As a Psychologist I must say I am impressed. I am just starting to explore the Tantric teachings and modern Psychology could definitely learn from these perspectives. Thank you for sharing these teachings Christopher.
This is the purpose of emotion, to let a streaming beauty flow through you. Call it spirit, elixir, or the original agreement between yourself and God. Opening into that gives peace, a song of being empty, pure silence. ~ Rumi
I asked someone a question this afternoon after a heavy flow of emotion (of course it is Rumi!❤) The question basically formed itself fully after the release, which I had been carrying around for 10 years in a container that wasp full of broken parts to some mechanical gadget, which I couldn't bring myself to look at our back together. It was amazing to hear it out loud and to share it with a trusted friend but what was so special is that the question eventually lead me to you. My friend basically did the best at helping me get more clarity and feel better as well as listening, and realising I needed more. He got a flash of a thought after about 20 minutes of talking and he told me I needed to ask you, not him. 😂I had seen you on here before and loved it but I didn't have the question then...so this time, with my question formed in my head, I sat down to watch you. I started with The Spandap of Invite and Surrender after which my question was answered in totality. Then it skipped to another one of yours after some technical issue with the internet and it took me to another clip on Free Will as a follow up and from that I got inspired because I had been watching Sapolsky recently so I got a deeper meaning from another perspective. A wave of inspiration got me back on my cushion, finally after months of resistance. I continued to listen to you, and meditated blissfully for 45minutes! Thank you Hareesh Wallis. I have been so puzzled and concerned about a bunch of things that keep happening in my workplace because of how I habitually react to colleagues who behave in ways that I see as fundamentally not good. I know this stems from me because it has happened at three teaching jobs I have had in 10 years. So, I know my approach is flawed and causing harm. So, after 10 years I am ready to stop this insanity and grow up in order to stay on the path, but with your guidance this time. I will be checking out all your mahi as you have urged. Hei kona mai. Aroha nui me ka nui te mihi ki a koe e hoa. 🌞🌚✨🤝
My heart loves this. I've started to read "Tantra Illuminated" - and though I was never interested in Tantra Yoga and all the "philosophy and weird practice" (I thought) every page is a blessing and a revelation. There is an immense resonance. Thank you for your Heart and your incredible clarity, it touches me deeply.
This is really helpful. I’ve had a story that I can’t handle this much energy, my body physically can’t. I’m going to reframe that story. It’s still hard to believe I actually can handle it though. I guess that mental construct is pretty strong. I also have been resisting it because of thinking it was just “too much”. So maybe that made it more difficult. Thank you for this, I can’t even tell you just how much and how long I have struggled with this, and even this one video means so much. 🙏🏼❤️
This question is (to my my mind . . .) the quintessential Tantrik question . . . because Tantra has the answer to it that no other spiritual practice has. And that answer is: experience the intense emotion fully in the physical body without trying to avoid, suppress, or interfere with it in any way whatsoever.. One can explain why that is a good practice from various different conceptual frameworks. But it's as near to a complete practice in itself . . . as one can get. Very underrated.
What's your experience of working with trauma? I love what you are saying and I get what you are saying about story. I know that in my subconscious there is a part of me which is stuck as a young child with the hurt and anger of being abused. I really want to let it go, but how can I enable that part of me to let go of the need for justice and recognition?
I watch this video every so often, just to keep the teaching of strengthening the energy body fresh. It goes well with Tara Brach’s RAIN method, which teaches you step by step, from a Buddhist perspective, how to let the emotion move through your bodymind. I love it when the teachings of Tantrik Yoga and Buddhism (and Western science, for that matter), converge.
Wow Hareesh, the more I study your books, Tantrik institute and blog the more I want to connect with you personally. I'm from Brazil and I'm looking forward to meet you in Person. Much love Fellipe Aruna
I had a very strong experience where I was screamed in my face at by a guy where I couldn't move away, I used a technique called EMDR during the experience, I felt calm ,however my body did not like it and I felt intense pain in my upper back which made me fold over in front of the guy, when his anger was spent he stopped screaming at me and the pain went away, he did not even see me bending over in agony,. During the experience I thought I've got to get this guy to stop and take me to hospital. Later a friend told me it was my adrenals reacting because I could not run away and was not fighting back. This caused me yo be traumatized and very stressed for a long time after. How can it be mind in this case?
