The Garden of Eden – recycling light

Once again, my thoughts drift towards light in the human body. It seems that a number of people are investigating this topic, but it always seems that they overlook obvious details, but it could simply be that I’m seeing the topic from a different point of view.

I love it when I get articles forwarded my way giving me something to critic. I’ll try to go easy on the author for it looks like we’ve got similar interests, but I’ll leave it up to reader to really determine what is real and what’s worth thinking about a little deeper.

Let’s look at The Power of Biological Light in Healing by Dr. Mercola. I highly recommend giving it a read before continuing with my critic for I might have missed his point and you’ll be able to overlook my ramblings. In any case, let’s dive right in for it’s always interesting for me to see other people’s interpretation of light in the body.

Your Body is Glowing

Your body actually emits light on a daily basis, in concentrations that rise and fall with your body clock and the rhythmic fluctuations of your metabolism over the course of the day.

The light is 1,000 times less intense than levels that can be seen with the naked eye, which is why most people cannot detect it (some people, however, are able to see this emitted light or “aura,” and some can even distinguish colors).

Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp was the first to suggest that this light must come, at least in part, from the foods we eat. When we eat plant foods, the light waves, or photons, in the plants are taken in and stored by your body.

At the bottom of his article, Dr. Mercola references a previous posting that he made (Your Body Literally Glows With Light) which is a indirect pointer to the same article that I referenced a while back – Humans giving off light – which references a LifeSciences article that seems to have a bug in it at the moment, thus just Google “Humans glow in visible light” and you’ll hit a number of articles that seem to be right in line with the words Dr. Mercola used above.

The good Doctor then says:

Biophotons are the smallest physical units of light, which are stored in, and used by all biological organisms – including your body. The purpose of these biophotons is much more important than many have realized. It turns out they may very well be in control of virtually every biochemical reaction that occurs in your body — including supporting your body’s ability to heal.

Trying not to let the new term derail our train of thought. A Google query for “what are Biophotons” finds that there is a German book published by the name Biophotons – The Light in Our Cells which has a little definition of what a biophoton is:

What are biophotons ?

Biophotons, or ultraweak photon emissions of biological systems, are weak electromagnetic waves in the optical range of the spectrum – in other words: light. All living cells of plants, animals and human beings emit biophotons which cannot be seen by the naked eye but can be measured by special equipment developed by German researchers.

This light emission is an expression of the functional state of the living organism and its measurement therefore can be used to assess this state. …

According to the biophoton theory developed on the base of these discoveries the biophoton light is stored in the cells of the organism [emphasis added by me] – more precisely, in the DNA molecules of their nuclei – and a dynamic web of light constantly released and absorbed by the DNA may connect cell organelles, cells, tissues, and organs within the body and serve as the organism’s main communication network and as the principal regulating instance for all life processes. The processes of morphogenesis, growth, differentiation and regeneration are also explained by the structuring and regulating activity of the coherent biophoton field. The holographic biophoton field of the brain and the nervous system, and maybe even that of the whole organism, may also be basis of memory and other phenomena of consciousness, as postulated by neurophysiologist Karl Pribram an[d] others. The consciousness-like coherence properties of the biophoton field are closely related to its base in the properties of the physical vacuum and indicate its possible role as an interface to the non-physical realms of mind, psyche and consciousness.

So, biophotons are basically light energy in the body. The link about the book about biophotons where I grabbed the quote above mentions that there is a biophoton theory – where that theory basically states that light is stored in the DNA molecules in the cell. Well, if you’ve read some of my previous postings on light and how it’s used in the body (The breath of Life (or energy), or Is food another form of light?) you’ll notice that I lean more towards the idea that light is stored in atoms. Or, basically, when plants capture sunlight using the chlorophyll molecule sunlight enters the atom raising the electrons into a higher spin state. When the electrons enter that higher spin state, the characteristics of the atom change ever so slightly to give it ‘new’ affiliations to other atoms. Basically, the covalent bonding of the atoms changes so that molecules like sugar can form.

In a nutshell, sunlight is stored in atoms.

The more I research this topic, the more I believe that when sunlight reacts with atoms so as to elevate the spin of the electrons (or, giving the atom a high spin state) it changes the characteristics of the atoms enough to make it so that they can bond together to make particular molecules.

A good example of light changing a molecule can be seen when light reacts with the retina in the eye. I posted an article about this a while ago called The Art of Seeing – can you see auras? Basically, when light interacts with the retina, the molecule twists – it changes shape. That change in shape triggers a response in the body that allows humans to interpret the ‘stimuli.’

Thus, I guess I might be in agreement with Dr. Mercola when he says that biophotons “may very well be in control of virtually every biochemical reaction that occurs in your body…” which, seems like a stretch for his article, but not if you’ve been thinking about it like I have.

