Michael Singer: jai guru dev, jai masters. There’s so many different topics that one can talk about spiritually, all the different traditions, all the different techniques. When it’s said and done, there’s a principle that’s taught very strongly in yoga and has spread out to really all traditions, and it is the essence of spiritual growth.
There are aspects of it that people don’t wanna talk about, and I don’t always like talking about it because the last thing in the whole world I ever want to do is tell you how to live your life because your life is your personal path and you have to go through what you go through, and we can encourage and inspire that you’re reaching up.
But. The real growth happens in the following. You have inside of you. Everyone, no matter who they are and what they’ve ever done, has an energy flow. You don’t see it ’cause you’re very busy seeing you. You’re busy seeing your faults, your desires, your hope, your dreams, your concept, your views, your opinions, your likes, your dislikes.
They’re very abundant. And they distract you from feeling the subtler flows that are always going on inside of you. Well, how do I know they’re going on? Now, medicine doesn’t always teach you this way, and that’s too bad because your heart beats every single second moment of your life for 60, 70, 80, 90, a hundred years.
Are you doing that? Is that an act of will you better stay busy? Excuse me, I can’t go out, and your breath goes in and out regularly, all the time for your entire life. Are you doing it? Okay. They won’t tell you this, but that energy is doing it. It’s called the Life Force Prana. The Shakti, the qi, whatever you want.
If you come in tune with it, it won’t be silent. It will be so loud that it will drown out your hopes, your dreams, your concepts, your views, your preferences, your beliefs. That’s how strong that energy flows inside. But you know, if the sun’s shining really bright and I’m looking the other way, I don’t see it.
So regardless of the power and the strength of the Shakti flow, and let’s get terms down, you’ll think of it as prana, prana, yama, prana within your body. It’s all Shakti. It’s just that energy at different stages where it’s manifesting, you give it different names. The entire acupuncture system of the conception and governing vessel and all the different points are that energy flowing through that within the body.
So you’re then studying it as it manifests in the body, and you can heal. Of course it can heal. Why can it heal? Let’s get that straight. If any energy gets blocked, if you put a blender up and then mess with the electricity going in, it’s not gonna blend very well. It’s to go just put a transformer to where it’s not getting steady electricity.
Your body’s exactly the same and every single point within your body, all the meridians, all of them are how is the energy flowing through the body so that it can feed the liver, the kidney, all the different 12 points and so on. It’s not mystical. It’s not weird. There is this chi, this Shakti flowing through the body.
If it is blocked, it is not feeding the different aspects, different organs, different things within the body. It’s all energy. Well, it comes down to it. What’s your food? You think it’s food? No. By the time it gets down there, it’s broken down into energy packets, which are fed to your cells, and so all comes down to energy.
Well, that’s what this is. They think they being traditional medicine, that you get your energy from the food you eat and some understand from the sunlight also and can absorb some stuff right from the food of war. That’s where you get your energy. Well, there’s a quote in the Bible that says something like, man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that leave with the mouth of God.
Wonder what that means. He’s talking about the Shakti flow. He’s talking about the fact that the energy you get that makes your heart beat, that makes you longer go in and out, that feed every cell within your body is not just from the food you eat. That’s why you all have such very diets. They tell you better have this much protein, this much, this much.
People live on air. There are Breatharian out there. You don’t believe it. There are, okay. And it gets fed from inside. That’s what’s meant by every word that leaves with the mouth of God. That’s the Shakti flow. That’s the energy flow. So you have this energy flowing through your body, through your, we’re gonna see through your entire system, but basically this energy is flowing in there, and it also flows through your mind and it also flows through your heart.
That’s the whole chakra system. We covered all of it. But a very meaningful deep level that you may not want to hear about. So you got this energy flowing. Do you have energy inside yourself? Do you see it dances inside? What do you think your emotions are? I know what the emotions are. I’m a Yogi 50 or sober.
You get to the point, you see them create themselves. You see them go away. They are energy flows that are blocked. If you feel lonely, ever feel lonely? Have you ever felt lonely? That is not your natural state. Your natural state is fulfillment, joy, alfonce, that energy flowing, just like it’s a healthy inside your body.
If your systems are balanced and so on, you feel health, you feel good, you wake up in the morning, I could take things on. Well, it’s the same thing with your emotional body and with your mental body. These are just very high vibration rates of energy, but the highest vibration of energy is the shati flow that flows down through them.
Call it whatever you want. Okay, give it to her names. I don’t care. Spirit. When they say spirit, they mean Shakti. Okay? So basically if it is not flowing properly, you have problems just the same as it not flowing properly through your body. You have problems. So what does it mean to have problems emotionally?
It means that your energy flow is blocked as it passes through your emotional or energy body. What does that mean? It’s the same things. If you have a stream of water flowing, has no impediments at all. It’s a stream. It flows perfectly evenly. There’s no disturbances, there’s no rapids, there’s no anything.
There’s nothing interfering with that flow. Take a rock and put it in that flow. One rock. What happens? Currents, eddies sprays. Those are your emotions. That is what happens if there’s a blockage in your energy flow passing through your emotional energy body. It hits, the energy’s flowing. It’s not not flowing.
