#149 CANCER Journey



Dear Friends,

Sat Nam! I just recently returned from our Kundalini Yoga Teacher's Training in
Hawaii. It was great. So my Cancer newsletter is a bit late. But it is never
too late to embrace your emotional body. Give yourself a big heart hug.
Blessings, Guru Rattana :+)



NEW MILLENNIUM BEING



#149 CANCER'S JOURNEY



HOW TO FIND LOVE AND HEAL



July 14, 2008



By Guru Rattana, Ph.D.



The Sun flowed into Cancer June 20th at the time of the Summer Solstice. The
Sun moves into Leo July 22. The Cancer New Moon was July 2-3. The Capricorn
Full Moon is July 18th at 1:00 AM PDT (8:00 AM GMT).



PART I - SELF-LOVE



THE MIDNIGHT OF SELF



It is interesting to watch the issues that appear while the Sun shines through
in a particular zodiac sign. Our life issues are with us during the whole year,
but the energetic focus of the Sun brings our attention to the challenges of the
current Sun sign. As the first water sign, Cancer is confronted with emotional
challenges and must learn to deal with emotional energy.



Establishing a relationship with our emotions is tricky business. Emotions do
not respond well to mental analysis or to verbal directives. Our emotional body
impacts our mind, and our thoughts influence our emotions. But the language of
our emotional body is sensory feelings, not mental talk. We can't talk
ourselves out of our emotional traumas. We can't make logical sense out of how
we feel. If our emotional nature was simply a matter of a problem/solution
scenario, we would all be much more emotionally balanced.



Cancer is the midnight point on zodiac wheel. The cusp of the house of Cancer
is at the very bottom of our birth chart. Our midnight point is the darkest
place in our psyche. We receive the least light from outside. When light is
not available from outside, we must find it within ourselves. When love is not
available from outside, we must give it to ourselves. The search for self-love
is a major theme of the Cancer archetype.



The Cancer archetype asks us to examine how we nurture and support ourselves.
The delicate shelled Crab must constantly be aware of how it allows itself to
give and receive. Are we creating appropriate boundaries that make us feel safe
and contained? Or are we erecting barriers that prevent us for giving and
receiving attention and affection?



EMOTIONS RUN OUR REALITY SHOW



The fact is that our emotions direct our personal reality show. We can have
great ideas and work hard to implement them, but subconscious fear, anger and
sadness can sabotage our most gallant efforts. The water signs remind us that
we have to figure out how to deal with our emotional energy. Our emotions run
deep. They are hard to access. They are even harder to explain, and may defy
explanation. And, they are impossible to ignore.



Thoughts and emotions interact. Thoughts generate emotions, and emotions
generate thoughts. Part of our journey is to explore the relationship between
our thoughts and our feelings. Emotional maturity necessitates training
ourselves to be aware of what is going on with our emotional body. Our
emotional body is very active while we are preoccupied with our mental
intrigues. What is it doing, and how it is creating our reality?



Our inner spiritual journey begins in earnest the day we realize that when we
are lost in our minds and out of our bodies, we miss out on the subtleties of
finer vibrations that can be accessed and known only through the faculty of
feeling. The day we get serious about reorienting our mind to pay attention to
the wealth of knowledge, pleasure (and pain) that lives in our own body marks a
quantum shift in consciousness.



THE CRAB'S JOURNEY



It is not surprising that the disease cancer has the same name as the Cancer
archetype. The disease cancer and most illnesses certainly have a strong
emotional component. It is recognized that stress is a major cause of many
diseases. The root of stress is emotional dysfunction and disorientation. We
often ignore and deny the emotional sources of our illness, which is one reason
why we don't get better and can't find cures.



Just as our emotional body does not respond to intellectual solutions, our
illnesses do not respond to technical solutions. A genetically engineered pill
cannot replace authentic human love. Cancer's journey is the quest to find
heart-awakened, emotional love.