The good doctor than goes on to say:

Light Controls Your Cell Functions
It is known in biology that every cell in your body has over 100,000 biochemical reactions per second, all of which must be carefully timed and sequenced with each other.

For a long time it was proposed that this occurred through a “mechanical” concept whereby molecules bumped into each other by chance and fit together like a lock and key, or even by slightly changing shape, to come together and form chemical reactions.

Granted, this does sound a bit farfetched, and now researchers believe this cellular dance is not random at all, but rather controlled by biophotons. [emphasis added by me] As Dan Eden wrote for viewzone.com, the paper “The Real Bioinformatics Revolution: Proteins and Nucleic Acids Singing to One Another?” explains just how this “dance” takes place:

“Veljkovic and Cosic proposed that molecular interactions are electrical in nature, and they take place over distances that are large compared with the size of molecules. Cosic later introduced the idea of dynamic electromagnetic field interactions, that molecules recognize their particular targets and vice versa by electromagnetic resonance.

In other words, the molecules send out specific frequencies of electromagnetic waves which not only enable them to ‘see’ and ‘hear’ each other, as both photon and phonon modes exist for electromagnetic waves, but also to influence each other at a distance and become ineluctably drawn to each other if vibrating out of phase (in a complementary way).

There are about 100,000 chemical reactions happening in every cell each second. The chemical reaction can only happen if the molecule which is reacting is excited by a photon … Once the photon has excited a reaction it returns to the field and is available for more reactions… We are swimming in an ocean of light.”

Dr. Popp, who proved the existence of the biophoton field in 1974, believes that these types of “biophoton emissions” are responsible for transferring information throughout your entire body.

I think Dr. Mercola didn’t really mean to say that the dance is controlled by photons, but rather the electromagnetic vibration that the molecules give off.

You see, this is where my thinking starts to drift from what these other scientists seems to believe – at least on the surface of things. For it’s not the photons or the electromagnetic properties alone, but the fact that the atoms of the molecules have electrons that spin in the high spin states.

The root of it is in the covalent bonds that are made between atoms. If the atoms have the correct ‘spin’ (or enough sunlight energy (or energy in general) has hit the atom so as to elevate the electron orbits within the atom) that atom can now bond together with another atom in such a way as to make complex molecules like sugar.

Wikipedia's Gloucose and Fructose molecules

The key is that when the sunlight elevates the electrons, it changes the characteristics of the atom which would affect the electromagnetic properties. It would affect the resonance of that atom or the resonance of the molecule that it’s connected too. Thus, the light, whose energy has been converted into electron’s spinning in a higher state, now allows the atom to bond in ways to make specific types of molecules.

I like to think of this as two specific types of magnets. As you all know, magnets have magnetic fields that create strong attraction and repulsion forces. From the Wikipedia we find the following as part of the Magnetic Field description:

Magnets exert forces and torques on each other through the magnetic fields they create. Electrical currents and moving electrical charges produce magnetic fields. Even the magnetic field of a magnetic material can be modeled as being due to moving electrical charges.[nb 2] Magnetic fields also exert forces on moving electrical charges.

This thinking seems to align with what the German researchers mention above. The only thing that might be slightly different is that the resonating molecules might just give off specific types of attractive and/or repulsive forces that increase the probability that ‘like minded’ molecules met to form other compounds within the body.

If these ideas hold, you’d think that within your cells you’d have a bunch of molecules all vibrating at specific frequencies that would ‘keep things stirred up’ while the attraction process transpires. Healthy happy molecular connections would be made and larger life sustaining compounds would be built and used for your lovely life functions.

This makes me think just a little further. What if the molecules that you consume are broken down and fractured into a number of inharmonious molecules? What if a large portion of the food that you consume has fractured molecules that don’t have the correct attractive vibrations? Will the body be able to repair it and use it if the vibration of the molecule makes it so that it can never be found?

This has got to make you wonder about the cooking process just a little more. Sure, cooking breaks down indigestible molecules into simpler molecules that can be digested by the body – but are they digested and used by the body? In other words, the molecules might be broken down enough to be absorbed by the cells, but once inside, can they do the work that we expected them to do? Or, more importantly, do the broken molecules consume more light than they generate within the body? For if light is life, we’ll always want to add the highest most useful light molecules to our bodies.

The more I study light in the human body, the more I believe that we want to take in molecules in their most natural state so as to preserve as much of its natural vibration so as to make the process of using its stored energy a higher possibility for the cell. In other words, eating raw food may be more useful to your cells than cooked food. It’s like we want to create a pure ‘garden of Eden’ and the finest related compost possible for our cells to use and thrive on!

And, if that gets you thinking, what happens to all the fractured molecules that don’t find function within your cells? Well, you’re body has to get rid of them somehow. If you’ve done any research at all about milk products, you’ll have already discovered that the cooked proteins in milk tend to not be used by the body. The body, in turn, expels these proteins through the noise and lungs and any other organ that can help remove them.

