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Recieved: 2002/11/11 08:40
Subject: [K-list] Re: Emotionalism
From: lionessbleu1
On 2002/11/11 08:40, lionessbleu1 posted thus to the K-list:
--- In Kundalini-GatewayATnospamy..., "mundaneyogi" <gutrekATnospamh...> wrote:
This groveling at the
> blue lotus feet of the gurus seems like so much sappy
> sentimentality. I just can't get into it anymore.
I like what my teacher at Bible College told me over twenty years
ago. "Life is like a cafeteria. Take what you need and don't spit on
the rest."
As in my food choices, I find my 'spiritual menu' choices change as
I grow and develop. This doesn't change the efficacy of my previous
choices.
>
> Perhaps Kundalini has made some internal changes over the past
> decades, because I don't get the highs and lows I used to. Even
> when emotions appear, I experience them with a certain detachment,
> as if I were watching a movie. I feel like I exist continuously
in
> this calm central place. Even during sleep there's this little
> glimmer of awareness; it's as if waking consciousness were right
> around the corner.It's that dynamic balance that happens. We quit resonanting with the
cyclic moods of life as we find our own inner balance with all that
is. We then find moods and utilize emotionalisms as tools for
teaching and self empowerment. It is like acting and picking up
props to enrich the unfolding of the moment for ourselves.>
> Some of the recent threads seem to reflect so much emotionalism –
> anger, defensiveness, etc., all of which is then typically
projected
> onto someone else. While reading them I felt compassion, but as
> they used to say in the 60's, "I just can't relate".
> Although I was tempted to reply a couple of times,
> I thought . o O (no, this isn't my karma. I'm not sticking
> my hand in that can of bees).
Yeah, I was thinking, "In or out? Eh, just jump in and play for
awhile." I have been watching all the boring self indulgences from
the porch of the k house for awhile. I can relate because
narcissistic self indulgence is my middle name and as anyone who has
known me for awhile knows I have the biggest, honking ego on this
list.
What finally moved me was to step in and speak up for a friend
although I know that my friend is perfectly capable of speaking up
for herself. Just another way of letting her know I love and support
her. Normally I just ignore displays of mental masturbation knowing
it's a stage everyone goes through.
>
> A few self-help systems I've seen preach the doctrine of
> returning to the inner child. While child-like innocence is a
> beautiful thing, temper tantrums and thoughtless childish behavior
> is usually hurtful, to oneself and to others. No, these novel New
> Age systems aren't for me. I doubt their efficacy and doubt the
> motives of their founders.
It is because people have bastardized Inner Child work to justify
their own self indulgences. As an example, see an extremely heavy
adult waddling around saying "I give my Inner Child all the ice
cream and candy it wants." We rescue the Inner Child from it's
tormentors and then give it Inner Parents to nuture and provide
discipline or otherwise it grows into a whiny tyrant. To not give
the Inner Child a set of Inner Parents is to perpetuate the abuse.
I am an Alchemical Hypnotherapist trained and educated in assisting
people to find and develop their inner resources to solve their own
problems and to heal themselves...taking the inner human excreta and
turning it into gold. It is criminal and cruel to rescue an inner
child from an unsafe inner world and to release them to fulfill
every felt desire.
Would we take a child in the external world from their abusive home,
place them in the mall and say "you are free! Do you what you want,
go where you will, take what you can!"?
It is tragic that such an extremely effective form of therapy has
been maligned and diluted to rationalize our inappropriate behaviors.
> However, I gag on saccharine > sentimentality and regard angry
people with a kind of surreal > amusement.
Yes, sometimes I feel like I need an insulin shot around mushiness
too. As far as anger goes, it is an effective tool for self
evolvement but not too many know how to use it in that way.
>
> I've arrived at an interesting place, spiritually, a kind of Zen
> – Yoga synthesis. I lean toward the philosophy of Buddhism, but
> prefer yoga practice to zazen. Maybe Tantric Buddhism will work
for
> me, but in the interim, I guess I'll just follow this odd
> synthetic system.
Whatever works, works.
Susan>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> Peace and Love,
>
> Ken
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