Healing The Karmic Dance
June 29th, 2008 by Kavi
Many relationships in life are based on a dance of karma which can cause us to behave around certain people in different ways. You may have noticed this after being around some people, and wondered why you say or do the things you do around them. Most relationships in our lives are like this, whether it be with family, friends, spouses or co-workers.
What happens is that the person is bringing up an energetic feeling within you that you will then try to avoid, at any cost. Avoiding the feeling results in a dancing of egos. Once you become aware of it, you will be able to see the pattern. In most people this is a completely subconscious thing, and they live their entire lives as a karmic dance between the individuals that are in their lives.
However, through the Grace of God a miracle is possible. The karmic charge can be healed and the dance permanently broken. The key is in being aware of the feeling that comes up that causes you to behave in a certain way and to simply feel it without acting upon it. Let your actions then flow from the heart rather then from the charge (raise your vibration). Often a healing of a karmic bond is a lesson that would normally take lifetimes; in one instant the lesson is learned and you are set free.
Some people in fact live permanently in a heart based state of consciousness and do not react to karmic charges, instead acting from a place of Divine stillness and peace. They simply allow Love to flow and heal. Their Love uplifts and heals the person who they would have otherwise danced with and in doing so a part of themself is healed, for we are all one.
Once the karmic bond is healed the person whom you had it with will sometimes drop out of your life if it was the only thing holding them there. If they stay in your life, and you can consistently act from a place of Love rather than the charge, you will then have formed a Holy relationship with that person.
Finding The Charge
Becoming conscious of the charge is the first step. Next time you interact with someone in your life pay close attention to what feelings arise in your body. It can often be very subtle, but sometimes it is very strong. Look for the feeling especially in the front of your body, in the region of the abdomen and heart.
If you want you can tell the person that you would like to form a Holy relationship with them and you can ask them to pray with you.
Prayer:
O Holy God in Heaven, please lift us up in your Spirit and Love. Please Lord dissolve the impurities in our hearts and help us to form a Holy Relationship so that we may serve you as your healed children.
Amen.
When you do this you are literally bringing Heaven to Earth, as you allow God’s Love to flow through your open heart and dissolve the tangle of the ego which before then had been the basis of your relationship with that person.
The forming of a Holy relationship with your spouse or significant other can be the first step towards the transformation of that relationship into a pure SoulMate relationship. With your ego “debts” then healed you can far more easily open your heart to behold your SoulMate before you.
Grounding meditation: the feet and tadasana (mountain pose)
June 29th, 2008 by Kavi
One of the most important mind yoga meditations is learning to ground yourself. If you are properly grounded the other meditations will be more safe and balanced. Grounding yourself is simple: feel the bottoms of your feet with your mind. What this does is it connects you to planet Earth.
The human spirit body is much like a tree. It has roots that go deep into the Earth and branches that reach high up into Heaven. If a tree does not have good deep roots it will fall right over. Grounding in meditation is just as important: not only does it keep things balanced energetically, but it helps you to integrate higher energies into your daily life.
Start by simply feeling the bottoms of your feet with your mind. If you are doing it right they will start to tingle, but don’t worry if you don’t feel anything right away. It can take a while until your feet “wake up”, and if you are new to mind yoga, until you are proficient at focusing your awareness. Eventually they will wake up enough that they will continuously be grounding you into the Earth.
If you are sitting down while reading this, plant your feet flat on the ground or floor. Now feel the bottoms of your feet with your mind where they are contacting the ground. Breathe deeply into your abdomen while holding your awareness on your feet and relax.
You may notice a subtle flowing of energy in and out of your feet that flows with the breath. Energy flows in the bottoms of your feet as you breathe in, and out the bottoms of your feet as you breathe out. If you cannot feel this don’t worry, it just means your feet are a bit “asleep”. Not your physical feet but the area of your spiritual body that coincides with the feet. If you continue to meditate upon your feet they will wake up.
If you are feeling the bottoms of your feet, you are grounding yourself, basically whether or not you feel the above mentioned tingling and energy movement. It is that simple. Depending on the type of person you are this might be something that you naturally already do on a subconscious level. More “spacey” people (like me) who tend to drift into the upper chakras will have to pay particular attention to grounding.
Some traditions advocate stomping the feet as a means for helping ground yourself, and that is because it makes you feel the bottoms of your feet. And it does work, but please don’t hurt yourself. :) It is easier to simply allow your awareness to focus on your feet. No straining or effort is necessary, just simply allow your awareness to light upon the bottoms of your feet.
The feeling of a strong grounded connection to the Earth through the feet is very relaxing and pleasurable. We are designed to be connected to Mother Earth, and really we are not separate from her.
Tadasana
Now I am going to introduce to you a simple yoga asana (pose) that compliments this grounding meditation in a powerful way. It is called tadasana. Tada means mountain in sanskrit, which is very appropriate as it helps you to build a strong grounding foundation. Feeling the bottoms of your feet is the key to tadasana.
1. Stand up and place your feet together with the sides touching and then turn your heels outwards slightly so that only the sides of your big toes are touching eachother.
2. Tighten your quadriceps so that your knee caps rise up, but don’t hold them there with all your might. It should feel easy and natural.
3. Turn your thighs inwards slightly.
4. Tone your abdominal muscles a little bit to compensate for the arching of the lower back.
5. Widen your shoulders and allow your shoulder blades to slide back.
6. Elongate the neck and balance your head easily over the alignment of your body.
Now balance the weight of your body on your feet slightly in front of the heels. When your are doing this asana properly it will feel as if there is a straight line pulling through your body to the center of the Earth. It is hard to describe this feeling but you will know it when you feel it. Now feel the bottoms of your feet and breathe deeply.
How To Stand - Incorporating Grounding Into Day to Day Life
Have you ever payed attention to the way you simply stand in your day to day life? It is very easy to incorporate grounding into your daily life by consciously standing and grounding yourself while doing so.
The next time you are just standing around pay attention to your posture and where you are centering your body weight on your feet. Are you leaning forwards slightly onto the balls of your feet? This is not optimal, especially in terms of grounding.
With your feet apart and roughly parallel to one another, shift your weight onto the area a bit in front of your heels. Bend your knees slightly and allow your upper body to balance easily over your lower body. Now feel the bottoms of your feet. When you do this correctly you will feel the same as when performing tadasana: as if there is a line running straight through your body and pulling you into the center of the Earth.
