Grounding Myself from Ferguson News My own life experiences have taught me true joy and inspiration is next to God. I found myself needing/inspired to hear a song that I havent listened to in awhile Ronan, by Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift was able to take a boys death and turn it into something constructive, while emoting with integrity. I havent followed the case closely enough to have an opinion either way. What I do know is my news-feed on FB has a lot of anger and pain. Eckhart Tolle would most likely call this a collective pain body. People bring yourselves back to reality and focus on things you can actually control. From Beliefnet: Any negative emotion that is not fully faced and seen for what it is in the moment it arises does not completely dissolve. It leaves behind a remnant of pain. … This energy field of old but still very-much-alive emotion that lives in almost every human being is the pain-body. (pp.141-142) Emotion is energy. Thought is energy. Negative energy has to go somewhere (unless you’re a duck and you can flap your wings [pp.137-139]) and so it goes within and chums around as part of the ego. We can call it a pain-body and it’s wise to know about it since we, ultimately, mistake the pain-body for ourselves from time to time. Eckhart didn’t say this explicitly, but any deeply held negative belief that contains the words “all” or “always” or “never” (and the like) may lead you straight to evidence of your own pain-body. These are statements like “all men are pigs” or “every parent screws up their kid” that feel factually true based on your own experience, but are ultimately the judgments surrounding the experiences that validate those sayings and not the experiences themselves. Loving bad news is of the pain-body. Many, if not most, news outlets quite consciously don’t sell news…they sell negative emotion. Periodically I’ll look at the homepage of a trusted news source and just read negative term after negative term and remind myself that that is not a representation of what the world is really like, but rather a tabloid-sensibility existing for purely economical reasons. #Dignity #Class #God #ActiveMeditation youtu.be/tvN7BOAQn9I
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:06:47 +0000