Fixing your outer life from the inside
At some point in our lives, we come to the realization that our own minds are largely responsible for what we are met with in the world. That our thoughts, feelings, wounds, habits or downright traumas, whether generational or personal, are played out in how we perceive our life circumstances.
With great patience and gentleness, we begin to clear out and cultivate the content of our minds, as well as heal the deep wounds that play out as painful encounters in the exterior world. We gradually learn to pull the projections back inside where we will find the true source of our pain. The stagnant or blocked places in the energy field of the body. When we embrace these inner places with presence and empathy, they gradually seize to show up as unpleasant outer encounters that produce triggered reactions and drama.
This is not a fast-fix process. While the more superficial ripples of the mind may be a easy to quiet down, healing the deeper grooves, in yoga we call the samskaras, will likely be an ongoing process. A process of taking responsiblity for the reactivity that may appear to be caused by external forces. The willingness to feel deeply into the energy field of the body, feeling into the unpleasant feelings that we may well have gone to great lengths to avoid. Greeting these uncomfortable vibrations of anxiety, fear, anger, sadness the way you might greet, acknowledge and even embrace a small scared child.
To give this process a try, please consider trying my Felt Sense meditation which is inspired by Gendlin’s Focusing Technique. This meditation will put you in touch with the places within that are crying for healing. Please thank the outer circumstances, people, events that trigger the emotional discomfort because with out the triggering even, you might not even know that these old energies are operating within you and are calling for healing attention and presence.
