energies

The Untethered Soul again…

I’m attempting to wrap my head around this concept : If I recognize pain as nothing more than ‘disturbing energy’…

He, (Michael Singer, the author), is talking about emotional pain.

If I can get my heart to relax and stay open, when it very much wants to close,

I will be free.

Untethered

When I first read this book many years ago, I think I skimmed over some chapters, preferring to avoid pain, even reading about it.

The idea sounds simple enough while I’m reading, but then suddenly I find myself being ‘energetically disturbed’, and closing, and thinking and trying to figure out how to feel better, and nothing seems to be working.

When I found myself rereading this chapter for the sixth time. Reading what I highlighted, highlighting more, I got the much needed reminder to relax my shoulders, relax my heart, feel the pain without judgement, without justifying and without pacifying myself.

Just letting it bubble up. Breathe and let whatever I can, go. If I can stop fearing the pain, or trying to avoid it. Just feel it, and let it wash through me, I can be free.

This is a tall order. It’s uh, what my first book is about. Strong emotion is how we know we are ‘energetically disturbed’. Breathing through strong emotion is the fastest way to have it wash through and dissipate. It’s the fastest ways to be free of ‘energetic disturbances’ Holding on will affect my own energy and everyone I associate with.

I wear a necklace that reminds me that I want to keep my heart as open and as full of light as possible. My personal circumstances haven’t been ideal, never mind everything that’s happening in the world. I have been studying this heart staying open concept for some time.

It’s HARD

When the book was reviewed in a book club I attended, a few people took issue with how flip the author sounded. They felt he didn’t address large issues or how this applied to REAL problems. Real suffering.

I think we all agreed that we wouldn’t probably recommend it to someone going through a hard time.

But for me, it has been helpful. Falling back, observing my thoughts, feeling my feelings. Doing my best to relax my shoulders and heart and to stay open and loving.

Emotions can run high. They can feel overwhelming. Their job is to let us know when we are energetically disturbed. Just like physical pain alerts us to something being wrong in our bodies, these are our alert systems.

Even so, I want to stay open. I want loving energy to prevail.

Not closing is my new goal.