How to Beat the Devil
By Kate Everson
Smashwords edition
Copyright 2011
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The enemy is within.
You can’t see him. But you can feel him.
He’s not your friend.
This enemy is very seductive. He knows you very well. He will use any means to win you over to his side. He will lie. He will tell you awful things about yourself and about your dearest friends and family. He will literally kill you from the inside out.
If you let him.
Don’t let him ruin your life, steal your happiness, take away your inner peace.
He loves to do that.
And don’t worry, you are not alone. He does it to everyone. Each person has an enemy like that. Living on the inside, eating away, destroying joy.
Don’t let him get away with it.
Kill the enemy!
Let your little Light shine and get rid of all the shadows inside until there is nothing but Light, beautiful, glorious Light. Nowhere for him to hide. No way to get in. Gone.
This is an ongoing battle, but it gets easier each time you claim victory.
The first place you start is your mind. The number one place the enemy goes for. It’s so easy to convince the mind of lies.
Identify your weak spot.
Where are you most vulnerable? What bothers you the most? What really gets to you?
Part One: The Body
Is it your body? Are you embarrassed by it?
Let’s look at that. Okay, I know you want to hide. But, just for once, let’s take a good look. The naked truth.
Accept yourself as you are right now. You are not perfect. Get over it. Accept and love your body with all its imperfections.
Then, the next time you feel inadequate, comparing yourself to others, go back to that place of acceptance. Breathe in. Say, “I accept myself. I love myself.” Smile.
Do this every time you catch yourself feeling bad about your body. This does not mean you don’t want to change. Everybody has room for improvement. Keep working at growing into a strong, healthy person. Don’t give up. But all the time, accept yourself as you are right now. The enemy wants you to despise your own flesh. He loves that! Don’t let him win. Laugh in his face. “I love me,” is your catch-phrase. “Get out, you dirty creep! You have no place in my life.”
And each day, every time you feel a sense of shame or sadness at your own body shape, go back to that place of self-loving. Say it as many times as you need. Breathe it in. Breathe out self-loathing and judgement. Breathe in the Light. Breathe out the devil.
Each time you claim a small victory, chalk one up for your side. You did it!
If he gets you, don’t despair. It’s an ongoing battle. Keep working at him. Get him out of your life! Get out!
Remember, he tells lies. He wants you to feel bad. He knows where you are sensitive. Be wary of what thoughts spring into your mind. Are they good thoughts? Are they true? Or are they self-perpetuating lies that never end?
If it feels good, it’s the Truth. If it hurts, it’s not.
“I am beautiful,” is a feel-good truth. “I am ugly,” is a lie.
It doesn’t matter what the world sees you as. They have their own judgements. What is important is who you feel you are, who you know you are. Feel a sense of oneness with the God-self in you. Identify with that. How does God see you? Love that person. Totally, completely, without exception. Body, mind and soul, you are a child of God. Loved. Perfect in whatever state you are in right now. If you need changes in your life, that’s all part of the plan. Don’t worry about it. Just be in Love, right now.
Part Two: The Mind
Does the enemy get to your mind? Convince you of ideas and make you think of things that hurt you? He is so clever. He thinks he is smarter than you. Let’s outwit him!
Someone says something mean to you and you believe it. That’s giving in to the enemy. First thing you have to do is go back to Self.
Breathe in. Regroup. Go back to inner being. “I am Love,” is a good mantra. Or you can try, “God is my strength. Nothing can hurt me.”
Once you have reestablished your Self, take a look at the words that hurt you. Why did they hurt you? Do you think they are true? Do you feel vulnerable in that area?
You don’t have to understand why they hurt you. You may have had childhood traumas regarding that, or even have unknown karmic links with the person that are still being resolved. What you need to do is be strong. Don’t let words or thoughts destroy your inner peace. That’s where the enemy reigns. Doesn’t he love to hurt you!
Establish your Self. You are strong. You are not weak. You are not the enemy’s toy. No matter who he uses to hurt you, it doesn’t matter. The truth is the victor. The truth never makes you feel bad. Find the truth and dwell on that instead.
Sometimes it’s not an outsider who puts the demeaning thoughts in your head to make you feel bad. You could just start thinking them on your own. Or at least, that’s where you think they come from. Wrong! The devil is planted inside you and tells you these lies. It is not from you but from the enemy. Be aware!
