Post by Sowelu on Jun 3, 2011 9:25:22 GMT -5
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My Dear Friends,
That which you have popularly defined and focused upon as "emotions" are often mere simulations of emotion. True, you are feeling something, but what? Sadness? Happiness? Anxiety? Confidence? Pity? And, when you feel it, isn't it normally attached to something happening (or not happening) in the outer world? Isn't it usually an effect rather than a cause?
Let us suggest to you a new definition for emotion. Stated simply, e-motion is ENERGY IN MOTION.
One of the usual results of old paradigm emotionality is an intensive focus upon a physical circumstance and one's bodily reactions to it. Intensive focus tends to SLOW DOWN your flow of energy so that what is happening can be examined (and fixed, if need be). Or, in the case of emotions denied, the intensity (or rather, the potensity) of the energy is flash frozen and tucked away in some dark closet, to be dealt with another day (if ever).
This is NOT genuine emotion. It is just more preoccupation with control that has leapt into the sensory realm. You are sad, because something happened that you did not like. You are happy, because something came to you that you wanted. You are worried, because something might "get out of control," or you became angry, and it was you, yourself that got "out of control!"
Genuine e-motion flows gently, freely—unhindered by the need or the desire for control. It simply is what it is. It also allows others to be what they are. Being unattached to outcomes, e-motion actually seems to move right through any obstacles, like a fog moving through a sleeping city.
Each and everyone of you has thousands upon thousands of e-motions going on within you at any one moment. However, most of you miss them because of the intensive body-based control issues that have been programmed into you. Do you wish to unblock those daily stalemates that are playing themselves out in your bodies and minds? All you have to do is shift your attention away from them for a moment and begin to focus upon the more subtle energies that have been flowing in and around you since the very beginning.
One must learn to focus upon what is moving, not what is BLOCKED. You must learn to read between the lines! What you focus upon is what gets perpetuated and energized. Blocked "feelings" were created to slow you down. They are self-imposed tethers that have been installed to keep you from advancing in your consciousness too quickly. You will never be able to solve them. And seeking to understand them, beyond what we just told you, is even more of a waste of time.
Whatever "understanding" you may require, concerning a genuine e-motion, will be given to you as you move along with it. It is as though you are a swimmer, hanging onto the fin of a dolphin, being pulled along in its wake. You feel what it feels, even as its thoughts become your thoughts. The ride is over when you begin trying to control this creature—or, when the dolphin's agenda goes too far afield from your own core vibration.
The closest thing to genuine e-motion that many of you have experienced, is found in your response to art. Declaring that art is merely a "simulation of life," you create within yourself a place of clarity and softness that is highly responsive and wonderfully open to personal transformation. After it, this is only art, isn't it? What harm can it do to suspend your disbelief, and let it have its way with you?
In this way, the "simulation" becomes the reality, even as what you call "reality" becomes more and more surreal. Look at the "normal" level of your mass consciousness today. Do you really believe that this is what you, as a soul, came here to do? Dealing properly with e-motion becomes an art unto itself. It begins with a decision to look away from what screams at you—from what demands that you react—opting instead to focus upon what sings to you and inspires you. Then, once your energy has cleared itself and become calm, you can deal with your world with new eyes and an open heart.
FEELING GOOD
Everyone in your society is focused upon the business of feeling "good." There are medications, meditations, workout protocols, and clubs. There are books, seminars, tapes, religions, classes, and all manner of other tools to assist in achieving this one critical task. You all want to feel "good." But what does "good" feel like? What are its inherent qualities?
Although there may be variable answers to this question, depending upon who is being asked, it is fairly certain that included at the top of the list of its attributes is the requirement that "it doesn't hurt." Yes, that is very important to you, indeed! You do not wish to hurt!
The root of pain, in all its forms, is RESISTANCE. A woman is in labor, about to give birth. As the baby pushes to get out, her womb contracts. Push/pull, pull/push. Her mind wants to hold that baby in her arms, but her body doesn't want to lose a part of itself into the world. In later years, the mother will cry out in pain again—as her "baby" leaves home to become an adult.
