Vanquishing Demons in Life!

This time, the inspiration to write this article came from studies about Epigenetics and The Field. It also came from the feedback I received from private clients and from my yoga students. There is a deeper understanding that comes from the merging of all those different approaches: classes and sessions, my own practice and learning. The understanding is not exactly about “how” the body’s energy field is a major influence in the development of our genes, our cells and the general cohesion of our bodily systems, but “why”.I also remember the movie The Living Matrix where it showed numerous case studies and interviews with people who have been successfully cured of conditions such as cerebral palsy, an inoperable brain tumor, kidney abnormalities and chronic fatigue syndrome, without the need for damaging operations, without the intervention of traditional medicine.

When a person is under stress they shut off their growth, they shut off their immune system and they shut down their conscious processing in deference to doing reactive behavior, which means you become less intelligent.  So, as the stresses in this world are mounting, what we are finding is people‘s health is adversely affected, the growth of the system is obstructed, and there‘s less intelligence in dealing with the issues because the fear is pushing us into reactive behavior.  Fear is the worst enemy of our society because fear shuts down open communication; it shuts down the light of the heart.

A lot of people feel they have to protect themselves from toxic energy or a toxic environment, and they talk about psychic bubbles and that sort of thing, and I was so glad when I read what Lynne Taggart (The Field) has to say about this matter, because I agree completely whit her. She feels if we’re supposed to all be connected, the last thing we’d want to do is be protected from each other. She says: “Most of the times, what you’re picking up, it is because of what you’re sending out.”

One thing we know is that we’re all sending and receiving a constant conversation of quantum light.  There’s a lot of synchronicity in the information going back and forth.  In this quantum world of light (picture) we’re sending and receiving whether we know it or not, and so the likelihood is that if there is a negative situation you are experiencing now, it is partly of your own making because you’re sending out information to help make it so.  The first thing Lynne would recommend is to start sending out positive information and energy. And this comes from very far before us, for the yogis, thousand years ago, used to teach about karma and the consequences of your actions and thoughts.

All there is, is consciousness
Manifestation is consciousness in appearance.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Working with Body Talk /PaRama Systems, we say that we facilitate the body’s own natural ability to heal itself. The body-mind’s own innate wisdom guides the process and the disease or problem gives way to health and well-being. And what really is this disease (or problem) that reaches us in the first place?

As our Body Talk/PaRama colleague Tim Hall says: “Our ability to experience is so inclusive that we can experience reality (that which exists) and we can experience illusion (that which does not exist). And physically we can have the same effects on both.” This means that it does not matter if the experience is real or not. Your mind and all the relationships with it is going to respond anyway.

We all have an inner call, right? We all have that natural yearning to bring forth a more natural, auspicious way to live. We do not want just to live. We want to live for the highest and go for the best of our ability. What would mean to be the best of we could be? To shine the brightest light we can shine? To experience the best health and wealth we can?

Ancient yogis always have been said that when we understand the nature of light, it is easy to deal with darkness. Like in a room that has been in darkness for all times – simply turn on the light, the darkness will vanish. Health works the same way: introduce health to the body-mind and everything rises to a higher level of awareness and life improves.

And it is the increase in awareness that brings the body-mind-heart satisfaction we all crave and not the elimination of symptoms.

A few months ago I received a Goddess Kali myth story from our philosophy teacher: Douglas Brooks that speaks to vanquishing the “demons” (darkness) in life. So here we go:

“One of the fiercest adversaries that Kali (the goddess of destruction) faces is a demon named “Rakta Bija” (aka, blood seed). The story goes that this Rakta Bija was terrorizing the earth, and every time the gods tried to slay the demon, each drop of blood spilled became a new Rakta Bija. So very quickly, they had infinite Rakta Bijas on the loose and the gods were really worried. So they appealed to Shiva (the All-Consciousness), who was too busy meditating to be bothered much, but he sent Kali to deal with the demon.

The word for “demon” in Sanskrit is rakshasa, which literally means “the protected ones” (or the enlightened ones?). It’s a strange idea, but they are protected in the sense that they cannot be destroyed. The teaching of demons is that there are indeed real adversaries (darkness) in the world that we must face, AND that you can’t ever really get rid of anything that exists.

This way, we could consider there is no cause for light or for darkness to exist. Everything must have its place (and so the Tantric philosophy strategy is first one of radical affirmation of the world), and the key to peace and health is to place things so that what is truly adversarial doesn’t destroy us or create more demons.

