Now lets look at who we are. On a simplistic level you could split us into two parts, metaphysically speaking. The conscious and the unconscious. I would like to explore the latter first.
Unconsciousness. It could be described as all those things we do in life on auto pilot. There is the physical unconscious, our heart continuing to beat, our lungs taking oxygen from the air and transferring it to other parts of the body to give it life. Then there is the psychological unconscious. This is the part of us that one could call also call ego. (I am not referring to the ego in the classical psychologist sense here (where you split it apart into the ID, the ego and the super ego).)
Within this ego is contained all of our conditioning from the day we are born, perhaps even before. It contains ´programs´ that have been written at some point in the past to ´survive´a situation. For example your parents beat you as a child and you in turn beat your child. Most people will know that beating a child is wrong (so long as they are not a psychopath or have some such mental illness) yet some still do it. Why? They are not conscious of what they are doing. They are running a program that they learnt that helps to make up their identity. This identity my be along the realms of ´I got beaten as a child as so that gives me the excuse to feel angry and depressed about how I wasn´t loved and when I can´t take it anymore I sometimes beat my own child. i don´t mean to.´ Well whatever the excuse, this person is quite obviously not acting from a conscious place. They are unconscious. On autopilot.
Another example is when you are in an argument with someone. When right and wrong come into the equation. When we try to defend a moral position we often become unconscious. We become so obsessed with being right, we lose sight of the bigger picture and are often don´t truly listen to the other person because of it. The very notion of right and wrong comes from our moral compass that is conditioned into us as we grow up. After all, if you grow up in a cannibalistic headhunter society, hunting heads and eating other humans is not wrong. It is sense. Right and wrong are very fluid depending upon your stance. You stance depends upon your conditioning. To bring conditioning into the forefront of your life can only be unconscious, because if you were conscious of it you would have the option to not carry out the conditioned pattern thus the unconscious nature of it would slip away, as would the programming.
Now, we are all energy. Everything in the universe is some form of energy. Scientists will tell you about the molecules and atoms that make us up having such gaps between them that essentially we are nothing more that moving space. But there is energy. We all know energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred. Okay great. That's in this plane of existence that we know about, but lets go with that. let us assume that consciousness, or soul, or spirit has some quantifiable form within our ream of existence. As always the words don´t matter so I shall call it inner energy.
This place inner energy, of consciousness, is where we see the bigger picture. It is the ´watcher´that can see our ego and conditioning for what it is. Not right or wrong. Just there. By realising it we can relinquish ourselves from the moral and conditioned chains we place upon ourselves simply by giving us a choice. Speaking with my heart is about speaking from that place that is beyond the ego, beyond thought, beyond conditioning. It is speaking from that inner place of energy that does not judge, it just simply is. It is speaking consciously and directly, without fear, without judgement, simply seeing things for what they are. It is speaking from love. Love for everyone´s inner being past their unconscious nature. Not from and place of ´holier than thou´ but simply from a place of love and responsibility for yourself and everyone around you. It is felt in the form of emotions and perhaps as our heart is often considered the emotional hub of the body that we say speaking from the heart, but we could just as easily call it speaking from our inner self or speaking from a true place of peace and not judgement.
Speaking to the heart (again - perhaps you could call it soul or energy - the words don´t really matter) and being in touch with ones body is the same. It is learning to respect and take responsibility for your body and being for what it is. The body is such an incredible piece of machinery that science even today isn´t even close to replicating (not including cloning - nature still does the work here).
The heart - the being is that inner place; beyond the conditioning, beyond thought and beyond ego. It is your true self. It is your true essence. It is your true life. Taking with it is simply opening a portal to this place and learning how to open it whenever you wish. From this place comes true unconditional love and joy and through this, peace.
These ´portals´ can take the form of meditation, yoga, praying and a whole host of other wonderful techniques, methods and rituals that bring you to the present moment and ground you in your body. For me Ayahusca was a strong portal. The portal itself isn´t really important other than a signpost. The Buddhist saying immortalised by Bruce Lee ´look at a finger pointing at the moon, don´t concentrate on the finger or you miss the moon in all of its heavenly glory´rings true here. To become obsessed with the door, with the portal, misses the point of where that door leads. The door is very very important in order to lead you there, but it is insubstantial compared to what is behind it. I guess this has been my gripe with religions and more recently the landmark. Peoples egos have such a tendency to get obsessed with the door (tradition, indoctrination etc) that they lose sight of where it leads. But I digress and could right as much again about this subject and it is not necessary. They are not right or wrong, neither am I. The question is simply, what you are doing in life? does it bring you true peace? does it bring you true happiness? not based upon conditions or requirements.
So I ask you, can you honestly speak with your heart? Do you have your own portal by which to practice strengthening that link between your mind, body and soul? Can you bring the light of awareness to your life when unconscious nature invariably takes over from time to time? This is the journey that I and millions of others are on and you know what? It has offered me peace and love within myself for the first time ever.
I am not subscribing to a religion. I am not telling you you have to do anything, I offer these reflections as coming from my heart with no intention what so ever. I actually find it really helpful to talk about this stuff and have found writing this very helpful also. If you feel nothing about what I said, well then that's fine, it´s certainly not right or wrong. It just is. If something here did resonate with you I can certainly recommend some books if you´d like to know more (haha and for the skeptical out there, all are spiritual but non-religious based authors and books). Anyone want to talk about this stuff. I love it.
Be good to yourself. (:
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