INTENSITY IS CONFLICT-FREE LIVING
Living with intensity is living without inner or outer conflict.
When a person is strongly connected with an idea or thought, they feel they can overcome any obstacle. They can flow towards the positive achievement of their goals.
However, people can also intensely create conflict! This is not the expression or radiation of true living energy within the self.
I have seen some people intensely creating conflict every moment! Anything you tell them to do, they will be ready to create a conflict.
Intense people who constantly create conflict are not flowing smoothly with people and life. They have the intensity, but it is used to create blocks and obstacles. There is no natural expression of life energy.
TECHNIQUE: OVERCOMING INNER AND OUTER WORLD CONFLICT
TECHNIQUE: MEDITATION TO INCREASE INTENSITY AND LIFE ENERGY
A small story:
A prisoner escaped from prison after twelve years and reached his home. The moment his wife opened the door she started shouting, 'How dare you come so late! You escaped from prison twenty-four hours before. Where have you been? You should have come straight back home!'
All that the woman was bothered about was why he was not back home right after he had escaped. She certainly was intense, but only in creating conflicts.
In the Shiva sutras, intensity is described as a form of living energy that rises and flows through the seven chakras in the body, which are the main energy centers. This form of energy does not create conflict, but flows smoothly and strongly.
Intensity is like a flood that is intense and flowing. We always think that if it is flowing smoothly like a river, it will not have intensity, and if it is intense like a stone, it will not be flowing freely. No!
Intensity is like a flood that is intense and flowing Real intensity does not create conflicts. It is flowing but intense. Intensity is integration. Intensity is focus. Intensity is sincerity.
When you are intense and ready to flow, you will achieve the goal, that's all.
INSTRUCTIONS
Close your eyes and sit with your spine straight. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible but as deeply as possible.
Visualize yourself as a light ball in the Mooladhara chakra or root center, at the root of the spinal cord. Forget all other parts of your body. Forget everything. Just be the light. Do this for one minute.
Intensely bring your awareness, bring yourself to the Swadhisthana chakra, two inches above the root center. Be in the Swadhisthana chakra intensely. Forget the other centers and the other parts of the body. Just be in Swadhisthana, spleen chakra. Do this for one minute.
Slowly move up to the Manipuraka chakra or the navel center. Now be intensely present in the navel center. Let your focus be on the navel center. Do this for one minute.
Move to the Anahata chakra or the heart center and stay there intensely. Do this for one minute.
Move to the Vishuddhi chakra or the throat center. Live intensely now in the throat center. Let the intense light ball be in the throat center, which is you. Do this for one minute.
Move your energy to the brow center or ajna chakra. Be centered on the third eye, Ajna chakra. Be living in the Ajna chakra. Do this for one minute.
Slowly, but intensely, bring yourself up. Lift yourself up to the Sahasrara chakra, the crown center. Be intensely present in the form of light in the crown center. Do this for one minute.
Relax.
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
We all have times when we are feeling closed, isolated, and alienated from everyone else.
At other times, we feel open and flowing. We welcome differences and change. We are conflict-free. We fall into meditation easily.
When we are feeling closed, we cannot relate to anyone. We don't even feel like meditating. Nothing wrong! The important thing is just to be aware that you are going through this.
DURATION
Not applicable.
INSTRUCTIONS
In any situation where you experience some inner conflict, just ask yourself, 'Am I open or closed right now?' Chances are, you will find that you are closed!
Most of the time, it is not the external situation that is causing the conflict. It is your level of receptivity and openness to the situation.
This technique is not for judging yourself, it is only for becoming more aware of your own state.
As you work with it, you will become more and more conscious of the subtle fluctuations of mood you go through all the time. You become conscious of your mental patterns.
Just being aware can help you make the transition from being closed to being open, at least most of the time!
Once you understand this constant flux inside yourself, you will be able to see and understand that it happens in others
also. Then you will know when exactly another person can be approached for a discussion; when he will be open to you and when he won't!
The problem is, we always see others from the outside, never from the inside. Once you see the same pattern playing in others as well, you begin to notice the mood, not the person. You get out of the blame-game.
With this simple awareness, you will find yourself becoming less judgmental and more compassionate in your relationships.
6. INTENSITY LEADS YOU TO THE ULTIMATE