Your soul is a pristine place where no darkness lives. It is sunlit and perfect. That is the place you must strive to return to, over and over, until it becomes your home.
The enemy wants to throw dirt at you. Don’t let him get away with it. Remind yourself of who you are. You are not the devil’s toy. Tell him to get out!
“I am beautiful,” is a good mantra. Close your eyes and say that. Repeat. Do it often. Believe it.
Inside you is a perfect soul, a spirit that loves and is loved, unconditionally. Remind yourself of that every day.
Part Three: Emotions
Sometimes you feel bad. But don’t believe it.
You may be tired, hungry or exhausted. This can make you feel weak or angry or hurt when you really don’t need to feel that way. Know your enemy. If you are feeling bad, it may just be that you need a rest.
Emotions are the worst thieves. They get us where we live. Because it strikes at our heart and our feelings, we believe the lie.
Identify your enemy. What are you feeling? Sad? Hurt? Angry?
What made you feel that way? Or who? Identify the source.
Why did you have such a reaction? And does it matter?
The bottom line is that feelings are just feelings. You can feel as bad as you want but you don’t have to act on it. Treat bad feelings as an enemy. You may not be able to change the way you feel right now, but give it some distance. Take a nap. Go for a walk. Run it off. Wait it out. But don’t react to it. That’s what the enemy wants. Beat him at his own game. Feel the feelings if you must. But don’t give them any value. They are not the whole truth. They may not even be a partial truth.
If somebody made you feel bad about yourself, stop. You do NOT have to feel that way. Let it go. Relax, breathe in the Light. Forgive them. Smile. Don’t let him win.
Sometimes the feelings are not even yours. You may have picked them up from somebody else who was feeling that way and absorbed them and claimed them as your own! Feelings are contagious!
Stop and let them go. Make a conscious effort to remove them. They are like dirt. Shake them off.
If you are feeling hurt, say, “I discharge all hurt feelings from me. Send them back to hell where they belong. They are not mine!”
Take a breath and breathe them out. Breathe out the bad, breathe in only Light.
Do this several times, until the bad feelings diminish and are finally gone. If they resurface later, do the exercise again. Don’t give them any credibility. The enemy can not win.
Know that you are stronger than the enemy. Your choice is to be free.
Part Four: Spirit
Take care of your spirit so it is strong to fight the enemy.
Meditate regularly, whenever you can, wherever you can.
Go to a quiet place, even if just for a few minutes, and give that time exclusively to your inner spirit, your soul, your essence of God.
Pray for Light. Pray for inner peace. Ask for forgiveness. Be with Love.
Then stop. Listen. Wait for the Silence.
Let it fill your noisy mind with peace. Wholeness. A sense of gratitude.
Place your Self on the altar of God and offer yourself totally to a higher power. This is the power that can make your life one of joy, not sorrow, of healing, not pain, of gladness, not remorse.
Prayer and meditation, any way you can, will connect to the living Presence inside you that is there all the time. It is not in some distant heaven, but here, now, not a second away. To know this, is to feel peace.
When things get to you, the inner peace will bring you out of it. It will destroy the enemy, eradicate it from your being. Only God, your living God can do this once and for all. It is greater than you and greater than all the evil in the world. Trust in it.
Practice inner peace. Every day. Every hour if you have to remind yourself. Keep at it. The enemy is everywhere, in form and in the formless, and it is a constant battle to keep him from taking control. We have no idea what we’re dealing with. It’s not just mind control, it’s spirit control.
Point your weapons out, when the attacks come from the outside. Point the weapons in, when they attack from within.
Your weapons are God’s truth.
Know the truth and it will set you free. Know it well. Know it so nothing can ever take it away. Practice all the time. Be wary and aware. Kill the enemy. Take no prisoners!
The Light has no problem getting rid of darkness. Know that it always wins. Trust in it. Give it the power in you.
Part Five: Relationships
People are wonderful. They can also hurt us more than anything else in this world. We have to know how to bring Light into all our relationships and let it rule.
The enemy sometimes uses our relationships to cause us grief.
Know that it’s not the person that is hurting you, it’s the same old enemy in a different form. Don’t hate the messenger. Get rid of its source.