What is deep? Deep depression? The energy doesn’t make it past. It’s blocked so much that you can’t experience the flow at all. It looks totally dark in there. Why? Because someone turned the lights off. Did they turn off the electricity? No. They blocked the electricity. How come Hoover Dam, the Colorado River used to flow run through there.
Somebody built a dam. What happens now? Oh, the river gave up. It did not give up. They spend millions of dollars a year making sure there’s not one little crack in that thing, because otherwise, boom, it’s pushing through. You understand that that energy wants to push through your blockages and you won’t let it, and we’ll talk about that real quickly.
And this isn’t the main thing I’ll talk about. We’ll get there. All right. So basically it’s blocked. And when it’s blocked, obviously you’re on the other side of the blockage. You don’t feel the light. You don’t feel the energy. Is it there? Of course it’s there. It’s always there. It’s never not there. Never.
So depression just means blockage. What about elation and enthusiasm and passion, not blockage. So what are these blockages? How we teach you this. ’cause you better know it. How’d they get there? You did it, period. And don’t you ever blame anybody else and don’t you ever think it’s not yours, it’s yours. If there are blockages down there and there are blockages down there, you put them there not blaming you like guilt.
It’s not like, oh, okay, I’ll let it go. You know? You won’t. Okay, you go to therapy for a long time. Well, why? What are the blockages? You have had events? Let’s get it over real quickly. You have had events in your life that’s energy, vibrations of energy that came in from the outside, and when they came into you, they come into you.
You understand that You experience things inside, not outside. It comes in, the vibration comes in, transfers itself up, and you experience it. Well, what if you don’t like it? Well, it doesn’t feel good. If somebody loved died, but if somebody said something to you, you didn’t like what they said, events come in.
Do you like them all? What do you do with the vibrations that come in that you in there? The consciousness, the indwelling being, are you in? First of all, I forgot. Are you in there? Anybody in there? Anybody not in there? I doubt it. You wouldn’t heard me. So the consciousness experiences the, the object, they call it the object of consciousness, a thought, an emotion form everything or objects of consciousness and consciousness is experienced in them.
It comes in and believe it or not, it is literally your consciousness. Okay, we’ll talk about that. Doesn’t like it doesn’t feel good. It doesn’t want it to come all the way in. Have you ever had an experience come all the way in, like it turned the corner and there’s this gorgeous sunset? Oh my God. All the colors.
It shocks you, the colors you say, it blew my mind. That’s just what it did. It blew away the blockages. And what did you feel? You felt all this energy and passion and love and beauty come in, but you wanted it to come in and you, I love your terms, your words are very meaningful. You say things like, it touched me to the death of my being.
I felt like I was in the presence of God. Sure. You’re in the presence of unblocked energy. That’s all you described. What do you mean? It touched the depth of my being. I’m in here. It came in. I didn’t stop it. Nothing in me stopped it. It flowed all the way in and merged into my consciousness. Like a river falls into the ocean, that there’s no impediments, it just flows in.
It’s a natural state. This event carried its Shakti, its energy flowed in. And touched me and merged with my being. Oh my God. It’s a nice experience, isn’t it? That’s what it means to not be blocked. How long does it last? Turn the corner off the sunset. Oh my God. Oh, I have to pay the mortgage. Where’s my husband?
He said he was gonna be here and meet me so we could look at this together. Bam, all your stuff comes right back up. What stuff? The stuff that didn’t make it through. I’m gonna cry. You gotta hear this. There is stuff that didn’t touch the depth of your being. A lot of it, like in fact, the number of times that you were touched, the depth of your being fit on one hand in your entire life.
You know, just naturally how many things are blowing your mind. It blew you away to where you just merged with the ecstasy of joy of your being. Not that many. How many things have bothered you? How many things have bothered you every day? The temperature, the driver in front of you didn’t use their blinker.
Somebody said something, I thought somebody said something. I’m not sure, but they probably did. Something happened before that I remembered that I didn’t like. How many things bother you? How many things during the day? Bother you. Look at me. I know you guys said no. I practice positive thinking. Why? Why do you practice positive thinking?
Because negative hell in there, man. If I don’t practice positive, think I won’t live in there. Why is it like that in there? Because you’ve had events every day and certainly bigger ones that of your life that came in and yourself, you, the consciousness in there. Beyond the mind. It’s that intuitive feeling.
Didn’t say, welcome, come on in. It said You ain’t coming in here. I don’t wanna feel this. I do not want to feel this. And then you justify. Nobody would wanna feel this. I don’t go there ever and encourage you to never go there. Do not justify your blockages. You like being blocked. You like being screwed up.
You like worrying all the time. You like feeling anxiety and insecurity, so you like that. Then keep your blockages. If you don’t wanna keep your blockages, don’t justify them. All of this is very deep and I’m just giving you a clue about what it means to really grow. But the event happened, it happened. I can’t make it not happen.
You can’t make it not happen, happen. Get that straight. It’s called logic. It’s called reason, reasonable reason the event happened. Why? Knowing why is not gonna make it not have happened. Apologize, that’s not gonna make it not have happened. Nothing. Nothing ever. You can make it not have happened. So it happened.
Man, I like it. I wish it didn’t. You wish all you want it happened. That’s your starting place. The event happened. Did you experience it? Yes. Obviously I wouldn’t have known what happened if I didn’t experience it. Did you like the experience? No. Not liking it obviously made it not happen, right. No, we already said it happened.