The sensitive Crab reminds us of the pitfalls of our human journey. We humans
fall into many traps and succumb to many unsatisfying entanglements in our quest
for love. Sentimental, drama-oriented and attached co-dependent relationships
are not the answer, and divert us from the real thing.



One of the most basic human predicaments is that we are here on Planet Earth to
experience love in physical reality, but our efforts are often misdirected. We
seem to constantly sabotage ourselves along the way. We look outside ourselves
for that which we must find within. Our real quest for love begins when we
re-orient our journey inside ourselves - when we begin to learn how to generate
an experience of love within that satisfies our mind, body, emotions and soul.



GETTING ATTENTION



Our emotional and physical bodies have their own intelligence, which, if we pay
attention, will always tell us what we need. Their impulses do not necessarily
correspond to what we consciously think or believe. Most of us are unaware of
how our body and emotions respond to primal needs, environmental demands and
stress. We have to train ourselves to listen to their messages.

One of the unconscious tactics of those with Cancer energy (Sun, Moon, Rising or
many planets in Cancer) is to get sick to get attention. In addition, our
upsetting and unresolved emotional states contribute to our delicate nature and
precipitate our dis-ease. We are generally unaware of how our unattended to
emotions make us sick. Even when we become aware of this pattern, we don't know
how to stop it.



Awareness of how our emotional well-being impacts our physical health is an
essential first step. But observation is not the whole solution. We have to
develop a working relationship with our emotional body. This requires serious
SELF-DIRECTED, non-verbal, non-analytical attention.



EXAMPLES - WHY WE GET SICK



It is interesting to examine possible reasons why people get sick from a
'searching for love' perspective. A friend recently told me of a six year old
boy who had a brain tumor and was given a 25% chance of making it. The work
associates of his single working mother are donating vacation time so she can
spend more time with her son. My friend is mobilizing prayer interventions for
Max from everyone he talks to. Maybe this little guy needs to feel more
physical love from his mama. Maybe his soul is trying to generate more loving
feelings in his community.



Another person told me that a woman, who is getting weekly chemotherapy,
expressed that she is enjoying the fact that a member of her family joins her
every week for lunch and a good chat before the chemo treatment. Humm. What we
do to get love and bring our families together. Sometimes when our mission to
mobilize love is accomplished, we heal.



In a conversation with a woman who has breast cancer, I identified that she
didn't feel that her life had purpose. She felt bad every time a friend asked
her what she was doing with her life. I helped her understand that her life
purpose was to hold the space of love. Every time she laid down for one of her
frequent naps she was to remind herself that she was performing a very special
service for her family, community and the Planet. Something very profound seems
to have shifted. She feels better and looks much better too. When I talk to
her, she enthusiastically shares that now her life has more meaning - she is
'holding the space of love.'



BREAST CANCER AND SELF-LOVE



There are of course physical causes of most diseases, including breast cancer.
But an emotional component of breast cancer has to do with lack of self love.
Most women are trained to look outside themselves for love. We look for love
from a partner, from friends and associates and from our children. The energy
we spend on trying to get attention and love from outside ourselves dissipates
and consumes our emotional energy. If we used our emotional energy to love
ourselves, the satisfaction quotient of our lives would mount dramatically.



Self-love begins with attention to the subtle energies that course through our
body. Our physical and emotional sensations are messages from our soul.
Self-compassion is a requirement for healing. We have to 'give ourselves a
break' and not be so hard on ourselves. Self-criticism and judgment are our
worst enemies. When we try to avoid feeling our emotions by escaping into our
minds, where we manufacture stories about our feelings, our emotional body
(inner child) feels abandoned and unloved.



LOVE IT!



We avoid going to our midnight point because we find pain or numbness. What do
we do with the pain or void that we feel? WE LOVE IT! WE LOVE IT WITH ALL OUR
HEART! We use our emotional body to love what we are feeling - comfortable or
uncomfortable. Like a small child or a pet, we caress ourselves with our own
compassion and tenderness. Our inner child may have been crying for decades.
It may take days, weeks, months to calm it down and soothe its wounds. But it
is possible with daily attention to reclaim the hurt feelings and transform them
into deep satisfaction, creative power and pure love.