Hi Margaret, it isn't mind in the sense that your reaction was a mental construct, or that any other reaction was available to you. But the pain you experienced, and the subsequent stress and trauma, are a result of how your mind framed the experience. I would have a very different experience in the same situation, because my mind frames things in a very different way. I would suggest to you that if you were able to frame anger coming at you as pure energy rather than something negative or hurtful, you would have a very different experience of it. This is just the beginning of an answer to your question, but hopefully it sheds some light. best, H.
Thank you Christopher I'm quite blown away that you took the time to reply personally to my question. I don't doubt for one minute that rage is an energy, and a extremely strong if destructive energy. My experience wasn't a result of holding or running from the energy. I am truly wanting an answer and am not interested in being arguementive. I was thinking at the time I would just wait until I had a chance to explain that his reaction was a result of a misunderstanding. The subsequent anxiety and trauma was because I was led to believe that I had no option but to continue with him as my driving instructor. Sorry it's a very long story of abusive treatment that I have put myself through in order to fulfill my desire of building a place to live on my property. I doubt if I had know how hard this experience would be if I would have chosen to go through with it. But I could say the same thing about other experiences I have had. I'm don't give up easily. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing I'm not saying perhaps both.. I had been living in Tokyo Japan for 26 years when a lung virus which turned into phnuemonia (not Corona virus) ended my life there and I was quite unprepared for the culture here in NZ which is quite misogynistic in comparison. Stupidly I thought I would be treated as one of the boys on my carpentry course. They certainly let me know my assumptions were quite wrong. I was bullied and scapegoated and dissed at every opportunity. Thing to mention here is I was not a bad student I could say even good at the course. I managed as you said to digest these conditions for the first year of the course and part way through the second year. A fellow student encouraged me to challenge the continual battering I was receiving and I did and that helped for a while. There is more to the story and it is really long. Sorry. And thank you for taking the time to read it. I experienced loss of identity and battering from environment to try and fix my identity as a battered woman or something close to that. I'd really like to know how to do the trick of letting the energy flow through as you describe under intense and ongoing onslaught such as I describe. Please don't think that I have not experienced joy and peace during this time. Gosh sorry it's so long. I'll send this now before it becomes a novel. Once more thank you for ur time after all time is all any of us have. Sending love and light to you and yours.
@@christopherwallis751 I can get what you say for every day occurrences, but what about stuck childhood trauma from incest? No matter how that's reframed, it's changed something in the body and hindbrain. Do you apply this teaching to that?
@@doublelightangel despite current narratives to the contrary, anything, no matter how horrendous, can be completely healed and resolved. It may not be *likely*, but it's *possible*. I've seen it happen. more than once. of course it takes more than just the practice taught in this short video.
@@christopherwallis751 But trauma doesn't appear to work this way! I have a life-long aversion to needles. I can look at a hypodermic and go into a flight or fight state before any "story" arises; indeed, there appears to be a direct line between the visual cue and the nervous system's response that bypasses "story". What is it that I am not recognizing, here ?
@@jazz_addict7079 fear of injury is not chronic anxiety. i had a lifelong aversion to needles until i had to take insulin to stay alive. now i have zero problem with them. every mentally constructed experience is plastic if you allow it to be plastic.
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As a Psychologist I must say I am impressed. I am just starting to explore the Tantric teachings and modern Psychology could definitely learn from these perspectives. Thank you for sharing these teachings Christopher.
please watch the more in-depth follow-up video called you are not at the mercy of your emotions.
Unbedingt anschauen!!! In diesem teaching steckt alles, was wir brauchen, um so viel freier zu werden.
Meinen tiefsten Dank!
This is the purpose of emotion, to let a streaming beauty flow through you. Call it spirit, elixir, or the original agreement between yourself and God. Opening into that gives peace, a song of being empty, pure silence.
