Beneath the emotions, the difficulties, and the conflicts lies the knowing self. The knowing self is the true self, the balancing self, the bringer of truth and honesty. Alignment with this true self, in action and deed, in thought and spoken word, brings alignment of spirit, body, mind and emotions. In alignment the inner strength and deeper sense of who you are is bound to make itself known in more assertive and definitive ways.
The true source of power lies within. Stay connected to the knowing self through the turmoils of life and you will finally access this knowing self more fully and completely. Keep this self present as you go about your day, through ritual and reality, through pain and pleasure, through happiness and sadness. Stay in balance. This is what you seek.
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Anchor your energy in your domain of self today. Keep it close and protected from outside worry and sadness. Know that they are always present, part of reality, but you do not need them in your life, interrupting your attention and focus on your spirit self. In domain of self, spirit reigns. It speaks and is heard. Outer distractions interfere. Focus instead on your true needs and desires, those of your deeper self. Seek them from a place of prudence and contentment, from a place of nurturance and self care. Learn to love the self so that others may find you attractive and loving too. This is the work that is now at hand.
Let your mind be at ease today, free of worry. Just be yourself. Allow your inner you to shine through, open and receptive, calm and balanced, as you continue to know and experience the self as a spiritual/physical being. In balance comes insight and in reflection comes that which must release and be known. On the deepest level you are perfect. Know this perfect self and you will know all that is.
The road to change inevitably leads inward. It also confronts everything that blocks its way. If one is to continue along the road of change one must steadily face all that arises as necessary parts of the journey.
Change is, at its most vital and important, an inward journey. That inward journey, to be successful, must be taken in the real world where the signs and signposts of everyday living will show you the way, show you what must be contended with and resolved. Success will come each day as you travel along your road of change and make decisions that align with your spirit and your knowing heart.
Nurturance and care of the self, both innerly and outerly, are par for the course. Take care as you move inward and onward.
Meditation offers balance and detachment… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
We live in a time of information overload. We are saturated from without by a constant flood of communication, from the latest news of everyone’s experiences to world events and an environment rapidly and unpredictably changing. Inwardly, we are flooded with images, thoughts, feelings and sensations, all vying for our attention that they might share their own stories.
The challenge now is how to stay grounded and manage this high intensity flow of data while simultaneously figuring out what is real, meaningful, and deserving of our attention.
There is a growing consensus, from many fields, that the ancient meditation practices of the East provide a technique that enables us to manage this overwhelming flood of data that we perceive or generate in such a way that we are granted the freedom to decide where we will place our attention. The simple ability to notice a thought or news item but be able to then choose to bring our attention back to the present moment, to our breath without interruption or a further development of the thought, goes a long way toward calming our central nervous system and providing the grounding to navigate daily life.
Carl Jung long ago identified two psychological functions, intuition and sensation, that are relevant to deepening our ability to navigate the flood of stimulation we encounter from within and without each day. Simply put, intuition is a psychological function, a sixth sense, that perceives what might be behind a door we are about to open, for instance, or “sees” some event in the future. Sensation operates through the five physical senses; it perceives what’s “actually” here and now.
These two functions are extreme opposites; one focuses on concrete known reality, the other on a future reality, unknowable in concrete terms. Often our minds are inundated with thoughts, feelings or images that if left to run freely would generate a story we might then contend is real. Suddenly we imagine a look on someone’s face or a call not returned as a definite snub. We feel rejected. We become frightened, anxious, and worried and before we know it we are living out that drama as if it were real.
Meditation might aid us here to lift us from the intensity of this inner drama and ground us in the here and now through focus on our body and one of its physiological functions, breathing. Here meditation couples with the sensation function to ground the ego and enable it to take back its energy from the drama. Afterwards, once centered, the ego is in a position to determine whether the germ seed of the drama was an actual intuition—that is, an actual perception of a future reality for instance—or merely the spinning of an illusion by a thought or some other trickster character in the personality.
Sitting with sensation our minds eventually enter the beauty and calmness of pure intuition… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Intuitions generally occur spontaneously, presenting a definite picture, feeling, or knowing of something unseen. The experience might be compared to a flash of lightening. It’s powerful. Inner dramas, by contrast, though they might build in emotional intensity as the drama deepens in the mind, are more like soap operas spinning endless tales than sudden and powerful shocks of knowing. A grounded ego, detached from the drama, is in a good position to determine if it’s dealing with drama or intuition and can decide more clearly what to give attention to and what to discard.
Of course, even when dealing with a legitimate intuition there is still the possibility that a perceived future does not unfold along the lines intuited. Once again we do well to exercise the tool of mediation that helps us to stay grounded in the present moment, suspending judgment of what might happen as we watch life unfold as it will.
In developing a dedicated meditation practice we are provided with the grounding in sensation that enables us to delve into and explore the unseen without being captivated by phantom dramas that consume our vital energy and distract us from real life. Meditation provides the bridge to unite the seemingly irreconcilable opposites of sensation and intuition, allowing us to deepen our meaningful presence in life, in all its dimensions.
Sitting in calm sensation,
Chuck
Once again, I share a YouTube video of a very simple and easy Korean meditation method: Son Meditation.
