Posts Tagged ‘emotions’

The Three Emotions: Part 2

The Three Emotions: Part 1

Change happens from within—inside our bodies—a recovery process of our lost selves. Emotional catharsis is necessary in order for transformation to occur.

Joshua Leavitt states, “Catharsis provides a model of healing which deals with those things which most disturb us and which we least wish to face. The model which catharsis offers, and which the millennial vision communicates, is that there is a practical way to accomplish the ancient spiritual goal of creating light out of the very substance of darkness. This process may be crucial to our physical and spiritual survival, for as the myth of apocalypse keeps reminding us, the darkness will not just go away. Instead, it must be transformed.” *

In our culture we are very good at rearranging the furniture—we are great image makers. Most are afraid to venture within, honor their bodies, emotions and personal perceptions. Our inability to say what needs to be said has made our society addictive. Those who are willing to strip away the—roles, identities, forms, concepts—and express honest feelings in order to evolve and heal, are the ones who will be able to hold the light. One must go through the dark night of the soul, empty the cup in order to receive something new.

*A work of Lamentation by Joshua Leavitt from Parabola, Spring 1998

Rhythms of Dark Expression
Life is a dance. It is sacred art and our souls are the voices of its expression. The energy of life has natural rhythms, spiral movement, circling towards the center, the womb, the shadow, then outward towards the sun into action. The female energy delves deep into the pelvis and the male energy thrusts out through the head.

The rhythm of feelings convulses through the body as waves of sexuality, the heat of passion explodes into orgasmic expression. We are repressed in our connection to our bodies and therefore we are out of touch with what the artist feels when he/she creates. Our imagination is cold without the fire from the belly, the emotions that make us ignite with the intimate call to the wild parts of ourselves, that only the artists can prophesize without fear or limitation. This is the roar of the feminine that has been squashed…we are afraid of our own selves, afraid to feel our truth, afraid to take a stand, afraid to say no or yes. We have no cycles or balance, because we are living without the soul of the woman.

The Journey of the heroine begins within. No roles, no rules, no have-tos, no shoulds, just the purity of the experience of being alive. Reclaiming the feminine is a descent into the abyss, the unknown. Inscribed in time are the names of Miriam, Vashti, Lilith, Eve, Mary and Esther. The ones who wanted more than to follow. They wanted freedom to express their own feelings and visions. Instead they were ignored and subjugated to submission and exile. The pain of living life without one’s voice, one’s truth is a fate that slaughters the cauldron that bubbles and toils with the organic soup of the primal self.
Free the body, free the heart, free the mind, free the emotions, free your instincts, free your conditioning, free your patterns, heal your wounds, free your ego, face your shadow, see through your belly button, where the third eye bursts into flames. Follow no one but your SELF.