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Internal compass
Overview
Background
How the internal compass
works
Overview
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The key to the internal compass is
to realize any creation which occurs is the result of a flow of
energy. Any experience you have is a result of a flow of energy.
Without a flow of energy there is no movement. There is no animation
Without a flow of energy there is nothing to experience. To create
anything there needs to cause a flow of energy or movement of
energy. There are many existing flows of energy that are animating
and giving rise to the creation you currently experience.
On this note, there is a particular flow of energy that is
controlling or will control what you desire to create. Also you will
needs a sufficient and continued flow of sufficient energy to create
what you desire. If that flow of energy gets diverted or reduced
below the necessary level you will be unable to create what you
desire. If one can learn to discern the flows of energy and what
they feel like you can enter any creative endeavor and not get lost.
You can learn to focus on the particular flow of energy that gives
rise to the creation you desire. Since any true creative endeavor
takes you into the unknown and to experience what you have not
previously experienced, you can use the feeling of that particular
flow of energy to keep focused such that you do not get lost in the
unknown or distracted from what you desire to create.
In many ways is like a radio. There are many frequencies of energy
or radio station broadcasts that you can receive. Once you find your
desired station, you lock onto it and stay locked on. Your intern
compass is like the turner which enables you to find a particular
flow of energy that you desire and then lock onto that particular
flow.
The questions is, “How do we find and access the flow or flows of
energy that we need to create what we desire?” This is done by
calibrating one’s feelings and using the calibration to establish an
internal compass to guide one’s creative endeavors to know what is
serving or not serving what one desires to create.
Background
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For most us, feelings are of two
types. One type are physical body sensations that tell us about our
environment or the body itself. For example we feel the warmth of
the sun on our skin and the pain of a strained muscle. The other
type are sensations that are inside us and perceived as being
physical but not directly related to anything outside or inside of
us. These sensations or feelings are often those that allows us to
experience a satisfaction or disappointment with life. For example,
you are in a situation where everything is just the way you want it
except that you feel a sadness that a particular friend is not
present with you to share what you have. Few have been taught that
these feelings, both inner and outer, with or without discernable
cause, are part of a compass that can lead us through any aspect of
life in a way that is unimaginable to the mind.
Although, pain sensors are found in various parts of the body, the
organ that is most symbolic of feelings is the heart. What is
interesting to notes is that although all the nerve impulse go to
the brain, the brain does not feel and has no pain sensors of its
own. It only interpreters what is sensed. Also, it does not
necessarily tell us what is being sensed. Rather telling us what is
being senses is only part of the interpretation. The sensors within
the body and the pattern of what sensors activate tell us more about
what is being sensed. What needs to be emphasized here is mind does
not sense what is felt, it integrates and interprets what is felt.
The brain and mind function more of a control and switching station
for the information than functioning with the ability to senses the
information and to know anything about the information. Without the
sensors of the body, the brain has no information on which to act.
There is more to feeling than just the physical sensors of pain or
pleasure. We can sense the nonphysical aspects of energy. Exactly
how we sense the nonphysical energy cannot be fully explained
looking at the physical sensors of the body only as physical
sensors. However, the physical sensors of the body act and function
metaphorically for the unseen aspects of energy. It is this
metaphysical aspect that gives rise to systems of thought such as
the
Seven Chakra System.
If you carefully observe what you feel, especially the non physical
aspects of energy, you will come to perceive the heart functions as
a sensor for the nonphysical aspects of the flow of your creative
life energy. It can tell you about your life. It can tell if you are
living and whether or not your being is being served in what you
thinks, say and do.
It will tell you the direction of the flow of any unseen energy you
are experiencing. That is why so much of the human literature talks
about the heart and its capability to love and/or function as the
seat of the emotions. The heart will communicate whether or not the
flow of energy that sustains your body is expanding or contracting
you. That is, if what you are doing is expanding your creative
powers and the life you are living or it is contracting your
creative power and shrinking our life giving energy.
In any case, it needs to be understood that mind’s interpretation of
what is sensed by the body is only as good as the input. If the body
cannot properly feel and/or the heart is closed or the mind has shut
off sensation, mind will be unable to properly characterize what it
is sensed for the input will be distorted. Yet, regardless of what
mind dos, the heart will sense the energy you experience and you can
place your awareness into the heart to see if you are being served.
How the internal compass
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Feeling is done in the body. In
many ways you can look at the body both literally and symbolically
as a energy detector or antenna that senses the energy one is
experiencing within their being. The heart is the sensitive part of
the instrument that receives what is sensed and will tell you the
direction of the flow for any energy you sense as to whether or not
it serves you. The heart determines the direction of the flow of
energy you experience much the way a needle of a compass will move
and align with the magnetic field of the earth to determined the
direction of flow of the magnetic field of the earth. Once you know
where North is by the direction of the needle, you can move any
where you want relative to that known reference point or calibration
point. The reference or calibration point we label “North” tells you
how you are in flow with or out of flow with the magnetic field of
the earth. So too with the heart. It will tell you if you are in
flow or out of flow with the creative life energy that sustains your
being and flows from the Source of Creation back to the Source of
Creation. If you are in flow, then what you are doing serves your
being. If you are out of flow, you run the risk of harming yourself
in some way.