Resistance. Pain. It is a primal force that never seems to go away. We are here to assist you in this quest for inner serenity and meaning in your life. We want to help you feel better! However, before that can be fully achieved, you must understand a foundational principle of E-motion: LEARNING TO FEEL BETTER REQUIRES THAT YOU BECOME BETTER AT FEELING.
In order to properly relate to the various "energies in motion" that are occurring in and around your physical body, you must be able to notice each of them and to distinguish them upon the palette of your senses. The average soul is very dull in this regard. In fact, having spent little or no time reflecting upon the matter, a "normal" person might move right past any other attributes for "feeling good," to focus simply upon remaining pain free.
A masculine-dominant consciousness (one that majors in action and logic) does not want to be distracted by emotion—unless the emotions increase confidence, persistence, strength, or endurance. The non-integrated inner "male" is a hunter and a gatherer. He is all about achievement and action. The last thing he wishes to do is bog himself down with what seems like the "heavy burden" of feelings and emotion. Therefore, his e-motional body could probably be best described by one short word: NUMB.
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If we have succeeded in establishing some curiosity in your mind, concerning this expanded view of emotion, then let us move forward to fill in the blanks. As we said, e-motion is that which moves. Your relationship to it is to watch it, learn from it, and—in many cases—to move with it.
If a feeling doesn't move, or if it keeps you from moving—then it is a thought that has dressed itself in sensory qualities so that it can contain you. It has dressed itself up like "Grandma," so that Red Riding Hood will bestow confidence upon it and allow it to absorb her attention. Underneath that disguise there is a wicked intention. That thought—that obsession, really—wants to eat you up. And it will, too… if you allow it to happen.
Your living thoughts and e-motions are entities unto themselves. Mostly, they are transient in nature. They move through you, arriving from or going to other destinations. They are as children at play. They have no consuming interest in you. In fact, they are nearly oblivious to the fact that you (as a separate entity) exist. That's what makes them so dear. They have their obvious agendas, and they are assuming responsibility for realizing those goals. It is you who must become interested in them. They are your teachers, your guides.
Walk alongside them and ask them questions. If you find yourself getting bogged down with any one of them, quickly move on. Dealing with an e-motion is like playing catch with a hot potato. You keep the thing in the air and you don't get burned. If you catch it and hold onto it, you'll end up swallowing it—that is, if it doesn't swallow you, first! Afterwards, you feel "heavy" and dull.
During this process, try to avoid using the word "I" in conjunction with an e-motion. Rather than saying "I feel" or "I am feeling," it is better to simply say "There is a feeling within me… " and then describe what the e-motion appears to be. You must realize that there are many feelings within you. And they are all centered in their goals and approaches to life. They want what they want, and they are passing through you. They are not who you are.
If an energy-in-motion seems to hang on and show interest in you, then it isn't an e-motion. It's an idea that has hacked into your system and has begun to run your computer by remote. At that point, you must log off and turn your focus elsewhere. You may need to look back to where you might have gotten this idea, and block transmissions from that point until the air gets cleared.
Watching your language around emotions can be a key element in discerning what is useful and what is not. If you are using the term "I want," then you are genuinely in motion about that subject. It has power and authority and a life of its own. If you are using terms like "I'd like," or "I am attracted to… ," then the signal is still viable, though it is quite a bit weaker. The words "I have to" can go either way. If they are natural by-products of "I want," then they may be useful as a means to an end. If they are not, they could be dangerous—as they be indicative of a thought that has gained control of you, through guilt or fear, and installed a virus that will suck on your power supply.
The phrase "I should" is lethal. Whenever those words come out of your mouth, consider it to be an alarm bell that is telling you to stop, and re-evaluate your whole relationship with that person, place, or goal. Your system has been hacked by an some Big Bad Wolf, and you are about to be served for lunch.
There are many other tools that we will share, as time goes by, concerning the proper balance between mental activity and feelings. It's all part of becoming fully conscious. As you do this, we will also assist you in abbreviating, coding, and filing these perceptions in such a way that you will not be overwhelmed.
However, in the meantime, go ahead—be overwhelmed. Your capacity for feeling is far more vast than you have ever realized. It may be uncomfortable at first, but only for awhile. After that, it will become the JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME!
Welcome. Jump on in. The water is fine! And so will you be.
(End Transmission)
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Channeled by Daniel Jacob
www.reconnections.net
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