A Battery Called The Heart
It is love that feeds us
That heals us
that directs us in our journey
We can not live without it
Inside we would starve
And eventually die.
Sometimes.. our body is still going,
Oddly enough
Like a zombie
Devoid of human fluids - yet operating in the world
This is the hell they speak of,
Living without love.
- Lori, June 2017
So I've been reading this book, "The Untethered Soul" by Michael Singer. I marvel when a book finds me at exactly the right time. Would it have moved me two years ago? Who knows...
But it created a really interesting shift for me recently that I've been playing with. Keeping my heart open. In my usual cynicism, I mocked him when he said "it's simple, just don't close your heart"
- right, right, Michael, if it was that simple... why would self-help books be a billion dollar industry?
Two girls helping their Dad in a market in Cambodia - during my visit a couple weeks ago.
anyway, so I've started to play with it. I couldn't always feel the moment when the heart started to close, but what I did notice is that I'd start to have a few random negative thoughts bouncing around in my head. When that happened, I'd just turn my attention to my heart and open it. Lately I've begun imagining it's lotus flower and it's opening in the sun. And WTF! The negative thoughts go away. In fact I can't even seem generate them again. Right after I open my heart I try to come up with one critical thought, and I can't. It's like whatever opening your heart does to your body - it's incompatible with dark/negative energy.
He goes on to say our heart is like a battery. (That may be my metaphor). But it's our energy for life, .. our life force. If it's closed, we loose vitality... we unplug from source energy. If you think about all the work in the Hoffman Process that pumps energy through the heart... it makes sense how such positive, energized state comes over the students.
He also says how all our "trapped" Samskara keeps the heart clogged with something like scar tissue. I'm pretty sure you can translate his use of word Samskara to Hoffman's use of the idea of a pattern. And I'm guessing a heart clogged with lots of blockages might not be very easy to open.
So if anyone else, wants to start experimenting with this... let me know how it goes.
