apathy/libido

[Guest guest]

Dear Betty:

 

 

 

I think everyone goes through some phase or another of lack of drive:

apathy, lethargy something of the sort. It is part of the transformation

process in anything meaningful in your spiritual life.

 

Did you read my e-mail of a few days ago where I briefly mentioned the book

Power Vs Force?

 

I listed a series of states of being in a certain order from shame to

enlightenment. One of the steps is apathy. I have the feeling that every

time we go through a process of transformation we actually revisit each of

these steps up to the new state we are discovering. So if you have come

across some of the higher states of vibration before, apathy is not

something you have to learn to get out of. You have gotten out of it before.

You just have to get yourself ready to get to the next step which is grief.

 

 

 

Here is the order of these stages again:

 

Shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, pride, courage,

neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason or clarity (related to wisdom),

love (unconditional), joy, peace and enlightenment.

 

 

 

In other words accept your feelings and your energy toward life will start

to return. Walk in nature (consciously breathing and connecting with what

you come across, great way to get out of the rationalizing mind), hug a

tree, let yourself cry. All this will help you reconnect with your own

nature.

 

 

 

Just know that you have it in you to overcome this temporary challenge.

Don't fear grief, fear, desire, anger they will all help you transmute

whatever you are faced with!

 

 

 

Blessings (in disguise!)

 

Awtar S.

 

Rochester, NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

haha! i am going through all of these simultaneously always!!!!

 

> Here is the order of these stages again:

>

> Shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, pride, courage,

> neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason or clarity (related to

> wisdom),

> love (unconditional), joy, peace and enlightenment.

 

sat nam jis.

i am reading a lot of posts lately where people are disappointed in

themselves for one reason or another. they feel they are not practicing

enough, or in the right way, or having the right results, or are just

not the person they want to, and think they should, be. i have said this

before, but i'll say it again: i really believe there are far fewer of

us who are perfect at our practice, or having amazing spiritual

experiences, or even feeling their kundalini rise, than there are who

do. we read some amazing stories here of people who have tapped into the

flow of the Divine, but it doesn't happen everyday for everybody. it

CAN, it WILL, G-d willing, but mostly i think most of us just slog along.

i've been practicing every single day since january 16th (that's a

record for me). usually i am a super lazy flaky yogini who always finds

excuses not to practice. but i will tell you: i haven't had any

breakthroughs or visions or rushes of energy or wonderful changes in my

life circumstances or anything in this time. sometimes i wonder why i

keep up. i just do. i don't know why. maybe one day i will. i'm just

trying to give myself the opportunity.

i guess i'm saying, don't feel like a failure because you aren't seeing

white light explode around you when you practice. there's a lot of

drudgery. so be it. either enlightenment comes, or it doesn't. but for

SURE and CERTAIN, the time we spend in our practice is NO WAY EVER time

we can call "wasted." do yoga! if you don't, what are you gonna do? play

video games???

haha!!

beautiful super sunny day in seattle today, with brilliant blue skies

and all the plum and cherry blossoms heavy on their branches, WA HE GU RU!!!

xxxoo,

seattle sue

[Guest guest]

Dear Awtar S.,

 

thank you so much for your beautiful and encouraging reply!

I feel you must be right when saying that we are just going again and again

through certain stages, while things clear slowly.

 

Recently I spent several months in India, in the Himalaya and though it was

for doing a reportage on human rights I had the clear perception that I was

undergoing a mysterious cleansing process, just simply by being in that place,

even though I did not engage in any particular or intensified spiritual and/or

physical practice.

 

After coming back I feel lighter in some ways, more shiny and smiling, more

understanding and always more astonished with other people (did interviews with

pple who had undergone torture in Tibet but who had found a way to deal with it

as their karma without blaming their aggressors, well and then all the other

wonderful experiences with pple in India which really was an uplift in so many

ways though not activating my wish to root more)..., so a certain apathy

remains with me, it is some kind of unhappiness, most probably based on an

ongoing hidden feeling of grief and anger, as you correctly observe. Then tere

is also that ongoing feeling of eventually not doing enough, my purpose in the

worldly life and a certain resistance to get more involved here.

 

Thank you again, very much. I also found your prior email with the quote from

the book. Thank you.

 

Very best to all,

Betty

 

 

 

 

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