What are you gonna do with the fact that your consciousness did not want that coming in close enough to have to experience it like you did the sunset? There are no way it’s coming in like the sunset te right now. You have this power in the same energy. You have this power in there. Cold will. So it comes in, you see it, and just instinctively is like protecting yourself.
It’s like if somebody threw a punch at you, you throw your hands off your consciousness. Didn’t let it come up to it. It focused on it with its awareness and its resistance, and it pushed it away. That is an act of will. It’s the same energy, the same energy you felt ecstasy pouring into your being is now being pushed down away through the power of your will, and that is the rock that went in that stream.
Just do that once and your whole life will be ruined. Have one thing. I saw a rattlesnake. I don’t ever wanna see it again. Okay. Um, I can’t go to houser. Babies have rattles. I can’t go to places where people use rope ’cause it looks like a rattlesnake. I can’t go to the zoo there. What’s that all about? You shoved something down there and the energy can’t flow past it.
And not only can’t flow past it when an event reminds you of it. And a rope or a rattle can remind a rattlesnake. Doesn’t have to be the actual event. It hits the blockage. We say. It gets triggered, it gets activated. What blockage? The thing you shoved down there, the thing that didn’t make it through you is you didn’t wanna experience it.
Now you, I’m talking about how many of those you got.
No, I don’t drive down that road. Why? Well, once I went down there and somebody ran a light and I had to ram on my brakes and I skidded around, I ain’t never going down there again. How many times did you go down there before that happened? 6,443,000. How many other people drive down there? You had one event.
One random event, and now you will not drive down that road and you think you’re right. There’s something danger about that road. They should put lights everywhere. You shove stuff down there, don’t you? It’s just so funny. You shove it down there and then you justify that it’s down there and then you complain that you’re screwed up.
Of course you’re screwed up. Of course you’re scared of things. Of course you have insecurity. Of course you have tension. Do you ever worry? Alright, I’ve told you before. I’m not psychic, so don’t get this right, but I know what you worry about every one of you. You ready? You worry that what you don’t want to happen might happen.
They get it. Wait, there’s another one. You worry that what you want to happen might not happen there. That’s a hundred percent of your worries. And they’re not so much fun, are they? How about garbage going on in there? You can’t live your life. You can’t enjoy your life ’cause you’re worrying about something else.
Can’t be here now when you’re worrying. Basically, you come down and understand. Why do I worry? You worry because you shove stuff down there that you didn’t like and you’re afraid it’s gonna happen again. The probability of somebody running that light at the same place that they ran, that light, that one minute that you were driving by is so low.
It is ridiculous. There are people who drive but won’t fly by. Flying is dangerous. Go look at the statistics. It is not even close. Yeah. But 300 people died on a plane. Yeah, but how many died in the road that day and every day? We’re just not reasonable. We’re just reactive to the fact that we didn’t like the energy, we didn’t like what came in, so we’d suppressed it.
Freud took our suppression and repression In general. There are just different levels of resistance. I like to use a resistance. Like the guy that uses blinker. I’m not gonna suppress it, but I’m gonna complain about it. Nice blinker buddy. And they get to the off go to the office. Yeah. I can’t believe how people drive.
Now what does that mean? It didn’t make it through. The fact that you’re talking about it, you didn’t talk about the white lines on the road. You talking about the clouds passing by and you talk about the trees you drove by, you know, by the cars that passed you. Why are you talking about this? ’cause you couldn’t handle it.
You didn’t like it and so you pushed it away ’cause you didn’t wanna experience it. That act is why you’re not liberated. If you’re free flowing, you’re enlightened. There’s nothing stopping that energy flow. It just flows through straight to God. It can still be here. It flows all the way through the entire system.
You’re in Nirvana, you’re in ecstasy. Buddhist and Nirvana still lived his life so it came back down. The energy can still will flow through the entire system. It’s not like Nirvana means. Bye bye. It just means you’re at all levels. Oh boy. So deep. You’re at all levels at the same time. I always tell this story, someone said yoga under when he came to America.
In the twenties, and he had nothing. He hardly spoke English. He was representing the Hindus at a religious conference up in Boston, and he got sent over to represent India and he came there and he just started attracting all his energy. All these people wanted to be around him. He was an enlightened master.
I gave off some Shakti. He didn’t do anything. But his presence just created, had a turbine on his head. Okay. In Boston in the twenties and thirties. Well, eventually he ended up in New York by no means of his own teaching at Carnegie Hall. Well, that’s pretty interesting. And the lines were six times around the building to try and get in.
And the placard in the front said, Swami Yogananda teaches control of the life force. Oh my God. Back way then. Okay. Alright. There’s a photo, you can find it online of master standing up tab of Carney Hall on the stage. And he wasn’t a very tall guy. Anyways, he’s big and stature, but it wasn’t very big. And basically little tiny figures down.
And then there’s all these people, the entire hall, it was taken from back behind. Alright. And he’s there with all that. And somebody once went up to him and said. You get on the what pride. You must feel that you came here to America with nothing, and look what you’ve attracted. Look what happened. And one thing they said about master is, is somebody asked him a sincere question.
No matter what it was or who he answered to the depth of his being, he just gave that answer and what he said to that person, he said, no, no, I don’t feel any pride. And then the person said, what do you feel? He said, well, I’m standing there, listen to me. And he’s a enlighten master. Well, I’m standing there talking and teaching.
