After my open-hearted experience last weekend, I have had a very challenging week... more stuff to let go of, more blocks to unblock. It has been a challenge to stay centered.
Michael says when life hits our stuff, we do not have to go with any of the thoughts or feelings. Stay relaxed and watch how thoughts and feelings about a situation want to pull your energy away from being centered. Michael suggests using "your willpower to not go with it, and just remain seated within." (T.U.S., p. 64) You are not the thought nor the feeling. You are the consciousness behind it.
If you allow a thought or feeling to consume you (thus leaving the awareness that you are the one having the thought or the feeling), then all of your awareness is focused on the thought or feeling and "this power feeds them. Consciousness is a tremendously powerful force. When you concentrate on these thoughts and emotions, they become charged with energy and power." (T.U.S., p. 65)
So the disturbing thoughts and/or feelings grow the more you focus on them.
Better to say seated within, watch, relax and let go.
"Letting go means falling behind the energy instead of going into it. It just takes a moment of conscious effort to decide that you're not going there. You just let go...When you're free from the hold the energy has on you, you will be free to experience the joy and expansiveness that exists within you." (T.U.S., p. 65)
What I am taking from this is the following: to stay aware (almost like being on guard for the next shift in energy) and no matter how upsetting or emotionally charged the event is, use my willpower to not go with it. No matter what, to set the intention within myself to stay centered behind it and let go. I find it helpful to say to myself "I am the awareness of this. I allow this situation to flow through me. I let it go."
Notice situations this week where it would be helpful to use your willpower to stay centered.
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