Lion and Magic Boy

Ahh. I just finished my Thinking Mode (1 Hour Cycling + Ten Minutes Showering = Blog Post) and wanted to share some things with you. So what if my hair is still wet. This can’t wait!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about personal power and about the effect we have upon others. I think a lot of people in the spiritual community believe that it’s best to think only “good” or positive thoughts, and that doing anything else can be harmful to themselves and others.

Wow. Not only is that absolutely untrue, but it also robs you of the opportunity to explore the colorful spectrum of wonderful emotion that is part of the human experience. Having grown up in an environment where overt displays of emotion weren’t (I felt) welcome, I learned to suppress much of what I felt in order to maintain a certain decorum.

I’m beginning to find now that it’s much more fun to play. Walking on eggshells because of someone else’s discomfort with emotion isn’t easy and can lead you down a path of future difficulty. Of course, you can’t walk all over someone either, and honoring their particular perspective while maintaining the sanctity of your own boundaries is usually the best course.

Still, what do you do with negative emotion? What if you interact with someone who you are sure doesn’t like you? What do you do then?

Back ten-ish years ago when I was first attuned to Reiki, I remember people advising that when clearing a space energy-wise to send anything negative out into the universe to be transmuted into “good.” That was always a little nebulous for me, but I decided to take it on faith that such a thing could actually occur. Ooh, turning bad into good! I’m all over it!

Taking this concept a little further, is it possible to use it with the hypothetical person who doesn’t like you? (As if anyone wouldn’t like you! I find that hard to believe!)

Why, yes.

But first you have to consider some other concepts. Do you really think that people can have power over you, can send you “bad” energy and affect you that way? In other words, we’ve all heard of curses; are they real?

My answer: they are only as real as you let them be.

In other words, if you give them power, they will be real. But if you don’t accept the notion, and this has got to be on an intrinsic level, then negative energy sent to you that way will be ineffective. That’s not to say that you still won’t be able to feel emotion from others. People have a wide variety of emotions and you can easily sense them even when they’re not yours. But it’s up to you as to whether you choose to absorb them or simply allow them to flow over and through you.

Ah, but that’s a little scary, isn’t it? I know it is for me. Feeling the force of someone’s anger is uncomfortable. But when you know that all it is is emotion, and that emotions as themselves can’t hurt you, it does become easier.

That’s not to say that I can achieve this all the time, in fact far from it, but I’m learning. It helps when you feel emotion to explore it a little, to ask yourself where it’s coming from. Is it coming from someone else in your life? Or is it yours? If it doesn’t belong to you, you can just let it wash away. This doesn’t take long. If it is yours, try just letting it be there without actually doing anything about it. You don’t even have to identify the reason for it, in fact sometimes doing that can cause it to be retained and then maybe manifest as pain in the body somewhere.

Pain in the body? From emotion? Yes, that’s really common. We all tend to hold emotion in various places in the body for different reasons, usually as something learned in childhood as a defense technique. I can already see Serena, for example, holding emotion in her throat (thus manifesting as sore throats) and we’re working on techniques to release this. Me, it’s the heart. Or maybe my entire body! But headaches, neck pain, back pain, etc. can all often be attributed to holding emotion in those places, and having done so for a long time so it builds up.

So, knowing that negative emotion is just that, simply emotion, and knowing too that emotion can’t hurt you (unless you choose for it to!), let’s go back to that curse idea. Intentional negative emotion cannot hurt you unless you allow it to. Period. But what do you do with it? Here’s what’s coming up lately about that, that came through as a result of some channeling I did recently:

Send love to the person intending you harm. Intend that whatever negative emotion that comes to you be transmuted into love to be returned to the person intending you harm, and that you constantly act as a one-way channel for that love, using the never-ending source of love that is available to you at all times from the Universe.

That’s it. Simple, and perfect. Try it if there are angry people in your life.