I got a sneak peak at Thursday’s Challenge and could not sleep….(I am going to Canada in three days for a visit with my birth Mother and family) So, I whiled away the time making these for today’s challenge.
http://www.themethursday.wordpress.com
“As energy flows through each center in your energy system, it creates different experiences in you. Those experiences are your emotions.” (p51) They go to explain the seven centers of your energy system: The Crown is the seventh, the forehead is the sixth, the throat area is the fifth, the chest area is your fourth, the third area is solar plexus area, the second is your reproductive area, and the first is the base of your torso area in the pelvis. They have used the exact opposite order to Chakras.
http://healing.about.com/od/chakrawork/a/8humantalents.htm
They explain that these energy centers can not be X rayed or imaged. They are not in specific organs or cells, nor seen, nor heard, nor touched, nor smelled, nor tasted but are inner experiences. (p51-52)
The Crown - where energy enters from the time of birth until the time of death, like a silver umbilical chord attached to the One. It is often portrayed as an umbilical cord that connects one to the Higher Being. It is said to be the place of knowing/intuition and deals with higher spiritual elements of the soul. It is where ancient wisdom comes from. It is severed by death when we return back to that oneness.
The book speaks of this place as Personality. (p52) They also say that energy leaves the body from this energy center the same as it does from each of the other six. “There are two ways energy can leave your energy system: in fear and doubt or in love and trust.” (p53) I understand then, that energy is ever-flowing and exiting and being refilled. On exiting, energy is felt as either one of the two things: fear and doubt, or love and trust and what is felt is emotion that has been produced. One is negative, the other is positive.
When we experience person, place or thing, we must digest what has come in, like food, produce emotion, and release it. Oh, how important it is to release the positive outcome. I sometimes have to ruminate some time before I finally get the trust and love emission. It is our emotions that make the decision about how it is released. What is released is sent back out to the Universe…and from there; it can ripple back and return. (The ripple on the pond, I speak of) What I send out returns to be experienced time and time again. I am responsible for my feelings and what comes to teach emotional peace to me. Eckhart spoke of such when he said we should allow things to happen, of course, but to know them, acknowledge them, and allow them to pass through us. (The New Earth). When I got that ah hah moment through reading Eckhart’s book, I got the emotional awareness that was impetus for new evolution, this new me that is awakening.
Gary and Linda write: You may think that your anger comes from an interaction with a rude person, a sorrow, unfulfilled need, loss, adversity, but it does not. It comes from energy leaving you’re your energy system in fear and doubt. (p54)
Come, let us brush our hair until it is full of electricity and we can then become aware of our crown and that silver cord.
It was not aroma,
nor hands clinging to beer mug,
nor even steam rising from café-breath
but kiss that followed
and taste of fine ground words
in my mouth
afterwards
It was not the squeaky-clean mug,
you preferred your coffee in,
but reflection of your face
etched in glass
when I leaned over your back
to kiss your chocolate cheek
remembered
What is most beautiful
is that this paint pot
brings you back into view
again and again
“Studying a class seriously is more than reading, understanding, discussing, and writing. If you want to pass this class you need to look inside yourself. Assume that you are the cause of emotions that torment you, not other people or things.” (p49)
Pain calls us to attend to something that is broken, and when we are in emotional pain, we need to not fix the pain, but the problem. Even if something outside is causing you to feel pain, the pain is still something being wounded within.
Emotional pain is what comes from a painful experience. If we do not find a way to heal it, we can become Emotional Cripples. The way to find emotional healthiness is to be resilient and in that resilience there will be coping skills that will take you by the hand and lead you out of your dark night. Not that we are ill if we are Emotionally Crippled, nor deranged, but we could be if we do not find ways to be resilient.
A.J. Mahari, of Canada, professional freelance writer and Life Coach, wrote of Radical Acceptance. She writes:
“Radical Acceptance is a way of saying yes to each and every moment mindfully. If we can radically accept that we won’t always be accepted or liked by others and that life is full of challenges, for example, we can clear the pathway from the power of rejection and negative experience and/or thoughts and how we may have experienced them as severing our belonging. We can then make way for much more positive thoughts and feelings. Rejection or any other defined negative experience only has the power that we continue to give it. Radical Acceptance, in essence frees us up emotionally in reassuring ways that allow us to take back our personal power, or to not give it away to circumstance and whim anymore. Most of us don’t realize how much of our thinking is narrow, black and white, at times, and also very repetitive. Not to mention, often, negative and protective, often without cause. These kinds of thought patterns are always destined to give us similar feelings. Feelings that create anxiety and worry and leave us fearful and even angry: Feelings that, if acted upon, often produce very unwanted impulsive self-defeating and regrettable behavior.
Radical acceptance does provide emotional freedom. It does this by freeing up our minds long enough with new information and possibility that we see that ruminating, dwelling on thoughts and worrying about things past or future robs us totally of every here and now unfolding present moment.
Life lived mindfully, with radical acceptance of all that is in each and every unfolding here and now moment is manageable and transforms endless suffering into manageable pain and in time, into a greater more stable and consistent peace of mind.
It is very important to work at tolerating the thoughts and feelings that you may have, for so long, felt very adverse to. Radically accepting them gives you an opportunity to get to know them in a new and more productive and manageable way. You will come to gain more insight into how you think and how that leaves you feeling by accepting what is and allowing yourself to equally accept how what is really feels without trying to deny it, push it away, mask it and/or escape from it.” http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=923
How do we find the path to healing? If we are authentic, we are already on it.
Resilient people do not identify with their adversity instead, they identify with the ways they can or have overcome difficulties. They can transcend their sorrow, angst, or numbness by knowing that nothing is forever. They accept the seasons of emotion-packed lives as we know life to be. They allow the negative experiences to flow through them after they acknowledge the feelings they are having about such emotion. We rise, with every goodbye we rise. We can be strong and mature spirits. We do not have to be caught in the emotionally crippling chaos of indecision or surrender to chaos. We can step up to the plate and bat it out of the field. I read an anonymous quote and it is beautiful…
“Resilient people do not walk in soaking, pouring down rain, they walk between the raindrops.”
To me this speaks about resilience knowing how to get wet down by life but not simply standing there and letting it drown you.
Wikipedia says that resilience is the positive capacity to cope with stress and catastrophe and being able to cope with future negative events. Resilience, then, they say, is cumulative “protective factors” used in opposition to cumulative “risk factors”.
As we adapt to different forms of personal adversity, we gain strength in ADAPTING to life’s misfortunes. Life can be a series of temporary disruptions and learning to rebound from them is part of what resiliency is. It does not mean to simply let it happen or ignoring the feelings that they bring. It does not mean you always have to be strong and brave and full of grace. It does mean, knowing what you are feeling, and if you need to reach out to those who are supportive to your resilience, part of your resilience, in their own way, you are willing to. It certainly does not mean that you numb your feelings, or become distant and cold or bitter or chronically sad. “People who are more resilient have the ability to say to themselves, “OK, this bad thing happened, and I can either dwell on it or I can learn from it,” explains Edward Creagan, M.D., an oncologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Even if you have a Emotional Limp….know the pain and then heal it as best as only you can, and then limp away until you can walk without stumbling, run without weakening, and dance in the rain without becoming sodden.