We’ll just have to move on from that mucus issue…

What about enzymes?

If you’ve looked into how the body uses enzymes, you most likely read that he body recycles them. Enzymes are used over and over again until something happens and the body expels what’s left of them (or so the theory goes).

Thinking about to the vitamin A molecule that I wrote about in The Art of Seeing – can you see auras? Article. In this case the addition of light (or a photon) into the space of the molecule causes the molecule to twist (or, in my words, elevates the electrons in a molecule that making one of the atoms have slightly different characteristics that cause the molecule to take on a new shape). But the basic concept is the addition of light gave energy to the molecule so it could change shape. What if enzymes work the same way?

What if enzymes pick up extra photons with cause it to bend and twist – which it does to help bring things together or take things apart. As we’ve see the retina change due to the addition of light, so might other molecules within the cells that operate on a daily basis.

If this holds, the flow of electrons within the cell might be more important than one might realize. If the electron flow (light) moves from atom to atom changing how it interacts with the atoms around it, it might be easier to explain how things move on that microscopic level.

Looking back at a comment that the good doctor says:

It turns out [biophotons] may very well be in control of virtually every biochemical reaction that occurs in your body — including supporting your body’s ability to heal.

Just might make a little more sense now. Yet, I would change it ever so slightly to read:

It turns out that light may very well be in control of virtually every biochemical reaction that occurs in your body – including supporting your body’s ability to live!

Think about it and share! I would love to find more examples of articles that outline this type of energy transformation that forms the basis for life as we know it.

Ultimately, you and I are running on light, but it’s hard to see it in action.

Completing Hands of Light

Summer time’s for playing; Not necessarily for reading! Even through we’ve had a great collection of warm sunny days, I still found just enough down time to wrap up the last few pages of Hands of Light.

I’ve got mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I believe she could have used half as many words to describe the same thing and, she repeated herself a number of times in different sections through the various chapters. But on the other hand, she’s got an interesting point of view that comes across in a comfortably neutral way. She’s easy to believe even if you don’t have the high sensory perception that she claims to have developed.

And that’s the puzzling part. Can a high sensory perception be developed? Or is it something that you’re just born with? She gives a number of exercises that the reader should try, so I just might have to put some time in ‘practicing’ these different techniques. Who knows, maybe her techniques will work.

Notables:

When people form relationships with each other, they grow cords out of the chakras that connect them.

I’m willing to bet that the strength of the relationship is (probably) directly correlated to the amount of energy that flows through these cords. I would also venture to guess that because it’s light energy, the ‘thoughts’ that travel this link may be the types of thoughts that people perceive as telepathy. Maybe.

Most of us react to unpleasant experiences by blocking our feeling and stopping a great deal of our natural energy flow. This affects the development and maturation of the chakras, resulting in inhibition of a fully balanced psychological function.

In other words, we carry our experiences with us as memories of thought comprised of light (or the absence of light) that affects how the energy flows around and through the body. If the energy flow around the body were natural and free-flowing, we would most likely not be in the need of healing. And healing isn’t necessarily physical. Stress is a mental condition that plays out with physical reactions. Why, it seems highly probable that if the energy that flows around the body is out of balance, the body would show some type of physical response.

If this center [She’s talking about the chakras] is clockwise, we will have a positive attitude about accomplishing things in life and see other people as supports for those accomplishments.

On the other hand, if this center is counter-clockwise, the opposite is true.

It appears that the energy flows around the body have an influence on how a person perceives the world around them. This may help explain why two different people looking at the same glass of water my see it as being partly empty or partly full. Maybe the energy flow accentuates space or negative space.

The process of changing one’s belief system redirects chakra movement.

And later she states that a person’s belief’s affect how the chakras ‘spin.’ Well, of course they’re all related. The movement of the chakra’s energy is the belief system of the person played out in real time for everyone to see.

The aura is really the ‘missing link’ between biology and physical medicine and psychotherapy. It’s the ‘place’ where all the emotions, thoughts, memories and behavior patterns we discuss so endlessly in therapy are located. They’re not just suspended somewhere in our imaginations, but they are located in time and space. Thoughts and emotions move between people in time and space through the human energy field, and learning about it is the way to get a handle on this activity.

Thoughts really are things. I’m coming closer to believing that experiences are recorded and stored as light energy in the body, thus it might make sense that as the experiences are remembered, that light gets echoed – to the soul – thus it would radiate outward for all to ‘see’.

Someone that is sensitive to reading light should be able to get a general idea about how the remembered energy made the person feel. Or how the current thought pattern generates emotions that get played out – as light energy – as the people lives the experience.

