When consciousness proceeds, the material follows.
In view of the autumn sunset while driving on the 101 freeway for a slight moment my conscious mind was filled with the beauty and awe of the moment, beyond my intellect and into the presence of my heart. Lani The heart is truly an organ of emotional passion and is influencing your daily life decisions including the management of family, work and community life. In today’s times the economy and environment have shaken the foundation of this trinity. The American dream of peace and freedom comes with a toll in finding a balance between these daily living issues. Most importantly are the children and their sensitivity to home and community. Because of current trends children are losing three very important experiences that make them feel loved; a stable home environment, parents who are together, and a supportive environment to live out their childhood dreams. The foundation of the American dream starts with children. If they hold no dream due to a lack of stability, America becomes pressured to care for emotionally injured children who eventually become adults. Day to day life becomes a challenge for these traumatized children especially as they become adults and are required to participate within worldly standards. Their hearts and minds out of the passion to belong will seek answers, not always knowing where to go since the conscious mind is clouded by the uncertainty of the emotion they feel and what their family dynamic is suggesting. What can you or anyone do today to participate with the trinity of home, family and community? First it’s important to recognize the nature of consciousness within your self and how the miracle of the mind plays a role in personal choice compared to what society thinks you should do. In some cases if you cannot meet societal roles for family, work and community life it can be viewed as resistant behavior to participate and can leave on feeling shamed and guilty. If pressure is pushed on this issue then you or a traumatized adult may feel a sense of entitlement to be cared for since you cannot meet the standards. If pressure increases, then the trigger of fight or flight becomes dominate. During these times of emotional outburst you or the adult child can hurt those who are closest to you. Often you may think by not participating with the family dynamic it’ll be better for the family. This is the most damaging thing you can do for the sake of yourself and the family for the miracle to explore is the family dynamic and your role in it.
Miracles of the Heart
(Known as the Kala Chakra) Emotions can often dominate the mind and what you think is the right thing to do. The key to survival of a family and community is for individuals and parents to take care of their emotional needs first and then the children. The mind is a tool and can calm the weary heart and emotional nature. When the mind links with the nature of consciousness you begin to recognize how thoughts and what you think play a large role in how emotions stay at a peaceful, constructive nature. Meditation, Guided Imagery, and bio-energetic living (the relationship between humanity and nature) are wonderful tools for utilizing the mind and energetic states of the body and emotion. The brain is consistently being charged with electrical and magnetic frequencies and sending multiple signals to the emotions based on your thoughts. Thoughts that trigger positive emotion can simply be associated with natures’ way to the basic need to survive. This could include quality of food, a clean water supply, a restful & clean environment, clean clothing, recognizing natural talents and resources, a spiritually supportive environment of none judgment, and a support group willing to listen to your needs and express the joy of living between each other, then there is hope for survival. The sub- conscious, much like the child in each of us demands these basic needs. It does not understand negative intention for the subconscious only responds to positive action. American’s today have had the freedom to choose the life they wish to live since the foundations of America have been set down, including our consumer values portrayed in the media. As lifestyle changes begin to take place due to economic and environmental demands, you will resort back to the basics of a sustainable lifestyle. This transition can challenge the ego and can initiate you into a challenge based on your perception of entitlement. Developing a relationship between your conscious mind and nature will lay down the foundation to a miraculous vision of a golden era in America today.
Transition is the Miracle of Life …
The key to manage transitioning times is accomplished by balancing the master glands at the center of the brain. The glands include the pineal, pituitary and hypothalamus (the emotional seat). The higher glands are sensitive to light, color, smell, sound, touch, and energetic frequencies influencing brain activity. Focus on the elements of nature to balance the higher glands will in turn balance the heart to harmonize emotion. This is an ancient art form within many cultures and religions. It can be recognized within the golden eras including ancient Egypt, Greece, and India. The higher glands are the keepers of homeostasis. When you receive the proper rest, right eating, exposure to full spectrum light, practice meditation or prayer, positive thinking and speaking, energetic practices including yoga, acupuncture, and partaking of flower elixirs, the higher glands are harmonized so in turn the heart. When the heart is harmonized you begin to experience the miracle of soul awareness recognizing the vital resources you have to develop and share from within. This is the essential essence of giving and receiving to meet your needs. The higher glands when harmonized with nature give clarity to the conscious mind. Never suppress the conscious mind, for it’s our inherited right to know your true self. This in itself is a miracle of spiritual knowing and offers great contentment and joy to living. If clarity is lost there is a natural instinct to restore the conscious mind. In this effort you may become excessive in using alcohol, drugs, food, over working, even over caring those close to you because the consumer market feeds on our lack of consciousness. Excessive behavior may give partial balance, most often not lasting. This trigger may include playing out emotional patterns to justify ones lack of clarity and inability to make healthy decisions. It’s important to remember in achieving clarity of consciousness, that this is a lost teaching of humanities miraculous relationship to nature and will need to be learned again. Throughout time the knowledge of humanities relationship to nature was handed down through communication within the family structure, addressing religion, medicine, stories and art forms. It’s important not to be judgmental of your self while establishing this knowledge in your life once again. It does take a conscious effort to reestablish this relationship and important to connect with support groups and teachings focused on reestablishing this relationship magnificent connection with nature.
