at least once a day, up to three times a day.
Link to meditation: https://myindigosun.com/meditation-for-connecting-with-life-energy/
