By Alisa Battaglia

Integrity is virtue in the incorruptibility of core values and the uncompromising vision of what you want in the highest and best for ALL. It is a refusal to quit your deepest dream or compromise principles no matter the obstacle or difficulty and then with courage to act on your higher values in the face of adversity. Integrity is the cultivation of millennia-old classical virtues of trust, compassion, courage, justice, wisdom, temperance and hope by overcoming your own mistakes by using the corrective force of intuition, empathy and imagination.

Upholding and building integrity shapes character when you know what is right and wrong, and choose to do the right thing rather than espousing an ideal and doing something contradictory. In other words, live by virtuous example of doing things in excellence rather than by doing things badly! This translates to communicating with honesty and transparency as not to deceive self or others, to respect people even if you don’t agree with them, to honor your word, do your best in the moment and follow through to completeness, be fair and certainly take responsibility for your word and action as not to bind yourself to the rack of inharmony.

Remember that your soul is having the experience of this life in order to evolve, not the other way around of evolving your ego. Your soul is a moral force and coordinator that always seeks to keep the laws and the rules of your energy fields (physical, mental, and emotional) intact. Service or assistance in helping others is the visible means of expressing your “I AM” reflected in how you live your life and activity on a daily basis. To help yourself helps others. To be of service as a permanent factor of good is to participate in the development of humanity as part of a greater plan of evolution.

As your integrity quotient grows, the more rapidly you become harmoniously adjusted to life. Since your magnetic field is the basis of virtue and moves thought, emotion and attitudes that your field gathers into itself, your attention is essential because the moment you break the laws or rules of life, your magnetic field is affected and thereby affects all else in and around you. This is often forgotten until something bad happens that is irreversible.

The mind-body and emotions are part of one entity and cascade off the other. Know that your emotions are conditioned by your feelings. That your mental processes physically correlate with brain function and that your brain is the taskmaster and the processor to the will of your egoic mind and can even be penetrated intrapsychically. Hence, your mind is a product and action of your receiving sensory information through your brain and is thus, a conditioned instrument. The unbalanced growth of perceptual faculties is also conditioned by external factors. Your subjective psyche is the sum of all forces that influence thought, behavior and personality and whether consciously or unconsciously, directs your body’s reactions to your social and physical environment. Your soul is the result of integrated experiences whose information is stored within it as vibration, which then interacts with your brain to become the conscious.

Your mind-body is archival and holds the memory chain of your “I AM” of all that came before and whose psychological entities of your inner world are unconsciously bottled up inside you. More often your ego mind has taken over your perception which is why you don’t know who you are or what to do. The development of your higher senses are blocked in the chasing of futile desires. Your attachment to them keeps your attention locked into the horizontal plane bypassing what you can actually achieve spiritually in the here and now. While your ego personality lives, your soul has no growth in stasis. When you peel the layers of your psychological conditioning and become free from their patterns, you naturally remember who you really are. You realize that your “I AM” is trapped in your conditioned ego waiting to be liberated.

Use your mind to great potential and educate it to towards the greater spiritual realities that dwell above your egoic mind.  Train your mind in critical thinking, to think things through rather than waste its potential by feeding it wrong information. For instance, following others and taking on their paradigms, worrying about the opinion of others as the driver of your identity, or succumbing to temptations and then losing all sense of responsibility for negative outcomes.  Don’t let your restless mind take away your own need to grow. Don’t remain small by a self-deceptive identity, but rather put your mind to good use and be the leader to the amazing intuitional faculties of your Soul.

AlisaBattaglia©2023-2024

Excerpted from my manuscript “The Keys ~ Developing a Mindset that Removes Inner Limitations to Your I AM ”