From: smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com (Steve Dahmen)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage
Subject: Re: Becoming aware
Date: 6 Oct 1992 21:02:17 GMT
Organization: Scientific Research Lab, Ford Motor Company
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Keywords: anger,meditation,balancing,healing
Originator: smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com


In article <1992Oct6.180001.29518@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>, waddell@firnvx.firn.edu (Kathy Waddell) writes:
SMD wrote:
::>Emotions require expression, and should be expressed.  The problem is that
:>generally, our emotional experiences have gone so unprocessed that the only
:>way we know some times is to fight back so that our Rage is felt and heard.
:>Better than shaming ourselves for having an "animalistic" reaction, would be
:>to acknowledge the feeling, watch it, meditate with it, see what It has to say,
:>and if moved, vent the feeling in our own space.
:>...
:
:When I have become aware of my feelings while in the grip of a strong 
:"negative" emotion (ie. I'm upset) and I ask myself why am I angry or why 
:am I sad, etc, the answer is usally the same: I'm not getting my way.
:
:It can be anything from being impatient with a single event or an entire
:lifetime of frustration with ourselves.  We are making ourselves unhappy
:because we are not getting something we want.  We are making our happiness 
:dependent on this external thing or event.  When we can accept this event,
:or accept ourselves as we are, or accept not getting what we want then we
:free ourselves from our unhappiness.  It's not that we shouldn't want or
:desire certain things or circumstances, it's just that we should not be
:so attached to them that we make ourselves upset when we don't get them.

I think expressing your feelings to God about the fact you are not receiving
what you want can accelerate spiritual growth hundredfold.  Imagine the
pain that is held from so many lifetimes of feeling these things, and so many
lifetimes of being told to "detach, you just have to detach." Guess what gets
detached??  The power that gets used to push away the real feeling.  Soldiers
take your child and kill it before your eyes.  Who does the soul blame? God.
God let it happen.  And if you pour the cream of detachment over the agony of
loss, you decrease spiritual presence.

I think at a  certain level of enlightenment, after working out all these
feeling issues, one can and does see beyond the level of attachment, and His/Her
(if there even is a thing at that level) gesture of nonattachment is REAL.
Actually, is there even anything left to "be detached."  To someone of highly
evolved awareness, there is no pain left to "detached from," so detachment
as I see it is a Denial-based pattern for those still struggling with emotions.
:
:>...  If you consistently deny your emotions, ESPECIALLY the strong
:>ones, in my vision you are stunting your overall spiritual growth. You may
:>gain some outer appearance of peace, but the issues behind your emotion
:>do NOT go away.  They just remain.  You can deal with them now, or in
:>another incarnation. Some say it doesn't matter; that peace NOW is what
:>counts.  I, and others, say that we must begin to heal the emotions.
:>It's the lack of attention given to the Emotions that have created a good
:>deal of the situation on Earth now.
:
:There is a difference from being in bondage to your emotions and denying it
:and freeing yourself from that bondage.
:
:I see nothing wrong with going with your emotions and experiencing them 
:while remaining aware of what is happenning and staying detached, if
:possible.  The problem is that some emotions are destructive.  Anger can
:be destructive to others but especially to yourself.  There is no need to 
:deny your emotions, but to control them ( even if only minumally ) not 
:them control you. 


In my vision, these emotions DENIED are the cause of destructive expression, 
not anger expressed.  
One does need to go into emotional healing at one's own pace,
so in some sense, control is there. To be pushed into it is just more
destructive experience.  One must learn to express anger without hurting
oneself, and that's not necessarily done through being in control. Intention
to Heal gives enormous protection against hurting yourself and others.  
Unfortunately, few spirits have expressed their feelings with intention
to heal... usually the intention is to hurt.

 Anger
gets out of hand when expressed by the average person because there's SO much
in there, given an opportunity it leaps out!!  Then it often can get turned
on self because of the guilt felt around expressing emotion.  If you don't
work with the guilt, too, one can begin manifesting all kinds of
self-punishments reflecting the guilt.

But if one works regularly with anger and being Real with it, then the violent
outbursts that characterize early work tend to reduce.  Also, the number of
outward reflections of anger and violence begin to recede from your reality, 
as well.


If people are interested in a deeper study of reclaiming lost power & presence
through emotional healing, there is a most wonderful series called "The
Right Use of Will", which is a very intense channeled series of books from
the Creator about our expereince on Earth and with the Mother (of whom
our emotional bodies are a part).  It addresses clearly the different origin
of different soul groupings and addresses all these issues of power, sexuality,
light, heart, Love, etc. very profoundly.  They aren't for everyone, but 
everyone would get something by checking them out, even if it is they are not
ready to go into all that right now.

Yours In Dynamic Expression!


-- 
Steve Dahmen ** Graphics Application Programmer
Ford Motor Company
smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com
313-594-3229 (work)
-- 
Steve Dahmen ** Graphics Application Programmer
Ford Motor Company
smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com
313-594-3229 (work)
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