Learning Ways of Love

[xise]

Siren's discussion resonates with me heavily, for I begun to balanced my lower centers last year with great success. What was key was chancing upon beliefs that all centers are about a form of love - not just the green ray.

I would also love to hear of any experiences and understandings that has to do with this learning, or work. What do you personally think about this learning/work?

Personally, I do not see love as being strictly green ray. An explanation is in order: the Original Thought is Love. The Creation was made in, of, and through Love. Love is a universal power or force; the active, creative, dynamic principle of Creation. There is not one iota even in the darkest pits of hell that does not contain Love. And the Creation is a recapitulation in reverse of Intelligent Infinity. Hence, there are various degrees or qualities of Love along the evolutionary journey:

• Red-ray love for... why, sex, of course! (the basis, drive, and foundation of Creation)
• Orange-ray love for inter-personal relationships (one-on-one)
• Yellow-ray love for societal activity (family, groups, organizations, etc)
• Green-ray love for compassion (or "heartlessness" for negative entities) in its most universal or unconditional sense
• Blue-ray love for wisdom (in knowledge, communication, and spirituality)
• Indigo-ray love for unity (self-realization as Creator, and of course, perfected expression of compassionate wisdom, or wise compassion)
• Violet ray: love for foreverness (wholeness, completeness, and the return to the Source of All That Is)

I have also been feeling hopeless sometimes as to how to *work* with this ever important energy center, because love for me has this far been a thing that you are either born with or you are not. How do you *learn* to love?

You learn... by doing.

They are you. «They» are «you». That's how it works for me. To see other-selves as self. No, I'm not saying it's so incredibly simple (especially when your other-selves just so happen to be diametrically inverse reflections of how you see yourself). I'm just saying it works. And I mean it really works. The compassion and "selfless" service is returned in kind even by the simplest of acts. However, this is something you cannot force yourself to feel. They key is non-resistance, appreciation, and acceptance of what is as it is.

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Ankh,

I know for me, my green ray comes without great difficulty, but at times I too want to be a dick. I too have wondered how to maintain a peaceful and loving state at times, and for me, the answer has been less in how to "maintain" and more about how to "reenter" that state. Recall that somewhere, there is talk that if an energy center is 100% closed, you would be dead. So everyone has a portion of their green ray, and consequently, if they can remember what they are doing when feel it, they should be able to use the method that has helped me greatly:

I figured that stuff out by first noticing when I entered loving, peaceful, flowing state (list of the top of my head):
(1) being in nature.
(2) extended meditations.
(2) reading Ra.
(4) working with homeless and drug addicts.
(5) playing with animals/pets.
(6) spending a mellow evening with best childhood friend

Then I noticed what typically brings me out of that state:
(1) sleep deprivation
(2) people with harsh/violent energy/emotion near me
(3) not eating/drinking enough (I seem to have many symptoms akin to borderline diabetes, and I am sensitive to delaying meals)
(4) deadline stress
(5) heavy drinking of alcohol

For each of those things on that list, I developed a way to move back to that peaceful and loving state. Most of my reentry techniques involve two things: (1) 5 minute long, meditative-type/energy work that can be done in the span of a bathroom break and/or (2) taking a step back and viewing everything as an opportunity to balance/master a spiritual concept - especially the little things - as well as with the expectation that concepts are better mastered through a "when it rains it pours" philosophy. That is, when s*** is upsetting me, I take a step back and try to distill a concept I can balance out of it, and then think of how the s*** could be even more catalytic if more s*** hits the fan and just smile if its little s*** bugging the hell out of me (I was late for an important meeting, and of course the drycleaner messed up my tie with a stain and I didn't notice till I walked into the meeting!), or for bigger things just trust in faith that there is a reason for all of this.

For example, reentry techniques:
(1) sleep deprivation: Try to prevent - if I can't it's usually because I have to be up for some reason. But otherwise I give myself 3-5 minutes where I don't fight my sleepiness (don't do while driving). I let myself feel the shittiness of getting one hour of sleep, all over my body, and let my eyes close. I kind of work myself into a state where I am getting ready for bed, where the shitty tiredness turns into oh this sleep will be so good tiredness. Then I gently stay awake, instead of forcing my eyes awake, I just kind of tell myself I will get this sleep, but later. During this process, I usually feel energy ripple over my back.

(2) people with harsh/violent energy/emotion near me: (1) A few moments of just grounding the energy through the soles of my feet with the core of the earth helps quite a bit. I pick up those emotions super easily. I also try to distill the lesson the person is working on, and how I could learn from his working.

etc etc

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When it's all said and done, basically, I focus on three things:
(1) I try to incorporate into my daily routine more things that put me into a loving and peaceful state,
(2) become self-aware of things that push me into annoyed or irritable states, and don't judge myself for being there, but seeing it as an opportunity to sharpen my reentry skills and
(3) then use a discovered (or experiment) reentry technique.

It's kind of like how I think people learn to control their temper. They figure out what makes them feel not angry, then they learn to predict and notice what makes them angry, and then learn how to quickly cool off. And you can do this stuff in minutes. So in conclusion, s*** still pisses me off, I just acknowledge it, not self-judge, and experiment with something that puts me back into a great mood.

I think it's probably the same technique we all use as human beings, but I think for green ray stuff it's pretty key to somehow incorporate energy/meditative type work (even counting to 10 with your eyes closed could count!), as well as viewing all things, big or little, including the guy who insulted you and then asked you for a cigarette on the street, are concepts awaiting to be perfectly balanced.

Note: I try to shy away from seeing everything as a spiritual lesson - I mean in one way it is, but I guess my ego gets in the way and I get even more pissed off when I'm annoyed - I don't need a lesson in that damnit!!! . I like viewing everything as an opportunity for mastering/perfecting a spiritual concept - maybe it's basically the same thing, but my ego, when pissed, handles that frame a lot better .

Much luck my friend!!!