Body, Emotions, Mind - Be Still (1)
By doing things physically we prepare the way for emotional control through objective thinking.
We should not ignore or overlook the importance of the physical in making a concept seem “real” to us.. A physical or concrete construct of an abstract concept makes it easier to understand. A baby cannot stand up and walk before it learns to sit up and crawl, even if it's a queer kind of crawl. It is clear that certain muscles have to become strong and flexible first (exercised). Physical enactment may also be seen as having a symbolic meaning. Since we live in physical bodies in a physical environment, we often first have to act out many things on the physical plane before we are able to translate them, via the emotional plane, into the abstract (mental plane) and, eventually into the intuitional and spiritual plane. In my opinion, the thread linking the physical, mental and spiritual in us is the emotional side of ourselves. If we ignore the significance of any of those four elements (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) and their relation to each other and in our lives and actions, we feel unfilfulled and unhappy. Only by aligning (bringing into line, balancing) one’s physical, emotional and mental parts (commonly called "bodies") and keeping them aligned, a permanent link with or bridge to the spiritual part of oneself (higher or super-consciousness, soul, or higher self) can be forged.
"Philosophies that teach denial of the flesh must ultimately end up preaching a denial of the self and a contempt for it, because even though the soul is couched in muscle and bone it is meant to experience that reality, not to refute it." – Seth in "The Nature of Personal Reality" by Jane Roberts (Bantam Books, New York).
"What's this?" you ask, "You speak as if all these things are concrete and can be seen. Well, they are, in a way, and can be seen – if one is a sensitive with etheric vision (that is, if one can see the ether or the inner workings of the physical world) – it is a certain kind of extra-sensory perception, but not clairvoyance. The emotional body is also known as the "etheric double" of a person (= the astral or emotional body on the etheric plane), and it can sometimes be seen quite clearly by a sensitive with etheric sight – it depends entirely on the lighting in the room and the "stillness" and "tuning-in" of that sensitive. I've had an experience of "tuning in" during a funeral service and seeing numerous etheric doubles, especially of men and boys, sitting next to their physical bodies. That meant that their emotional bodies were not aligned with their physical and mental bodies. They were literally not "in touch" with their emotions; they were "distancing" themselves from feelings that might make them cry.
In persons with a mental disorder where one notices inappropriate emotions in a situation, or no emotions displayed at all, one usually finds that the emotional body is hardly ever inside the physical body.
Non-alignment of the emotional body always shows problems of an emotional kind – the most common being that the person ignores, denies or suppresses "negative" feelings. Living an exemplary life has inherently in its structure habits of denial or suppression. Even the trick of "filling one's mind with white light" when one gets angry or thinks negative thoughts means that the existence of those negative emotions are not acknowledged as being valid or acceptable. Such habits and tricks bring imbalance and non-alignment. To be emotionally healthy one has to be in balance, or aligned.
The more religious or spiritually inclined you are, the more you need to align your emotions and aspirations, that well-developed emotional body of yours, with the rest of yourself. When a highly developed emotional body is aligned with a trained and well-ordered mind and healthy physical body, the link or bridge to the soul is strong and broad, not thin and tenuous, wispy, wavy or even broken: it becomes a straight, broad, shimmering stream of white light, a veritable bridge from the soul within to the soul without.
Do not allow your religion or spiritual path to serve only as an escape from a humdrum life, and do not practise it only because you are afraid of hell, purgatory, the Last Judgement, or whatever it is you've been conditioned in childhood to be afraid of in order to make you strive to be "good" and obedient: Forge the bridge of light through the alignment of your bodies, and your life, with or without religion, will become incredibly meaningful to you and to everyone you come in contact with.
CIRCLE EXERCISES FOR BALANCING OR ALIGNMENT
These circle exercises are not only very easy and quick to do, but also extremely effective. Through focusing or concentrating on colour and form (using the mental and physical, that is, mind and eyes), the emotional, mental and physical bodies become calm. Do these exercises a few times and feelings of stress and physical tiredness will vanish, and it is always noticeable to me how calm and restful the whole room also becomes. Do at least one of them once daily.
CIRCLES OF COLOUR
Before you do the two circle exercises, you must see, in concrete form, what the circles used in the exercises will look like.
You need a piece of white paper, a compass and pencil, a ruler, and poster paint or coloured paper in blue, gold (or orange if you can't get gold), green and red, and scissors and glue if you use coloured paper. The colours must be bright and pure.