How does Kali (picture) handle Rakta Bija? Well of course the first thing she tries is to slay him. Don’t we all? Whenever there’s anything challenging or adversarial that we’re up against, the impulse is to destroy it. But the teaching of Rakta Bija is that this doesn’t really work; if we try to slay a demon (to fight against darkness), it just creates more demons (it will attract more darkness).Kali’s response, then, is to roll out her huge tongue and swallow all of the Rakta Bijas whole. In this way she gives the protected ones a place, a place inside where they can be assimilated and turned into her nourishment and fortification.

The Kali/Rakta Bija myth can be applied to how we deal with darkness/diseases/problems. They are like demons; they’re adversaries that you have to confront. If we avoid engaging them, they wreak havoc on the world. If we try to deal with them piecemeal, by working on that part of the body in isolation from the rest, they just create more Rakta Bijas. We have to engage the situation whole, and, like Kali, swallow it so it becomes something that we assimilate and learn from, something we use as food.

Remember, the demons/darknesses in life are “protected”: you couldn’t really eliminate them if you wanted to, and you also wouldn’t really want a life without them. Why? Because if we never face any adversaries, if we never are put to the challenge: we never really grow ourselves. If we do not have darkness we can’t seek for the light. Which is to say, we need something to push up against in order to grow. We need to face darkness so we can inspire to look for the light.

Light and darkness and health and disease are not at war. They work together to bring out the essential nature, which is the pure experience of existence beyond health and disease.

By continually learning from darkness and introducing light, we move more and more into the light. By this process, we reach a point where the quality of fullness dominates, and we become illuminated by pure awareness that we essentially are. This does not eliminate darkness, it reveals its true nature, which is: light!

The yoga practice inspires all these alternative practices. It creates a consciousness-based depth of understanding and experience which we call a shift in perspective – from ignorance to truth; from suffering to awareness; from non-self to Self.

For more than 10 years I have been bringing all my yoga experience into this new field of what you may call: alternative medicine, informational medicine, natural healing, consciousness therapy… you name it.  Besides being a senior yoga teacher I became a Reiki master and a BodyTalk/PaRama practitioner… Intuition was working by my side, blending and merging that ancient philosophy with all of the new noetic science.

And now, for my surprise, the new science is moving towards the ancient teachings of yoga philosophy!

We do not deny the experience of disease or darkness, or any problem in life, we simply recognize it for what it is: the gaining of a new awareness, higher-consciousness and deeper experience. I love this Tim’s phrase, which says: “Living life fully requires a perspective capable of standing in the gap to see and appreciate 100% light and 100% darkness.”

Our transcendent journey of self-realization requires a deep dive within. All your answers, the most deep and true answers are within us, within our heart, within our consciousness.  In the ancient yoga scriptures we are moving from a dark age (Kali Yuga) to a more enlightened age (Dwapara Yuga). This means we are going to connect more through intuitive communication than exactly talking… a health state in the future will consider more the expression of the light of your soul than what your physical body can perform.

Lynn Taggart says that in 50 years time, the idea of using drugs or surgery is probably going to be considered barbaric.  We’re moving much more towards an understanding of ourselves as being an energetic system, a light system… a light being.

If you think of our cells as just pure vibrating packets of nothingness, or energy, or light, then you have to deal with things in a very different way than just carving up pieces of flesh or giving drugs to try to change a chemical reaction.

Lynn continues: “We’re now understanding that we’re much more subtle than that and we don’t operate in a linear fashion.  If you try to affect one part of us, you affect all parts of us.  And so we have to approach things very differently than the idea of just fix the broken machine.”

The current medicine pattern we have available clearly demonstrates that it doesn’t work.  Now we realize that we’ve been using the wrong paradigm, that we’re something very different from what medicine thinks we are, and so we have to deal with ourselves as an energetic system out of balance, and that‘s really what we should be looking at and trying to heal.

“There’s a real strong transformative power in group intention and communal intention,” Lynne reminds us.  “In the face of adversity, get together with your friends and do some intentions together.”  This can also be done at work, if you have people who are like-minded, and can also be done remotely.

As we transcend health and disease by practicing to be present, we open for the light within to shine outside and all around. Or we can choose to have consciousness-based BodyTalk sessions,  Reiki sessions, or to move into gracious or challenging poses, or either dance, chant, meditate, or just walking on the beach with bare feet…

What eases all suffering in life is the power of revelation of our inherent nature that comes with greater awareness. This is Yoga. This is pure healing.And I just finish here saying that the question is not if we are doing Yoga. The question is not if we are in the path of growth and healing. Yoga and growth is in everything we do. The question is are we doing our best?

And this is our journey to our Truth.

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