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Consciousness Can
Heal Emotions
by
Chris Griscom
 The art of consciousness is attention. It
is not an inherited skill, a faculty of only
the intelligent ones, something that can be
bought or sold. It is the essence of the soul
that sleeps within the mind of the cell and
permeates all our subtle bodies. Yet it is,
however, a discipline that requires surrender
of the ego, a truce of the emotional body.
Once this threshold is passed, it comes to us
easily, although in increments, like the waves
on the shore of the incoming tide.
Initially, the emotional body resists
conscious expansion because it is like the
guilty child being discovered by the parent
who thwarts its play. If it is engaged in
projection of blame or responsibility, or
judgment and self righteousness, it must relinquish all these
cloaking devices in the light of truth. Once
the emotional body discovers that it can
express itself in new and delicious ways, it
quickly surrenders to the sensations of
elation and joy that flood it in the presence
of the Higher Self.
We heal the emotional body as we focus our
attention on the highest octaves and
vibrations of our emotions. We develop the
capacity to experience happiness, ecstasy, and
tranquility to the degree to which we can
free ourselves from the residue of our
emotional body. When the heart is filled with
joy, the emotions soar. The purpose is to
recognize and experience the universal
energies of our own being.
I will suggest a number of exercises to do
this. However, an exercise is never an end in
itself. The goal is to awaken consciousness. At best, techniques can help get our
consciousness in gear. Our Higher Self is
already in existence and in touch with us,
directly or indirectly. We are, in truth,
light and divine consciousness. There is
nothing that has to be created, we are simply
not aware of it yet.
If we go beyond or deeper into ourselves we
will discover new aspects of life. It is not a
matter of discarding emotions, but rather of
letting them be permeated by higher vibrations
and light-filled energy. Exercises can help us
orient our inner spiritual focus to develop
the energies that flow to the desired goal, so
that we create an energy spiral or an energy
pattern, rather than set up a routine. It is
the consciousness that supports our changes.
Exercises are like impulses to focus on higher
cosmic vibrations. If, for instance, we wish
to alter and improve our relationships with
our parents or partners because communication
between us has become icebound, our actual goal is to change in our
consciousness, not theirs -- our goal is to
witness the relationship from the spiritual
perspective.
Exercises help us open to new dimensions to
receive new energies. Each new energy flow
releases old residue and crystallizations, and
sets us free. If we influence it through
focusing on spiritual octaves, the emotional
body increases its own vibration so that
residues such as fear, anger,
self-righteousness, and so forth, are
disintegrated.
Exercise with Light
We can often observe people crossing their
arms in front of their stomachs, or bending
over slightly in that area, even when they are
standing. This posture is an attempt at
self-protection because the stomach or solar
plexus area is the seat of the emotional body.
Via our solar plexus, we unconsciously receive
the emotional vibrations of others. Normally,
we stretch out the feelers or antennae of our
emotional body so as to come into contact with
the energies of our surroundings through these
delicate threads or fibers, and to exchange
energies. However, the vulnerable energy of
infants and small children is confronted again
and again with negative vibrations, so that
these fibers begin to retract at the first
sign of emotional negativity. We all know the
feeling of nausea, or butterflies in our
stomach, when we are about to enter or are in
an emotionally oppressive situation. Our
sympathetic nervous system is registering fear
via the solar plexus ganglion.
We try to protect ourselves by covering and
contracting the solar plexus. Unfortunately
constant contraction of this area serves to
weaken it, leaving us very permeable to
outside energies. We can cleanse our emotional
body fibers by extending our energy out through the solar plexus. This protects
us from energies we might otherwise take in.
As we do this, we are able to alter the
messages we are sending out to the world about
who we are. The following exercise teaches us
how to do this. You can do it anywhere, in the
car, at a desk, lying on a bed. Just be sure
to uncross your arms and legs. It is useful to
loosen your belt and any tight clothing so
that you are really relaxed.
Through your crown
chakra, through your
scalp, let clear, white light flow into
yourself. If you think you cannot do that
without using your imagination, then by all
means use it! Simply imagine that white light
is flowing into your head from above. Then, let
it flow out again through your stomach and
solar plexus in the form of a ray of white
light. The process is to "inhale"
white light though your head and
"exhale" it through your solar
plexus. Doing it with your breath is an
excellent way to learn it.
Lay your hand lightly over the stomach area
to focus your attention on what you perceive with your senses. You may
feel warmth, or an itching, or a light
vibrating motion, or even a light electric
current.
Once you begin to sense the energy, hold
your hand a little bit away from the stomach,
maybe two to four inches. Continue the process
of directing the flow of white light in
through your head and out through your solar
plexus. With your hand held in front of your
stomach, you can sense changes and
fluctuations in the energy as you extend your
hand. Does it appear different, less or more
strong?
Gradually increase the space between the
stomach and hand until your hand is at arm's
length from the solar plexus. At the same
time, take note of how you feel. Do you feel
differently, perhaps better, more secure and
open, freer? I hope so.
For the next stage of this exercise,
continue to receive and transmit the white
light without holding your hand in front of
you. Now try to direct the "ray of
energy" at an object. This could be a doorknob, a book, a chair, the
telephone, anything at all. Practice this
until you can perceive when the ray of energy
reaches the object. It will bounce back
slightly when it hits an inanimate object.
The purpose of this whole exercise is to
understand that, while you are sending out
light and energy, you cannot receive or absorb
anything through the solar plexus. This is the
best protection from unwanted influences.
After doing this exercise, people feel,
sometimes for the first time, how a harmonious
energy flows through them to connect with the
world.
 The above is
excerpted from the book, The Healing of
Emotion by Chris Griscom ?1988.
Reprinted with permission. Published by Light Institute Press,
Galisteo, NM.
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About The
Author
Chris Griscom is a
international lecturer, author of several books, tapes, and
videos, and the founder of the Light
Institute of Galisteo and the Nizhoni School
for Global Consciousness. For more
information, write or call: Light Institute,
HC 75, Box 50 Galisteo, NM 87540.
505-466-1975. For
more information about Chris Griscom, visit www.lightinstitute.com
or www.chrisgriscom.com, or contact her at
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