From the article that I posted about food energy (Is food another form of light?), it might seem that in every cell of the body there exists sugars just waiting to be broken down into electromagnetic energy (light), but I now wonder more about the process by which the molecules give off their light. Does the light that went into making the sugar have to come out the same way? Or, may it be that the atoms that are giving up their electrons give up the energy in stages that corresponds with the mood of the person?

For instance, Barbara says that if a person is thinking, they give off a yellow type energy. Could it be that the vibration in the body triggers the cells to break down the sugars in such a way as to trigger it to release a proton that vibrates as a yellow light wave? Could it be that if the person is thinking, the type of energy that they need for this function is provided by the yellow light frequencies?

Could it also be that because the light radiates like a candle, the light would radiate inward to feed the central nervous system and some of it would escape the body to be seen by others. I’ll have to give this some more yellow light.

I found that people flash bright colors when they are engaged in feeling or actions. When they are quiet, the auric field returns to a stable ‘normal’ state for that person.

This is once again in line with my thinking. If a person is active, light that the cells would have to give off would be that suitable for that specific action. Likewise, if the person wants to generate an emotion, the cells of the body would have to generate the colors appropriate for that specific emotion.

Ever wonder why you feel exhausted after an emotional outburst? Ever wonder why you feel recharged after quieting your mind? It’s probably related to the speed in which your body can generate energy and how efficiently it can focus it on the specific target rather than simply radiating that energy out into space.

Here is another quote that stands out to me:

Figure 11-1A shows the normal aura of a man. As he sings (Figures 11.1B), his aura expands and brightens. Bright lightning-like flashes and sparks of iridescent blue-violet move off just after the movement of inhaling, before he starts each new line. As the audience becomes more attentive, its general aura expands. Great arcs of light reach out from the singer to the audience, and the two auras connect. Mutual forms begin to build as feelings flow between performer and audience. These energy-consciousness forms relate in structure and color to the mutual thoughts and feelings of the group and the music being created. At the end of the song, these forms are disconnected and broken up by the applause, which acts as an eraser to wipe the field clean for the next creation. Both performer and audience are energized by absorbing the energy created by the music. Some of this energy will be internalized to break blocks held in the body; some of it will be used for the next creation.

I can totally relate to this energy. I know it exists. I know there’s a feedback loop between performers and the audience, but it’s another thing ‘seeing’ it.

But what really stands out here is that this type of energy seems a bit different than what’s generated during an emotional outburst. The emotional outbursts are generally wildly out of control and the energy just flies everywhere as the person lets it all out. Whereas, the energy given off by the performer is focused and intentional. The best way to sum it up is that it’s energy art.

The act of focusing energy can really be seen be examining the performing arts. In order to stand out in the arts, you have to be able to generate emotion yet focus the energy generated on the performance – whatever it is.

The best part about all this is that anyone can focus energy. Feeling the energy comes by paying attention to the performance!

Related:

We stop our feelings by blocking our energy flow. This creates stagnated pools of energy in our systems which when held there long enough lead to disease in the physical body.

That’s like saying we are all performers and when we stop our individual performance, the universe no longer pays attention and there is no energy returned to amplify the glory of your existence. No performance – no energy returned.

Moving along, the author touching on a topic that’s very close to what turned my life around a couple years ago, she writes:

… if you unconsciously had something to do with making things the way they are, then you can have a great deal to do with creating things the way you want them to be.

How I would interpret that statement is – your life is never out of your control. Your thoughts, emotions and actions got you where you are today, your thoughts, emotions and actions will get you where you will be tomorrow.

I couple years ago, I spent a little time evaluating my life. I looked at my health and my mental state and realized in not all to different words from above that that I’d been doing it all wrong. Basically, if I was doing the right things, why did I not feel good? I didn’t feel good. Thus logic would have it that I wasn’t doing the right things! Coming to that realization made me humble again and willing to ask for help. Life has been a great uphill trek since then! Get the ego out of the way and, I swear, you’ll turn your life around and feel like a performer again!

I even found some good stuff in the healing chapter.

No matter how miraculous the result, the healer really induces the patient to heal himself through natural processes, even though they are beyond what is considered to be natural for those who are not familiar with healing.

To the healer, health not only means health in the physical body, but also balance and harmony in all parts of life.

Her words ring true deep inside me and shape the reason why I don’t really believe in doctors as healers. Doctors are great for handling emergencies, but, when it comes down to it, the body heals itself! If you go to the doctor with a cut, they will help you find a way to stabilize the wound, but, they don’t ‘heal’ it, the body heals itself. Even in the cases where someone’s lifestyle has lead them down the path to some chronic disease, if the person is truly committed to giving the body what it needed to heal, the body would undoubtedly heal.

I found the following interesting regarding the universal energy field, yet I’m not sure what to do about it yet.

