Acceptance *** In the industrialized technologically advanced nations, people often view acceptance as resignation, giving up, cowardice,retreat and other unappealing descriptive words. The societies that worship, praise, and publicize yang energy-- the energy of doing typically have little understanding for the power of Yin. Yin imagines, visions, perceives. Yang manifests. We need both. Yin is a warriors path-- it is the path of acceptance....... before reaction. As an example, the martial art Aikido is often translated as the Way of unifying (with) life energy, moving Zen or as the Way of harmonious spirit.. Aikido is an art that practitioners use to defend themselves while also protecting their attacker from injury. Aikido is performed by blending with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it head-on. This requires very little physical strength (yang) but enormous spiritual development to sense the Chi of the moment and blend with it before acting (yin). Acceptance and action..... yin and yang. The significant idea here is that the action comes from Spirit, not from the reactive human mind but rather an opening to energies (acceptance), an ability under pressure (attack) to be calm, centered enough and open enough (heart chakra) to feel and blend with energies before choosing what to do (how to act, or how to not act). Acceptance is a not for the faint of heart nor is it something to be used in peaceful and harmonious times only. It is in fact a weapon of the Spiritual Warrior (female and male). When life squeezes us, that is when we typically get most reactive. That is when we usually tell Spirit to step back, so we can handle the situation with our (puny) human mind, and our reactive and subjective Yang energy. We can use Life Aikido when under stress. Feel the energy of the situation, blend with it (read Pema Chodron for more on this), accept it all and allow Spirit to guide you in what is next. Life Path Healings: Predictive Readings on FB
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:02:15 +0000
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