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\"samskara<\/a>
\nHappy Sunday!
\n\u201cAnd who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?\u00a0And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,\u00a0yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.\u201d Matthew 6:27-29<\/em>
\nMy son lost his job a couple of weeks ago which has brought up in me anxiety.\u00a0 My mind would keep running off with extreme thoughts building on fears of his future.
\nIt has been an internal struggle.
\nMany good messages and lessons have also been coming to me to keep reminding me that there are other ways to look at this.
\nLast week I read Michael Singer\u2019s new book \u201cThe Surrender Experiment\u201d.\u00a0 It is phenomenal. It was what I have been asking for \u2013 a witness to the power of Faith!\u00a0 When I was very young, perhaps 12, I read a book that my mother loaned to me.\u00a0 It was about an order of nuns who lived on faith.\u00a0 Everything that they needed in the form of housing, food, maintenance, school supplies, etc. came to them at the moment of their need.\u00a0 I have wished for a long time to find this book again to confirm, 40 years later, that what I remember reading and learning was true \u2013 that God will provide.
\nMickey\u2019s story (it\u2019s nice to know Michael\u2019s nickname) is the Universe\u2019s response to my desire to have a human witness to the power of surrender and Faith.\u00a0 We can look out to nature and see around us that, as Jesus pointed out, there is no toil for birth and growth in the natural world. But, my mind likes to go to how easily plants and animals die with no planning for their own protection.
\nMickey had his waking up moment in his twenties.\u00a0 After a period of extreme focus on meditation and asceticism from material things a dream told him he would not reach his goal by suppressing all that he is.\u00a0 Mickey knew his goal was the full release of his personality so he chose instead to surrender all decisions that were about personal preference to what the Universe put before him.\u00a0 The book tells the story of the next 40 years of his life and the amazing journey he took by surrendering and accepting what the Universe brought to him.
\nConfirmation of living in Faith made my anxiety about my son more perplexing. I have been given confirmation that living in Faith and acceptance of what comes will carry us to the places we are meant to be.\u00a0 I also know that my son has his own life to live; he is young and needs to seek out the right path for himself.\u00a0 As his mother my role is to love and cheer him on.\u00a0 I also know that prayer works! (Thank you Jesus!)
\nSo this Sunday I began my day not sure of what to write but I felt it would be a day about resolving this anxiety.
\nI am currently re-reading Mickey\u2019s book \u201cThe Unteathered Soul\u201d because I didn\u2019t want to break the connection of his teachings upon finishing \u201cThe Surrender Experiment\u201d.\u00a0 I was reading chapter 6 in the morning, \u2018The Secrets of the Spiritual Heart\u2019. Of course a great lesson comes from the workings of the heart!
\nIn the book Mickey explained about spiritual energy.\u00a0 He teaches in this chapter how our attention on good or bad events that come to our awareness creates an energy like bubble cycling on itself instead of passing through us. \u00a0In Sanskrit this is called and Samskara.\u00a0 These focused upon energies stay with us and are stored in the space of our hearts.\u00a0 We tend to call these blockages.
\nYes I have learned in the past about releasing blockages.\u00a0 I learned of doing my shadow work long ago from Debbie Ford.\u00a0 I appreciate Mickey\u2019s lesson in how this works energetically and the connection to the heart.
\nLater in the day, I watched the new Super Soul Sunday conversation between Oprah and Brene\u2019 Brown about Brene\u2019s new book \u201cRising Strong\u201d.\u00a0 In this book Brene\u2019 gives the steps to rising back up after a fall.\u00a0 She says the stages are: reckoning, rumble, and revolution.\u00a0 From her conversation with Oprah I gained the insight into her meaning about these stages.\u00a0 Reckoning means to recognize that there may be another way to look at the situation \u2013 Brene\u2019 said we need curiousity for this to come to our awareness.
\nI realized that I have grown aware enough to always move quickly through reckoning.\u00a0 I don\u2019t go too far down the path of crazy, assumed, made up stories of my mind before the discomfort of my heart tells me that I need to look on the \u2018thing\u2019 from a new perspective.
\nI realized from O & B\u2019s conversation that I was at the stage of \u2018rumble\u2019 with my concern for my son.\u00a0 I had the fears for his future and my thoughts of Faith pushing against each other and yet I was not able to come to peace.\u00a0 (The next step \u2018revolution\u2019 is living with the new perspective that won the \u2018rumble\u2019.)
\nI knew from Brene\u2019 and Mickey where I needed to go \u2013 into my heart.\u00a0 I knew waiting for me in my castle was a Samskara to release, a reptile waiting for me there with a lesson.
\nI went into meditation, this too felt like a rumble.\u00a0 Half of me trying to remember and go through the methods to enter my heart and the other half already there visiting.\u00a0 It was like my ego was saying \u2018wait a minute, this is supposed to be hard!\u2019 as my soul just soared down through the garden and in the front door.
\nThis happened because I already knew where I was going.\u00a0 I knew my fear for my son was not about his journey ahead but about my own past fear.\u00a0 How did I know this? Sorry, I forgot to mention another piece to this lesson.\u00a0 In the morning I watched Dr. Shafali Tsabary on TEDx speak about parenting.\u00a0 She spoke about how we burden our children with our own fears and inadequacies instead of accepting them as they are and working to heal ourselves.
\nTherefore, I entered my castle knowing there was something within myself that I had to look at and release.\u00a0 At the first room the big dark reptile appeared.\u00a0 I asked to be shown who they are; it turned into a little me.\u00a0 I immediately sat down on the ground to cuddle my child me of about 5 years old.
\nI asked my question, \u201cWhat causes this fear in me that I feel holding a job is so important?\u201d
\nAcceptance.
\nIt is the need to please my parents to feel that they accept me.
\nI told my girl that I love and accept her.\u00a0 I also told her that Mom and Dad love and accept her \u2013 if it wasn\u2019t there then we all certainly grew into it.
\nI stood and carried her back to my golden room.\u00a0 We received an embrace from Jesus there.\u00a0 The room sparkled and my girl got down and began to run around and play.
\nI felt the fear release from my heart.\u00a0 Another Samskara has moved on its journey to return to the flow of the river.
\nI have heard said that the heart is the joining of the positive and negative energies of our energy beings (from Drunvalo I believe). I see the Samskara as an eddy that has formed off the edge of the junction of the two great energy rivers.\u00a0 \u00a0My psyche is what has pushed and held it out of the flow. I no longer wish to hold onto that so it has been released and returned to the flow of All That Is.
\nI felt peace as I stood in my golden room near Jesus with my girl playing at our feet.
\n\u201cReally?\u201d I wondered. I can really feel peaceful about my son from this pleasant easy experience of my heart?
\nIt seems so.\u00a0 It is now Monday morning as I finish this story.\u00a0 My heart feels peaceful with love and optimism for my son.
\nI recognize many more things this sunny morning.\u00a0 I did express to friends this week my internal struggle with letting my son\u2019s journey unfold and my own fears.\u00a0 No one seemed to offer any solutions nor did it even trigger conversation \u2013 just silence.\u00a0 I wonder often if I am wrong in working through so much on my own instead of forming connections with others to work through these things within me.\u00a0 This experience is more validation to keep going as I am.\u00a0 My answers come from going within.
\nI also understand my golden room better.\u00a0 When I first went there it was full of empty chairs. I\u2019ve been thinking incorrectly that this is the place for the hard lessons, and with Jesus present, I have been nervous to go there.\u00a0 I now realize this place is for things I have taken into my heart.
\nAnd so it is.
\n\u201cYour vision will become clear only when you look into your heart … Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.\u201d ~ Carl Jung<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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