At the same time that my awareness is there doing that, it’s at a higher plane with my deceased guru teaching more evolved souls, and at the same time, I’m experiencing a complete merge with the universe at the speed of light in every direction, overwhelming the galaxies. All of that’s happening at the same moment.
There next time you say you’re enlightened, I think you better think about it, that it shouldn’t shock you. All it’s saying is there’s no blockages. You are already that Christ said, my father and I are one. That’s what it means as I sit by the throne of my father, so you should sit by my throne and these things, which I do, you should do these even greater.
What’s he telling you? You’re the same as him, you’re God, you are the same energy that comes down and goes back up and if it’s clean, but if you’re blocked, you become one of the one you a human. Well, it’s a human block, God, isn’t it? And what do you block with? You blocked with totally different things and she’s and totally, and you are.
’cause everyone had different experiences and everyone who dealt with ’em differently. Therefore, what’s going on in there? Let psychologist say man, it is the sum of his learned experiences. No, I am the consciousness having to deal with the sum I learned experiences, which I stored. I’m not the white lines on the road.
I’m not the cars I didn’t pay attention to. I am the sum of the experiences I didn’t let go of. I’m the sum of the experiences I stored in here that created my whole psyche, aren’t I? And it’s different than everybody else’s. So that’s what your blockages are. Your blockages are the things, the energy, that was the of energy of life that happened.
I’m sorry. Life is real. Things happen all over the place. Oh, terrible things happen, wonderful things happen. Yes or no? Have you noticed? Yes. Okay. And how long they been going on? I don’t know. Big history books are big. All right. A lot of stuff’s gone on, hasn’t It has. Understand what the teachers are telling you.
It is the nature of life. It’s just the manifestation of creation. Energies unfold and you experience them, and so something unfolds in front of you, and so if you can’t handle it, you shove it down there and then it becomes the meaning of your life. There are people that one experience in their life, either really good or really bad, determine their entire life, determines how they think, what they like, how they vote, who they wanna be with, who they don’t wanna be, where they wanna live.
Every single thing because if the energy flows, you like it. If the energy doesn’t flow, you don’t like it. There it is. Bye bye. It’s a conditioned response with Skinner’s rats. Okay, I like it. Blow my ear. I’ll fly you anywhere. Criticize me. You’re outta here. And that’s how you live, isn’t it? Trying to find a world and creative world that if it hit your stuff, it hit the good stuff.
You do suppress good things too, by the way. Don’t like to talk about these things. Why go out, do your thing, man. You gotta go through what you need to go through. What do you mean? I suppress good things? I run into you. I look at you and it’s love at first sight. Our hearts bumped in Publix and our hearts popped over.
First of all, why? Well, the glasses you were wearing reminded me of Tom Cruise. And this and that, and then your accent. I just love a British accent or I, and it just, you know, it just hit my stuff, right? You always say it hit my stuff. You don’t think it hit your good stuff too. And all of a sudden you open, you open.
’cause the energy can flow. ’cause it opened up and that happened to the other person. And there you go. You get this tremendous situation. The reality of the fact is, hello, you’re a pretty complicated dude, and do this in there. You got a lot of stuff in there, don’t you? How long does it take for that love, blah, blah, to be doing that before somebody says, does or didn’t say, or didn’t do what you wanted?
Answer me. Maybe you’re at the checkout counter already. I don’t know, but it doesn’t take long, does it? Because you got all this stuff in there. So that is the problem, and the solution is not to adjust your life to match your stuff. Gimme a break. No wonder neurotic. How am I gonna figure out what everyone’s gonna say or do and make it be the way I want and not have it touch this or do that?
Or, I mean, your husband goes to work and comes back. He’s a different person. And he had trouble with his boss. He had this, he had that. You hear me? And same thing with you. There’s no way that the moments are not hitting your stuff and building your stuff. And are you moody? Do you ever get in mood? Do you know what I mean when I say moods?
Every one of your moves is because that stuff got agitated or touched in there. So I’m in a good mood today. I watched a TV show that reminded me of, oh, wonderful, you better record it. And I guarantee if you record it, it won’t have the same effect two or three times later. Okay, now you understand what’s happening.
You shoved this stuff down there and it now has it. That is what your psyche is, is the sum total of the stuff you stored down there trying to arrange itself in a way that seems somewhat competent. And sane. Doesn’t always work, does it? You know, a lot of stuff down there. Nobody says it’s all lined up.
Something. Had a wonderful experience with a blonde, a tar experience with a blonde. What do you do now? When I see a blonde? I don’t know. I’m bipolar. Just nothing. And so you just, just understand that’s the entire thing. That’s all that’s going on. And people who are a worldly person, a spiritual person, I don’t use those words the way other people do to me.
I’m not about money or this, or no. A worldly person as a person who thinks that’s the solution to their life is outside. It is getting things the way I need them to be outside and holding ’em that way and keeping them that way. So that when it comes in, it feels good, and when it comes in, it doesn’t feel bad.
And so I do that outside a spiritual person. If someone will caught on and say, that’s a lot of work. I mean, how many people I haven’t even met yet. Every time I meet, I get worried. Do they like me? They’re not like me. What was I wearing that I smell? I don’t, I, I’m, I don’t. A lot of work to make sure that every single event you have, every single thing that happens, including your car starting.
