Can you keep your heart open in hell?

This week’s spiritual healing blog starts with a question – Do you feel anyone goes to hell after death?                                  No. I didn’t think you did…

The only hell I know of is the one we create when we allow our thoughts to take us there. So, when I ask, ‘can you keep your heart open in hell’, what I mean is this.

When you are closing down from anger, fear, insecurity or feel you have lost your way, try to keep some openness in your heart.

Say ‘This too will pass,’ and Believe this will prove the case.

If you do not, you’ll push your negative feelings deeper into your being. They will take root and what will happen is that not only will your heart get tighter, you will repeat your old patterns and mistakes.

It is only in the understanding that all situations and feelings are temporary – whether we regard them as positive or negative – that the heart can breathe.  This means not clinging to things we’d like to last forever and not despising pain.

When we can answer ‘Don’t know’ to the questions that come to trip us up, the heart is able to heal its wounds.

Will he/she love me forever? ‘Don’t know.’

Will my house be taken by bailiffs? ‘Don’t know.’

Will I fail my exams? ‘Don’t know.’

It is only in the openness of ‘don’t know’ that we can experience the melting away of conditioning and expectations and begin the process of just ‘being.’  When we can open to the truth of what each moment brings, life goes beyond heaven and hell – and beyond the mind’s constant quest for satisfaction and answers.

There is fear in the mind. Who is feeling it?  ‘Don’t know, but it’s OK for this too will pass.’

There is jealousy in the mind. Who is feeling it? ‘Don’t know, but it’s OK for this too will pass.’

Whatever you think is not OK, closes the heart. That’s when you feel pain.

The next time pain rips into your heart, feel the openness of saying ‘I’ve got no idea what’s happening, but I’m OK with it, because this too will pass.’

This is what is meant by keeping our hearts open in hell. When we do, the raging fire burns to ash and both heart and spirit are healed.

Jaylen Grace is the author of Omtopia (The seven steps to enlightenment) and other books.

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The Ten Bodies We Bring With Us To Earth

Living in a body is not an easy cross to carry, but something that helped me to get a deeper understanding of who I was, both as a human and as a travelling soul, was to study Eastern scripture. This states that when we are born we bring ten ‘energy bodies’ with us.  Eight of these bodies are filtered into the mind when the umbilical cord is cut and represent our ‘human experience.‘  These include the DNA and personality traits that have been passed to us through our mothers, fathers and previous generations (which is why we sometimes wonder who the heck we are!).

The eight energy bodies also include the DNA of planet Earth and the Earth’s vibration at the time we were born, and if the heavens were rocking and rolling when you made your entrance that doesn’t mean you are doomed.  It simply means that along with everyone else who was born in the same year and at the same time as you, your life challenges will be relevant to that vibration and it’s up to you whether you sink or swim.

The other two energy bodies are those which contain the aura and the soul.  It is in these bodies that consciousness lives.  We are going to bring these elements of ourselves alive by climbing a ladder of seven chakras. (If you pick up any book on yoga, you will come across this word, which in Sanskrit means a wheel of energy).

These chakras are aligned along the spinal column in our esoteric body, from the base of the spine to the crown, and we will be tackling these in ascending order.  Each chakra respresents a specific world for us to master and conquer.  The first, at the base of the spine, governs the world of ‘Me’ and ‘I’ – as in how much do I like, love, trust and believe in myself.  The second chakra governs the world of relationships and how good we are at maintaining them. The third governs the world of balance and how well we fare in life’s storms. The fourth governs the world of the heart and how good we are at giving and receiving love. The fifth governs the world or speech and how we get what we HAVE through the words we utter. The sixth governs the world of intuition and how to awaken our psychic powers. The seventh reveals the secrets of living in a conscious mind.

Each chakra owns a territory of body parts and organs and when someone is ill we can tell which chakra is blocked by the nature of the illness.  For example, someone blocked in the first chakra (the world of self belief), could be rewarded with digestive and bladder problems until the issue causing the disturbance was dealt with.  Through the means of chakra psychology, we are going to analyse how we make ourselves physically sick and find out why certain personality types are prone to repeatedly getting ‘stuck’ in the same chakra. You will find out why I have given these personality types names like Constipation and Diarrhoea types, Tortoises, Labradors, Parrots and Ducks and how empowerment and personal growth get stunted through faulty thinking.

More importantly, you will discover the dormant new you – with exercises, techniques, wisdom tales, laughter, tears and additional guidance from Masters; all of which can be applied to overcome whatever life throws at you on a daily basis.

I sincerely hope Omtopia brings you closer to enlightenment…..  Enjoy the journey.

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Jaylen Grace has been a Reiki master, yoga teacher and international life coach for over 30 years and more recently has turned her healing skills and experience to writing for children and adults.  The above excerpt is from her book Omtopia (7 steps to enlightenment) which will be published in July 2013.