(1) Make a circle with a diameter of about 15 cm on the white piece of paper with the compass and pencil, dividing it into four segments or quadrants. Either colour in the quadrants with the poster paint in the correct order, or stick cut-out coloured paper segments onto them. This is what the circle should look like:
Top right-hand quadrant, red;
bottom right-hand quadrant, blue;
top left-hand quadrant, green; and,
bottom left-hand quadrant, gold or orange.
(2) However, for the first visualization exercise you need to make another circle, but with the colours REVERSED: What was green on the first circle should now be red, and vice versa; what was blue for the first circle should now be gold or orange, and vice versa.
CIRCLE VISUALIZATION (1)
1. Put the circle with the reverse colours in front of you on a table or flat surface and sit or stand up straight in front of it: the spine must be as straight as possible. For good visualization, posture is important. You can also position the circle at eye-level on a blank or dark surface (e.g. the computer screen, not switched on), while sitting up straight.
2. Stare straight at the circle, and let your eyes unfocus gradually. This will happen within a few seconds. Just keep on staring still and unfocused at the circle while slowly counting to sixty.
3. Close your eyes. You should now see, in front of your closed lids, a circle looking like the first circle you made. If you don't see this, you have not held your stare long enough and should repeat the exercise. If you wish, you could hold a piece of blank white paper in one hand and be ready to slide it quickly in front of your face the moment you close your eyes after staring, in order to make the image you see with closed eyes clearer. But, no question about it, if you persevere, you will eventually see, when you close your eyes, a circle looking like the first circle you made.
4. Repeat this exercise a few times.
End of exercise.
CIRCLE VISUALIZATION (2)
Think of the top of your head as a circle – like the first one you've made, divided into four quadrants by a horizontal and a vertical line. Seen from above, the quadrant over the right eye is a bright, vibrant red; the quadrant at the back of the head on the right-hand side is a clear, deep blue; the quadrant above the left eye is a bright, vibrant green; the quadrant at the back of the head on the left-hand side is a bright gold.
1. Stand upright, feet slightly apart (facing east would be fine, if possible – the east being the symbol of hope).
2. With either the left or the right hand – no matter – touch the top of the head above the right eye and say softly to yourself: "red".
3. Touch the top of the head at the back on the right-hand side and say softly: "blue".
4. Touch the top of the head above the left eye and say softly: "green".
5. Touch the top of the head at the back on the left-hand side and say softly: "gold".
6. Touch the top of the head above the right eye and say softly: "red".
7. Again go to blue, green, gold, and back to red and so on in a continuous flowing movement, three or four times, saying each colour while touching the relevant part of the head and ending on "red".
8. Then stretch you arms outwards in a straight horizontal line to represent, physically, the transverse beam of an equilateral cross (a cross with arms of equal length, representing balance), with your body representing the vertical beam. Then bring your arms up in a straight line past the sides of your face, stretching them upwards, in order to experience that vertical beam, more fully. Then relax and let your arms fall straight down your sides.
End of exercise.
NOTE: If you can see the colours in your mind's eye while saying them and touching the relevant parts of your head, it will intensify your concentration, but, if you can't visualize them while doing the exercise, you may look at each colour on the first circle you made, while saying the colour and touching the relevant part of your head. However, just saying the colours without visualizing them should be enough.
ROUND AND ROUND WE GO
This exercise is unbelievably effective. Through bodily movement one of the principles of healing (clockwise movement) is acted out, and if practised daily for at least three months and, thereafter, whenever necessary, alignment of the bodies becomes a habit – the first step to mastery of the self and of one's environment.
Stand up facing the east (symbol of hope), feet slightly apart, and bring your elbows to your sides, putting your hands loosely together and looking at them. Keep to the place where you're standing, note at which spot you begin, and start moving or gyrating to the right, or clockwise, shifting your feet in the process. Keep on looking at your hands, do not close your eyes. Count each full round. Go moderately slow to counteract dizziness. Ideally, one should do 33 rounds at one go, three times a day (e.g. morning, midday, evening, or whatever), but, if you wish, you could slowly work up to the total of 99 (3 x 33) a day over a period of time. When you've completed your gyrations, stand completely still for a few seconds, stretching out your arms in a straight line, horizontally, hands turned upwards as “receiving utensils”, and imagine a shaft of golden light coming from the ceiling above your head, going straight through your body into the floor between your feet. Thus you end the exercise by you, yourself, becoming an equilateral cross of balance, with your arms forming the transverse beam of the cross, and the imagined golden shaft and your body forming its vertical beam.
End of exercise.
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