Hello And Happy Day!
Today is a great day to pause when you are feeling challenged. Challenges are directional; when a storm comes, it comes from a specific direction, be it north, south, east, west, or a combined direction, such as northeast. If we stay focused on the storm and the trials and tribulations it may bring, there is a tendency to project our fears. All storms manifest as a result of high-pressure ~ low-pressure relationships; the cold absorbs the heat. Storms leave when balance is achieved.
The weather-vein, or the rooster on the roof, point in the direction of low pressure, where yin is needed. Yin cools, moistens, expands as growth, opens, is an anabolic force. Without such storms, there can be no growth.
It is only because the sun is full of yin (mater) that it shines so bright, yet, we do not see the yin. Your heart is where you feel the forces of yin and yang within you. Just as Great Spirit moves the elements around to create a balance of growth and transformation, we too can become aware of where we need balance.
Through practicing awareness of direction and pressure, we can seek to understand the needs within, or in relationship to others. When we are too hot, or our relationships with others become too hot, we can choose to add fire (yang), which both inflames and contracts, eventually leaving ashes, or we can become a cooling (yin) force for ourselves and others, seeking balance in relationship. The instant we authentically seek balance, the weather begins to change – in that change, growth emerges from the storm.
If someone breathes fire in your life, sacred listening (open-mindedness) guides us in how to cool, resolve, or balance the situation for the betterment and growth of all. If we, or the other are too cold, stagnant, non-participatory (excess yin), our love and passion may warm them, creating movement; movement brings awareness. This simple practice is much the same as riding a bike; if you lean too far to the right, simply leaning a little left “rights us”. When there are two riding one bike, they must learn to lean and counter-lean in harmony or a crash is inevitable. Sharing wounds together teaches us to be aware when riding the bike (life) together. This is the process of becoming aware.
As we become aware, we realize that our physical eyes are like the rooster; he only points in the direction a balancing force is headed, but does not tell you how to manage yourself during the correction.
When we still our mind, become receptive to the voice of stillness, we learn that the soul sees full-circle. With circumferential vision, we are often amazed at what we didn’t see or hear with our physical senses, though the truth is frequently right under our nose. This process teaches us that to use our programmed mind and body as our primary source of information gathering is dangerously limited; this mode of existing is more akin to action-reaction living.
By developing our awareness-soul relationship, we move out of action-reaction mode into situation~response mode. In time, we come to both see how often we created our own storms and acted amazed when they arrived, and through our own lack of awareness, were unprepared for what we created. Through union with your awareness-soul, one begins to feel and know what they are creating before it is created. This allows us to use full-circle vision to determine if the outcome is nourishing for all involved, particularly when our intention to balance may challenge others with less vision who are in need of leadership. Learning to love effectively requires full-circle awareness and only comes through commitment to learning from that part of yourself that is free of neediness, desires, pettiness, etc.; that is your soul.
I am in this practice every day. It is not always easy, yet, it is much easier in the long run than loosing homes, crops, family, friends and opportunities in storms we often create for ourselves, and yet, tend to blame others for.
I can only share that my life is much more enjoyable as a result of being committed to the practice of being aware and tuned to that part of me which is whole – more whole than my ego, which functions just like a set of (physical) eyes (directional), or a bullet flying, which can’t change its direction once in flight.
The ego is typically a ready~fire~aim mode of being or interacting, while the awareness-soul is expressed as feel~connect~co-create. Eventually, you will find the edges of the ego’s offering and seek to complete yourself, to become whole.
I invite you to join me in that process. We must work together if we are to bring harmony to the world before great storms arrive to balance the imbalances of ego we’ve imposed upon the world, Her life-forms, and each other.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
