The Iceberg Approach to Spirituality

 Each individual possesses a unique energy that can either make others feel at ease or uncomfortable. This energy can vary in strength, from a powerful presence to a more subtle one. The primary factor influencing these differences in energy is our thoughts, followed closely by our actions and past experiences.

 

When I gaze at landscape photos, a profound sense of comfort washes over me, as these images radiate a soothing energy. Similarly, certain people have an innate ability to make us feel comfortable because they emit a harmonious aura. Ever wondered why you can chat endlessly with one person but struggle to find words with another? Or why your relationship with one individual is strained while with another, it's effortless and sincere? Your thoughts hold the key to these mysteries.

 

Our energy and the aura we project serve as mirrors, reflecting our inner state. Each of us possesses a predominant energy field. For instance, someone may unconsciously harbor a deep reservoir of anger, which, though concealed, surfaces through their energy field. Superficially kind individuals may, in reality, carry numerous inner attachments. These attachments can weigh down a person's energy, causing their energy field to contract, thus deterring others from drawing near.

 

I once felt the magnetic field of a friend and remarked, "You seem to radiate an aura of anger." He reacted with immediate indignation, explaining, "You have no idea how terrible my father was to me. It's his fault. I'm not an angry person." He vehemently denied harboring anger, attributing everything to his father's lack of love and care. My words had clearly hit a nerve, and he stormed off, never to speak to me again.

 

This magnetic field of anger is a byproduct of unresolved inner relationships. The patterns established in his relationship with his father likely carry over into his relationships with others, including his spouse. Without learning techniques like family energy work, the Letting Go Method, and meditation, changing this magnetic field energy can be an arduous task.

 

Suzhen Liu

 

Body, mind and our self identity function like a vessel, allowing us to connect to the higher energies to a less or higher degree. Suzhen Liu describes this vessel as an energy field that can be monitored, felt and grasped. This vessel is a medium that enables the spiritual experience; this lower frequency energy commonly understood as “self” vanishes when the higher energies 

 

S (tillness)

E (nergy)

L (ove)

F (low) 

 

prevail.

 

All spiritual searching for enlightenment is noble, but it’s the mind and ego that is the searching. The idea of the iceberg metaphor is that we have so much faith in our conscious search, the 30 percent, and are then surprised when the rest of us are headed in a different direction. Life has a wisdom on its own. The late comedian Mitch Hedberg sums up this approach nicely when he concludes, “I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going, and hook up later with them.

 

Maybe it’s time to sign up for a new self-help seminar, or maybe it’s time to sit at home in silence with the pain instead. Listen to life’s cues and you’ll know the answer! In spirituality we are on a purification course. When we face life fully, purity, love and wholeness await as all self-imposed interferences are removed for us. When the pressure washing course is over, we will continue to be a character of sorts, but one without inner conflicts and beautiful to behold. The iceberg is bound to find its way into warmer waters and will melt.