{"id":1893,"date":"2019-02-10T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesonline.org\/triciablog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2022-08-28T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T22:17:12","slug":"feb10-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciabatessmith.com:443\/index.php\/2019\/02\/10\/feb10-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 2-10-19 Conversation 15, Flat Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday! I want to have a good conversation today.
\nWhy<\/em>?
\nConnection in my heart; this notebook is not filling up (started a new dream\/vision notebook on 1-1-19); as it\u2019s been a long time since posting on my blog.
\nCan we focus on the first? What do you think is happening in your heart?<\/em>
\nIt feels flat.
\nContinue<\/em>.
\nI feel that with having the broader perspective of Source (the ALL Love: Omnipotent, Omniscient, Onmipresent, Consciousness of ALL) that I don\u2019t know where to give devotion to. I enjoy those devotional states but have not been able to hold them (in my past spiritual forays).
\nWhat about you?<\/em> (I understood this as devotion to self.)
\nI don\u2019t know what to do with that. I know what\u2019s coming \u2026 don\u2019t say it.
\nYou are God.<\/em>
\n\"\"I don\u2019t know what to do with that (and now feel uncomfortable about ever posting this as it could lead to judgment by others.)
\nYou take care of you and let others be who they are. Let\u2019s go back to You, your heart \u2026 devotion.<\/em>
\nWhew \u2013 thanks. Ok, how do you incorporate Self as God, here, now, and still be a functional human with humility?
\nDoes God not have ALL including humility? As well as great Love for others, wisdom, and knowing what the other needs?<\/em>
\nYes. I am thinking of others on the mystic path who are able to hear their guides and follow \u2013 surrender. It seems to me that they are still surrendering to the idea of something outside themselves. (In the form of devotion to a Deity.)
\nYes. This is the next step, to know and accept that it is Self.<\/em>
\nIs this the difference between some devotee\/mystics and Sadhguru? (I\u2019m thinking of mystics who hold great devotion to their knowing of their Lord and then act from the internal guidance provided to them.) One has their guide that they listen to and holds lovely devotion to. Sadhguru shows such confidence and wisdom. His devotion seems to come in planned formal ceremony.
\nYes, different steps. There is the need for both. One moves the individual up; one moves a society.<\/em>
\n(Something is coming. I feel weepy.) So I am being prep\u2019d for more?
\nYes<\/em>.
\nBut it feels cold.
\nYou must learn to bring the bliss down to you, into you. <\/em>
\nIsn\u2019t that what\u2019s happening with devotion to a higher being?
\nThey-you make a stream connection of light OR you match a vibration to connect to receive messages or insight. To connect to Source is to allow ALL that you are to be present within you. It is expansion more than raising of vibration.<\/em>
\nAnd Sadhguru\u2019s ecstatic states come from?
\nJust allowing connection.<\/em>
\nSo tell me how. (A thought entered my mind that expressed as \u2026) I love my high heart as I feel happy and get a smile reflex when I connect there. Is this the way to bliss?
\nWe\u2019re seeking more than being \u2018blissed out\u2019. As Sadhguru tells, this is the symptom of the awareness. You were getting closer last week with your imagery (during meditation) of the leaf seeking the awareness of the branch, tree, ALL through the stem at the back of your head.<\/em>
\nWhere I hold the tension?
\nBlock.<\/em>
\nIt can go away?
\nOh Yes.<\/em>
\n(I took a break for Sunday lunch, so now I am back to continue.)
\nWhile I was driving, I felt very energized from this conversation. I was thinking perhaps this is leading to my being special but I know that couldn\u2019t be right. To get clarity I thought of us all being leaves on the tree. I was able to bring this all together by instead thinking of myself as a flower, a blossom on a tree which is going to have a vast number of blossoms. Therefore, special in being a flower, special to be an early bloom to help bring energy and show the way for all the blooms to come. I contemplated my blossom-ness as that of an azalea or forsythia with many blooms on the tree but those flowers just seem short lived and gone. I decided I want to be a cherry blossom so that my flower will transform into a fruit to feed others and be a seed for the future.
\nBeautiful. Use that in meditation to find your tree energy.<\/em>
\nYes. Please help me to expand my meditation practice.