~ Rumi
I asked someone a question this afternoon after a heavy flow of emotion (of course it is Rumi!❤) The question basically formed itself fully after the release, which I had been carrying around for 10 years in a container that wasp full of broken parts to some mechanical gadget, which I couldn't bring myself to look at our back together. It was amazing to hear it out loud and to share it with a trusted friend but what was so special is that the question eventually lead me to you. My friend basically did the best at helping me get more clarity and feel better as well as listening, and realising I needed more. He got a flash of a thought after about 20 minutes of talking and he told me I needed to ask you, not him. 😂I had seen you on here before and loved it but I didn't have the question then...so this time, with my question formed in my head, I sat down to watch you. I started with The Spandap of Invite and Surrender after which my question was answered in totality. Then it skipped to another one of yours after some technical issue with the internet and it took me to another clip on Free Will as a follow up and from that I got inspired because I had been watching Sapolsky recently so I got a deeper meaning from another perspective. A wave of inspiration got me back on my cushion, finally after months of resistance. I continued to listen to you, and meditated blissfully for 45minutes! Thank you Hareesh Wallis. I have been so puzzled and concerned about a bunch of things that keep happening in my workplace because of how I habitually react to colleagues who behave in ways that I see as fundamentally not good. I know this stems from me because it has happened at three teaching jobs I have had in 10 years. So, I know my approach is flawed and causing harm. So, after 10 years I am ready to stop this insanity and grow up in order to stay on the path, but with your guidance this time. I will be checking out all your mahi as you have urged. Hei kona mai. Aroha nui me ka nui te mihi ki a koe e hoa. 🌞🌚✨🤝
My heart loves this. I've started to read "Tantra Illuminated" - and though I was never interested in Tantra Yoga and all the "philosophy and weird practice" (I thought) every page is a blessing and a revelation. There is an immense resonance. Thank you for your Heart and your incredible clarity, it touches me deeply.
This is really helpful. I’ve had a story that I can’t handle this much energy, my body physically can’t. I’m going to reframe that story. It’s still hard to believe I actually can handle it though. I guess that mental construct is pretty strong. I also have been resisting it because of thinking it was just “too much”. So maybe that made it more difficult. Thank you for this, I can’t even tell you just how much and how long I have struggled with this, and even this one video means so much. 🙏🏼❤️
glad to hear it. please also watch the video called you are not at the mercy of your emotions.
@@christopherwallis751 I will. Thank you.
This question is (to my my mind . . .) the quintessential Tantrik question . . . because Tantra has the answer to it that no other spiritual practice has. And that answer is: experience the intense emotion fully in the physical body without trying to avoid, suppress, or interfere with it in any way whatsoever.. One can explain why that is a good practice from various different conceptual frameworks. But it's as near to a complete practice in itself . . . as one can get. Very underrated.
Here is a (rare) example of a Tantrik version of Zen practice that explicitly follows this principle: ruclips.net/video/MpbyzeJ155k/видео.html
Beautiful wisdom, my complete gratitude to you Chris. Seriously this should be taught in school.
What's your experience of working with trauma? I love what you are saying and I get what you are saying about story. I know that in my subconscious there is a part of me which is stuck as a young child with the hurt and anger of being abused. I really want to let it go, but how can I enable that part of me to let go of the need for justice and recognition?
I watch this video every so often, just to keep the teaching of strengthening the energy body fresh. It goes well with Tara Brach’s RAIN method, which teaches you step by step, from a Buddhist perspective, how to let the emotion move through your bodymind. I love it when the teachings of Tantrik Yoga and Buddhism (and Western science, for that matter), converge.
Thank you million...♡
Divine timing - to set aside the story 😅... Thank you 🙏🏼✨
Thank you for this. I was just grappling with the issues addressed here
Thank you for your invaluable knowledge and the spirit of generosity. So happy to have found you. Salutations to the lord who speaks through you.
Beautiful and useful, thank you!
incredible talk
This video helped me a lot in my current situation
Brilliant talk 🙏thank you
This is beautiful thank you
Thank you
the only way out is all the way through
Awesome! I never liked the phrase 'let it go'. I love 'let it flow'.
Gyani purush. Good job 👍.
Wow Hareesh, the more I study your books, Tantrik institute and blog the more I want to connect with you personally. I'm from Brazil and I'm looking forward to meet you in Person.
