Jekyll & Hyde

[Guest guest]

During the day I feel optimistic, have adequate energy and my most

disabling Kriya, my chronic cough is 95% relieved. Then comes evening

and Mr. Jekyll becomes Mr. Hyde and my cough returns, my energy gets low

and all I see is pessimism. I do understand that my Kriyas are most

active at night and this is all my imagination anyway, and I am prepared

to do whatever is necessary to resolve this situation. I do my safeties,

eat watermelon daily and drink filtered water. Is there anything I am

missing here? I am a bit confused as to where this is taking me. Any

suggestions?

 

Love & Blessings,

 

august

[Guest guest]

August,

 

A few thoughts that may be helpful - please forgive my wordiness, and use what

resonates with you....

 

The higher you can keep your own vibration, the more exalted the states of

attention you will experience. At a certain point, lower vibrational states,

like pessimism or depression, will not occur.

 

Kundalini is transforming you into this higher vibration, but you must help.

Your assistance includes: surrendering to Her agenda; keeping yourself

physically fit; changing your diet as She dictates; cultivating positive mental

and emotional states; recognizing karmic blockages as She reveals them and

allowing Her to dissolve them; and retraining the mind, ego, and emotions to

accept enlightenment and to work towards your transformation and not against it.

Techniques for doing all these things are the Safeties.

 

Do not succumb to pessimism - cultivate joy, love, gratitude, etc. consciously

as antidotes to pessimism. Catch yourself when the pessimism begins and do

something to change it. If you're inside go outside. What were you thinking

about at that instant? Who were you thinking about? What were you allowing

into your field of attention just before the pessimism arrived?

 

Remember that you can choose your state of mind each instant, in part by

controlling where you place your attention.

 

Do you watch TV? Beware of the many negative images and attitudes. Same with

who you associate with and their attitudes, which you can pick up either through

conversation or even just by thinking about them.

 

What did you eat before the low-energy state arrived? Food and blood sugar

levels can affect your mood and inner state.

 

Until you are able to stabilize and control your inner state by focusing on the

Divine more often than not, you will be tossed about emotionally and mentally.

So keep up with your practice and be patient with yourself. You may go through

periods where you need to limit your interactions with others, with newspapers,

with books that are not uplifting, with TV, etc., until you can interact with

these things without them affecting you. Every subtle emotional or mental

breeze is amplified into a whirlwind by the Kundalini, so watch these things

carefully.

 

In family and work contexts you may find mantra useful, getting outside, taking

short, frequent exercise and meditation breaks, etc. Find what works for you to

keep your energy levels up and to prevent pessimism.

 

Healthy humor and laughter are very good antidotes to pessimism. So is exercise

- when you feel negative mental states coming on, move your body, do some

exercise. Find a reason to smile or laugh. This can increase your vibration

and change your inner state.

 

Remember also that pessimism is one of your ego's defenses against the

Kundalini's transformative tidal wave. If the ego can get you to allow your

attention to dwell upon being pessimistic (to identify with the pessimism), then

it has won that moment's battle. Note the ego's defensive screen of pessimism

when it puts this up, but do not identify with it or allow your attention to be

sucked into it. The same with your thinking mind when it embarks upon a

downward spiral of thoughts, each one leading lower than the last. Just

acknowledge these things and redirect your attention. Mantra, a picture of

Chrism, your favorite image of the Divine, music - even throwing yourself into

some work or other activity that fully engages your attention can help. You

must cultivate the moment-to-moment awareness necessary to catch these moments

and intervene to redirect your attention. Be patient - it takes continuous

practice.

 

With time, the ego and mind are retrained and they will not try to use these

tactics to derail your process. They do this out of fear, so recognize that

these diversions by the ego, mind, and emotions are fear reactions to change.

Allow them to be, but do not get drawn into them. In time, these three bodies

will learn that they need not be afraid of transformation.

 

Cultivate Bhakti. Once the emotional body gets used to loving devotion directed

toward the Divine, it embraces this process instead of being afraid.

 

Music can instantly change your inner state. Find the music that uplifts you

and use it to consciously move your attention into inner joy. If necessary,

don't go anywhere without an mp3 player.

 

If the low energy state is due to true physical exhaustion, you may need to eat

something or take a nap. (But don't become a tamasic lump, lol!)

 

You must surrender to and accept your process. Resistance is futile, as they

say. It is also exhausting, and can take you into these low energy states. If

you resist enough, then K will put you to sleep to remove your ego-mind-emotions

from the equation in order for Her to do Her work while you are asleep.