\nTake credit for your Qigong too. Good to connect to the body. <\/em>
\nI want to ask about my heart, I said it feels cold and flat.
\nThat is how you put it. How about it being what understanding (of others) and compassion feel like? Peaceful. (What you arrive at) when you understand that the other has their own perspective from their history and choices of today.<\/em>
\nI don\u2019t feel that I show honoring of the other or kindness.
\nIt will come. You still have turmoil of old reactions and feelings as habits. You get to the understanding (from) following the initial reaction.<\/em>
\nThis concerns me, I notice the (my) reactions, the judgments, the dry cold responses just to move things along. Sadhguru is my example, isn\u2019t he?
\nYes, (he is) going through life, getting things done. He is not working to appease any individual! He is providing the wisdom they require for understanding and making of choices.<\/em>
\nSo he has to make time for the heart, for Love and devotion?
\nYes. But, (he) also acts as a reflection. When in the presence of children he reflects the Love and playfulness. When in the presence of seekers he provides what they seek. When in the presence of the Deity he provides the devotion. It\u2019s just reflecting.<\/em>
\nSo this is what bringing thru my higher Self will effect \u2013 my being a reflection?
\nWhat else would God be but a reflection back to the individual of what they seek?<\/em>
\n\u201cLaw of Attraction.\u201d This is God?
\nMore than that. All the things you know: God seeking to know it Self, individualizing, allowing for free will, individual desires, creating what is desired.<\/em>
\nAnd where is Love?
\nLove is the medium, the atmosphere of it All. The steps cannot occur without unconditional Love to allow every desire and experience to unfold. AND, first and foremost is God loving it Self to want to know \u2018This One\u2019.<\/em>
\nThe same lesson Sadhguru teaches, that we individuals need to seek \u2013 to know \u2018this one\u2019. It really seems crazy, that if this is the \u201cBig Purpose\u201d that we little humans can go through lifetimes never looking at ourselves to wonder and seek to know, to understand.
\nIt\u2019s changing.<\/em>
\nWhy?
\nJust surviving is no longer primary focus.<\/em>
\nAll of that seems like a waste of time to me now when I feel the excitement growing as each day I understand myself better. I know you need the heavy and dark to understand and appreciate the light and lite. It just feels sad \u2026 all the people and time periods of pain and suffering.
\nJust experience Dearest. Release it as it is just a blink of an eye in eternity. It is just recorded events for comparison. Just as you have sad animal or famine TV commercials or violent movies that enter your awareness briefly (these are mentioned as they tend to really upset me). The thoughts of them can aid in perspective of what\u2019s before you NOW.<\/em>
\nBut the sadness can return and still be felt.
\nYour humanness \u2026 so sensitive to the emotional vibrations. Still, you can choose another feeling, another perspective. Send it Love, hold it in compassion. Question, are you feeling what is real or what has been projected on you to feel?<\/em>
\nI feel like there is a message here, that everything felt by the emotions (of the heart in question now) may not be real and can be manipulated.
\nYes. Understand your body is a tool, emotions sense vibrations. This doesn\u2019t mean that what is being picked up is in need of action, thought, or acceptance as real or important.<\/em>
\nI am now thinking of the guidance system Abraham (Hicks) taught me: feels good \u2013 follow; feels bad \u2013 I\u2019m going against my best path. This would give meaning to emotions not as just vibrations.
\nThis is a tool for guidance when choices need to be made. But, vibrations\/emotions are coming into your system all of the time so be aware to differentiate. <\/em>
\nAnd, what about the feelings of others that I am connected to, is it wrong or right to not sense and react to their emotions?
\nThere are many who don\u2019t sense others\u2019 emotions and yet they are in loving relationships. Others need to be responsible for saying what they want just as you are. You are not responsible to sense their needs. <\/em>
\nExplain how this is different then what was said earlier about reflecting?
\nRe-read it.<\/em>
\n\u2026 reflecting what they seek versus what they think they need.
\nI feel this has gone away from the initial conversation and of [say it<\/em>] accepting me as God. (An aspect perhaps \u2026 I\u2019m trying.)
\nStill not there yet. Blossom! Bloom!<\/em>
\n\u2026 need time to reflect.
\nGo!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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