The Seven Times Practice

April 23, 2024

Learning how to work with the key of Desire

In Lesson four, the Way of the Heart, there is a practice called 'The Seven Times' that can be applied to many parts of a spiritual journey of self-mastery, not just via the first key to the Kingdom, that of Desire. It is essential practice in inquiry work to access the carefully hidden roots of beliefs. By participating in this practice with a group of willing friends of the heart, I had some illuminating insights.

The idea is, that you first become a ‘fertile ground’ for planting seeds of desire by inviting in the breath, or ‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven’, which means to establish your right-mindedness or connection to Holy Spirit: the bridge to God. You breathe until the breath becomes like Spirit, guiding and holding you in a luminous sphere of light, and giving you, in any moment, the wisdom that you seek. As this becomes more and more established and you notice relaxation, you then ask yourself this question: -

What do I want, truly?

When something arises, write it down and then after seven times of doing this, rest back into the breath or start position. Then do a further six times of this cycle until it’s seven multiples of seven in total. (this took me about 20 minutes to complete).

A very simple, but extraordinarily understated practice for its ability to find every weed in the garden of your psyche, still taking your energy and using it for ego purposes. The intention is to share these seemingly hidden discoveries, or ‘undress in front of a friend’; to become vulnerable, and to become aware of the deeper, hidden desires of Soul masked by egoic will. Yeshua calls this the ‘thread’. There will always be a deeper thread running through all desires, even if a desire arises that says: ‘I want to eat cake and drink coffee’, for example. The key is to see through the surface desires— you might call these the foam on the tip of the wave. These desires always express as a compulsion or need, fuelled by fear.

The practice session finishes as you learn to look at all your desires with equanimity and not judgement and find the illuminating thread running through all of it. This thread is also what connects you to soul or the depth of the ocean (Soul in union with God). It requires willingness and discipline (being a disciple of what you Love), cultivated through continual attuning to your instrument: consciousness, via the breath. Often many buried true desires have been hidden since childhood or birth and may even be hidden from previous incarnations.

This month, the month of April, I am having a spring clean. A clear out of old desires and welcoming in and an allowing of new ones. This is a place of great faith and trust. With the Christ Mind Trilogy group, I decided to share my discoveries. This group is a beautiful holding space or what Yeshua calls ‘malkutah’. It is a place where we lay our treasures, our priceless offerings of Love, honesty, willingness, allowance, presence and vulnerability. From this created sphere of consciousness, held and maintained by key of intention of the group, we explore our fears as we awaken together.

Here are my discoveries: -

  • As I look back through pages of written desires, I do see a common thread. One thing I also noticed was that I would do the practice, become attuned in breath and during that period, it would present to me exactly what was desiring in that moment. Then, when the practice period was over, I would go about my day and other more subtle desires would arise, that I realised I did not write those down. When I allowed myself to fully embrace the nature of the desire, nearly always there was some thought attached to it of guilt or shame — especially around anything to do with sex, or my experience with this energy through orgasm and release. The desire to explore that energy was not written down. My desire to be sad or angry with this illness and how it's affecting so completely my ability to do anything now, was also not written down.
  • I observed that I had already decided, because I knew I was going to show you these written pages today, that some things were suitable, and some things weren’t! It was so subtle. As I looked through my lists of desires, I wondered that there was not really anything there that the mind would consider "bad". I decided to investigate this further and just bring the qualities of curiosity, wonder and presence to it. After doing that I started to write a few things that mind had considered would maybe be judged, around relationships and sexuality.
  • It is most important to notice what blocks that flow, rather than writing down what is obviously flowing! I hope that makes sense. So, you can only create a thread made from the substance or the ability of consciousness, at that time, to reveal the truth within what you will allow. If you've already decided some things are not appropriate to write down because you know it's going to be made public, just look at how that might be running you. Ego is interested only with how things look or image. Love is interested only in Itself.
  • If you want to 'see truth, speak truth, to hear truth...' it is first required to seek out what is false, by observing honestly your own words— where you limit what you will reveal.’

From the Way of the Heart, Lesson 4: -

(p27) ‘You have learned, therefore, to fear desire because that fear is the effect of fearing yourself. And that is what cripples you. That is what cuts off the creative flow. That is what leads to everything your world knows as the multitude of psychological diseases — an unwillingness to trust oneself, an unwillingness to love oneself, the belief that the desires that move up through your beingness are something evil and dark. If only you could stamp them out of your being, you could remain in control, and everybody would like you because you’d conform to the smallness and the littleness that is worshipped in human consciousness

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