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"Inner Dissolving" - Working with emotions
    #14323229 - 04/20/11 02:11 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

"Inner Dissolving" - Working with emotions by Korpo
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The Outer Dissolving Process of working with physical and etheric blockages is very similar to Robert's NEW Etheric Wrap. It works with focusing the mind on a blockage in a relaxed fashion, with the intent of letting go and trying to remain aware of the blockage.

This "staying aware of the blockage" is a principle that goes deeper. It counters the tendency of our mind to "run away" from stuff we don't like to experience - pain, uneasy and constricted feelings, negative emotions, you know it. This habit of the mind is a survival reflex for dealing with trauma - some experiences are pushed away to avoid overloading the mind.

The problem is that what we don't deal with starts to shape our mind and reactions. Automated patterns arise. Body functions cease to work properly, muscles become tense, blood flows stop to circulate freely. We start to react tense and irrational to situations we are confronted with. Emotionally - sudden bouts of anger without valid reason, overreacting, sadness because we became attached to things and cannot let go of them, fear of the dentist, etc. Mentally - Prejudices, belief system blocks ("No, no, it cannot be like that, because of ..."), etc. Automatisms of tension that influence each other holographically and seem to make up our personality.

Yet Taoism following back to Lao Tse believes that there is a natural order of things, when you are in tune and your energy free flowing, where you are capable of authentic, spontaneous reaction. And if you use energy work and meditation you uncover this original state, step by step, and relax into your being. The traumatic tendencies, all what reins you in, that is not truly you. In fact these are the "places" where you have given up being yourself for some reason - because your mind could not deal with a situation, an overwhelming emotion, a trauma, because it was easier to conform to a set of rules than to express yourself.

These are unintegrated experiences. The energy stopped flowing, and you stopped being natural. You lost the state of just being, just flowing with the experience. Worry and thoughts arise, emotional turmoil, and touching on that can quickly feel overwhelming. The tendency is to turn away as quickly as possible, to have a sharp pang of that emotion - a flash of fear, a burst of anger, chest-narrowing anxiety. You want to run away from it, to vent it. But you do not want to really face it down. And there lies the rub.

You see, in order to reintegrate your experience, you need to do that. You need to live through it and come out the other side. This is of course hard in every day life and that's exactly way it is such a great idea to sit down for half an hour, shut the world out (or at least turn down the volume), make place for the reintegration to happen and apply more of your mind to it than usually.

When you feel a pang of fear in "real life" it can get worse. In meditation however you may be pleasantly surprised it doesn't. In real life the ongoing flow of experiences may compound the fact, and that creates a feeling of dread - the fear you feel may get worse. But if you go back to a situation, if you stay with the feeling, if you focus on it, it does diminish over time. That moment you encountered it was at its worst, and you can become aware of it diminishing, dissolving. You have unfrozen part of the energy that got blocked. You have actually improved on your situation. The feeling of dread possibly so appropriate when encountering a new situation that creates fear is now a misperception. It already happened - what can make it worse but your own dread of it?

So, focusing on an emotion as it arises, holding it gently in your focus, can begin the process of easing back into a relaxed state about the issue. It is the start of an inner healing process, an untying of inner knots that begin an unraveling which may go much deeper than your conscious awareness.

How do you access the emotions? Either you sit down and meditate when you confront a situation at home that retriggers an emotion. Sometimes I do that. Or you try to think about the situation, or hold the intent to work on a specific problem when going to sit down for a session. Reviewing your day is a possible process. Or you simply work on emotion whenever it arises on its own within your meditation session.

What you do then, to formalise it a bit, is to hold on that emotion. You can feel it, don't you? Maybe a sensation, close to burning, down your throat. Or a constriction thereof. An anxiety like a wrapper around your chest. A searing hot anger shooting to your head. Spine-shivering fear. Try to focus on that. It will become the point where you untie it.