Rather than spending hours memorizing things, we will learn how to access the information already stored in the “memory” of the universal energy field. In esoteric terms this information storage is call the akashic records. These records are the energetic imprint fixed within the universal hologram of everything that has ever happened or has ever been known. In this type of brain function, information is not stored in our minds; it is simply accessed. In this type of brain function, to remember means to tune in again to the universal hologram and to read the information again, not to search one’s own mind to retrieve the information.

If anyone has any ideas, I’d love to hear them. If not, maybe I’ll get some time in the near future to investigate the Akashic records a little more.

The process of internal viewing

… Light enters both through the third eye and through the physical eyes and flows along the optic nerves an shown in Figure 18.6

When I came across the topic of internal viewing, I couldn’t put it down. It spawned Opening the Window to Your Soul and The Art of Seeing – can you see auras? Articles. I won’t cover that information again here.

Picture this:

… Perceiving means receiving. Perception is receiving what is already there, either in symbolic form or in literal form. Visualizing is an entirely different function. The process of visualization is actively creating. In visualization you create a picture in your mind and give it energy. If you continue to hold it clearly in your mind and give it energy, you can eventually create it in your life. You have thus given it form and substance. The clearer the image and the more emotional energy you project into it, the more you will be able to create it in your life.

I love the way she worded the difference between receiving and creating. If you haven’t paid attention to what’s going on in your own head (mind) you might be subject to living what you receive rather then creating what you receive. There is a difference, and, it’s a conscious difference.

You and only you are responsible for your health.

I have to agree one hundred percent with that statement. Yet she goes on to say:

If you have a physical problem you must make the final decision to follow a particular curative program. Only with the greatest of care should you make these decisions. To start with, you choose from a vast array of help available to you. Whom do you trust? sHow long do you follow a cure when you cannot tell whether or not it is working? These questions can only be answered from your deep searching fro what is right for you.

If you don’t trust a diagnosis, these is nothing wrong with a second or third opinion, or another technique altogether. If you are confused about what has been said to you about your particular ailment, ask the doctor more questions, find some books, learn about what you are involved with. Take charge of your health. Most of all, do not let yourself be limited by a negative prognosis. Rather take it as a message to look deeper into yourself and wider into the available alternative methods. Standard western medicine has many answers, but not all. If it is not efficient in curing a certain disease, then look elsewhere. Cover all bases. You will be surprised about how much there is to learn about yourself and your health. The search will change your life in ways you would never expect. I have met many people whose illness has eventually brought them great joy, a deep understanding and appreciation of life and the fulfillment they were not able to achieve before becoming ill.

Self-love is the greatest healer, and self-love also requires daily practice.

Not sure how I can say that any better!

In that same chapter, she writes:

Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.

In closing, she states:

To become a healer means dedication. Not to any specific spiritual practice, religion, or set of rigid rules, but dedication to your particular path of truth and love. This means that your practice of that truth and love will probably change as you travel through your life.

Which is another statement that I agree with. We all see things from a unique point of view. Your experiences have helped you come to an understanding that no one else has. How you use that understanding is completely up to you. And when you do use it, hopefully, if you discover that it’s no longer the truth, you’re willing to part with it gracefully so the new truth can be investigated.

I am grateful that Barbara shared her point of view with me through this book. I am most interested with the act of seeing and the conscious focusing of energy. I will open my mind to the concept of seeing via the nervous system rather than simply the eyes and I’ll refine my performance so as to focus energy into an experience that the universe may take notice of.

That’s it for today.  Sing a joyous song with heart-felt emotions and see what happens. You may be surprised!

Opening the Window to Your Soul

Do you remember that phrase “Look me in the eyes when I’m talking to you”? Or “When you talk to someone, look them in the eyes”? Did your parents say something similar to you when you were a kid? I remember these phrases because I only heard them when I didn’t want to participate in the conversation. Naturally, looking someone in the eyes is the ‘right’ thing to do.

It seems that there is something magical about that act and it stirs an emotional (and sometimes physical) response when eye contact is made with another person. Have you ever played the game of gazing into someone else’s eyes while intentionally trying to open your heart? The response can be immediate and overwhelming to most people.

The challenge I hold for you is to give that gift to as many people as you can. That’s right, when you have a conversation with someone, look them in the eyes and let the energy of venerability out. But don’t just do this with anyone you meet. Make a conscious effort to perform this act with people – you want to bond with!

You see, from my experiences, when you actively eye gaze, the energy that’s exchanged creates a bond between the two people. If you’re not careful, you may end up creating a bond with someone that you don’t necessarily want to be with.

Poking around the web a little, I’ve come to learn that there are now – speed dating eye gazing type parties. As a matter of fact, it’s been featured on TV. The Eye Gazing Parties website makes out the experience like this:

What are Eye Gazing Parties? The eyes are the windows to the soul, so it’s a lot easier to have a mesmerizing conversation with someone after you’ve spent two minutes looking into his or her eyes. That is the simple idea behind Eye Gazing Parties. Banal chit-chat about employment status, the location of your apartment, or where you’re from is not a great way to spark a captivating connection with an alluring new person. Eye contact is.

