Expressing your heart

   We have just seen how it is necessary to maintain a satisfactory level of vitality in order to experience the POWER OF BEING, i.e. to allow the mind to completely “inhabit” the body, to be aware of yourself through and by means of your body.

   The second "mission" of the Initiated is to "express their heart", i.e. to give free rein to their emotions in order to experience the POWER OF LOVE.

   Our emotions need to flow, like the blood flowing through our veins. When the arteries of our emotions are blocked, when our heart is closed, our life lacks intensity and passion. Trying to love without allowing your emotions to flow is like trying to drive a car without any petrol in the tank.

   In today’s society, many of us have unfortunately learned from a very early age to block, suppress or deny many of our emotions. Expressing our emotions freely is often regarded as synonymous with "suffering", so to avoid being hurt we simply don’t take the risk of expressing them.

  

   We get used to living in a state of emotional inertia, a sort of pervasive numbness which acts as a protective shield against suffering, but which prevents us experiencing the joy of living in the present.

   In fact, there is no point in trying to escape from our emotions since they will emerge sooner or later, in one way or another, however hard we try to resist or deny  them.

   Emotions really exist: they are not thoughts that can be simply dismissed. They are not abstract concepts since they are the use of universal cosmic energy, this fundamental energy which animates us and which certain people refer to as Superior Consciousness, Supreme Power, Creation or even God.

   Unexpressed, repressed or suppressed, this energy becomes toxic. It surfaces in the form of swellings, growths, clots, tumours, spasms, migraines and all kinds of other physical ailments.

   Recently, a great deal of scientific research has shown that the repression of the emotions has serious repercussions on health. It is a well-known fact that people who tend to repress their emotions are much more predisposed to illness than those who don’t.

   The only really healthy solution is to take a firm hold on your emotions, to get to know them, take possession of them and  learn to experience and express them as and when they occur.

   Initiates have understood this for a long time.

   The 5 basic emotions from which all others originate are: fear, anger, sadness, joy and compassion.

  

   These basic emotions are essential to our survival and general well-being. The challenge is not to transcend them, but to transform your relationship with them. You need to regard your emotions as friends and express them clearly and frankly.

   One could take the attitude that there are two sorts of emotions : positive (good) and negative (bad), and that it is therefore desirable to promote the good ones and suppress the bad ones by rising above (transcending) them.

   Since time immemorial, non-Initiates have wrongly confused Illumination (Spiritual Awakening, "Paradise") with the "transcendence" of the emotions. Why transcend something which is real, which is part of life? Why don’t we want to experience our emotions?

   Let me tell you a very basic secret: your emotions are not intrinsically positive or negative; they are quite simply the elements of your vital energy, each with its own vibration and its own function.

   Each of these 5 emotions is in fact an energy that vibrates at a certain level and intensity. This energy must be able to flow freely for you to able to really live in the present.