Sitting In The Seat Of Awareness
“Don’t be so negative”. “Think positively”. Some of us have been conditioned since birth to hide and wipe away our tears and to not be “so emotional”. To sweep our issues under the rug and break out a forced smile so that our vulnerability is masked from the world. Pretend as though everything is fine and it will all go away. But it doesn’t.
Why do we intuitively know and ignore the pain that still resides within and carry on only to be hit with emotion surfacing without an attached incident at some point down the road? We instantly place judgement against any negative thought or emotion and instinctively tell ourselves to remove the trigger from our minds, treating it like taboo. Or we hold on to these low vibrational energies and allow ourselves to view our relationships, work and all other life elements as mundane, lacking life force and manifest it into a sad story.
I am not suggesting that we wallow in our negativity but what if we respected our emotions by making ourselves aware of what they are and how to transform them?
First, let’s look at what they are not, this is important. We are not our thoughts and emotions. The story in your head is not yours. The story is not who you are. You are not your story. Put a stop sign right where you are listening to that story in your mind. Looking at your thoughts and emotions from an objective place while taking a seat in your awareness chair will give you back your power. Stepping into objective awareness allows you to put a stop to the rolling footage in your head, that story that you’ve identified as yours, which by the way has many sequels full of twists and turns. Move aside Housewives of New York.
Now that I have you sitting in your awareness chair let’s sink right into the emotion. Let’s give that emotion a name. Give it the respect it deserves. Is it sadness, fear, anger, jealousy, resentment, judgement or mixed bag of any or all of these? Once we’ve named it let’s embrace it and view it as an incredible blessing as we can hold it now that we are aware of it and have identified with it. Now we can heal it. Hold onto it while you are in your awareness chair and set the intention to heal it. With this intention we allow our emotions to visit without judgement and we make room, hold space, for a higher vibration to offset the negative emotion.
You are seated in your awareness chair and have named and honored your emotion and are holding it for a higher consciousness to bring light to it and heal it. Now B-R-E-A-T-H-E. Consciously breathing the awareness into each slow breath and allowing all that is to just BE will place us in the presence of the unconditional love of our higher minds. Doing this will disclose the truth to our thoughts. Now tell yourself “I love you”. Repeat this until you feel the thoughts and emotions easing off and you can see the circumstance that triggered the emotional reaction. This comes when you are seeing it from a higher perspective of your Spirit.
What I’ve shared with you is one of the many practices I learned in my Huna studies to support a more harmonious journey. If you can practice this in the heat of the moment, as soon as you are triggered and an emotion surfaces, you will heal these emotional triggers instead of manifesting yourself and these emotions into the main character of a story that simply does not exist.
Namaste.
