The karma of teachers

[Guest guest]

Dear Antwar

  I have been reading your erudite answers for quite a while and am always struck by your compassion and wisdom.  Not long ago you mentioned that a teacher of KY either does the right thing in class and takes on the karma of their students or does the wrong thing and takes on the karma of their students-could you clarify this for me please?  I have been blessed to live in an area that is densely populated and that does not have very many teachers of KY available. Thus I teach quite a few classes per week and love being able to do it.  Spmetimes however I feel a level of psychic fatique that is indescribable and inexplicable after a week of teaching.  I have a committed sadhana practice with my husband each morning and an excellent diet.  I am in good health have plenty of energy throughout the day, but after teaching twelve to fourteen classes each week there is this sense of fatigue that is a bit worrisome .  Are there any special sets for teachers to do to protect or

strengthen themselves for the task at hand.?  Please don't tell me to teach less as I love what I am doing so much that the fatigue is a small price to pay for such a wonderful and blessed vocation  Thank you for your help-

  Yours in Love Divine;

  Jane B.

 

           

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Jane:

 

     I am not sure how to clear what you take in teaching via a yoga.   I

have strong extrasensory perception when I am working with patients or other

people and I studied with Anne Armstrong at Esalen Institute ....   She told me

that someome like me needed much therapy and also needed to clear my aural

energy regularly by wiping myself down with my hands at a small distance from the

body and then meditating and taking a cool shower.   She also told me that I

needed a goodly amt. of alone time and time alone in nature.   I can pick up the

mood of a place when I walk in and have to decide whether I am going to allow

or disallow it to affect me.   I made up my own mantra to dispel it and set

my own mood.

Perhaps while your are teaching, a good break, in between sessions, with

meditation somewhere where you will not pull in the energy of those you are

teaching.

     Even a closet will do.

 

     I know it sounds crazy but it helps.

        If I ever walk into a place where the energy is really very

low-toned, I have to leave or try to change that energy.    It takes practice and I am

sure Awtar and others will have some wonderful suggestions for you and I may

well learn something new.   As humans, when we find someone as devoted as you,

we tend to drain that persons energy with our own neediness.   The class needs

to take more responsibility for that.   Perhaps even a meditation with them

with the understanding that they clear their neediness so all, including you,

can receive the relief they need with a higher level of energy.  

 

     Lovingly

     Teresa

[Guest guest]

Teresa:

 

 

I know a lot of people talk about needing to protect our self against the

energy of others. I think this comes from a misunderstanding. When we don't

allow the feelings to naturally flow through us we hang on to them.

 

 

Yes there are people who try to draw energy from others. Mostly they don't

do it very consciously. But you don't have to get involved with them. Just

feel how it is affecting you but don't engage in it, don't fight it, let it

go through you.

 

 

When you say you pick up moods, do you mean you feel the emotions, do you

mean you are empathic?

 

 

If this is the case, I would encourage you to not get caught up in the

emotions. Emotions come from what your body experiences, so go back to what

your body experiences. Start with the sensations that give rise to the

emotions you feel. Then forget about the emotions and follow the sensations

and the energy your body feels. This way you go directly to the source and

you are in charge.

 

 

Blessings,

 

Awtar

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Awtar

 

Wonderful advice Awtar.   I am going to look very closely at this.   It could

release a whole lot of interesting things.   Yes, I am empathic and I often

do feel the exchange but sometimes I operate on automaticity without observing.

  Thank you so much.   I appreciate your very understanding of what may be

going on and your ability to put it into words.

I never followed through with therapy because I was not confident it would

give me a greater ability to look at the process.   Not all therapy is wise or

sufficient.

 

Teresa