My favorite is this. This is what exposes a human being. Are you ready? I can’t believe our end of my birthday. Well, I didn’t have to rain on my birthday. What’s wrong with God? I went to church. I did everything all right. I didn’t do anything wrong. Of all the days that. What are you doing? It doesn’t know it’s your birthday.
The rain has nothing to do with your birthday. Go study meteorology. But you say that and you mean it. In other words, I’m in here and I want things to come in the way I want them to come in. I didn’t want it to rain on my birthday. Wow. There’s some ego. The world should be the way I want it to be. The farmer wanted it Rain.
Too bad. Making it rain on another day. This is my day. It is my birthday. That’s my day. You think like that? It’s my special day. Things should happen the way I want. That’s.
I hope you’re embarrassed. Okay, so basically you do this with everything, and so your whole life is about avoiding what? Hitting what’s in there that you don’t like, that you didn’t like and encouraging to happen what you did like. Okay, so what do you do about this? Let’s just get right down to it. Do you have to live like that?
I moved out here. I like awa myself. I moved out here in 1971. For one reason, I ain’t living like that. I was dropped out, completely dropped out. I was getting my doctorate in economic final dissertation, left. It all moved to a no way. I’m living my life like that. Okay, it ain’t gonna happen. And then look what happened.
Well, there’s a difference. Are you controlling your life or are you serving your life? That’s a whole nother topic. You’re in there thinking you have to make things happen. Did you know the stars take care of themselves? Did you know we have deer out here? They have babies. They eat, they, I don’t know where they sleep.
I don’t know. I sometimes see ’em on a long, your, he beats itself. I’m gonna go back to our started. Your lungs are going in and out. 35 trillion living cells take care of themselves inside your body. Every moment of your life. They feed, they divide, they poop, they, every single thing, they talk to each other.
You’re not doing any of it, but you think you have to run your life. What you mean by running your life is I know what hurt me and I don’t want it to happen again. That’s ’cause you didn’t handle it. Okay, so now let’s talk about spiritual growth. We talked about the problem. That is the problem, is it not?
And if you want to go out there and fight, most people in the wake in the morning, they’re nervous. What’s gonna happen? What I do wrong yesterday? What can I do? Oh my God, I got this meeting. I got, they’re anxious. I don’t understand. I just showed you 99.9% of every single thing that happens in the universe has nothing to do with you, and it seems to be doing pretty good.
300 billion stars in your galaxy. They seem to take care of themselves. Nobody’s out there guiding them. Nobody’s out there doing anything, and they’ve been going on for 13.8 billion years. Wow. But you think you have to run it all, all based on what you couldn’t handle. I told you, what if you could handle every event that took place.
It doesn’t mean you don’t have feelings. It doesn’t mean you don’t have feelings. It means you can handle your feelings. Big difference. Enlightened men in high states are not about not feeling, not about feeling sorrow or this or that. Some of your love dies. You feel lost. Can you handle it or do you have to suppress it?
See a difference? Can you sit there and say, into every life, some rain must fall and this is mine. I’ll take a shower. Right, and you are just open to it and it passes through and you start noticing that experiences you thought would be the worst in your whole life. If you go through them reasonably, you say, it’s the best thing ever happened to me.
I grew so much by going through this experience, every experience. As I say, don’t ever complain and justify your stuff. ’cause then you’re basically saying, I’m not gonna go wrong. I’m gonna be screwed up about it. Oh, okay with me. So it’s not that you don’t have emotion, not that you don’t have thoughts, it’s that you can handle your emotion and handle your thoughts so you don’t push them away.
Okay. So that’s exactly what I wanna talk about. I finally hit it. I don’t wanna talk to you about it, but I will. You have energy inside. We started there. Now you understand why it flows the way it is and why it was so complicated in there and so on. You understand that? So all energy and you notice the energy comes up in you, yes or no all day.
Boom. Boom. Pull this up. Alright. There are three things you can do to put the energy flow inside of you. One, suppress it, push it away. Resist. Although the same word it came in, I’m here. No way. Not on my watch. This ain’t going on. I’m sorry to tell you. It did go on, but not in me and not no way. That’s what suppression is.
That’s what resistance is. Do you feel yourself resist? Have you ever felt yourself, resist an energy that came up inside of you? You better say yes. I’m trying to tell you, you’re all yogis and yoginis. It transcends religions. It’s so on. You’re in there, you’re living in there. You’re just not paying attention.
So if somebody comes in, you resist all the time, you push things away. Right? You know, we never talk about that around your father. He can’t handle that. What’s wrong with daddy? He listen to some stuff. Can your old stuff that you resisted 10 years ago, come back up. One of the things you can do with that energy that does come up and it is in there and you deal with it every moment in your life is to push it away, is to resist it.
I don’t wanna deal with this. No. Okay. That is the worst thing you can do. You don’t wanna push it down. How long does it take for something to happen that you resist a second? How does it to get it out a hundred years? You shoved that down there. Why does it take so long to come back? You didn’t like it when it happened, and all the energy, every single thing about this goes a scar.
