Wednesday, March 23 2011
Hello everybody,
I usually like to start my newsletters with an upbeat greeting, but find it very difficult to do right now since I am not good at pretending. I can’t recall seeing so many natural disasters in such short timeframe like we have in the last couple of years. An earthquake and tsunami in Japan; earthquakes in New Zealand, Haiti and China; flooding in Pakistan and Australia; a typhoon in Myanmar and hurricanes in the Gulf, and I am sure I have missed something, as if all of these weren’t enough. The force of nature is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on our planet right now. As a result, there is a lot of pain and suffering taking place.
Let’s go into this a little further…
Brad
The Pain Body
It is not the kind of pain from we feel after being in a car accident or getting a broken leg. Instead, I am talking about a pain that can be experienced physically, emotionally and even spiritually. The kind that develops over time and comes out of nowhere for no good reason or, you feel it completely throughout your body, and your doctors still tell you everything looks good on paper and they can’t find anything wrong.
Just like currents in the ocean, energy is constantly flowing uninterrupted throughout our being. When this energy becomes blocked or obstructed, the pain body arises. The physical body is made up of material like water, flesh and bone; the spiritual body is made up of –you guessed it- spirit; and the emotional body is tied into the mind. The physical body is a denser, material-based, lower vibration form of energy while the spirit operates at a higher vibration and is less dense, with the mind and emotions falling in between.
The varying degrees of density are very intertwined and are constantly trying to integrate with one another. The pain arises when things aren’t interacting well in the process. From a relational perspective, when the body, mind and spirit are getting along things run smoothly. If they don’t cooperate with one another there can be in-fighting and territorial battles.
"If the body is sick, the mind worries and the spirit grieves. If the mind is sick, the body and the spirit will suffer from its confusion. If the spirit is sick, there will be no will to care for body or mind."
-Professor J.R. Worsley
If we think of the body as an energetic conduit between Heaven and Earth, we can define two broad types of beings: Bottom-Uppers and Top-Downers. Bottom-Uppers are naturally more rooted in the denser energy of Earth and their physical bodies, making it sometimes difficult, even emotionally painful to expand upward into their spirit. Top-Downers are floating and cloud-surfing up in the expansiveness of the heavenly realm, often feeling physical pain as they struggle to descend into their bodies to become grounded.
Now think of water -which our physical body is mostly comprised of. When pressure and temperature are applied to water they make it contract and expand between solid, liquid and gas states. For discussion purposes, we’ll say the body is solid, the mind is liquid and the spirit is gas. So when the world heats up (figuratively, if not literally) it starts putting a lot of pressure on our system. Pain occurs when blockages and obstructions prevent the flow of energy from transitioning from one state to another within ourselves.
Building a relationship with nature and understanding the different pressures and energetic qualities that each season presents, will help us align our own energetic qualities and live in accordance with the rhythms of natural law. Fighting this flow is a major contributor to the obstructions we create within ourselves.
It’s Spring. One of its energetic qualities is anger. Can you feel it?
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