Last month I had some requests to turn off registration and allow comments to be added at the bottom of each article without logging in. I decided to offer this as an option. The drawback is that the blog has been receiving a lot more spam, but most of it is getting blocked, and I think that if it makes it easier to add comments then it is worth spending a bit of extra time deleting the spam.
I have noticed that opening up to colours and sounds can help a person unlock their inner creative and healing potential. On a conscious level we seldom consider the idea of colour and sound as elements that have a deeper resonance and power, sometimes we do not appreciate their essential nature.
It can at first take some time and some relaxation to allow the energies of colour and sound to permeate the inner human aura. Focusing on a deep blue or bright red color, for example, can bring forth quite diverse energies depending on how the colour affects our inner state.
In The Five-Minute Healer, the author explors the effect of mantras on the aura and how we feel after being around different sound vibrations. In addition to creating sounds, the author also brings attention to the importance of filling a room with a consistent sound and resonance. Dissonant sounds create discord in our energetic vibration, and utilizing a harmonic sound generator can often enough block out the negative sound patterns all around us, the book explains.
1. In meditation or before falling asleep, focus on just one single colour and hold onto the feeling this colour resonates to benefit from the energetic power that it holds within it.
2. Listen to some relaxing music or leave a consistent sound tone on during sleep to wake up rested and refreshed from deeper sleep.
Often it is difficult to find the time to learn about and to understand how to heal using our own inner power. However what I have noticed is that undertaking energetic-based healing does not take up more time than the right amount of time. It is just a matter of getting into the present moment rather than being overrun with chaotic thoughts and stresses of other tasks that need doing.
There is a method that can be used that allows the energetic centers to be activated in others through sensing them with our hands. This technique is useful for those who are starting with energetics and would like to experience energetic sensations firsthand.
it is possible to sense another presence in a room if a person is standing in front of you even if your five physical senses cannot determine this - if you cannot see or hear the person. You can begin to develop this sense further by placing your hand a few centimeters from a person's body. Notice how the energy around your hand changes.
By moving your hand slowly forward and back 2-3 centimeters you will begin to notice that the sensation changes. The closer your hand is to a person the more are you are pressing into their personal space (their aura). You are not touching them, but just letting your hand rest a few cms above their body.
To perform the healing have the person lie in his or her back and with your hand a few centimeters away from the body sweep your hand down slowly from their head to their feet. You should feel the energy resisting against your hand as you move it through the air inside the immediate inner-aura. Doing this process 11 times (five times down each leg and once down the middle of the body) can take less than a minute but will leave the person feeling more energized. There is no limit to how many times this can be done in one session.
In some practices it is often advised to wash your hands with salt after performing this technique, since some of the energetic knots and negative surface-energies can get scraped off the aura into your hand. For this reason after each sweep from the head to the feet it is a good idea to visualize the negative energies burning or dissipating.
Having a block in the flow of our creative energies can be frustrating and difficult to overcome when there is no explanation for where that creative potential went. Oftentimes we might experience a flow of ideas or concepts that we can use, and then that flow gets cut off and the ideas stop. How do we approach this problem when it happens?
In one of the studies done at AOL some time ago the results illustrated that almost 50% of people who blog about their experiences because it is therapeutic. 40% responded that their blog foremost helps them connect with their friends, and 28% responded that it helps improve their writing skills.
I see blogging as an excellent method of reflection and personal expression - both of which are therapeutic on a number of levels. From personal experience I see the main issues in mental health and unhappiness arising from hiding our feelings and not talking about them with someone. Talking about things brings them out into an objective plane - rather than being held onto in the subjective mind. Let me explain.
To experience a particular feeling or a state of being and to avoid expressing that to others causes it to be pushed into the subconscious mind where it has a negative effect on our conscious life. Secrets and feelings of discomfort cannot exist when their presence is made known to those in our lives. The inhibitions we have often have a certain power over us when we fail to acknowledge them.
That which we do not bring conscious acknowledgment to often turns into pain or discord that becomes held against us in our own mind. Destructive thoughts tend to be those that go unacknowledged. Reflecting on our feelings and reactions to others is often difficult because their judgments can cause them to be labelled as wrong rather than being acknowledged for their true nature.
There are several healthier methods of acknowledging inner pain. Blogging and writing is one of the best. It provides a non-judgmental space for reflection and also offers a means to dig deeper into the causes and impact of our emotions and actions. Perhaps one of the best aspects of this process is that it can be therapeutic for both the author, and the reader too, who might be dealing with the same crisis, problem, or dilemma in their life at a certain point.
Picking a topic that is meaningful and sharing it with others is a productive method of self-exploration. It also helps establish a deeper connection with those who get a chance to read personal reflections others have written on that topic.
