“May you be born in interesting times”. We’re here! It is pretty obvious that our values have changed dramatically in the last twenty years. Our role in society has also changed, and a great many of us are living, now, quietly, in the new life.
Even our perspectives on the cycles of nature have changed. In the springtime, the element of wood, your liver is busy developing plans and goals. This is the prime time for your gall bladder to make good judgments regarding who and what you will commit your energies to.
Now we align to the bounty of summertime, the . Your heart rules this season. The emphasis shifts from vigorous growth to flowering and putting forth the fruit of our endeavors. We naturally experience warmth and loving kindness toward others—and to all of nature. We achieve ripeness and maturity. There is so much beauty and goodness. This is the exquisite present moment.
Unconsciousness, on the other hand, is like a sticky web, built up of all the fears that people have not stopped and actually experienced. It is unpleasant to get caught up in that web. It is natural to experience anger, worry and all of the other fears when faced with such exquisite obstacles to block the pathway of your heart’s desires. The simple act of experiencing those feelings releases you from the entanglement of the web.
Feelings that are not experienced build up in your body. Since they must express somehow, they express outward as all of the toxic thoughts you are plagued with. All thinking and talking about negative feelings does is reinforce them. Nothing changes. The wheels just go round and round.
If you are not feeling them out, you are thinking them inward. As you are thinking those feelings inwardly, all of your cells are absolutely convinced that they are the targets of those feelings. Muscle testing absolutely confirms this. If you hold a negative reaction about someone, and you have not stopped and actually experienced that feeling, it forms another barrier between you and that person.
Your heart is the only part of your bodymind that has the right to be judgmental, and it chooses instead to forgive. When you stop and experience the negative feeling, it no longer exists between you and that person. You have given it up—forgiven it. From then on, that karmic act is between that person and Creator. It is equally important for you to experience the feelings you hold about your responses. That breaks the cycle of self-criticism. And, no one likes to be criticized…
It generates 5,000 times more electro-magnetic force than your brain. All of the negative feelings that you do not stop and actually experience dampen the force of your heart’s love. Everyone suffers. The power to transform the world by one person who loves, displaces the fears of a hundred who cannot.
The more you can stay on the straight and narrow path of cherishing yourself, cherishing others and cherishing your plans and dreams, the more power your heart has to put its desires out into the world. What you do truly counts. The power of your love is such a precious treasure. Of all the times in history, this is the time to stand up and be counted.
Wishing you kind thoughts and treasured moments this summer,
John L. Mayfield, D.C.
