How often do we go about our days feeling things
within our body and trying to figure them out yet never really find the
answers? We might go to a doctor and explain what’s going on. We might say we
have tightness in our shoulders, pain in our knees, constant stomach or abdomen
issues or maybe pains in our feet. There’s no doubt that sometimes these things
can truly be the result of something we did physically or something we might
have eaten etc., but there is also a lot to say about our state of mind and our
emotions and how this translates in our physicality.
We are energy beings, this isn’t some new-age
spiritual concept. Our body has electricity that runs through it and it flows
based on the cleanliness of the paths in which it travels. This is the premise
behind meridian points or acupuncture points made popular in Chinese medicine.
So if we are energy and we need our energy to be flowing well throughout our
body to stay healthy, is it possible for us to have blockages? Can experiences
we have create dormant or ‘stuck’ energy within the body?
The illustration below is a general depiction of
how energy, experiences, emotions or beliefs we have can get energetically
stored within the body. As “out there” as this may seem to some of us, it’s
really a simple concept when you begin to understand the fact that our
thoughts, body, emotions and feelings are all energy related. And yes, allow me
to be the first to say that not every single disease or ailment is going to be
directly related to some emotional distress, however it’s always a chance or
experience for us to take a look at what might be playing out. After all,
what’s the harm in exploring your emotions and getting to the bottom of how you
might feel about something?
Next time you have a pain somewhere, notice
tight shoulders etc. Take a moment and see if any of these can trigger some
internal reflection. Of course, you can always go to a practitioner to find out
what might be going on physically as well, but I believe the emotional and
spiritual side of our health is just as important as the physical, it’s just
been greatly avoided as we tend to set aside personal development for the quick
fix.
Keep reflection simple, you can ask your
self-questions about what you might be feeling in that area. The first step is
to rid the doubt you might have about getting to the bottom of the feeling and
the next important step is being open and honest with yourself. You can also
have someone be a sounding board for you if it’s easier that way. Again, it is
important to be open and honest with this. When you start to figure out what
you might be feeling in those areas, question how it got there, why you might
feel that way and ultimately accept it for what it is. After you accept the
feeling, know that it’s all been an experience and now there’s a chance for you
to move beyond it.
Once you are aware of how you are feeling,
you’ve already taken a big step. The issue will not have the same power and you
can now choose how you feel about whatever was creating the blockage. At
the end of the day, the body can be a great tool in showing you what you might
be holding onto emotionally, energetically and spiritually. With an open mind,
personal honesty and reflection, you have the tools to get to the bottom of
your issue and leave it behind for good.
Lots of people say it, and it can’t be denied… this would be a wonderful,
balanced natural world if humans weren’t a part of it. Knowing how accepted
this sentiment is, I feel for us. We’re not meant to be a curse. We see what’s
been done to the earth and to us, and we’re working so diligently to comprehend
what has allowed it, and what we can do to change it.
How did humans get so out of balance? By ignoring, fearing, demeaning, even
hating and destroying a most vital part of ourselves. We were born into it, so
let’s not go to guilt.
I started thinking about balance after watching a video documentary on the
potter Lee Kang-hyo. This Korean artist makes the big pots called Onggi. The
story followed him as he created his art, questioned his choice of Onggi, did
some soul searching about his life, and came to realize that what he wanted was
not far away… it was right there with him.
As I watched the story, I realized that the big pots looked like sculptures
of the feminine… open, strong, inviting: containers that hold food for long
periods of time while the food transforms itself through brewing and
fermenting. Toward the end of the video we watch the artist put his spirit and
energy into the pot, caressing and applying the color. The pot turns out to be
quite a beautiful masterpiece, just standing there in readiness.
That’s a gorgeous image, isn’t it: picture the waiting, receptive, open
invitation to transform? We all have her within, ready to contain our
experiences and turn them into something life-giving… like the wisdom so
desperately needed at this time.
We don’t get this wisdom by pursuing it or working our way to it logically;
we get it in the ‘water into wine’ way – the right ingredients, the right
pressure, the right temperature, the time fulfilled, in the perfect pot.
The inner worlds and the relationship with inner divinity are so vital to my
life that it’s hard for me to imagine not being there. But it’s not so for
everyone. The other day I talked with a young man who was having marriage
issues. I asked him if he ever goes within, in order to relate to his inner life.