Some of the most life-changing discussions I have had have involved the other person in the conversation talking for most of the duration. Listening to their reflections made a substantial impact on the worldview I held at that time. The process of sincere introspection transforms both the listener and the speaker - both the reader and the writer. It is this channel of expression that facilitates inner-healing.
Or perhaps I should write - 1 Million Experiences to make 1 event.
The worldview I grew up with was that there is one objective world and each person perceives that world in a different light. Until about 2006 I had this idea that the world was absolute and our perspective of it was skewed. You could write 1000 articles about a single event, but the single event would still be constant irrespective of differing perspectives.
I was wrong.
Perspective and consciousness of an objective event alters the nature of the event itself. This is the reason blogging and expressing ourselves through writing and discussion is like food for the soul. It is not the event that it is important - it is what the event is like for the person experiencing it that gives it importance.
Through sharing our experience of the world with others and the meaning it has for us, we are able to participate in the process of re-creating the world at large. There have been a great number of historical periods where humankind was forced into living in accordance to a particular worldview, where the thoughts and feelings people had about the world were disregarded in place of an authoritative brand of order.
Through the process of writing and expressing where the point of meaning most resonates in his or her life, a person is able to gain a greater sense of personal balance and to share that with others to bring collective knowledge through experience to light.
During the last 3 months we have been going to the shops at the end of each month to see whether the wii fit console was available. Each month the sales manager would explain that wii fit consoles are selling out 5 minutes after arrival at each order date. Pre-orders were also not being taken. However last month we arrived at the shop, and guess what happened?
One of the several questions I was asking myself when I first learned about energetic healing is: which healing method is the best or easiest to learn? Learning energetic healing has a number of benefits that extend past just the healing experience itself. For effective healing to occur, a person must change their entire outlook on the process. If doubt or lack of confidence in the process exists then it becomes difficult to work with all energetic systems.
Not too long ago I heard a story from someone who had an encounter with a Mormon, who was at the time going from door to door spreading information about the religion. This person was telling me that instead of turning him away she invited him inside her home. Most people in the same circumstance would close the door — with the presumption that he was just selling the religion and wasting their time. The fact that she invited him in was a surprise to me and I wanted to know what happened next.
Even though modern medicine has gained a certain degree of trust when we are looking for an explanation for physical and mental symptoms, there are times when our medical system utterly disregards other possibilities for what we may be feeling or experiencing.
This blind and almost arrogant approach to diagnosing physical and mental sensations is often completely oblivious to causes outside the reach of common medical knowledge. Many spiritually oriented and extrasensory symptoms are confused for dysfunctions, and oftentimes interpreted as something that should be cured.
The distance that we bring between ourselves and others is problematic when it forces us to focus on what is lacking in others rather than what is present and not seen. It is often that process of not seeing others in their true form that causes an inevitable sense of lacking to arise. If we lose track of those closest to us and their feelings, goals and dreams, then the level of connection becomes limited and often feels superficial.
The main obstacle limiting this level of connection is the pain body — the idea that others should meet the idea or notion we have of them attitude-wise and behaviour-wise. Most of the time a wife lies to a husband or a daughter lies to her parents it is because she fears being judged. The idea of being safe in a particular mode of existence makes it impossible to develop deeper connections with those who define us most. That definition is limiting – their expectations weigh us down.
Relationships exist in the centre-point of the above diagram. Often it is human nature to push that centre-point outward and to assume that their partner is a certain type of individual – whether that image comes about as a projection of their expectations or as an exaggeration of some other behaviour.
The strength of a connection in a relationship becomes dull when these expectations persist. I cannot convince someone to see me for who I am if that person has pre-decided to see me in a certain light based on previous beliefs, behaviour, and attitudes I might have expressed. The problem occurs with the freedom-principle and this is where the common notion of: to love someone, one must first let that person go comes from.
The reason we sometimes find it easier to confide in strangers or to be more excited when meeting new people rather than catching up with our friends is that we tend to anticipate the reactions we can expect from those we know. On the other hand we have the feeling of newness when interacting with people that we cannot judge for the mere fact that we do not have enough information about them to judge them.
This same sense of freedom can be attained and expanded in friendships and relationships when we stop pinning them down to a particular type of exchange. See your significant other as you would see them for the first time. They have not changed at all since the first time you met them. Only your projections have changed.
In understanding this basic piece of wisdom it becomes clear that by making judgements on others to define them in a certain light we are closing off our connections to them. Here are 5 things that can be done to break free from these judgements and to see each other in a new light:
To break free from the ego - or pain body - it is important to snap out of habits that force us to define ourselves and others using ideas that are limiting and negative. Consider how you define the relationship you have to others. Think about what you get out of it and what actions you take for your own benefit. Then think about which actions you take for the benefit of your partner and where the desire to do these things originates.
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