 

You might also try using the evening time when your energy starts to get low to

do your practice -- the Tibetans, compression prayer, the Shakti prayer,

meditation. Perhaps this is what Shakti wants you to do at this time and that

is why all those parts of you that resist the process choose this particular

time to go into overtime. I do not know - just a thought.

 

Love and blessings,

 

David

[Guest guest]

Great posting david! What ever works to bounce back from the mood swings:)

Kat.

 

 

 

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djgottlieb <dgottlieb

 

Fri, April 23, 2010 6:18:04 PM

Re: Jekyll & Hyde

 

 

 

 

August,

 

A few thoughts that may be helpful - please forgive my wordiness, and use what

resonates with you....

 

The higher you can keep your own vibration, the more exalted the states of

attention you will experience. At a certain point, lower vibrational states,

like pessimism or depression, will not occur.

 

Kundalini is transforming you into this higher vibration, but you must help.

Your assistance includes: surrendering to Her agenda; keeping yourself

physically fit; changing your diet as She dictates; cultivating positive mental

and emotional states; recognizing karmic blockages as She reveals them and

allowing Her to dissolve them; and retraining the mind, ego, and emotions to

accept enlightenment and to work towards your transformation and not against it.

Techniques for doing all these things are the Safeties.

 

Do not succumb to pessimism - cultivate joy, love, gratitude, etc. consciously

as antidotes to pessimism. Catch yourself when the pessimism begins and do

something to change it. If you're inside go outside. What were you thinking

about at that instant? Who were you thinking about? What were you allowing into

your field of attention just before the pessimism arrived?

 

Remember that you can choose your state of mind each instant, in part by

controlling where you place your attention.

 

Do you watch TV? Beware of the many negative images and attitudes. Same with who

you associate with and their attitudes, which you can pick up either through

conversation or even just by thinking about them.

 

What did you eat before the low-energy state arrived? Food and blood sugar

levels can affect your mood and inner state.

 

Until you are able to stabilize and control your inner state by focusing on the

Divine more often than not, you will be tossed about emotionally and mentally.

So keep up with your practice and be patient with yourself. You may go through

periods where you need to limit your interactions with others, with newspapers,

with books that are not uplifting, with TV, etc., until you can interact with

these things without them affecting you. Every subtle emotional or mental breeze

is amplified into a whirlwind by the Kundalini, so watch these things carefully.

 

In family and work contexts you may find mantra useful, getting outside, taking

short, frequent exercise and meditation breaks, etc. Find what works for you to

keep your energy levels up and to prevent pessimism.

 

Healthy humor and laughter are very good antidotes to pessimism. So is exercise

- when you feel negative mental states coming on, move your body, do some

exercise. Find a reason to smile or laugh. This can increase your vibration and

change your inner state.

 

Remember also that pessimism is one of your ego's defenses against the

Kundalini's transformative tidal wave. If the ego can get you to allow your

attention to dwell upon being pessimistic (to identify with the pessimism), then

it has won that moment's battle. Note the ego's defensive screen of pessimism

when it puts this up, but do not identify with it or allow your attention to be

sucked into it. The same with your thinking mind when it embarks upon a downward

spiral of thoughts, each one leading lower than the last. Just acknowledge these

things and redirect your attention. Mantra, a picture of Chrism, your favorite

image of the Divine, music - even throwing yourself into some work or other

activity that fully engages your attention can help. You must cultivate the

moment-to-moment awareness necessary to catch these moments and intervene to

redirect your attention. Be patient - it takes continuous practice.

 

With time, the ego and mind are retrained and they will not try to use these

tactics to derail your process. They do this out of fear, so recognize that

these diversions by the ego, mind, and emotions are fear reactions to change.

Allow them to be, but do not get drawn into them. In time, these three bodies

will learn that they need not be afraid of transformation.

 

Cultivate Bhakti. Once the emotional body gets used to loving devotion directed

toward the Divine, it embraces this process instead of being afraid.

 

Music can instantly change your inner state. Find the music that uplifts you and

use it to consciously move your attention into inner joy. If necessary, don't go

anywhere without an mp3 player.

 

If the low energy state is due to true physical exhaustion, you may need to eat

something or take a nap. (But don't become a tamasic lump, lol!)

 

You must surrender to and accept your process. Resistance is futile, as they

say. It is also exhausting, and can take you into these low energy states. If

you resist enough, then K will put you to sleep to remove your ego-mind-emotions

from the equation in order for Her to do Her work while you are asleep.

 

You might also try using the evening time when your energy starts to get low to

do your practice -- the Tibetans, compression prayer, the Shakti prayer,

meditation. Perhaps this is what Shakti wants you to do at this time and that is

why all those parts of you that resist the process choose this particular time

to go into overtime. I do not know - just a thought.

 

Love and blessings,

 

David