I had a fantastic meditative experience recently with one of Katie’s guided meditations entitled “true-self”.  Whilst listening, it was incredibly uplifting and grounding to connect with the light inside myself and to visualise it growing until I felt filled with utter radiance. I felt filled with a light that has been with me my entire life, a light that is my true-self; my unique self who was born to contribute something special. I took away the warmth of that experience and a real sense of calm and assurance.

I would like to share something that I read the other day which really resonated with me. It really emphasises for me the importance of stillness and meditation. This is from William Bloom’s book Pyschic Protection – creating positive energies for people and places.

“It is a universal experience that when people calm down their feelings and thoughts they begin to experience a new aspect of themselves. We certainly feel calm, but within the calm there is yet another sense of well-being. It is far deeper than just feeling relaxed. It is well-being that is wise, accepting, tolerant, open and very benevolent. When we experience this feeling, we also experience who we really are inside all of the psychological and social skins of our everyday personality.”

Bloom is referring to our core-self  or true-self and the fact that it is connected to the beneficent energies of the universe. He goes on to say that when we experience suffering it is caused by the inner friction created when the energy of the core-self meets the resistant patterns of personality. He claims that, the intensity of the resistance to letting in our essence is our Karma.

Although usually I think about karma as a kind of “reap what you sow” idea, I think that Bloom’s notion of karma  is an  interesting one. I like that karma can be seen as the friction caused between our personality and our core-self. This idea really gives me a spiritual focus to bring my personality into alignment with my core-self; to become more wise, accepting, tolerant, open and benevolent and to let go of resistance. Namaste.

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