“I don’t have time for that,” he said. “I have to work to take care of my
family.” I understand, and I love him… but he’s not whole. He’s out of balance.
There is some resistance to wholeness, and it could come from conditioning
or fear, or failure to understand the importance. We need to be honest, so I
ask: since when is a man who looks inward to explore his wisdom and experience
his divinity less of a man? Or, when is a woman who looks outward to see how
she can relate to the world, and change things, less of a woman? There is no
downside to balance, no loss of manhood or womanhood. There is wholeness. And
we’d be wise to find time for that.
We find the masculine and feminine polarities within, and we find that the
marriage of these aspects makes of every one of us able to create and relate to
the world. The inner child, when acknowledged and loved, becomes the vital,
enjoyable expression. This is inner balance.
What would happen if the inner perception and wisdom were diminished almost
to extinction and the capacity for outer action were set free to ‘do as you
will’? Well, that questions is answered. ‘Do as you will’ is the only law for
the humans who rule – the top of the hierarchy.
For millions of others, the masses, ‘do as God wills’ is the law. They take,
as the highest authority, an invisible male force outside of themselves; a
moral force with rules and lessons, interpreted in every which way. Morals
don’t apply to the rulers, but they are a gift to the masses, to keep them
happy, because they naturally want to be good.
So, we’ve been living within the conditioning and under the authority of 1)
do as you will, which places unbalanced humans in charge, and 2) do as God
wills, which places moral rules, interpreted by unbalanced humans, in charge. Maybe
this ‘no inner light’ experience was necessary to our evolution… that I don’t
know. But if we needed to be in a spiritual dark age, brought near death, in
order to align to what is within, it has been done and we’re ready for the
changeover. Turn on the light.
There is something we all know: the ‘do as you will’ top humans destroy the
feminine Mother Earth, distort the feminine human being, and denigrate the
feminine wisdom within all. And the interpreters of the religion say it’s God’s
will.
We have been on this destructive track for 6000 years. When thinking about
this, I remembered the ‘thousand years being like one day to God’ message that
we get from the Bible, and I also remembered that it says God created the world
in six days and then he rested. Well, it’s the end of the six days, and as they
must know, since they can read, their time is up. It’s time for them to rest
and admire their creation.
And it is quite a creation… to be unbalanced enough to enslave and control
and exploit humanity and attempt to kill the earth and all that’s in it
including themselves. They did a bang-up job, and now we know what will happen
if we ignore, fear, demean, even hate half of ourselves… our sacred heart, our
inner trinity, our trans-formative inner sanctum.
When you want to ‘do as you will’, you have to sack the feminine. We see
huge numbers of persons in power into pedophilia. Could a man horribly and
viciously destroy human innocence if he was balanced… if the mother love was
within him? Grotesque and hideous to think of, eh? This could be the ultimate
example because it horrifies us so, but there are many other destruction's… so
many.
There is an entire spectrum of humanity that would be frozen in their tracks
if their own inner light were switched on. Envision the moment: there we find
the end to violence, lust for power, slavery, rape and exploitation, theft and
deceit, trashing of the earth and the peoples of the earth, and the grab for
total control.
Unbalanced people in power do tend to keep the world out of balance, and an
awful lot of people out of balance too. What do we want? Balanced people who
can relate without harming anything: harmonic… that word must mean relationship
without harm. We want harmony.
It’s not easy to find people in balance, but we can find many who are
working on it and doing well. Bless us… we help each other. And if a harmonic
world is possible, let the intention to create it originate in those who have
‘turned the water into wine’, integrated the most experience and gained the
most wisdom. After all, we’re all in this for life’s sake: the love of life and
of love, which is the only thing worth living for.
Love: that means the Sacred Heart must be the highest authority… Our sacred
heart, within Us. The greatest love relationship that we can ever experience is
with our own radiance, our own eternal spark of the God force. It is the
divinity within, and within is ‘feminine’. Don’t be afraid of it.
Let’s go back to the master potter. He is making the container that holds
the perfect ingredients from which something new is made. Remember when I said
that’s a gorgeous image… the waiting, receptive, open invitation to
transformation. I know you know: we’re the potter, and the pot, and the
ingredients and the something new.
We are evolving, and we’re often at a new stage, drinking the new brew.
There is so much to celebrate. Raise the glass… here’s to being human!