The problem, as I see it, is that when you line up with a bunch of strangers you end up ‘bonding’ with a bunch of people before you determine who the person is based upon their actions. You see, a person is a reflection of their actions. If you observe for a little while, you’ll get a good picture of the character of the person before you ever make eye contact. You can observe the word choices, the why they present themselves, or even the people that they choose to be around. It’s pretty easy to ‘weed out’ those which you know you will not be harmonious with before you attempt any more at bonding.

And it really is bonding. The best example that I can give is the bond that a mother makes with her baby. There’s time during those first months where eye gazing naturally occurs. In my opinion, it’s critical that both the mother and father spend time eye gazing with the child while it’s still an infant. When that eye contact is made, a lifelong bond is developed that nothing can get in the way of.

Because the eyes are the window to the soul, if eye gazing time is spent between the parent and infant, the parent to intuitively know what the child wants and needs when it ‘speaks out’.

Here is a personal report from an Eye Grazing Meditation that hints towards the energy exchange that occurs. It’s from the Integration Training website:

Relaxing the eyes can have a profound effect on how we see the world and conversely when we are stressed our vision narrows. When people’s eyes meet something special happens and I spent some time exploring this last night with a group in Hove that practice eye gazing meditation. People from a range of spiritual traditions have practiced eye gazing meditation from Rumi to tantric yogis, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. I thought that 2.5 hours looking into people’s eyes would be boring but far form it. The first time I did it I was surprised with how difficult gazing into people’s eyes was, and it took some will power to counter my social conditioning. I felt various weird waves of energy in my body and strong emotions surfacing. This apparently is common and the meditation can be used as a form of emotional catharsis and cleansing. Aside from the therapeutic aspect the main other benefit seems to be connection with your partner. At times you are not sure who is having a particular emotion and there is a sense of joining with or “dissolving” into the other…try it, it’s one of those experiential things.

If you haven’t shared this type of experience with someone, it might be time to give it a try.

The Ezine Articles website sums up the process like this:

This eye gazing can result in a profoundly moving experience of emotional, energetic and spiritual connection between the lovers, especially if you are already at a peak of sexual arousal during lovemaking when you do it. However, don’t save this practice only as an accompaniment to lovemaking.

Take 2 minutes to send and receive love in this way every day you are together for the rest of your lives.

Some couples go weeks or months at a time without making this simple, yet profound connection. Making this connection every day cumulatively can transform your relationship and sustain you on a secure platform of love through any of life’s trials and tribulations.

We have found this simple practice to be the quickest surest and easiest way to open our hearts to feel love. Most of the times we look at each other in this way, when our hearts crack open, tears come to our eyes as the intense emotional feelings cause us to cry with happiness. Make no mistake, you don’t get your heart open once and for all and keep it that way. Your heart will close repeatedly, thus it must be re-opened over and over and over again. This simple practice will open your heart almost instantly.

How to Look

Gazing into each other’s eyes is not a staring contest. You will look in a particular way.

Have you ever been in a place with an absence of light? Near where we live there are some caves. Once inside these caves, there is a complete absence of light. Without light you can’t see anything. Just closing your eyelids can give you some sense of this experience, especially if you are in a dark room during the evening.

Close your eyes now. Now open your eyes, and notice how the light comes in. You don’t have to do anything for the light to come in. This is important to notice. Next, notice how you look at things, usually including your lover. You grab things with your eyes. Grabbing things means you isolate each thing and visually separate each thing from all other things. This is how you identify what something is. You must isolate it from everything else, and then you can name it, and when you name it you know it. You have grabbed it.

Looking with your eyes in this way is useful and necessary, but it is not the only way to look. Looking in this way actually sustains the perception (really an illusion) that everything is separate from everything else. This is dualistic consciousness. Dualism simply means separating one thing from another thing.

The most import thing to take away from the above description is that the process is not just looking into someone’s eyes. It requires that you actually drop the emotional barriers that you use to protect yourself from intimately experiencing life. Because the experience is so emotional, most people intentionally withhold their energy from others so as to not build the emotional bond with just anyone.

I don’t really blame them, but wonder what it would be like if more people consciously gave into sharing energy through eye contact.

Here is a quote that I found on the Healing Through Eye Gazing website:

“When eye contact between two people is initiated and maintained, an invisible energetic circuit is established between the two participants, dissolving the barriers that ordinarily separate them from each other, drawing them ever closer into a shared awareness of union.” Will Johnson*

I love this quote of a quote. I’ve already put Will Johnson’s book on my Amazon wishlist:

That same site goes on to mention:

In the face of the safe and loving contact that eye gazing facilitates emotional pain held within the energy field and physical body will at some point surface for healing. As it does the experiencer has the choice to really feel and release the pain and in doing so clear and unblock chakras allowing more life force to flow. Since the movement of energy is often pleasurable when we surrender to it the healing process can be very enjoyable.

