The Nature of Centered Emotion
A Novel Approach to Self Integration
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When we leave others to be them selves and recognize our problems as existing within ourselves, we will have a great deal of concentrated energy to direct toward self realization. For when we have assumed responsibility for ourselves we have gained control of ourselves. We can then expend our energies toward "being" that Quintessence of life that we were born to be.
It is entirely up to you to create your own happiness. Conscious remains uneducated to the sophisticated ways of the human world and sees through the eyes of nature. There exists an uncanny beauty in each material thing when viewed without comparison that reveals the purpose of each thing as it exists complete within itself.
To remain in contact with this state of grace requires alert attention on your part. When you allow you peace to be disturbed through needless mind analyzation, you become "separated" within yourself. A state of "wholeness" is always there waiting for you to return, as grace is a part of your human condition just as mental confusion is a part. Choose your emotional experience and work for it. Adverse conditions surround you daily, pure observation places them in proper proportion. Life is ordered. There exists no confusion in things, there is only confusion in the mind. Life exhibits a natural flow, an even pulsation of continuity. Quiet the mind and accept the existing order.
The pure Center does not demand security, it does not know of conflict. As long as we set our hearts on one particular circumstance as opposed to another, reserving our personal happiness for this happening only, we will be unhappy, constantly searching and never finding. Hopes and dreams are a part of human nature, we need to aspire to give meaning to our lives, but to reserve our happiness for the acquisition of the home and dream is not to live at all. This one moment in time is all that I shall ever truly have and when viewed minus confusion, it is beautiful to be alive.
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This is a very interesting book, consisting of mandalas based on visualizations the author has had over the years about the nature of emotions. Her primary underlying theme is that of integration, reconciliation of opposites, balance, wholeness, centeredness.
The author has glimpsed deeply and with great insight into the nature of psychological-spiritual centering. She combines intuition with logic, poetry with quotations in a broth which is as warm as it is savory. The form (manadalas) as well as the content is psychological and metaphysical in nature; this book is felt as much as it is read.
Review by Stanley Krippner PhD,
Saybrook Graduate School Co-Author of The Mythic Path
About the Author
My experience with mandalas began when for two weeks, I was privileged to experience a wonderland of spiritual vision blended in perfect harmony with the material world. For fourteen days I knew what it was like to view without judgment those things I would have considered to be evil. I knew how it felt to be free of fear and worry for each moment in its self was perfection and completion.
The fifteenth morning I woke to a flat, cold, gray appearing world. The light of my insight had been removed from my vision. Even as I felt a great loss, I was determined to find my way back to the wonder of the clear vision that had been mysteriously given to me.
A few months later, I suffered a back injury that left me handicapped for a year. My search for healing reached an intense pitch. My focus moved from my pain and disability as I began sensing symbolic light images of geometric design, which I now know are called mandalas. I dreamed of squares becoming diamonds turning into perfect circles of white light. I sensed the squares symbolized materialism, the diamonds relationships and the circles completion. I spent many hours translating these dream images to geometrical symbolic drawings. While the symbolic meaning of some of these forms were revealed to me in dreams, I became aware that I was also deeply sensing the emotions of those around me. As I did this a template (mandala) of emotional oneness evolved revealing duality and self disapproval dominating human emotion. The evolvement of these mandalas became a source of insight into the dualistic nature of emotion. They progressed to show how complete acceptance of life and self opens the mind to experience a Center Grounding between heaven and earth called NOW.