Now stay with it, try to keep it in focus, gently. Be unimpressed. Let go of its importance. Face it down. Possibly feel the arising energy flow, if you can. Notice it diminishing or pulsating. Take in its characteristics. Become aware of detail. Keep the connection.

You can continue this until you either can no longer - please do not strain your mind, though. Become aware of your limits and respect them. When you feel your focus becomes shaky or you are not making any more progress, let go of it, and refocus on something else, depending how you meditate. Sometimes your mind will enter the emotion and staying becomes effortless or you even only half-lucidly stick with it. Then really strong dissolving happens - either of the emotion itself or the gaps in our perception. Try to refocus when you become aware of losing touch, and you feel you still can go on.

Follow this to a feeling of letting go, of releasing, possibly of emptiness, of calm. Rest in that feeling. Either now a deeper layer of emotions comes visible, or that emptiness and release stays, or you have an experience. All of that is okay. Many, many different things can now happen, every mind is different.

When you think you are finished you can now move your awareness - you *did* become aware that your mind did focus on certain spots in the process, didn't you? :wink: - downwards. You can then rest it in the Lower Tantien in the center of the abdomen. Allow the energies to be taken in and stored/converted. Then travel onward with your mind to a point below your feet and rest there, too.

You have now begun to release an old issue from yourself. You have made energy flow again. You have neutralised and grounded what you found. There is a good chance that your problem/issue has diminished in importance, and will impact your life less and less.

This is the "Inner Dissolving Process". To learn it, the "Outer Dissolving Process" can be used. When you deal with the energies of your physical and etheric bodies you now learn how to feel energy, how a blockage feels, to look for the symptoms of blocked energy (tension, contraction, uneasiness, when something is not feeling right, strength), and start to learn to let go. You also learn how to ground. And the relaxing of the body lays a fundament for relaxing the mind.

With Taoist practices, body-stored tension often goes first. But in the end you will see that a tense muscle and a tense mind aren't so different. The tense muscle pair is pulling into two directions at once, and you need to stop the nervous system signals that create that pull. Your mind may also try to pull in opposite directions, back and forth, and over time you will feel that, how to let go of it, and get rid of that, too. It is more subtle, I grant you that, but that is why you sit and make room for this to happen in the first place. If in doubt, always go from the coarse (the physical and etherical) to the more subtle (the emotional and mental).

And please be gentle to yourself. :smile:

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Re: "Inner Dissolving" - Working with emotions [Re: c0sm0nautt]
    #14323283 - 04/20/11 02:23 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Very cool. Thanks for posting.
I've always enjoyed robert bruces books.
Good to know that he's still going at it and writing.


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Re: "Inner Dissolving" - Working with emotions [Re: MeowMix96]
    #14325842 - 04/21/11 12:15 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Yw. And just to clarify, this was written by someone who posts on R. Bruce's forum, not Bruce himself.

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Re: "Inner Dissolving" - Working with emotions [Re: c0sm0nautt]
    #14329203 - 04/21/11 06:24 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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c0sm0nautt said:
Yw. And just to clarify, this was written by someone who posts on R. Bruce's forum, not Bruce himself.




Ah... it still sounds cool.
I've actually never checked out his forum.
Hmmm.... maybe I will. :grin:


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Re: "Inner Dissolving" - Working with emotions [Re: MeowMix96]
    #14330346 - 04/21/11 10:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I've been working with a lot of stuff like this lately.  Trying hard to get over my own inner barriers (there are many).  I've found that, if you go into the moment/being with the intent of finding something out about yourself, you can't not find it out.  If you really want to know something, why you are a certain way, what's holding you back, and you look deeply and sincerely, the answer will gradually unfold itself.  Then it's up to you to implement your knowledge.


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Re: "Inner Dissolving" - Working with emotions [Re: g00ru]
    #14331146 - 04/22/11 12:34 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Thank you for posting this (:

Synchronicity is a beautiful thing. I was thinking a lot about these things in the last couple of days, this helped. Blessings brother.

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