She who is centered in the Tao
can go where she wishes, without danger.
She perceives the universal harmony,
even amid great pain,
because she has found peace in her heart.
(Tao 35)
Authors of Working Out, Working Within Jerry Lynch and Chungliang Al Huang remind us: when we are born, we are all "in tune" with or our natural "way," the way of the Tao. Here we have complete joy and unlimited potential. They continue by noting, society often takes this feeling of freedom away from us as we grow, therefore, it is our work to reclaim our fully-realized life.
With this said, the more I study energetic healing and the ways of eastern philosophy, the more I realize that we are all beings of the divine. It is often our mind that keeps us in the physical world and short of the realization that the true blessings lie beneath the veil.
How to get to this place of divinity and live the life of the fully-realized? First, in any and all situations, we must make divinely-driven choices. We do this by continually asking ourselves: are we acting out of faith? Or are we acting out of fear? At a gut level, we can always know the answer. If we listen to the lessons that eastern Taoists teach us: we know that all of life has it's own nature. Therefore, when we listen to ourselves we can "feel" our ebb and flow within it. For it is when we listen to the ways of nature and follow it's path that we can follow our "way" to our own true calling.
According to Caroline Myss in her book Anatomy Of The Spirit, however, there are three caveats along the road to healing and living in faith. It is through these three challenges that the journey to your truest self begins.
1. "Misdirecting the power of one's spirit will generate consequences to one's body and life."
Energy is power. And according to Myss, in effort to live our lives authentically, we must learn to tune in to the voice of the spirit to receive direction for our lives. Misdirection comes then, when we impose our will on the divine for our own "selfish" advancement. This is opposed to our divine call of becoming a vessel of the will of the divine. When we ask ourselves, "am I acting out of fear?" and the answer is "yes" we proceed by first looking for the message and the golden moment that it holds for us. This can happen by discovering where we are blocked - in other words, how far away we are from answering "Yes" to faith.
2. "Every human being will encounter a series of challenges that tests his allegiance to heaven."
It is not uncommon to say "yes" to fear. For often it is part of the process to find ourselves in the darkness. In effort to truly find our center, we are called to hold on to the thread of the divine in all that we do and experience. This often calls us to see ourselves in a way that we do not wish in effort to evolve into who we may become. It is always our highest choice to choose to be who we are inside... even if it means following the call through what feels much like Dante's blazing Inferno.
According to Myss, it is in the darkness we must always say yes to faith even though fear allows us to cling to safety nets and life rafts. As easterners remind us, "releasing ones spirit into the physical world through fear or negativity is a faithless act of choosing personal view over the heavens." Yet, when we know intuitively what "faith" feels like - we can evolve by holding to this thread as we travel though the darkness. When it comes down to it, as Myss reminds us, this is the only real security we have.
3. "To heal from the misdirection of spirit we need to be willing to release the past, cleanse the spirit and return to the present moment. To do this we must let go of fear, anger and attachments."
Eastern tradition reminds us that all action creates "karma" or a reaction by the universe to our choices. To acquire the best possible outcome of our choices we must learn to let go of the fear, the anger and attachments. We do this through forgiveness. In the words of Myss, therefore, we need to unplug any of our circuits from their negative power sources, thus releasing their hold on us. This means all past wounds, hurts and disappointments. To do this we must make our best effort to live in real time and look ahead to the future. To activate this process, one of my favorite resources are the exercises found in the book Language Of The Soul by John Payne. (To learn more about the Language Of The Soul Click Here).
We can also call on Taoist wisdom to help us let go of these negative power sources. According to authors Lynch and Huang, we must, according to ancient wisdom "Embrace the Tiger." According to ancients the tiger embodies the "multidimensional power of blinding beauty, ruthless strength, godlike passion as well as the gentle and loving quality of the lamb." When we embrace the Tiger, they remind us, this shift transforms the "fierce and frightful" into innocence and light. In the quest of finding our true selves then, when we look directly into the face of fear, faith prevails.
Affirmation:
Today I live in each moment
I understand this moment is all I have
yesterday is behind me and tomorrow is
mine to create. I walk this path with faith.
I will not be afraid. This life is mine to live
it is my way of giving service
to live my truth
in the light of the divine.
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