THE SOUL:
The Purpose: Generate Emotional Peace:
* Generate a place of peace inside you.
* Surround yourself with peace.
* Reside in peace even when it is not peaceful.
The soul is the voice you hear within and respond to, it is not your mind but the presence of your spiritual being. Zukav say's, There are two basic systems of emotional energy to choose from: love or fear. Love is from the heart and fear is from the mind.
Love is a vertical path of living. It is the higher evolutionary basis of mankind and the enlightenment of choosing to give or serve others rather than focusing on receiving. Living in love translates into a life of respect, integrity, gratitude, gratefulness, higher purpose and trust. It is the way of living in "authentic power." In choosing to live from love, you create and generate positive emotional energy that sustains you throughout your life. That energy moves from you and around you and brings back to you positive energies.
My Teacher, Sabumnim says, "Gratitude, peace, love, generosity and fulfillment have to be generated in this life. If you choose to do it you will be in alignment with the universe. You will actually create the certainties in your life that will support the emotions you are generating in this practice." You can call it Karma, the law of attraction, or the biblical you reap what you sow, but it happens. It is a truth!
Living a life governed by fear means living on a horizontal path. Choices are doubt, envy, jealousy, insecurity, and other negative emotions, which are the darker spectrum of energy and comes from the mind-personality. I call it, "life in search of the next quick fix," always moving sideways from one experience to another similar experience while never being satisfied and always desiring more. It breeds the questions of, what do I need to do to be happy? And, why am I not happy?
Zukav in "The Seat of the Soul says: "The life of choosing from fear is one based on selfishness instead of giving." Frankly, it is easier to choose from the mind-personality without considering the consequences, but those choices usually lead to a superficial and less constructive life. In the process of living humans will evolve regardless of the choices made but the experience of the journey will be different based on the decisions and choices.
What does it mean to make choices from the spectrum of love and how will it be different from what you are doing now? Living life focused on living in the moment and making choices from the heart/soul gives us more time to enjoy what is happening now and less time worrying about what might happen. It is that fight between the mind and the soul in our choice making process where we need to focus our attention. With each choice, many paths, many possibilities open but how do you know which path is the right door? What does it feel like when you know what your task is? The best answer I can give is the feeling of floating on a bed of energy. You are tireless in your work; you have a sense of enjoyment that allows you to wake up each day refreshed and ready to continue the job. There is a sense that you are giving something of worth to the universe.
When you choose love, trust that the path you selected is correct; know your heart leads from the right place. Trust allows you to give and receive energy without judging the intentions of others. Trust allows you to let go of stress that does you harm. Trust will allow you to live life in happiness, to laugh and enjoy what life brings, even when it is not good things, because you will be able to see and have the clarity to understand that all paths lead to the same destination.