LOVE IT may appear either simplistic or unrealistic. But we will never know
what is possible until we dedicate alone time everyday to self-love. The
special gift of the archetype of Cancer is to invite us to pay attention to the
feelings in our body without stories and judgment, to gently embrace what we are
experiencing, and to honor the sacred aliveness of our soul.



PART II - THE HEALING POWER OF FEELING



COMMUNICATING WITH THE UNIVERSAL ENERGY FIELD



The water signs invite us to relate to our world and ourselves in a non-linear,
non-verbal, sensory manner. The universe, our world and our being are made of
up of waves of electrical and magnetic patterns of energy. Our physical and
emotional bodies, mind and heart all monitor, respond and adapt to how we
synchronize, or not, with universal patterns. The only thing that will satisfy
our emotional body is to resonate with these energies.



Quantum physics tells us that everything in the universe is connected through a
field of energy. Our thoughts/beliefs and feelings/emotions determine how we
communicate with and how we relate to the world beyond our bodies. Our feelings
and emotions create patterns of energy in our bodies. These electrical and
magnetic patterns influence our health and healing.



The nonverbal language of our feelings and our heart communicate with our
bodies, our environment and non-physical reality. The feeling language of love
can affect miraculous healings in ourselves and in the world.



HEART VS. HEAD -- THE POWER OF EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS



Gregg Braden writes that 'The electrical strength of the heart is up to 60 times
as great as the electrical signal from the brain. Our heart's magnetic field is
as much as 5,000 times stronger than that of the brain." (1) This explains why
feelings and our emotional body control our reality. It also gives us an
important clue on how we can effectively participate in our own healing.



Because there is more power in our feelings than in our thoughts, our heart and
emotional body have a bigger role to play in healing and than our mind. (2)

An essential step in our healing process is to recognize the extent to which we
have been conditioned to believe we are powerless. When we are diagnosed with a
disease, we often feel victimized, betrayed and powerless. We trust the medical
authorities more than our ability to heal ourselves.



Healing involves using our emotional body and our neutral mind to experience the
infinite space where healing is possible. Our healing is facilitated by feeling
the outcome we desire in our body. We must avoid thinking (linear analysis)
about how healing might occur. We must learn to work with the faculty of
feeling, not just the faculty of thought. Physical matter and emotional energy
respond when we 'speak' their language.



LINEAR THINKING VS. NON-LINEAR FEELING



When we think about creating something in our physical world, we usually think
in a linear, step-by-step, logical manner. We proceed through a sequential
process to work toward our goal. We are trained to think in this linear
fashion, which is appropriate for physical manifestation.



But when we use spiritual, nonphysical energy, we work in a different manner.
We have to train ourselves to FEEL the quality of the outcome that we desire -
peace, health, abundance. We have to generate within ourselves the FEELING of
the outcome.



Below I would like to add my understanding of how we can participate, at a
feeling level, in our own healing. Perhaps I can bring some clarity to some of
the concepts that are currently being discussed.



[1] TRUST AND RESPONSIBILITY



Healing is facilitated by trust and taking responsibility for being co-creators
in our lives.



Current literature on manifestation asks us to experience what we want 'as
though it has already happened,' that it already exists in our lives. And this
is where most of us get hung up. Because it has not already happened, we can't
lie to ourselves.



What is required is to live in TRUST that other possibilities are available.
Authentic trust has a very magnetic feeling. Wishing, hoping, pleading on the
other hand vibrate at a lower frequency. And if accompanied by any form of fear
can actually repel instead of attract. LOVING, TRUSTING FEELINGS line up our
magnetic field with the universal magnetic field and become triggers to create
what may appear as miracles and miraculous healings.



