I have lately been immersing myself in the psycho spiritual work of ancient traditions, found in Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, the Koran, the Bible and the mystical parts of the Jewish tradition.
An idea is we all have lots of suppressed experiences, good and bad that we are hanging onto. These 'samskaras' (Hindu term) are blocking us from our internal 'river of joy' which few of us experience. Suppression.
The river is always there and full and flowing with love, joy, peace, enthusiasm to name a few, but we have so lost connection to it that we spend our waking and sleep time trying to figure out what we have to do outside in the world to feel better inside.
A simple example would be someone taking drugs or alcohol, using any substance or using processing addictions like co-dependency to use outside elements to try to fix an inner disturbance.
The central theme of these spiritual traditions is to work at the root. Why do I not feel enthused, joyful and a peace that passeth all understanding all the time?
The simple answer, as far as i can establish (and most of my understanding is taken from the comprehensive and deeply informative work of Michael A. Singer author of Living Untethered) is to sit with the inner disturbance and relax, let go, allow the feelings to come up and through.
This too shall pass, it seems to work but it is a paradigm shift from conventional thinking. We are taught and encouraged and rewarded by looking outside and getting and doing. This is back to a more simple experience of being as the primary drive followed by clear and conscious doing.
It is important to make the point that there is nothing wrong with doing, just as long as you or I do not expect anything out there to fix a disturbed feeling inside.
By sitting with and allowing and not doing anything unless the lion is the room, metaphorically speaking, the blocked past energies (samskara's) are released and we begin to get untethered and just like Mary Poppins with her giggling ways up we float.
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