Much love
Fellipe Aruna
I had a very strong experience where I was screamed in my face at by a guy where I couldn't move away, I used a technique called EMDR during the experience, I felt calm ,however my body did not like it and I felt intense pain in my upper back which made me fold over in front of the guy, when his anger was spent he stopped screaming at me and the pain went away, he did not even see me bending over in agony,. During the experience I thought I've got to get this guy to stop and take me to hospital. Later a friend told me it was my adrenals reacting because I could not run away and was not fighting back. This caused me yo be traumatized and very stressed for a long time after. How can it be mind in this case?
Hi Margaret, it isn't mind in the sense that your reaction was a mental construct, or that any other reaction was available to you. But the pain you experienced, and the subsequent stress and trauma, are a result of how your mind framed the experience. I would have a very different experience in the same situation, because my mind frames things in a very different way. I would suggest to you that if you were able to frame anger coming at you as pure energy rather than something negative or hurtful, you would have a very different experience of it. This is just the beginning of an answer to your question, but hopefully it sheds some light. best, H.
Thank you Christopher
I'm quite blown away that you took the time to reply personally to my question.
I don't doubt for one minute that rage is an energy, and a extremely strong if destructive energy.
My experience wasn't a result of holding or running from the energy. I am truly wanting an answer and am not interested in being arguementive.
I was thinking at the time I would just wait until I had a chance to explain that his reaction was a result of a misunderstanding.
The subsequent anxiety and trauma was because I was led to believe that I had no option but to continue with him as my driving instructor.
Sorry it's a very long story of abusive treatment that I have put myself through in order to fulfill my desire of building a place to live on my property.
I doubt if I had know how hard this experience would be if I would have chosen to go through with it. But I could say the same thing about other experiences I have had.
I'm don't give up easily. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing I'm not saying perhaps both..
I had been living in Tokyo Japan for 26 years when a lung virus which turned into phnuemonia (not Corona virus) ended my life there and I was quite unprepared for the culture here in NZ which is quite misogynistic in comparison.
Stupidly I thought I would be treated as one of the boys on my carpentry course. They certainly let me know my assumptions were quite wrong. I was bullied and scapegoated and dissed at every opportunity. Thing to mention here is I was not a bad student I could say even good at the course.
I managed as you said to digest these conditions for the first year of the course and part way through the second year. A fellow student encouraged me to challenge the continual battering I was receiving and I did and that helped for a while.
There is more to the story and it is really long. Sorry. And thank you for taking the time to read it.
I experienced loss of identity and battering from environment to try and fix my identity as a battered woman or something close to that.
I'd really like to know how to do the trick of letting the energy flow through as you describe under intense and ongoing onslaught such as I describe.
Please don't think that I have not experienced joy and peace during this time.
Gosh sorry it's so long. I'll send this now before it becomes a novel.
Once more thank you for ur time after all time is all any of us have.
Sending love and light to you and yours.
@@christopherwallis751 I can get what you say for every day occurrences, but what about stuck childhood trauma from incest? No matter how that's reframed, it's changed something in the body and hindbrain. Do you apply this teaching to that?
@@doublelightangel despite current narratives to the contrary, anything, no matter how horrendous, can be completely healed and resolved. It may not be *likely*, but it's *possible*. I've seen it happen. more than once. of course it takes more than just the practice taught in this short video.
❄️🔱🙏
what about fear as in chronic anxiety ? Science has clearly shown that fear has negative impact on the physiology and in the long run causes disease.
not if you let it move through without identifying with it or believing the associated story.
@@christopherwallis751 But trauma doesn't appear to work this way! I have a life-long aversion to needles. I can look at a hypodermic and go into a flight or fight state before any "story" arises; indeed, there appears to be a direct line between the visual cue and the nervous system's response that bypasses "story". What is it that I am not recognizing, here ?
@@jazz_addict7079 fear of injury is not chronic anxiety. i had a lifelong aversion to needles until i had to take insulin to stay alive. now i have zero problem with them. every mentally constructed experience is plastic if you allow it to be plastic.
@@rickdeckard1075 Not sure what you mean by "plastic" -- do you mean "malleable" ?
Beautiful and useful, thank you!