Your psyche is the net result of all your blockages and how the energy manages to flow through them.
Michael A. Singer, living untethered, page 113.
Do we all get that ?
Do we understand that within us we have samskaras: old stuffed memories and impressions wrapped in an emotional energy we find too painful to face; and we also have the wonderful blissful, loving energy of ,what yogis, likeSinger, refer to as Shakti.
Shakti is constantly trying to flow through us and out of us as it is meant to do but between the samskaras and the emotional sticks we jam into the flow...we keep blocking it. Like a jammed river...with the unstoppable drive to flow....it is constantly trying to get past or find a way around these blockages. Many of us have so many blockages...so many samskaras getting bumped and hit...so many negative automatic thoughts stirring up the inner turmoil...so many opening and closings of the heart...so many complex emotional vibrations that the inner energy is so disturbed we feel anything but bliss. Some of us feel hardly any joy, love or inspiration because little to none of that life enhancing Shakti can make it through. Yet that Shakti, like the water of the Colorado River behind the Hoover Damn, is constantly pushing, pushing, pushing to get past these blockages so it can do what it is meant to do...flow. We feel that build up of emotional energy and blocked Shakti like we are "about to crack" or "explode"! This is the normal for most of us.
Our thoughts and feelings are dependent on our blockages and blockages are running our lives!
Until you get very centered in witness consciousness, you are going to follow your thoughts and emotions, and they are determined by your samskaras. page 113
We emotionally, cognitively and behaviourally react to life circumstance when it triggers our samskaras. When we deal with a life circumstance that triggers a pleasant stored memory that we were clinging to in hope and expectation of reliving it again and again and again...the heart opens and we have a big gush of Shakti through the heart It feels good inside...not because of what did or didn't happen on the outside... but because the heart opened enough for enough Shakti to get through to make us feel good.
If, on the other hand, we encounter a life circumstance that triggers a painful stuffed memory or emotion...we may react by closing the heart through resistance and aversion. We jam a stick into the flow, reducing any space around the samskara so little to no flow of Shakti can get through.Sure that may mean we don't have to deal with the full painful vibration of the samskara at that time but it also means little joy, love, enthusiasm, inspiration, happiness or bliss gets through. We also feel the build up of this Shakti on the other side of the blockage. It has to try even harder to push the samskara up and away or at least find a way to flow through or around. We are a mess inside when that happens.
Of course, the solution is to eventually release all the blockages, to keep the heart open so the flow of Shakti can constantly and consistently flow up and through. With nothing in the way we would feel the wonderful energy of love and bliss and joy all the time...regardless of what is happening to us or around us. Our inner happiness would not be dependent on what is or isn't happening out there.
So the goal: Let go of all the junk you are holding on to. Just let it go!
How do we do that?
- Observe and notice what you are doing. This is where yoga comes in. Observe your mind and your heart. Watch your inner tendencies...notice when you are blocking your Shakti by reacting and resisting what is unfolding in front of you. Recognize how your emotions and thoughts are closing your heart. Notice how you are stuffing and putting great energy into holding painful memories down.
- See how these tendencies create more inner turmoil instead of peace
- Be willing to do it differently: Make a commitment to not close the heart.
- Relax into the triggers. Start with small triggers and work up to the bigger ones.
- Start to confront that which you spent a life time trying to avoid: your samskaras.
- Accept and allow the discomfort of the samskaras as they make their way up into your psyche and make room for them to be released.
- Most importantly: Realize all this inner turmoil isn't you! We are not the triggers, the samskaras, or the emotions or the thoughts...We are the one who is witnessing all that is happening within us. As a witness to our inner flow of energy we are not caught up in it.
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