The thing you shoved down there, everything about it. Your emotions, your thoughts, your feelings, the events, smells, everything is stored that you push that event down there. It didn’t make it through you. If it tries to come back up, you can feel all that over again. Have you noticed? Go ask any therapist.
That’s what’s gonna happen. They’re gonna feel it all over again. Well, if they couldn’t handle when it happened, they’re not gonna handle when it comes back up. So it’s stuck down there. That’s one thing you can do with the energy. I encourage you and we’ll talk about it. It’s time to learn how to not do that.
You can learn how to not do that. You can’t say I’m very sensitive, I’m just like that. No, no, no. It’s like a habit. It’s something you haven’t worked with. If you sit down at the piano and you never took lessons, you’re not gonna play very well. So get up and say, no, I can’t play the piano. Of course you can’t play the piano.
You never learned. You never practiced. Are you listening to me? What a sport. No, I can’t play that sport. I can’t play basketball, volleyball. I don’t know what to do. I don’t wanna play. Well, that’s why we have this thing called learning. That’s why we have this thing called practice. This is exactly the biggest thing I ever wanna teach you.
This is exactly the same. Learning not to push it down, learning how not to, and then practicing not doing it. And I highly recommend you practice that. Why? ’cause every single thing you shoved down, there’s screwing your life up. You think? No, I don’t. I don’t deal with it. It deals with you. How about that? I don’t have to deal with that anymore.
I took care of that. Yeah. Now it deals with you and so you’re dealing with it. Anybody know what I’m talking about? Yeah. You darn right. You do. But don’t say I can’t do it. Of course you can’t do it. You didn’t learn. Nobody taught you. You didn’t even told you was supposed to deal with it. No. I got a car accident.
It screwed me up. And I never wanna run in a car ever again. No. Leave me alone. I know what it’s like. Okay. You’ll leave me alone. Do what you want. You can learn to let that go. Better yet you can learn to handle it when it happens. That’s the real teaching that’s called being conscious. Can you be conscious enough to notice that this was not fun?
Alright, but it happened and I don’t wanna store not fun inside my heart and my energy flow for the rest of my life. All right. And you find a way to deal with it and we’ll talk about that. So the worst thing you can do, and you do it all the time, a tiny thing, say hello to somebody, they don’t say hello back.
It hurts you, is you hit your, you know, high school years of rejection and childhood and all this junk. And so now you can’t handle, the person didn’t say hello and big deal. I tell you, there’s 8.3 billion people on the planet Earth. They didn’t say hello either. Did they? You’re just in there being weird.
It’s called taking it personal. You take everything personal because of the junk you stored in there. Alright, so I’m gonna move on. The worst thing you can do with the energy flow is suppress it. Okay? Now here’s the part I would like to talk about. The second level. Is to express it. And this is very much what’s taught.
Obviously if something happened and you don’t talk about it and you don’t wanna ever deal with it or anything like that, it’s gonna be suppressed. We shoved down there. So a major form of what we’re taught and we’re not wrong, it’s not wrong, is don’t do that. Talk about it, share it. Well, that goes to another level.
What happens if I feel attracted? Why do you feel attracted? Because the energy opened up in the area of seeing this person or looking at that job, that possibility, or that car. ’cause the energy flowed and it was beautiful and I liked it. So expressing it falls into that category too. And I don’t like teaching you this and I want you to listen to me.
Alright, so that’s the second thing you can do with the energy, which is express it. Go out there and get the car. And get the thing. And get the thing. Just let, don’t suppress it for sure. But you’ve been around the block. How does that work out Perfectly over time. You know, go run around with everybody you’re attracted to.
Alright. Or go like this car, you know the money. I’ll work nights and I won’t see my family. How, how many times does this passion really give you what you thought I was gonna give you? It does. It’s short for one, there’s no energy. The other is a loss of energy for a short period of time period. There’s no way that you got into a relationship.
Totally. Whoa. I’m expressing my heart that it’s everything I ever wanted. That there were not problems with our relationship. Because the reason you opened was it matched your, some scars. I told you what they look like, what they talk like they had a lot of money. Whatever it is. I’m not, I’m not judging you.
Or they’re really famous. I always wanted the people that famous. Right. It just opened you like, did you use this word? It opened me. That means it got around your blockages. Are the blockages gone? No, they’re not gone. It just the Shakti flow, the the stream made it around the rock without hitting it, and it was much more comfortable in there.
It doesn’t go away now over, over time, if it’s really working out well and so on, it can help you let go of blockages ’cause you’re stronger. It gave you strength. Ultimately though, expression, if I’m teaching you yoga, if I’m teaching deep teachings, suppression blocks, the energy. Expression releases the energy.
And by the way, I talked about falling in love. Somebody in a car I had, I did 30 years of prison work, max of prison, you know, that. And maximum, that was it. Death row, a whole bowl game. And the guys would come in, I had a wonderful talk we’d have with them just like this. I talked to ’em and there was one very sincere young man, small guy.
And he would show up for class with very sincere, he meditated everything and then he’d miss three or four classes. And I’d ask him what happened? Where were you? He said, I was in lockup. He’s a nice kid. I said he, in fact, he was a Muslim me. He wore the Muslim hat and he was very much into the deep Muslim teachings and so on and practiced beauty.