Miracles of the Heart Meditation
Before starting the meditation use a flower essence
elixir with fragrance such as lavender to spray on the face and relax muscles. This will help clear your mind before meditation.
Imagine closing your eyes and relaxing muscles by
removing yourself from the outside world. The muscles around the eyes and forehead are relaxing as a blue light streams into the top of your head and down over the face and throat.
Focus your attention at the center of the mind. There
is a golden cup being filled by the blue liquid light coming down from the top of your head. The cup is filled with liquid light and spilling over into the eyes, face and throat. Liquid blue light spirals downward into the throat and shoulders, arms and hands, spiraling down into the heart. With each beat of the heart the blue light is sparked into the movement of the circulatory system. The body calms as blue liquid light moves into the muscles, releasing tension. Imagine now that the whole body is filled with blue light. Feeling lighter and more relaxed.
Focus your attention on an emotional tension or issue
you have known to have. Imagine this emotion to be held as a bright crystal within your body. As you look deeply into the crystal, allow this emotion to reveal a memory of how it first came to be as a story unfolding before you. The feelings of this story can speak to you expressing fear, anger and jealousy. These primary emotions have become locked as a blockage and need to be moved into an appropriate expression. Fear is our concern for a situation in life. If we have suppressed a fear in the past or present it can now released by recognizing what it is. By recognizing your concern, you can begin visioning the appropriate way to express or take action on your concern with those involved. If you feel to express or take action will cause harm to you or the other person, then imagine how it can be handled indirectly or ask for professional help.
Anger like your fears, can be suppressed over long
periods of time, even from childhood. If not managed appropriately can be triggered and released in unexpected outbursts of past memories. When this happens imagine looking into a crystal of liquid light holding the anger. Imagine the anger as an old wound ready to be soothed. Move passionately into the anger and ask it to reveal where it was first created. Allow the story to unfold. Now with the imagination, create a story of compassion to act on the anger. Take courage to express your anger in an appropriate action, without harm to yourself or others. This is the transition of moving passion into compassion.
Jealousy is when you feel entitled to have what
another person has. This emotion over time can be locked into the fabric of our being. The key to unlock this blockage is to recognize your ability to create this for your self. It’s the human condition to fulfill hidden skills and talents or receive what is rightfully yours by taking appropriate action to manifest what you deserve to have. The key to this emotion is the revelation that it may not be what you really want. It’s important to meditate on the consequence of your action and what you ask for. Most likely, you will receive it.
Know that these primary emotions are a natural part of
life experiences. It’s how you are taught, in childhood that will give you a positive life experience or struggle. Each time you visit these emotions, life’s experiences will become less stressful and more productive. Now, imagine clear, blue water washing over your eyes feeling refreshed, ready to see the day in a new way. Open your eyes. Sit for a few moments to allow your consciousness to adjust to the world around you.
As each emotion is triggered in everyday life
experiences, turn to this meditation before acting. Allow yourself the few moments or days it may take to find the appropriate expression or action to create what you rightfully deserve. When consciousness proceeds, the material follows.
New Years Resolution
‘Be Positive’
Research has suggested that 80% of our thoughts are
negative. The balance of keeping a harmonious spirit is to stay within your means while feeling the demands of a consumer culture, especially with children. Shift your mind imagery when feeling guilt or judgment of yourself and others because we feel we haven’t achieved enough for the family. This is a perfect time to explore natural talents and look at various ways to give and receive in an effort to achieve your goal for balanced living. Giving to the family is achieved through day to day activities and holds the miracle of love in our hearts in the action of this effort.
Benjamin Straumann - Crisis and Constitutionalism - Roman Political Thought From The Fall of The Republic To The Age of Revolution-Oxford University Press (2016)