A nice shift of perception regarding how we see consciousness is to look at everything as energy wave and vibration. Energy, in an elemental form is made up of atoms and therefore, it knows no light and knows no darkness as we interpret light and dark. It is just energy. It is when that energy becomes obstructed or disturbed in its vibrational pattern that it transforms. We can view for instance the energy emitting from the sun and the planets and other heavenly bodies becoming ways that energy is transformed or reflected. This energy is constantly shifting as the planets move in their orbits in relationship with other planets and stars. You are in constant relationship to this energy and as it relates with your consciousness, it  and you are now transformed by who you are in the moment. Check out Deepak Chopra’s video on bio-rhythms. Deepak’s Biorhythm video.

 

A reductionistic analogy is to view energy as a stream flowing. and what occurs as it encounters obstacles such as boulders and logs. The flow is disrupted, moves in another direction, or irrupts as it splashes into the air. So to is this cosmic energy transformed as it comes into relationship with your heavenly body-mind system. Our ego’s shadow can be looked at as the boulder or log that obstructs the flow of our energy. The faster the stream flows, then the greater the force of the water against the boulder and rock. The flow of energy can also be affected when it encounters the blocks of our ego. When a higher vibrational energy encounters the blocks of our ego, then the greater that energy disrupts.

 

The more you work on your ego blocks, then the more this energy flows without impediment. Like the flow of the stream without it’s boulders and logs to slow the current, the current speeds along without hinderance, so too the energy flowing through your mind body system. Without the blocks, your energy vibration increases. The higher your vibrational level, the greater the challenges become when you encounter your blocks, but the greater the light is needed to break through this darkness. Now, if you look at the boulders and fallen logs in a stream as aspects of the shadow or darkness then you can begin to see that when your energy flow encounters these shadow blocks, you create your own darkness. You are disrupting the flow of your energy.

 

This can be disconcerting to some people who understand that the more “light” they carry within their mind-body system, then the greater is the darkness. Understand that as you transform the darkness and separation of your ego (which are your disowned fears) and the ego transforms into the integrated ego, this transformed ego has larger strength to remain stable with the larger and deeper darkness of your psyche. Soon, you will have burned through much of your karma and have a greater sense of peace and engagement with the world.

 

In doing consciousness work, you can use the tools and resources to assist in holding your ego steady while you fully take on the suffering of your ego’s shadow. As you hold the tension (anxiety, fear, sadness) in the context of the stable mind (heart centered awareness) then, it dissolves the block and the energy is transformed. This transformed energy will have a higher vibrational quality and more light. 

 

Remember, you cannot do this from the perception or state of awareness of the ego.  The ego is too personal. An approach from a larger and more stable part of consciousness is required. The heart centered awareness or witness state is one way to stabilize the psyche and change the state of consciousness to a state that can be present with the suffering until it transforms. Trying to do this work from a state of mind that is ego bound will only result in re-victimization and the opportunity for transformation is lost.

 

For my student’s and client’s another way to work is to recall a past session and a discussion. This will assist you in re-connecting to another state of consciousness that resides outside of the problem you are working. In our work together, I hold as deep a space with the dynamics you are involved in and that space of consciousness is available to you at anytime to connect and allow an opening within your awareness to assist you in obtaining the witness state. This is the joint work we do in order to create the space for the transformative work.