If you correct imbalances at Step 1, the longing will remain pure, undiluted by fears and frustrations, and there will be no resistance, or resistance will drop away. In the example previously, in other words, if you try to catch yourself when you start to fall into insecure thoughts about having a child and instead focus on gratitude for all that you have rather than worry about what you don't, resistance will melt.
How you choose to respond to unfulfilled desires makes all the difference - not for the chances of your future fulfillment, but because it means you are living a happier life right now. If you stay in the precious moment and take care to align yourself with your source and spirit, your heart energies will stay open, allowing your qi and blood to flow smoothly. Practicing the breath exercise later will help you more easily return to a state of calm.
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The key to ensuring that a pure desire doesn't become tainted and lead to obsession lies in learning how to let your mind become still. Stillness, like water, reflects all that is, yet does not become the things reflected. Pure perception can happen only in stillness, after the waves of emotion have been calmed. When the energy of an emotion has been mastered, the meridians release it, like rivers leading out to the sea. There, in the current of life, joy is naturally felt and expressed. As the Confucian philosopher Xun Zi said, Ways To Fall Pregnant
No one who pays undue attention to external objects can fail to feel anxiety in her mind. No woman whose behavior departs from true principles can fail to be endangered by external forces. No woman who is endangered by external forces can fail to feel terror in her mind.
If the mind is full of anxiety and terror, then, though the mouth be crammed with delicious food it will not recognize the flavor, though the ear listens to the music of bells and drums it will not recognize the sound, though the eye lights upon embroidered patterns it will not recognize their form, and though the body is clothed in warm, light garments and rests upon fine-woven mats it will feel no ease.
In such a case a woman may be confronted by all the loveliest things in the world and yet be unable to feel any gratification. Even if she should feel a moment's gratification, she could never completely take off her anxieties and fears. Hence, although she confronts all the loveliest things in the world, she is overwhelmed with worry, and although she enjoys all the benefits of the world, she knows only loss ...
But if the mind is calm and at ease, then even beauties that are less than mediocre will gratify the eye, even sounds that are less than mediocre will gratify the ear. A meal of vegetables, a soup of boiled greens will gratify the mouth; robes of coarse cloth, shoes of coarse hemp will give ease to the body; a narrow room with rush blinds, a straw carpet and a table and mat will give comfort to the form. Hence, one may not be able to enjoy all the most beautiful things in the world, and yet she can still increase her joy ... This is what it means to value the self and make other things work for you ...
When you release a specific object of your desire through acceptance and surrender, and focus only on the larger desire of loving and caring for yourself, you will be fed by the earth's power of intention and transformed by wood into the unlimited abundance of the spirit. Entrusting the desire to nature's Divine grace will allow the Divine to see to the desire's fulfillment and open you to the creative power of the universe - love.
Reaching Your Highest Destiny
As you've seen, throughout the blog I've written about the spiral journey up through three levels of existence-source, soul, and spirit - that enable you to live joyfully, express your true nature, and reach your highest destiny. In Chinese, the three levels are called jing, qi, and shen, and are thought of as anchoring, aligning, and adapting in The Way of The Fertile Soul.
Anchoring - Source energies anchor you to your innate self: the gifts, talents, genetics, and constitution you are born with. By anchoring yourself to your own true nature - the good and bad, the light and dark - you develop and grow, as long as you remain flexible enough to change in response to your changing world. Ways To Fall Pregnant
Aligning - When properly anchored, your heart's spirit aligns you to your purpose and dreams. Aligning allows you to learn how to best make use of your talents, what to let into your life, and how to live passionately from your spirit. With alignment comes the ability to make your own music rather than dance to someone else's tune and yet live in harmony with the world.
Adapting - When aligned, you can respond authentically to your environment and life circumstances. Interactions become pure, unhindered by selfish motives, and possibilities abound, resulting in thought, reflection, and action inspired by alignment. When you have adapted to your world, you become serene and undisturbed, because you have tapped into your inner wisdom, which has nothing to do with schooling, intelligence, compliance, or societal expectations. You know intuitively what to do and feel supported by the universe, whose laws you now live in harmony with. Your soul expresses the Divine in accordance with an anchored source and an aligned spirit.
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This state of being contains unadulterated promise - hope in its purest form. Having hope is not wishing for material things or what you think will make you happier, like being skinnier or having a certain partner. Having hope is being open to whatever wonderful gifts life brings you, trusting that it will unfold perfectly. Even if you experience something that feels like a "setback" - a miscarriage, losing a job, not qualifying for a grant or a loan to go to school or start a business - nothing that has happened in the past need impact your future if you can keep honing your ability to return to that open state of possibility.
When you live vertically, the energies of the horizontal plane support your vertical ascent. The vertical energies urge you to fulfill your highest potential rather than squandering your promise in material pursuits. At the apex of your existence you live having "turned the light around" a Taoist expression for turning your energy inward and giving birth to your true self.
To support your quest to live vertically, regularly practice the following meditation, which uses the senses of hearing and seeing to shine the spiritual light within. To learn more, you can check out Ways To Fall Pregnant.