It’s interesting that this site references the chakras for the book that I’ve been reading, Hands of Light, goes into some pretty intense details with regards to the chakras and the associated energy. I found it particularly interesting where Barbara Ann Brennan states:

… Light enters both through the third eye and through the physical eyes and flows along the optic nerves as shown in Figure 18-6. [A diagram that shows the path light travels from the eyes to Pineal gland. It also has a path for light to travel from the ‘third eye’ location to the pineal gland.] This light is of higher vibration than visible light and can pass through skin. The light passes through the optic chiasm and goes round the pituitary, which sits right behind the optic chiasm. The light then takes two paths. One path goes to the occipitual lobes for normal vision, and the other into the thalamus for oculomotor control. It has been my observation that by certain meditative and breathing techniques, one can cause the pituitary to start vibrating and radiating gold auric light (or rose light if the person is in love).

One has to wonder that if the eyes can take in light, might they also be able to expose light? In other words, work in reverse?

It would seem that empirical evidence shows that this may be the case. At least, to those that practice eye gazing for there is an energy that seems to be exchanged between people when you look into their eyes and they willingly ‘open’ themselves to the experience.

Or, might it be that when two people look into each other’s eyes, the act harmonizes, or ‘starts vibrating’ the pineal glands in the two people so as for them to experience it’s affects?

It’s a fascinating process that I wish I had more time to write about. I think I’d rather simply spend my time actually eye gazing. I encourage you to put more effort into it and then observe how it makes you feel. If there is some intuitive information that you acquire in the process, feel free to let me know.

The world is full of a bunch of amazing little things. This is one that’s so powerful and free!

All moments can be visited from the present

The act of being only exists in this current moment of time. Every second of every day the present moment continues to exist just like the previous moment but the experiences change. At the root of it, all is energy that flows through you to create emotional attachments to your experiences. These emotional attachments get confused as being who we are, but in reality they are what we’ve experienced.

It’s a shame when I hear people stay statements like “I am this way because…”, or “If you’d been through that I’ve been through you’d …” because the person is attaching their identity to the emotional experience and resonating it into the present. It would be like being forced to listen to a performance of a singer that open-heartedly sang and performed so far out of tune that the energies of the experience strikes you so hard that the awkwardness of the event is forever carried forward tainting every future concert you ever attend.

The present moment is built upon the choices you make in this instant. The basis from which you make your choices come from the emotional attachments that you resonate with. It is important to understand that these emotional experiences are not forced upon you, but rather experiences you resonate with. Because they are not inherently you, you can actively change your resonance to something that is a little more agreeable with the experiences you would like to feel.

I was impressed with this information in my morning meditation – Time travel is possible at any moment in time. The energy that existed before can be revisited by re-experiencing that emotional attachment. The feeling that were experienced before, can once again be experienced in the present – for the action of experiencing the energies only happens in the present.

If you make a conscious effort to recall the emotional experience you will mostly likely find that the physical responses that you experienced before happen again. It’s as if the body is reliving the same experience a second time – regardless of the physical environment and moment in time in which the event originally happened. This is because the body experiences thoughts and emotions as if they only exist in the present. We only exist in the present. There is not past, just what we choose to emotionally resonate forward.

If you clear you mind by consciously not placing energy into previous emotional attachments, you will once again be able to experience the present moment for what it is – unencumbered by previous responses like the standard dichotomies; good/bad, right/wrong, etc. The current moment is what it is and the energies that are present in this moment are available for you to craft new and more beautiful emotional resonances to carry forward.

Future moments can also be brought into the present moment. Just like you resonate with previous experiences, you can start resonating to your future experiences beforehand. The beauty with this process is that you get to take the energy that is available with you (always) in the present moment and consciously shape it to create a resonance pattern for you to ‘vibrate’ too. A vibration to build upon – a new way forward, so to speak.

If you think about the process a little, it’s very similar to how you resonate to previous emotional experiences. The more energy that flowed through the old experience, the stronger the physical reactions and the clearer the emotional resonance that is carried forward. To bring the future into the present, the same thing happens in reverse. You consciously imagine the situation with your mind (linear processing) where you pick out all the main details. Then, you give into the emotional experience of it (parallel processing) where you experience the desire as if you where living it. You make that self crafted desire something that you can emotionally resonate with.

Ultimately, the resonance patterns require energy to relive them. Likewise, to build a forward looking resonance pattern you have to consciously place effort into your desire. Yet, in the end, the resonance patterns are energy flows that you consciously maintain in the present that create attractions and repulsions in your environment – like the wonderful singer or the hideously awful one!

