Seeing a Therapist

[xise]

xise, can you be more specific about techniques you use for working on yellow (and other) rays?

Just some general thoughts, because I think the techniques are slightly different for everyone, and each ray has an infinite amount of sub-concepts that can be distorted that may or may not apply to your journey. My yellow ray involved issues involved two things: (1) I believed green ray acceptance meant accepting the future -but that is not true, you accept the present but if you don't believe your power to change the future, you destroy your yellow, positives believe in changing the future without hurting or impinging on other's free will, negatives believe in changing in whatever manner they desire (2) However, not directly involving bdd, I also had trouble saying no, as I self-judged and did not accept myself for saying no to someone, somehow believing that I was was not loving to say no to someone. This affected orange, yellow, and blue. But I am also another self whose wishes and desires I love and honor, and so it's more than ok to say no to someone about anything. That being said, as there are an infinite amount of subconcepts in each ray, yours are probably different, so some general balancing techniques:

(1) Develop your energy center feedback system. I literally feel the energy, like a warm, electrical sensation, although the sensation varies depending on the ray. Someone else might not feel the energy; I know my Reiki teacher sees energy. Others might have some other feedback. Find your feedback mechanism. This usually requires a practice of daily mediation, because sensitivity seems to first develop when you quiet the mind. Don't worry about feeling all of the rays at once, but try to see if you feel at least one.

Then, once you have noticed that you can feel energy at a ray center, play around with the concepts involved with it. Carla's Wanderer's Handbook is a great ray guide, but googling about chakras is also effective. See if you meditate on a belief involving your most sensitive ray if you can activate more energy into it.

Once you do this, you can start exploring beliefs allegedly involved in each ray and see if it has an effect on your rays.

(2) Analyze your catalyst. When you experience catalyst and resulting emotions, I do what Ra states and go up the rays (though I believe the concepts blend, red blends into orange, orange blends into yellow, etc). To paraphrase: Red/Survival? Orange/Self-Acceptance? Yellow/Power? Green/Universal Love-Acceptance of Present? Blue/Honesty and Responsibility with Self, communication with other selfs? Indigo/Faith? In the process you will usually bump up against uncomfortable beliefs that caused the emotional reaction you had toward the catalyst.

(3) Examine the uncomfortable beliefs you identified that caused the emotional response under the lens of the rays you earlier identified were involved. I find it useful to classify these uncomfortable into two categories: negatively polarizing, and unpolarized. If something is an uncomfortable unpolarized belief, such as, always do what your parents say no matter what, I can use my logic to convince myself that it doesn't make sense; further, it is neither service to self, or service to others. I can then usually find a more balanced belief to replace it. On the other hand, if it is a negatively polarizing belief, such as wanting to exercise my superiority over someone who has insulted me, I find I cannot convince myself it doesn't make sense -negative philosophy has a logic of its own, but instead I accept that shadow side of me, just like I accept negatives outside of me in the illusory world, without judgment-condemnation.

(4) If this fails, try some good old blue ray clearing or talking (thanks GR ). Just talk about it with someone. The important part is finding someone who will listen, because its less about getting advice and its more about just saying and describing what emotions you felt as most of us have been culturally raised to repress uncomfortable emotions, and just talking about the experience can undo the repression and give us clarity.

(5) Meditate on the experience. Sometimes you'll get insight; sometimes you'll feel tension release in the rays that were imbalanced through the experience.

(6) If there an emotion or concept that comes from an unknown belief, it is help for me to do as Ra says understand the heightened emotion or concept and its heightened antithesis, as sometimes that will draw out the distortions into my conscious mind.

There are probably some other things that will come to mind later, but this is what I have for now. I hope it helps!!