Chapter 4 - Fear and Feeling Tones
The young man's night was filled with dreams of old sages sitting around a table; each one of them coming forward to teach him about their individual aspect of the thirty three. Of course when he woke in the morning he would remember none of it other than a queer feeling in his stomach that would stay with him forever; appearing when a deep teaching came forward from the Tao or one of the 33 sages.
When he woke he looked around but could not see the old sage. Something wasn't right; the uneasy feeling he had in the stomach made him feel uncomfortable and at the same time he began to feel fearful. Had something happened to the old sage? Had he done something to upset him? In panic, he looked around where they had camped over night but there was no sign of him. He looked over to the mountains and he could see the sun was already peeking over the range. He had slept in; it was well past the time they were meant to be on the road. Had his lack of discipline caused the old sage to leave him behind.
He was becoming more anxious and overwhelmed. What if he never saw the old sage again. Almost voluntarily he took a deal breath, held it for a moment and immediately he began to relax. He took another deep breath and held that for a moment and his attention moved from forest around him to a point deep within himself. In the deepness he could the old sage in the forest, no more than five hundred meters from where he was now sitting. He put his belongings in his pack, put the long staff through the pack and tossed it over his shoulder and then followed the inner feelings, sure that it would lead him to the old sage.
He found the old sage in a clearing where he was sitting around an open fire. The old sage gave Huo a cup of of tea and motioned for him to sit on a log beside him.
"Fear is such an amazing emotion," he said. "In small doses it stops us from walking into situations where we can be harmed. If we are really in touch with these inner feelings the fear or energy that comes forward are not creations of our own subconscious mind but inner promptings from our higher self which can truly can show us the way. Our ancestors, those who lived in touch with nature and the elements, had a sixth sense and so when they went into situations where the fear hairs stood up on the back of their neck they had a reason to listen. Everything in the universe has a feeling or feeling tone, a vibration if you will, that you can tap into or feel.
"Today it is a different story as more and more of our people live in villages and cities. The fight and flight reactions that were hard wired into us in the past are not needed as much and yet when you look at the people around you there seem to be more fears today in our safer world than there ever was. Why is this? I believe it is because we are out of touch with nature and the cycles within nature. Those who still live on the land are still in contact with these cycles and for the most part seem to have less fears than us so called civilized people that populate the villages and cities. We need to get back in touch with the cycles within ourselves and within nature. Most people seem to have forgotten that we are made up of these cycles. There are our biorhythms, our sleep cycles, women's menstrual cycles and even the greatest cycle of all, our conception, birth, death and rebirth and many more. All of these are natures cycles and yet many of us seem so divorced from nature and our own cycles.
"By reconnecting with these cycles an inner or innate knowledge starts to come alive and we begin to see and feel things before they happen. Whenever you go into a new situation or meet a new person send a molecule of your feelings into it or them and allow whatever returns to guide your next move. It starts with a stillness and being able to open yourself up to the answer which lies within.
"All life is energy; so when you meet someone new or meet a new situation then it will have an energy. Get in the habit of stilling your mind chatter and allow the feelings to come forward; these inner feelings will always steer you in the right direction. These feelings are not emotion like anger, frustration etc, but a feeling tone that comes up from deep within. When you woke and found I was not there your initial reaction was to panic and become fearful; that was just your subconscious mind, your ego reacting to the unknown. When you took a deep breath and began to quite the mind you were tapping into the energy of the situation and your higher self allowed you to connect with the feeling of where I was.
"It is hard to describe to anyone who hasn't experienced it, but when you begin to play with the feelings you will be lead to deeper understandings than your rational mind could give you; for your rational mind is trapped in the matrix created by your ego. I want you to practice using your feeling tones whenever you have a decision to be made. In the early stages of anything new it will feel weird, silly and uncomfortable, but if you have discipline your efforts will be worth it.
"To begin with have your options metaphorically or physically in front of you. After a few seconds take a deep breath as you did earlier and allow the mind to become still. If it takes you longer then that is okay as I have been doing this technique for many years. Once your mind is still allow the feelings to come up from within or simply send a molecule of your own feeling into the situation. In the early days of my training I would have just pushed the feeling aside, not realizing that it was the answer I was looking for. When these feelings come forward try not to judge them because this engages the ego and blocks these wonderful gifts which come from your higher self.
"It really is as is simple as that to engage your real feeling centre and allow the higher self to show you where to go. Practice it. Play with it. Make a fool of yourself. Once you get to the stage when you accept the information that comes forward, something happens and you open up a doorway for your higher self to come through more often. To others you may seem like you are in a dream world, but you are in bliss.
"As with all these techniques practice makes perfect. Don't spend all day practicing them as this would out of a balance. Don't talk to others about what you are doing until you feel comfortable with the technique as it will dissipate the energy."
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