How Thoughts Influence the Movement of Energy

 It is essential for the mind to remain calm. The power of the mind should never be underestimated. When I was still a beginner in Qigong, I often tested how our thoughts influence Qi. For example, when I thought of someone I disliked and allowed that feeling of aversion to arise, I could immediately feel my Qi becoming tense. But the moment I thought of someone I truly loved, as soon as the feeling of love surfaced, my Qi relaxed instantly.

 

From these simple observations, we can see how powerful our thoughts are. When we have many inner obstacles we cannot transcend, our Qi becomes tight and unable to relax. As a result, we cannot resolve our issues or relieve our physical discomfort. Our physical discomfort or illness is always connected to our mindset. If we cannot transcend these mindsets, the illness cannot be eradicated.

 

Qi is intimately related to our thoughts. Even if you are an advanced Qigong practitioner, if you cannot go deep into the mind and the soul, you cannot bring true comfort to the body through Qi alone. We need not only to cleanse the physical body, but also the subtle body. If we cannot reach the deeper layers of the mind and soul, the physical body will inevitably be affected. When we cannot touch the energy beneath the level of consciousness, we remain only at the surface level of awareness.

 

The discomfort in our body is the accumulation of decades of thoughts. When we lack awareness, a single negative thought can tighten the entire body—not just one area—and this tension manifests especially in the weak or vulnerable places, eventually becoming illness. Therefore, major physical issues cannot be resolved without awareness of our mindset.

By Suzhen Liu

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The Fire of Love

 At Satsang a friend shared this memory. He was under a lot of stress and was focusing on something that was really important to him at that time. His 8-year daughter must have felt his fragile mental state so she walked up to him and said, “draw with me!” He said every fiber in his body told him to keep working at that moment but there was a voice telling him to draw a picture with his daughter instead so he did. As they were drawing he suddenly felt like singing and so did his daughter. As they were sitting there together there was so much love suddenly that he felt the significance of whatever occupied his mind before burning in his loving heart energy.

I had this experience this year as well, the heart as an incinerator burning the impurities of life away.

All that is at our disposal!

 I remember a painting at work which spoke to me. As the saying goes, a picture tells a thousand words. It depicted a man getting out of his pickup truck carrying four gallons of water. He was walking towards his house by the water and as he turned around he saw the magnificence of the ocean. His facial expression was hard to describe but to me it told the story, “why am I carrying four gallons of water if all that  is at my disposal!”

We cannot just say, “stop identifying with thinking and emotion.” If they show up there must be something inside us that made them meaningful to us, incredible as they might appear at that time. Yet, we can have that pivot to the grander energy realizing the insignificance of the personal. This pivot is the disidentification with the “body, mind, world matrix.” S (ilence) is the spiritual yardstick, as is E (nergy) surging within and the L (ove) for the F (low) of life.

Our self is minuscule in the presence of S-E-L-F. See it moment by moment and there is nothing personal remaining to identify with.

We are from the Source of Infinite Possibilities and shall return

 Our son recommended watching the movie Whiplash, a story about—in his words— the Rocky Balboa of drumming. I felt sad to see so much pain for what I felt was a misguided obsession, but who am I to judge. We are all manifestors of this “body, mind, world matrix” of infinite possibilities. Each to their own!

Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson strove to be the best at their games. We can only stare in amazement at their will-power to bend the limits of the possible and their willingness to incur the pain to accomplish these feats. Can—or should—we spiritual folks likewise hunger for God? 

Each to their own! One option we always have is to remind ourselves that we are of this Source of Infinite Possibilities. We can fall back to It while striving just as we can get encapsulated by It in the silence of our being. As the 13th century monk Meister Eckhart observed, God is Home—we have gone for a walk.

Healing with Family Energy Work and Letting Go

 We experience positive and negative energy. We reject the pain and the negative and want more of the positive. Negative and positive coexist. We cannot have one without the other. Yet, pain only exists if we don’t understand that and reject the “bad” that comes with the “good.”

With the Letting Go practice we can break through the knowledge that “good” and “bad” are two sides of the same coin. Key of this method is not to get rid of what we don’t want. It’s about breaking through to the level where we can embrace the negative as well as the positive. At this level we transcend the pain.

A woman asked me for help. She had lost what she thought was the true love of her life. She said she just can’t let go of him. I asked her to meditate on what makes him so special and after a few minutes an image of her parents fighting popped up. She laughed. The fact that he was nice to her made him so special. After growing up in this contentious household she reasoned that being nice must be a measure of true love. Family energy was ruling her life, and discovering and knowing these belief sets that we carry around allows us to penetrate that level of serenity where peace prevails. 

Letting Go exercises and Family Energy practices dig up some painful memories and uncomfortable energies, but this work is essential if we like to break through to a deeper level of consciousness. When the energy runs smoothly we are not making any efforts. The difficulties will still present themselves. They are part of life, but we are no longer affected by them. When we perceive “negative” energy, a first reaction is to get rid of it. We need to pause and stop!

By Suzhen Liu 

Feel to heal—See to be (video)

 I am greedy, J. Krishnamurti says in a presentation and the audience accepts that we have our greedy moment but want to know how to overcome greed. That’s duality, and with it comes a loss of energy as we deviate from what is. The solution is in zooming into the conflict. Feel to heal in the moment the inner energy imbalance presents itself. See to be—zoom into the ego games to prevent that unpleasant encounter. 

https://youtu.be/gAzfPBL0QUk?si=uzUv18UOLExMF45M

Part human, part divine

 There was a Rabbi who had a piece of paper in each pocket. In the one pocket it read, “dust in the wind,” in the other “made of stardust.” 

Likewise, there is nothing wrong with being human. Our memories, fears and aspirations create our life work we were born to perform.

The opportunity is to keep track of the calling of the Way. When in doubt who is steering ask, and know, sense, feel and see the Way.