What needs to be understood is that, unless the mind has raised the
threshold of pain and changes the body’s sensitivity to the energy
it experiences, the body will feel the flow of energy whether or not
the heart is open to sensing the directions of flow. It is the mind
that interprets what is felt as either pleasure or pain but it
cannot determined the direction of the flow sensed by the body. The
body only feels. Mind does not know if the pain we are experiencing
is harming us or taking us past our fixed limits and expanding our
being. Physically they look the same but they are different. So too
with pleasure. We don’t know if the pleasure is the pleasure of our
expansion as the result of the unfolding of our being or a pleasure
that masks a pain and is leading us to an addiction and confinement
of our being.
The heart is what determined whether one is aligned, or not aligned,
with the source or the flow from the Source. To use the heart to
sense the direction of the flow of energy you need to first, be able
to feel the flow and, second, calibrate the heart as to the
direction of flow. To feel the flow you need to be open two ways.
You need to be open to feeling the pleasure pain cycle and you need
to be open to feeling the expansion and contraction of your being.
To be open to the pleasure pain cycle, is to understand and work
with the fact that pain and pleasure are connected like flip sides
of a coin. For every pleasure there will be eventual loss of
pleasure that can be experienced as disappointing if not pain.
Similarly, for every pain, the discontinuance of pain can be seen a
pleasurable. To see one over the other or the exclusion of the other
is unbalanced and will cause you to reduce your ability to sense the
flow of energy and use your internal compass. One must be willing to
feel either way as the situation requires. That does not mean you
embrace pain as such do not find a way to mitigate pain. Rather, one
need to become aware and use the gift of pain. On this note, the
more you are open to feeling the pleasure and/or pain of life, the
greater the ability to sense the energy you experience and often the
subtly of the direction of flow.
To sense the energy, one needs to allow the body to feel which means
we need to remove all our blocks to feeling. That means dealing with
the mind and all the ways it has either raised the threshold of
pain/pleasure sensitivity and/or numbed the ability to feel. If you
have addictions that you use to take you away from what you feel,
you will have to face those addictions and the pain they mask and
suppress. To sense the flow of energy one needs to keep the heart
“open.”
If the body feels but the heart cannot sense, all one will know is
that “something” is there, either pain or pleasure, but they will
not know how and where the energy is taking them and whether or not
it is being served. Many feel “something” pulling them into life and
they will describe this “something” as a longing within, or of,
their heart. Often individuals who feel this deep longing will feel
a little schizophrenic for there is a deep longing for a beloved/The
Beloved, yet there is a deep pain in not having the beloved/The
Beloved. They become torn between longing for the beloved/The
Beloved (the pleasure the beloved/Beloved can give) and denying the
existence of a beloved/The Beloved because the excruciating pain of
separation.
Many will have to work with their body to improve ability to feel
and many will have to awaken their heart in order to know what
exactly they are feeling. Mind can only interpret what it feels
based on the experiences it has had and what is supplied to it. So
it is often ill prepared to fully understand what it experiences.
Yet the sensitivity of the heart will always read true if it is open
because it does not interpret what is sensed. All interpretation is
done by the mind. All one needs to know is what the alignment with
the flow from/to the source of our being feels like and then step
out of mind to stay locked onto that feelings independent of what
mind thinks and believes about what is happening.
As you work with your feelings you will find there is a reason for
you being here and it is feelings that keep you on the path to
accomplish what you came to do. You can look at your life is much
like a river winding its way from the mountains to the sea. The path
is not straight but follows the contour of the land. But there is a
current that lies somewhere in the river, usually near the middle,
that tells you where the river is going. The current always leads to
the sea but it will never always point in the same direction
relative to the external references of north, south, east and west.
So too with the way your creative life energy flows into and through
your being. Your creative life energy is carrying you through
physical Creation back to the source of your being much the way the
river flows thought the contour of the land to the ocean. The flow
of your creative life energy will return you to the source of your
origin - that Eternal Sea out of which all Creation forms.
So in one sense, you need to do nothing with your life for you will
return to that Eternal Sea. However, if you wish to have a life with
an inner joy and/or access your inherent creative powers you have to
feel the current and follow it to keep you centered in your path so
you can tap into the optimum power that is available to you. The
body senses the flow of energy but it cannot tell you what it senses
and whether or not it senses the flow that comes from inside one’s
being or senses the flow of energy that is coming from the outside
one’s being. The body does not, and cannot sense the direction of
the flow of energy that it senses. Mind may interpret something the
body feels and will determine it pleasurable or painful but it
cannot tell you whether or not the pleasure or the pain is aligning
with the flow of your creative life energy and leading you to an
inner satisfaction. The assumption of mind is that what it feels as
pleasurable is good and pain is not good. Yet the opposite is true
more often than not and more often than mind could imagine. In any
case, it is the heart and the hearts ability to sense the direction
that will keep you aligned with, or move you to the where you are in
alignment with your creative life energy where the flow is most
powerful.
The recommendation made here is that you calibrate what you feel and
calibrate your internal compass and use it to guide you in your
life. To
calibrate your internal compass, click here.
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