Bring peace to your soul to make you spiritually strong so you can deal with this most intimate and devastating of attacks. Ask for help from a higher power. Build on this every day, at every occasion.
Trust in your own inner strength, that comes from God. It is not your personality or your experience that will save you. That is only a temporary measure. You may win a small battle with those, but the larger war is with the enemy who will attack you with a larger force. You have to be prepared.
Discern what is the enemy. If it makes you feel bad, it is.
It may seem to be coming from a friend or a stranger or even family. The enemy uses whoever it can. But know its source. Darkness. Do not attack the messenger. Attack the source.
You can only attack the source when you have the power of God on your side. It is always with you, unused, unharnessed, until you call on it. Then you can defeat anything. Once you have tried this and it worked, you will gain more confidence.
“God is my strength,” is your mantra now.
Don’t depend on your own small self to defeat the enemy. You may win once, but it will return, even stronger. Go inside and be the power you need. It is yours for the asking.
The more you fight the enemy and win, the more it creates an opening for Light to come in.
Part Six: Be vigilant
You have to be prepared for anything. The enemy may be defeated on one side, but attack from another. Watch your back!
Practice daily affirmations. Build up your inner strength. Know your enemies.
The ideal place of your soul is one of Light, of unconditional spiritual Love, of deep inner Peace, of gratitude for all you have, of forgiveness of yourself and your enemies, and for absolute Joy.
Outside these soul qualities is nothing worth having.
Material gain is gone in the grave. Forget about it.
Relationships built on jealousy and fear are terrible for your spirit. Leave them behind.
Attachment to anything or anybody weighs you down, when your spirit longs to soar. Let them all go.
Build up your physical strength. Get plenty of rest. Sleep. Get fresh air and exercise. Eat healthy foods. Don’t drink too much alcohol or do drugs! Make your body as strong as you can. This is the temple you have been born with. Your spirit’s home needs to be strong too.
You will be less susceptible to the enemy if you are strong inside and out.
Give. Whenever you can, give something of yourself to someone else. Even if it’s just a smile. You are not born to live alone on this planet. We are all in this together. We all need each other. Give.
Do not expect people to be mean, but know that sometimes they will be. Don’t be caught unaware. Be ready. Catch the attack like you would a baseball in a glove. Don’t let it hurt your hand. Take the ball and toss it away. And keep on going.
If you walk into a situation that is negative, be aware that attitudes and bad feelings are probably all over the place, bouncing off the walls, flying through the air. Put on your armour and walk through unscathed. Your armour is Truth. Your armour is Peace. Your armour is Love. Know them well. If you happen to get a baseball in the face, just throw it away. Don’t dwell on it. Forgive your enemies. But don’t keep them.
You are protected with the strength of God. Have faith in it. Peace is yours.
Part Seven: In God We Trust
There is nothing that God cannot do. His strength is the most powerful force in the universe.
You cannot even imagine who or what God is.
He’s not some guy up there.
He or She or It (whatever you want to name it) is the power of all creation. His force is magnificent. He is all powerful. He wants you to use Him.
“I call on God, my Father, my Mother, my best Friend,” is your prayer. “I call on you to be with me. I know you are there. I know you are here. And I know you Love me.”
Be silent and listen to God. Let Him comfort your body, mind and spirit. Let Him soothe your troubled heart. Let Him speak the Truth to your unsettled mind. Let him relax your body so it can rest.
If you had the most powerful tool in the universe at your disposal, why wouldn’t you use it?
The thing is, you do. It’s yours.
All you have to do is surrender to it. You have the highest power inside your own mortal being, here on earth, now. It is not something you have to earn. It comes with the package.
To surrender to infinity, means you have to get rid of time. Let it go. It has no value.
To surrender to Light means you have to let go of inner darkness. It is your enemy. Let it go.
To surrender to Love means you have to let go of coldness of the heart. Feel gratitude instead. Be grateful for everything and everyone you have in your life. What you don’t have is unimportant. What you do have is amazing.
Trust in the One who sent you.
You are here for a purpose. Be everything you are meant to be. Ask for direction and it will be given. Follow the path to the eternal Sun of your own perfect Being.
God is with you. Now and forever. Praise be to God.
The End
Read more at: Listening to the Light of Your Inner Spirit and The Power of Silence.