Beautiful. Why were you in lockup? He said, that’s in the world. I think he’d be in lockup. He said, for fighting. And he told me, he said, it is the only time I ever feel okay in here is when I get in a fight and I don’t care if I get beat up or if I win or lose. It doesn’t matter. It releases the energy I have blocked inside and I’ll take it every time.
Can you hear that? Do you get angry? Do you get angry? Do you ever spout off and say things. That is expression also. So there’s suppression of the energy knows what we’re talking about. Talking about energy, not you, not your personality. Energy. It’s just energy. I don’t care your little details about why you suppressed.
It’s just you pushed the energy. That shook the energy. You pushed it down. Well, it can’t stay down there. And so. It comes back up either because it opens or because they can’t say down there and explodes and it has this thing called expression. So that’s what I’m destined to as a human, which is relegated to either suppression or expression.
Doesn’t sound like much fun. Oh, oh, there’s a third one. Oh my goodness. Nobody told me about that. I went through college, I went through all the school and then we told there’s a third one, suppression expression, transmutation. Is transmutation. It’s all the same energy. You don’t want you to think that the energy you shoved down there is not Shakti.
They, you shove spiritual energy down there. It’s all spiritual energy. It’s just what you did with it that made the difference. So you couldn’t handle it, so you s shoved it down there and this expression, whether it be passion expression or just the drive to get what you want, and preferences and hopes and dreams and concepts and views, probably just that whole thing that comes through of expressing the energy.
Okay. That’s the same energy, the same energy that make people do all kinds of things. That’s why they say, judge Nazi shall not be judge. You know what compassion is? You get to the point where you understand what I just told you. That’s all the same energy, and you see people going through different stages of their life and you don’t judge.
You don’t judge ever. You understand so deeply that you feel love and openness and that’s what compassion is. Alright? What is transmutation? Transmutation is I’m in here. I am the one who’s suppressed. I’m the one, the consciousness that couldn’t handle the energy that came in. So I pushed it down. I am the one who said, no, I don’t care.
I don’t care what happens. I, I gotta express this. Okay? I’m the one who let this energy go flying out ’cause it was all pent up in there. Hear me now. Sometimes it’s so strong that you’re not there making a decision. You been there Ever Say something you wish I hadn’t said. I think I can remember my growth times where I knew this was a sensitive spot in this interaction with this person, and I knew that if I brought that up, it was not gonna go well.
I’m serious. It was back in the seventies. I sat there and I, I was sincere. I meditated to get quiet and I’m not gonna talk about this. I’m not. Okay. 15 seconds later. First, then he comes outta my mouth. Well, what about And oh, okay. It’s strong, isn’t it? These tendencies are strong. The energy is strong, but you learn.
You learn to work with it. So you learn not to suppress it. And now I’m supposed to learn not to express it. No, I, I don’t wanna tell you not to do this or do that, or no. You just get to the point where you realize, is there something higher to do with this energy? Then not suppressing, and not letting it go, flying out.
And the answer is yes, you can work with the energy. The entire science of yoga is about working with the energy, pr, yama, asana’s, meditation, everything. And more important is you are in there and you have the right. To raise that energy. What does that mean? Well, I’m in here and I’m feeling attraction for somebody else, but I married such a strong attraction and maybe I should stop taking tennis lessons ’cause I don’t know what to do, but I really feel good.
I’ve never felt so good and, and this is going on in there and I’ve been suppressing it, but oh my God, it’s so strong. I, oh my God, I’m only live once. It’s only one. All that. Your mind will express itself in accordance to what’s going on in there. You understand that? And then at some point you take a breath and say, is this the exact same energy?
That could come up to a higher chakra. Come up. Some of it’s down in first chakra survival, it’s down in second chakra, which I never talk about, but you know what I’m talking about. And that’s a lot of energy. It can cause a lot of trouble, can’t it? But that’s that energy, right? And then third chakra is my personal personality and what I want and what I do.
My means of expressing and defending and, okay, so I’m sitting there, I’m attracted ’cause that’s going up into the four track. I’m starting to feel love. I haven’t felt for 20 years I’ve been married and I got all the kids and I just haven’t felt this inspiration. I haven’t felt this, my. Supposed to Haba and your mind starts expressing that, okay, well what do you do if you’re wise and you are, and you’ve listened to a talk like this, and unfortunately you just did.
You understand? There’s a third choice. It’s called working with the energy, not suppressing it, not expressing it, raising it. That’s what trans is. It won’t raise itself why it’s hitting your blockages. Well, what can I do a lot. How about everything? You’re the one in there. Can you start practicing?
Releasing the energy so it’s not blocked. Can you start practicing handling the energy when it comes up so that you’re not pushing it back down or expressing it? What does that look like? Well, I’m driving behind somebody. They’re driving 10 miles an hour below the speed limit. I’m in a rush and there’s some energy coming up.
Okay. And the divine is talking to that guy. The driver of Freddy has never heard of words. You said. You understand that, but you do talk to him, don’t you? Come on buddy. Then you say, look, the street signs 55. You’re going 35. Come on. They don’t hear you. You know who hears you. You, you hear you, you hear you causing commotion, confusion.
There’s a per example. I’m in a two-lane highway. I’ve had enough of this. It’s upsetting me. And I go past when I shouldn’t. That’s expression. See it. You’re in there struggling with your energy. How about we remember this talk and say, I wonder what transportation would feel like. The same energy that’s all upset and causing all this commotion.
