True balance requires a constant giving and receiving, taking in and transforming what is taken in into dynamic energy. At first, what is taken in will be used by the self for energy and what is given will be practical, but eventually what is taken in should be love and what is given should be love. When one is in perfect harmonious balance this is what is in constant flow, within and without, the energy of love.
Don’t be so hard on yourself. Let the stresses of life as it unfolds fall by the wayside as you do the best you can under the circumstances. It’s not your responsibility to solve the problems of the world, but do take care to attend to your own personal problems so that you are better prepared each day to live your life to the fullest. Don’t neglect what needs to be done, but don’t get down on yourself for what is left undone. Do the best you can, but do it with full awareness and full commitment to always being kind and loving.
Breathe and keep calm no matter what difficulties arise, for the breath is your personal calming tool, the one thing you own that is free and able to bring you to a place of peacefulness. With the breath everything is possible. Get to know it and use it for calming and healing purposes. Even as it is the breath of life so is it also the breath of health. Breathe.
Heart centered harmony in the Tao… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Polarity is the essence of life. Electricity is the intimate dance between positive protons and negative electrons. Likewise, magnetism is the energy of attraction between opposites.
The interplay of these opposites are the ups and downs of life. When we jump up in the air we are drawn down to the earth. Though we are light spirit beings we reside in a dense physical body. This bipolarity of our beingness is the essence of life. Our ability to reconcile these opposites is what brings balance to life. Harmony is balance generated within the interplay of opposites.
Governments reflect the interplay of opposites. Generally there is polarization between left and right viewpoints. Governments seek harmony of governance through reconciliation of these opposites. Our world today reflects extreme polarities that resist reconciliation through the integration of opposites.
The extreme polarities of now are deeply enhanced by a third factor: the pervasive extraction of human data through the internet. This extracted data allows corporations and special interests to manipulate consumers and citizens to buy and believe. It can now be argued that the internet has created its own world governance that rivals and controls both reality and elected governments.
This current state of affairs has led to an extreme world bipolar disorder. Nonetheless, this, even in its extreme imbalance, is part of the Tao. Humans are challenged with the reconciliation of these extreme opposites that are insistent upon remaining one-sided, fueled by morally indifferent special interests. Human beings must restore the balance of opposites to return the world to harmony. But how?
In Jan’s recent dream, a group of Mennonite women knocked on the door with the message, “God is a lymph node.” A group of men were down the driveway arranging stones to create a waterfall. The water was filtered as it flowed over the rocks. End of dream.
The action of the waterfall personifies the function of the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is our body’s filtering system. If the dream is assigning this system the rank of God, then the ability to properly filter is being given the highest spiritual value.
The algorithms of the internet target the subconscious mind to influence human emotion, cognition and action. We are all being catered to, both positively and negatively, by algorithms tuned to our personal habits or virtual footprints. For instance, in a recent blog I discussed wrenches on my workbench. Within the hour of it being published an email selling wrenches appeared in my inbox! Make no mistake about it. Everything we research, write or purchase is extracted as a datapoint on how to influence us.
Jan’s dream brings the highest value to the ability to filter. The internet, for all its wonders, is filled with toxicity. When we are catered to we tend not to recognize this toxic implant. For instance, if it is known I have a specific point of view I might be sent news articles or supposed studies that validate my perspective to influence my thoughts and feelings, as well as stir my emotions and actions.
Filtering can best be achieved by seeking the truth of the heart. If I am excited and feel self-righteous about an issue, my heart will tell me the truth: I am being inflated and attaching to a one-sided truth. As I cling to one pole of my bipolar being I throw myself out of balance and lose the harmony that is maintained through reconciliation of opposites.
Humbly incorporating this truth prevents nefarious internalized programs from taking root in my subconscious mind. I am now freed to incorporate the value of views opposite to my own. This reconciliation of opposites restores inner harmony.
May we all embrace the filtering and immunity-boosting benefits of our body’s lymphatic system. On the mental plain, let us utilize the cleansing system of the heart to arrive at both inner and outer truth. The heart, without prejudice, will lead us to harmony in polarity.
Let love be your guide into calmness, stillness, and balance. Let nothing bother you because love quiets you, body and mind. Let love keep you aligned with your spirit so that nothing causes fear or worry. Let love permeate you with joy so that nothing causes pain. Let love be your guide, your mentor and your partner.