Re:Tuning - the emotional work

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Yeah Seva Simran,

Thanks for asking. This was a biggie for me. Yogiji was observing

the group of us at a Summer Solstice. He simply said "...they aren't

doing the emotional work...". This is second hand but I have no reason

to doubt it's veracity. What I get from these words is it's simple

enough to tune in, bootstrap your way through your discipline, get the

energy and be on the scene. But that it's another "doing". That it is

easy to miss out on the deeper work that might leave one coming from a

more emotionally available place. That maybe people's biological needs

and impulses were being suppressed a bit, as has been the case for

thousands of years. To me his statement feels like it might have been a

concession that somehow folks, me included, have created a structure and

organization that was an expression of that suppression. We are

Westerners with all kinds of Judeo-Christian tapes runnin' through our

psyches. It's hard to shake that. I tend to sit on the fence, though, as

I was able to "duck" those early ashram years of mandatory 3:30am

wakeup calls. I, instead, was getting up at sunrise with the Shoshone or

getting Bio-energetically therapized in NYC, in the late '70s. The

emotional release and clearing that was prompted in me by my Kundalini

practice was absolutely massive!! I felt the spirit in every cell and in

places I didn't know people had.

Fully felt, resolved and balanced emotions feed the spirit and

provide for more satisfaction in our longings. More containment, more

capacity for contentness and greater sense and feelings of continuity

and connectedness.

This is my interpretation of what he was saying.

Sat Nam,

Dharam Singh

 

 

 

sevasimransingh wrote:

 

>Dharam says, Yogi Bhajan says, "we aren't doing the emotional work."

>Could you elaborate on that a little. What he is referring to, what

>you are referring to.

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