Can it be channeled? Can it be raised? Can I sit there and say, take a breath. Just take a breath. That’s your grandmother in front of you. This is her last year that she’ll ever be driving. And yes, she drives slower. ’cause she’s trying to be safe. You really wanna tailgate her. You wanna beep at her? You really wanna scream about her in your head?
No. I wanna say it’s okay, grandma, I can handle this. So for a few blocks I’ll drive slower. You raise yourself and all of a sudden the energy feels love, you feel compassion. You feel a nice relationship with the driver in front of you. The weather, it rained on your birthday. You start seeing that garbage come in there and you take a breath, you stop, sit there and say, there are people in this world that need that rain that rain’s an amazing, the fact that it even happens is an amazing thing.
It’s like, how did the black forest get watered? It’s not near any water. And yet it’s still there after millions of years. Oh, there’s a sun up there that evaporates the ocean, purifies it so it’s not salt. ’cause trees don’t like salt. All right. And then forms into clouds. Into vapor, into clouds. And the wind blows it across.
And it falls down on the black forest. Oh. It’s like an irrigation system. It’s God’s idea of an irrigation system. Nobody’s out there with a little pale watering. We don’t have to put sprinklers out. Come on in. Wow. All of a sudden you’re thinking of God. You’re thinking, this is beautiful, and it did it on my birthday.
Wow. Wow. God must love me. Look how you transmuted that energy. You work with it and eventually that’s all you do. You become a transmutation machine. You’re just sitting in their conscious. It’s called being conscious. Being here now centered, and it doesn’t ever pull you down. You’re there. It’s called becoming established in the seat of self.
You’re conscious. How do you get there? By practicing, by not going down into the garbage and you keep bringing the energy up. Then all of a sudden you start saying, wait a minute. I. I’m happier than I used to be. Of course, you are happier than it used to be, but nothing’s happening to make me happy. Of course, nothing has to happen.
If you get rid of your blockages, the energy flows naturally. Well, I should get rid of these blockages, right? If I get rid of these blockages, okay, let’s get rid of the blockages. How do you get rid of the blockages? They will come up by themselves. It’s a natural process. They don’t wanna be down there.
Your heart does not wanna be blocked. Your mind does not want all this garbage in there. Just like your body has an immune system. Your heart, your entire energy system is trying to free itself. It’s trying to bring you to God. That’s all that’s happening. You have to think about it. You have to try. So it will happen.
It will come up when when is sent too. She said something, she didn’t say something, something happened. Next thing I know, I’m weird. Weird. Positive, weird. Negative but weird. Good or weird. All right. When it comes up, deal with it. Don’t worry about anything else when it comes up. This is its time. How do you know?
Because it came up. It’s ripe, it’s ready. And what do you do? Relax. That’s what I’ve learned. Just relax and release. Relax. Welcome it. Welcome the energy up because it hurt. Of course it hurts. It was stored with pain. It’s coming back with pain. You have the right to work with that energy. How? It’s painful.
Yes. Relax. You couldn’t handle the pain when it happened. When you were three years old. You’re 40. Relax. Don’t resist it. Don’t push it back down and don’t express it. Relax and you will see little by little. It will make its way through. And then things that used to bother you won’t bother you ever again.
You don’t even think about ’em ’cause they’re not down there. They worked their way up. Your conscious being, you have the right to allow the energy to release instead of being blocked down there. And that’s called spiritual purification. Give it a name you want, but you’re transmuting the energy. There are times that it could come up as anger.
You just feel, oh my God, and you relax. And I see, you know, you feel love. You feel beauty starts up. Whoa. It just shoots up inside of you. It’s just energy. It’s all energy. It’s all the same energy. It’s just whether it’s blocked, whether it’s releasing. When it releases, then it’s not built up, but it comes right back, doesn’t it?
Releasing the energy to not get rid of it just temporarily feels better. Okay. And there’s nothing wrong with it. There’s nothing wrong with anything, but there’s something, right? With something. Spirituality is a phenomenal, I told you in the beginning of this talk, I said, I’m gonna talk about something.
That’s the essence of spirituality. That’s what this is. Working directly with the energy. Not with people, places, things, all the junk with the energy and the rest will take care of itself. And that’s, that’s what I found in life. Life will take care of itself. Question is, can you handle it? And if you can handle it and work with it, not just the old stuff, don’t take new stuff on every day.
Just work with handling the energy. Welcome it eventually, and I’ll stop. I don’t wanna, because I got you eventually. It’s not just a matter, I can handle it. You get to the point where you realize, I don’t want that stuff down there. I. People say work at the root. The root is that stuff down there. You don’t want it down there and it’s trying to push itself up and you keep pushing back down and you sit there and say, not only can I handle it, what’s your next level?
I love it. I welcome every bit of it. Come on up. Come on up. No pain, no gain. Like when you’re working out, I am willing to go through anything, everything. To feel for one moment in my life what total liberation would feel like. And it’s not that you are liberated, it’s that the energy is liberated, there’s nothing blocking it.
And that’s nirvana. That’s what Buddha went into, and it’s a very natural state and it’s your natural state, but not all like garbage in there. Okay. Have we communicated? Alright, so work with yourself. Work with the energy. Raise the energy, always.
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