Make your resonance patterns conscious. Give energy to what you want and you will feel the way you want to feel rather than feeling the way you are.

So, what does this all mean?  My interpretation is that the moment someone meets you (me, anyone) the energies that are exchanged are pure and unintentional. As time progresses and you get to learn someone, you get to figure out what they resonate too. You may find that here’s harmony or discord, but the sensation is there. Thus, if you want to change the current moment and be someone different (than you have been) there’s nothing stopping you. Find a different energy stream to feed and pick up a new resonance.

Sound easy? It’s a matter of just doing it.

Energy flow and perception

Haven’t had much spare time lately, yet the few moments that have come my way I treasure. Some of those moments have been spent reading, others in Yoga, Meditation and walking the dog.

You might have noticed that it’s taking me a while to get through my latest book. I didn’t know it went I purchased it, but it’s a text book! – True studying material. And, for anyone that knows me, they know how much I love text books.

In any case, the other might while reading page 76, I had a thought that I wanted to share. Page 76 is in the chapter titled Psychological Function of the Seven Major Chakras. I’d been reading my way through the lower chakras wondering how many times I’d come back and read these sections when I came across the section on the chakra between the shoulder blades. There words here seemed to strike a nerve.

As it turns out, this particular area in my body has been the focus of my attention for years. When I was younger, I experienced joint pain and pinched nerves that left me holding my breath waiting for the pain to subside. Lately, I’ve been working on revisiting this area through yoga and massage that has reactivated some old feelings that I’m now looking forward to healing.

In any case, the words of interest I’ll quote here:

Midway between the shoulder blades, chakra 4B is associated with the ego will, or outer will. This is the center from which we act in the physical world. We go after what we want.

If this center is clockwise, we will have a positive attitude about accomplishing things in life and see other people as supports for those accomplishments. We will then have the experiences to support this view because we live it. We will experience our will and the device will in agreement. We will see the will of our friends aligned with our will. For example, if you want to write a book, you will envision your friends helping you and it being accepted by the publishers in a way that says, “yes, this is just what we were looking for.”

On the other hand, if this center is counter-clockwise, the opposite is true. We will have the misconception that God’s will and that of other people is opposed to our will. People will appear to be blocks in our way of getting what we want or in our accomplishing something. We will have to go through them or run them over to get what we want, rather than see them as helping us. We would believe statements like “my will over yours” and “my will over God’s” Deep-seated beliefs relating to how the universe functions are involved here.

Half way through reading these couple paragraphs, I couldn’t help but relate them to The Golden Rule. If you search the web, you’ll find a number of different word combinations to represent The Golden Rule. But the one that I carry with me has always been: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Matthew 7:12).

Yet, time and time again I’ve heard people speak The Golden Rule as “Do unto others as they do unto you.”

If you look closely at these to phrases (life philosophies) you’ll notice that with the first phrase “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is a philosophy that implies that you are the originator of the energy of action. You perform the work of behaving as you’d like others to behave. You maintain your choice in actions for you get to choose how to treat others. You maintain your fee will.

When you think about the second interpretation “Do unto others as they do unto you” you no longer get to keep your choice of free will. You’re subjected to acting in the way others act around you. If you find yourself in the company of liars, this philosophical standing point would have you lying in no time at all.

If you think about it, you’ve probably met a number of people that categorize themselves following The Golden Rule, but the way that they see it is the second case above.

There is also the philosophical point of view regarding the cup half filled with water. Do you see it as half full or half empty?

Well, the thought that struck me the other day was that the chakra that Barbara Brennan talks about may have some association with this philosophical trait that people have. She basically states that if the energy flows one direction, you get a person that goes with the flow. Yet, if the energy flows the other direction you get a person that’s always battling the flow to get where they’re going. Or, in other words (words crafted by me) if the energy flows one direction you will have the tendency to see the cup as half full. Yet, if it flows the other direction you would have the tendency to see the cup as half empty.

Or, could it be that if you’re philosophy is to ‘see the cup as half full’ the energy will flow in the direction that will open a path in life that is easy and free flowing. Whereas, if you’re philosophy is to ‘see the cup as half empty’ you’ll generate energies around you that make you feel like you’re always battling the current to get where you’re going.

I wonder which one comes first?

If you where to ask me, I believe that you get to choose a particular philosophy that tends to color the way you see your life experiences. The philosophy becomes something that you resonate with. It’s like singing a song (of life) where you live out the role you choose. Then, as you ‘sing’ that philosophy the energy (of life) flows to that rhythm and rotates one way or another. Then, if you happened to cross paths with a trained physic, they would observe the flow of energy that would represent the philosophy you choose to live by.

It’s all pretty interesting and the reading is still holding my attention. I’m looking forward to finding a few more passages to share.

Hope you see your cup as half full.