I was at a sound bath last night, it was incredible, as it always is when I go see Sarah Surrender to soak in vibrations created through the numerous instruments that she’s collected over her 5 years of giving sound baths but also since her childhood when she discovered music and her attraction to what it has to offer a soul having a human experience. The different sounds created from hand crafted instruments she’s purchased around the globe are so powerful and poignantly delicious. They take you on a journey as she magically weaves them together enticing your imagination to voyage deep within. I highly recommend going to see her sometime if you are looking to feel something unique and refreshing, something other worldly. Frequency has a way of doing that and because so many of these instruments were hammered into shape they also carry the frequency of the person who created them, their stories and heart’s beats intertwined into the rhythmic pounding of the instruments creation, leaving you with so many subtle vibrations to be felt and inspired by. Sarah herself is the perfect channel for this type of work, she’s intense yet soft, determined yet open, crystal clear and authentic. She simply flows with the energies in the room and allows herself to be guided with trust and conviction.
As usual when my sound journey begins I have to move through some of the lower vibrations within, emotions of anger and fear, I usually see aggressive and painful images, images created from a collection of emotions never fully processed and integrated. I’ve been consciously processing things as they come up for a while now, the simple allowing of what is arising to flow through, so there aren’t many emotions held onto for too long that I don’t love into acceptance. To process them, that is sit with them and simply allow them to be seen. Once we begin to catch up with allowing emotions to be authentically observed we get quicker at the processing part due to the lack of resistance within. In turn there are less and less repressed emotions that can build up over time. None the less life is like one big fares-wheel bringing us from light to dark and back up again daily, so with each setting sun a panoply of emotions are required to breath through, some of which don’t get fully exhaled. These are the ones that come to life when I go to Sarah’s sound baths or any other well crafted healing session.
As I do this work of inner integration I usually cut cords with the people I’m energetically connected to. The intention is to let-go of anything not serving the highest good of the relationship or the that of the collective wellness. The size of the energy cord and what it’s symbolically made of will determine how easy it is to cut. I’ve become very proficient in this practice because I’ve been doing it for a while now throughout my days. I can usually feel a negative energy hook coming in from connecting with a specific thought form and chop it off in a flash when I feel it’s not elevating growth.
If I’ve been in a tumultuous conversation with someone who was highly charged with emotion, the energy cord might be a bit thicker and I’ll have to cut it a few times to see it disappear in my minds eye completely. When we cut energy cords we are basically sending a signal to our nervous systems to let-go of any emotions or negative feelings that we took on during the conversation that weren’t healthy or were never ours to begin with. The emotions held by people we are connected to as they continue to process them. Empaths tend to take on the emotions of others and convert them into guilt or shame and hold on to them almost as though we’re responsible for how others feel, even though deep down we know only they can process their own emotions for themselves. In this sense cutting cords allows us to break free from these patterns and recognize that we are only responsible for our own thoughts feelings and emotions not theirs. It’s a practice that helps to create healthy boundaries.
As I journeyed in last night’s session and began to cut cords with all the people that appeared intuitively to me, the ones I was shown I was energetically entangled with, I noticed how one cord was made of quartz crystal, a type of symbolic material that represents heightened amplification of whatever it’s associated to. A symbolic material that’s never been imagined before within this practice. I couldn’t cut it with my sword which irritated me and so I imagined other items to use to break it. From past experiences the most annoying cords to cut are those which are loose and stringy, not very defined yet numerous, many little cords put together making up a thicker fibrous material that seems to wrap around the sword as I try to cut it, making the whole cutting process a little more complicated. These types of cords represent many little unintegrated exchanges that one can have with another person. Lots of little hooks, many little unresolved emotions that are too elusive to clearly define yet too numerous to simply be cut away (integrated energetically) in one slice.
This last energy cord which appeared as quartz crystal was defined as such because it was made from emotions process and integrated, which lead to a positive merging of thought forms with that person. I have an extremely interdependent spirit and I enjoy moving around and connecting to many different perspectives (energy thought forms) from many different people and groups. I often fear connecting too much to one perspective because I find it’s limiting and threatens to imprison my soul as it begins to direct my creative energy and thoughts, thus actions themselves, shaping my reality too much in one direction. I always want to stay open minded and honour this path so I prefer to stay loosely connected to many vs intensely connected to one. Being too connected to one way of thinking is what we call subconscious programming, if you study only a specific subject for too long your mind will begin to be shaped by the information you fill it with, no matter what that is. The more perspectives we can hold the more enhanced our creative flow becomes because there’s a cross-pollination of possible leads. This is how we keep ourselves evolving, by intaking a wide variety of energetic offerings from a wide variety of people sharing their wisdom, creativity, opinions or research findings.
As I’m attempting to cut this quartz crystal cord I finally imagine blowing it up through the use of heat and pressure but it simply reconnects itself like nothing happened so I curiously follow it upstream. It brought me into the nights’ sky then directly into the person it was connected to which happen to be floating in outer space. As I merged into this other person’s energy field and dissolved into them, I was able to look down at the planet and imagine all the people living on it. I saw the juxtaposition of war and peace, starvation and gluttony, loss and victory, pain and pleasure. The human tragedy as a divine comedy playing itself out to its own detriment. The beauty and destruction of the earth, ultimately the sacred and profane over lapping, both attempting to gain momentum forward, one over the other rather than as a combined force.
The question that was asked from this perspective was, “what do the people of this planet need in order to come into peace and harmony so that all may thrive?”. I realized in that moment that if we can all begin to form enough energy cords such as this one that promotes questions such as this, we’re collectively bound to create solutions to bigger problems through our entanglements. These questions can only begin to arise once we are in harmony and balance within ourselves, the catch 22.
Once we are able to see beyond fear and conditioning we can begin to create for the greater good. This is why it’s so important for people to have good self-care practices in place to help them integrate the negative feelings of fear, turning those connections into creative fuel rather than allow them to act like barricades. Which if not practiced keeps people at a distance from creating large scale solutions that move above and beyond the little me experience here, which is often fear driven. Proactive thinking for the greater good of humanity starts as an inside job, as the greater good for self health, which becomes the foundation for working positively towards greater goals with others.
So the question then becomes what sort of questions are being created through your energetic entanglements with others, despite your initial judgments of them? This has always been our collective downfall, as soon as someone triggers us we usually walk away and bury our heads in the sand or retaliate but in reality if we can softly accept the pain of growth we might just be able to clearly see the possibilities of the unlimited mind and the multitude of solutions it has to offer when combined.
I’ll take this as a good omen for 2018!
BLASTING LOVE
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Hand Crafted Tibetan Bowl
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