The tricky part is that we can't fake our feelings. We sabotage ourselves if we
are driven by conscious or unconscious beliefs of being passive observers or
victims. We have to take RESPONSIBILITY and act from the stance of being
co-creators. When we doubt and succumb to a victim mentality, our feelings do
not align with healing. When we do not trust our body, our soul or the
universe, healing usually does not happen.



[2] NON JUDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE



Healing requires non-judgment about our current situation and acceptance of what
has happened.



Healing requires overcoming our need to judge our current and past situations.
This does not mean that we like or condone what has happened. Most likely we
won't! If we liked what was happening, we wouldn't want to change it. We only
acknowledge that it has happened. We don't judge an illness or a situation as
bad or unfortunate.



Judgment creates a wall between our current situation and other possible
realities. Judgment stands in the way of healing. This is because judgment
vibrates at a lower frequency than the field of infinite possibilities.
Acknowledgement opens the door to new possibilities. Acceptance is a form of
love, which vibrates in sync with the field of infinite possibilities.



Think of non-judgment and acceptance as mechanisms of a technology that works to
get you what you want. Judgment gives energy to the disease or unsatisfactory
circumstance. If our mind and emotional body are being consumed by negative
thoughts and feelings, they cannot be used to believe and feel the possibility
of healing.



[3] GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION FOR THE PAST AND NEW POSSIBILITIES



Healing also requires FEELING gratitude and appreciation for the past and for
the availability of other possibilities.



It is key to recognize that we are not requesting or praying for something that
we don't have. If we acknowledge the absence of something, we affirm that
something is missing and give energy to what which we wish to change.



We simply relax into our body, let go for a moment and feel what it feels like
to be healthy, to have more energy, to be more prosperous, or to be in another
situation. We use all our senses and feel as many sensations as we can in our
body. We bless our current situation for awakening us up to new possibilities.
We thank our current lessons for moving us forward on our journey to
self-discovery and self-love. We express gratitude and appreciation for the
sweet, healthy, loving moments in our lives. In doing so, we fan the embers of
health, prosperity and love so that they can be rekindled and alive in us.



THE MEDICINE OF LOVE IS NEUTRALITY AND GRATITUDE. In the sacred space of an
aware and compassionate heart, we choose to evolve, to grow, to learn and to
co-create anew. Some of our goals may be tangible. That is fine. We are here
to learn how to manifest and to enjoy physical reality. But our focus and
spiritual goal is to LOVE AND HONOR OURSELVES every step of the way. For it is
not our physical accomplishments that we will take with us, it is the love in
our hearts.



KUNDALINI YOGA AND MEDITATION FOR SELF-LOVE



To align and balance our emotions we must move our body. Any active Kundalini
yoga set works. The kriya for 'Balancing the Depository System' on pages 68-9
in TRANSITIONS TO A HEART-CENTERED WORLD and the 'Exercise Set for the Liver,
Colon and Stomach' on pages 68-9 in RELAX AND RENEW are great for moving and
aligning emotional energy.



Between exercises and at the end of the kriya, pay attention to the sensations
in your body and the movement of energy in your belly and solar plexus. Go deep
into your midnight point within. You may find it in your heart, in your solar
plexus, in your belly, or somewhere else. Whatever you feel - LOVE IT! LOVE IT
WITH ALL YOUR HEART!



Practice accepting, being with (without wishing to change) and loving whatever
you feel. When feelings arise during the day, do the same. Notice how the
feelings shift in the process of gentle, non-judgmental attention. (Please also
refer to the directives incorporated in this newsletter. Use these guideline to
design your own self-love and healing program.) These directions are simple.
The important thing is to spend time each day cultivating self-love in a FEELING
way. Write me when you have experienced a major shift. I trust it will happen.
It is the destiny of your soul to experience the power and pleasure of
self-love.



REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES



"Your Beliefs Are Not What You Think," an Interview with Gregg Braden by Marlene
Martin, The Light Connection, Vol. 24, No. 5, May 2008, pp. 44-51.

1. Braden, pp. 44-45

2. Braden article. Isn't it interesting that Braden is Sun sign Cancer?











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