The filter

Yang is the logical thinker
Yin is the feeling healer

I was on the phone with a friend who sometimes likes to mentor me. As we were talking she suddenly asked, ‘what are you feeling?’ I responded, ‘nothing’. My mind was on this conversation, and as far as my feelings were concerned, literally nothing came to mind. She responded, ‘well, let me tell you what I am feeling. I feel pressure in the lower head area. I feel energy in the upper spine area and pressure on the right thigh.’ As she said it, I could feel all these energies in me, and the pressure on the right thigh came because I had my legs crossed.’ Her ability to feel me across the Atlantic was stunning, but I had seen similar feats perform by empaths—all women—before. What really got me was the realization that all these feelings were running through me but my powerful mind was simply overriding them as it was engrossed in the conversation. It’s just like a filter is present shutting reality out at that moment.

The psychological ‘I’—whether it is feelings or thoughts—is just like a filter. Something that separates us from what is, either within or without. The question is, can we Awaken to this state. Sure we can. It’s the Power of Now, the magnificence of the moment. It’s like my friend pointing me towards what I have been missing out on because I was too engaged in the conversation. It’s God saying, ‘hold this thought, there is something amazing happening outside of your room. Or the stunning beauty  of the woman walking into the room. Lastly, it’s even the mind realizing that it is playing games with itself and the system of perception gets rebooted so to speak. Don’t get me wrong, if you are an empath it’s perfect to be feeling the environment. Or when you are an analytical mind, it’s great to be solving puzzles, just understand there there is a ‘no-thing’ out there that can be grasped and felt if we manage to shut off the filter of ‘I’-perception.