At the Intersection of Time and Eternity -Yoga in the World
By Alan Mesher
Energy Master, Teacher and Spiritual Healer
Yoga can and will change your life. But if all you bring to Yoga are your own concerns it won't be able to change you to the degree it might. The ultimate goal of Yoga is Self-Realization, the internal union of individual consciousness with Divine Force, of self consciousness with super consciousness. To reach that goal requires something more than the postures, chanting, and meditation of traditional forms of Yoga. It requires a Yoga of Cosmic Force that clears hidden emotional toxicity and creates a spiritual opening for unconditional love to flow through us into the world.
The first principle of this Yoga is that the karmic blocks in our system prevent Divine power from flowing into us to the degree that it should. Our karma prevents us from fulfilling our potential. Given that reality it does not matter how much energy we put into postures or how much time we focus on meditation. Nothing will fundamentally change until we change the subconscious landscape where our karma resides.
Our system is comprised of our physical body, our astral or emotional body, our mind, and our soul. Karmic blocks are knots of unconscious toxic emotions created by past traumatic events we have never resolved. What makes these blocks difficult to unravel is that a high percentage of the unconscious toxicity in our system comes not from our current life, but from previous lifetimes. Needless to say, we are far less familiar with events that transpired in past lifetimes than we are with the experiences of this lifetime. Unresolved toxic emotion has to go somewhere. It doesn't dissolve on its own or automatically disappear when we die. Rather, these energies become part of our soul matrix and come back with us when we incarnate again. Our soul will then distribute this unconscious toxicity in our new body. Karma is carried forward until we resolve it. It can go on forever or it can end today. The choice is ours. Growth and evolution depend on our taking effective action to end the karmic tyranny under which we labor.
We set into motion five serious consequences when we choose to do nothing and fail to resolve the toxic energies in our bodies. These five consequences:
While traditional Yoga practice releases today's stress and makes us more peaceful it does so despite the toxic emotions that lay beneath our waking consciousness in the deeper stratum of our psyche. Sooner or later these hidden energies will rise up and strike again. They are waiting for exactly the right moment to create more failure and deprivation in our lives. They are our internal terrorists. If we disregard the power of the unhealed elements in our nature, the practice of Yoga may create a false sense of security that seduces us into believing we have resolved our problems because we feel better, while the source of those problems continues to escape detection and grows more virulent in our subconscious.Separate us from our soul.
Activate our reactive nature. (We take things personally; react defensively with anger, fear, and resentment; and create more karma.)
Attract similar negative experiences into our reality over and over again compounding our suffering, frustration, and helplessness.
Deprive us of our wholeness and continue the pain of not knowing who we really are.
Make us increasingly more unhappy and unbalanced.
Then, when those negative elements surface again, days or months later, creating more upheaval in our lives, we may think, "No matter what I do, nothing changes." To work hard and feel that we have made progress only to watch that progress slip away is deflating and discouraging. The point to remember is that it is impossible to heal our lives until we confront the unhealed and toxic elements in our nature. If we don't go deep enough in our unconscious the kind of transformation that produces evolutionary growth will continue to elude us, no matter what else we might do on the surface of our lives to counter the power of our shadow.
The Yoga of Cosmic Force brings down concentrated spiritual energy from above to expose these toxic energies, reveal their natures, and release them from our systems. Clearing these blocks involves a four fold process in which we find, face, feel, and finish the toxic emotional blocks in our bodies.
When the toxic karmic conditions that have plagued us are resolved we become psychologically whole and complete. No dark shadow remains to wound us and make us feel less than who we really are. Being whole provides the necessary impetus for further evolutionary advancement. While unconscious toxicity separates us from our soul, clearing that toxicity creates internal wholeness and activates our soul. When our soul begins to establish itself as the power in our lives we experience a peace and clarity far beyond anything we have previously known.
Once our soul becomes the active power in our lives we become an open door through which unconditional love can manifest. Unconditional love is both revolutionary and evolutionary. It changes the world. Rumi, the great mystical spiritual poet, once wrote, "If you've opened your loving to God's love, you're helping people you don't know and have never met." Gandhi took that idea a step farther when he said that "if you want to change the world you must become the change you seek." When we become channels of unconditional love we become that change. The more unconditional love flows through us the more we become love. As we become love the faster we grow and evolve. Love accelerates our evolution.
When we serve unselfishly we benefit personally. Opening the door to unconditional love makes our soul much brighter. When we help others we become the person we were meant to be. If enough of us clear our karma and open the door to unconditional love the world will regain its footing and become what it was meant to be, a place where we all can go grow and thrive.
Sri Aurobindo, the great Indian Avatar, put it this way. "Men have a feeling that if they are not all the time running about and bursting into fits of feverish activity, they are doing nothing. Whatever has been done in the world has been done by the very few who can stand outside the action in silence; for it is they who are the instruments of the Divine Power. They are dynamic agents, conscious instruments; they bring down the forces that change the world. Things can be done in that way, not by a restless activity. In peace, in silence, and in quietness the world was built; and each time that something is to be truly built, it is in peace and silence and quietness that it must be done. I am not speaking of the ordinary day to day acts that are needed for the common external life, but of those who have or believe that they have something to do for the world. Enter into the consciousness of Eternity, then will you know what true action is."
Clear negativity. Establish inner peace. Be a channel of unconditional love. It is a simple formula that will change your life and help improve conditions in the world. Isn't it time we all did our part?
Alan Mesher is a world renowned energy master, healer, and teacher. He is the author of five books. Sample chapters of his latest work, Just Who Do You Think You Are? The Power of Personal Evolution can be read at www.alanmesher.com. Alan is the former Publisher of the Yoga Journal and a radio talk show host. His clients include professionals in every field, Academy Award and Grammy Award winners, corporate executives, and the family of a former President of the United States. Alan resides in Los Angeles.