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Taoist Meditation Circle Month 11
(Subliminal Emotions Continued)
1. Continue front and side breathing (3 sets of 10 breaths)
2. Stay quiet and focus on how these emotions are moving inside you and progressing forward.
3. This part goes deeper into the experience of recognizing your personal subtle energy
4. Improves Inner Dissolving and allows for more profound aspects of Meditation
5. The Puzzle of Remaining Present—use all tools you have previously learned
6. Subliminal Emotions constantly occur in Meditation.
1. Pick your emotion and begin.
Each day focus only on a SINGLE emotion.
Take a new emotion each day. Or (2 or 3 days.) alternating positive then negative in matched pairs.
Joy/hatred
Compassion/Anger
2. Make faces, sounds, recognize what is below these forces
Activate overt feelings
Neck problems are often caused by these emotions
3. Go quiet, finish making faces, crown of head centered, feel inside, etc.
4. Observe 2 things:
Is there a buzz or strange uncomfortable feeling inside your nerves?
Or is there a wonderful feeling?
Then observe and get what it is.
5. Simply recognize that a subliminal emotion is happening. Regardless of understanding what it is.
6. Apply a Fire Transformative or a Water Dissolving Meditation Method of your choice to clear the blockage
7. Recognize whether these methods have made your neck alignments better or worse and in what waysIf your neck feels better after a positive emotion is brought up, then take note of it.
If your neck feels better after a negative emotion is brought up, then something is blocked.
8. Regular meditation practice—releases emotions inside you—you can prevent your neck vertebrae from going out of place.
9. Regular meditation practice–empowers you to do something to prevent all that neck, shoulder, and back pain. Close the barn door before it opens. Before the horse is off and running away, before the stress starts to escalate. Recognize, proactively reduce your stress.10. Covert subliminal emotional energy commonly hides itself very well. It can live anywhere, surface or deep. Is there a general vague uneasiness? Understand layers of what is happening inside you. Are these signatures making you more or less present?
11.Confront and deal with them in a variety of ways.
12. Common are the interconnections that exist between buried unresolved traumas and unfulfilled expectations.
13. Dealing with Trauma blockages—stay on the emotion—look inside and see what arises rather than ignore and block it. At the time of the trauma you couldn’t do anything but block it. However, now that you can do something about it, recognize the subliminal emotions. Investigate your feelings and sensations. No matter how heavy, you don’t have to run away. It’s ok if you cut off and become numb again. Sensations can’t hurt you, they pass just like smoke in a room. Keep working on them.
14. *****This Meditation Circle practice helps you “cut to the chase” in other spiritual traditions.
*********Often the main event of meditation of your chosen practice meanders and wastes lots of time.
*********This Circle properly prepares you for the Main meditation practice of your choice and avoids meandering. A stitch in time saves nine.
……….many thanks Joan, as ever your efforts are very much appreciated. This month’s download is certainly brimming with content and challenge! I don’t know about others, but I’m still struggling with a lack of sensitivity to the subtle energy underpinning emotions. My experience to date has been that I can ‘bring up’ a sense of feeling for a particular emotion (e.g., happy or sad), but when I ‘go quiet’ to sense the subtle subliminal emotional energy my attention is usually drawn to some sensation somewhere in my physical body – could this be a distraction, or something connected with subliminal energy? When it comes to traumas, I really struggle to remain present. I can continue counting my breaths (which I now find a more superficial exercise in remaining present – although I find counting malla beads with breaths to be very calming), but find myself distracted and drifting into ‘reminiscence mode’ about past traumas – anyone share this experience or have any ‘quick fix’ suggestions? Haven’t considered unfulfilled expectations yet – wow, reading through Joan’s summary again, there’s enough stuff this month to keep us going for many months ahead!
Happy New Year everyone out there in in the Meditation Circle community.
Hello all,
I’ve recently begun month 11 and have noticed that when I aim to evoke an emotion this tends to bring up thoughts or memories or even seemingly unrelated thoughts…. Any thoughts?
That`s good. The next step would be working this unconscious in the many ways intuitively possible without losing presence and awareness or simply let it go or disolve it. Otherwise there will be to much stress put on such emotions. Thoughts and emotions are not separate and may block energies in certain places.
Classical psychological work with the unconscious or emotional, mental or even karmic bodies, where Bön rides the karmic winds or energy towards another destiny. Middle channel work of Bön uses by the way the same psychologies of Bruce for the kidneys on tape month 14 totally neglected in the discussion there.
Axel
Thanks Axel,
The thing is by the time these thought care noticed imalready distracted, so I’m not sure how to evoke an emotion without becoming distracted by the thoughts that come in from the associated emotion…..practice I suppose. . I will take your advice though. Thanks!
It´s so rich and typical what you tell that it needs only further training for getting still more.
You think that you missed the point where you got in distraction. The restore this point or grasp and observe the whole unit restoring also presence and awareness. Usually this is done with the third eye or all eyes including the inner eye resting and observing in the problematic zone.
Do this very relaxed and calm for even better results.
Axel
……..is it wise to mix traditions during practice? I keep my Tibetan practice separate from my Taoist sessions – although recognising that each lineage share attributes. My rationale being that Bruce has crafted the Meditation Circle curriculum with some clear outcomes in mind. To mix in other influences could divert practice away from the intended progression.
Hi Everybody,
5 years later since I replied to this post, wow, time is wacky!
Funny thing is it seems I’m still in the same place!!
What I mean is, I seem to have thoughts that could be tied to an emotion yet before I notice the energy signature…also, attempting to create these overt emotions does not seem to help. Does anyone in this group have any further suggestions or even just want to share their experience?
Thanks!
Kevin
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