Whenever I feel out of sorts, whether physically, emotionally, mentally or Spiritually, all I need do is reconnect with my basic self-care practices – which I call my Constitutionals and all begins to come back into focus and relative comfort. Over the years, I’ve come to rely on how essential these simple core awareness, energy maintenance practices actually are in keeping me sane and flowing along as smoothly as possible.
On every and all
levels, actually. To recognize we all have four pillars that hold up and
support our personal reality or said another way, four rooms in which we live.
As briefly touched upon in the first line of this post; our physical,
emotional, mental and Spiritual aspects are the individual elements of our
Being that make up and comprise our overall energetic structures as Spiritual consciousness
in human form.
I’ve learned
that each of these separate components of me has to have daily attention for
the rest of me/us/Keith to feel healthy, harmonious and alive. No one of these parts
stays lock away in seclusion, prevented to see the light of day of my awareness. However
your personal tendencies go, each of us Souls in body, are unique Beings displaying different
qualities, attributes and abilities. Aside from which of these four you’re
more aligned and attuned to, in order to function as enjoyably as possible as a human,
you’re going to have to consciously interact with each of these parts of your
self, each and every day.
You don’t
necessarily have to soak your garden, drenched to the roots on a daily basis,
though keeping the soil moist sure is a good idea if you want to keep
flourishing in your life. With what all whatever taking place on this planet these
days – take your pick across the board: environmentally, economically, socially,
politically, astrologically – you name it, a whole lot surely is. This is The
Turning Of The Ages, after all.
In this Full
Moon in Scorpio Lunar Eclipse gateway underway - in Scorpio~Taurus - along with among
other major astro-aspects, a Summer long Pluto Retrograde ride – till September 20th,
the deeper foundations of our lives will be brought to bear. And that’s a fact,
Jack.
We really can’t
escape it, can we? Wherever we go, the global shift is upon us and I’d bet, in
ways we really can’t possibly even imagine. Out of necessity, we’ve become used
to or at least uncomfortably familiar with the world’s chaos exploding all
around us. Like hearing loud, run on music, after a while your hearing gets
numbed or you phase it out as your selective awareness kicks in, blocking out the
disturbing noise.
Perhaps a
brilliant expression of our innate, subconscious survival skills coming on
line, our ability to do this prevents us from energetically overloading and
short circuiting our many systems. Personally, I can only take in so much before getting backed
up, congested, unbalanced and ill. It’s inevitable. Underneath the wrappings, we're all beyond
amazing expressions of The Divine – who also have finite limitations in place that
must be accounted and attended to if we are to not only survive but hopefully
even thrive.
To be sure: we
all have to know our personal boundries or we’ll keep punishing ourselves having gone
too far past them. In this respect, like many of us, I’ve had to learn mine by having
done just this. Gone too far - but this is how I/we/all learn in Earth School.
Trial and error, over and over again until we learn to do it different. Wow,
that flame is still hot! Better not do that again …
It had been
this tendency to push too far that brought my Constitutionals into sharp focus
for me. Perhaps like waking with a monster hangover, you need quick relief to feel
better fast and just drinking water won’t do. In order to balance your head, you take a pill to do the trick. You may need a
baseball size Advil to gnaw on but in time, you’ll get back straight.
So is the
same with my Constitutionals. They always bring me back into my relative harmonious balance
point, once again.These jewels are the handful of activities I have to
do on a daily or weekly basis that keep me personally balanced, centered and as
healthy as possible. These self-care and basic energy awareness practices are my
own responsibility - and mine alone. This is numero uno, folks. In order to survive my 20's and 30's, not to mention the years since, I first had to identify
and then ongoingly maintain these simple practices to keep my sense of optimal
flow alive within myself and my life. I have suffered when I've forgotten this essential truth.
Of course, no
one ever explained this to us growing up. I must have missed the classes where
they taught this in my public school, educated youth. This, along with all the other
vitally important self-care and human awareness practices like basic communication
skills – ie. consciously expressing emotions, conflict resolution and anger
management 101and all other time tested tools that would have served me/us so
well in my life.
Oh well. If
we don’t get it from others, we have to get it for ourselves. And thus, my
Constitutional were created to do just this. For instance, I found out early
that I’m a very physically oriented guy. I have to move to be happy. Me dear ol’mum
was fond of saying I never learned how to walk. I went from crawling to running.
As a child, I was totally alive in my body and lived to play with my friends
outside. I was a natural athlete and leader who was always caught up in some game
or sports activity.
This being
said and keeping with the theory that for me to be happy as an adult, I have to
still do some of the things I Loved to do as a kid, I came to realize that
being physically active has almost always recreated the feelings of happiness
from childhood. Hey, it makes good sense to me having been consistently proven throughout
my life. This practice readily and appropriately applies to all the other rooms
in my mansion as well.
I’m not a
workout fanatic having to do one yoga class or pool swim each and
every day … however, I do need to stretch upon waking and before sleep and if
nothing else, take a good walk to enliven my body and clean my field. If I don’t,
my systems begin to clog and back up. Basic self-care tells me I really need to breathe deeply every day
to keep my emotional body open and clear and releasing the energies I constantly
transmute. If you don't learn from your mistakes, what's the point? Besides, you really can’t leave a Maserati long in the garage and expect it
to run fast and smooth at the drop of a hat.
Just so. This
also pertains, most importantly to my Spiritual consciousness as well. If I go a day
or two without sitting to meditate and pray, my field just gets backed up.
Period. If I don’t check into my emotions on a daily basis and tap into what they’re
telling me, I get off track. If I don’t feed myself good nourishing food, let
alone positive information into my system, I will get increasingly unwell. I'm just tuned this way and it's up to each of us to find what works best for us.
It’s pretty
simple, isn’t it? To perform at an preferred level, I have to do the things
that not just allow this but encourage this to happen. Again, I believe we all
have to first identify what activities or practices serve each of our
respective rooms or aspects and by golly, if we want to be sane, do them!
It’s all
about consciously moving energy – into and through our various systems – to be
as fulfilled and happy as possible. In order to be absolutely vital, we needn’t
run marathons on a weekly basis or meditate for hours or read great literature
each and every day but we do have to feed ourselves that which nourishes all
parts of ourselves.
Unless we do,
we will always be lacking and looking outside to fill what we don’t fill for ourselves
inside. And this is no fun at all. In fact, it’s a great big pain in the ass
for all concerned ... so much so, I was once recommended to immediately go have
a long ‘personality detox’ - or maybe it was just to get me to leave ... anyway, our
core balance point awareness has to be ours to consciously attend to and maintain if we are
to be content and happy within ourselves. Or not.
Either way,
through action or avoidance to be present to our own best interests, we live
our lives bouncing from one relief stop over to the next, often appearing that
we’re running just to not be still. The Awakened Sacred Masculine attends to
their own self nurturance on every and all levels. This singular orientation
allows him to be present in his life, stabilized and balanced, not sucking
energy from others to get his core needs met.
And this is a very good thing.
Can you imagine a world where most men could consistently do this?
... to be continued ...
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