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: -
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