People in our civilized society carry an enormous amount of unexpressed emotions. If we never let those emotions find their full expression, then their stagnate energy can be deeply damaging to one's health and well-being. This accounts for the huge upswings of depression and well being across the world. It is acknowledged that one out every five Americans suffer a mental ailment at some point in their lives. The problem is that civilized society regards the uninhibited expression of emotion as a sign of weakness or a lack of sophistication. This kind of emotional suppression can and will create havoc within the human system, and humans the world over will never find full expression for their emotions. Most people have fears about their love, their joy, their grief, just about everything. For example, to laugh loudly is a problem, it is seen as inappropriate. We have set up a deeply restrictive culture for ourselves.
The level of activity in modern life has decreased drastically because people do not use their body the way they used to. If this unused energy is made to remain stagnant within our bodies, it could become a causative factor of disease. It seems our modern mind is going through a unique kind of neurosis. Now that we have become so inactive, we are suffering the effects of such inactivity; by becoming anxious and uneasy. This is mainly because of trapped physical energy. In comparison, you will find that those people who are committed to some form of intense physical exercise are at a different level of balance and peace and are much less entangled in physical drives. This is because at least one aspect of the person has found full expression.
Trapped energy, can also cause restlessness and agitation, which accounts for the chronic unease and disquiet that plagues the modern world. You may have noticed that the very way people sit and stand reveals an absence of ease. They may have brought a practiced gracefulness to there movements, but their unease remains. If you take away the unease in your movement, it shifts inward to another dimension, where it is easy for it to find a new expression. In other words, it will billed back into your energy. In time, this disquiet on the level of energy manifests as disease.
An inability to be joyful by your own nature can make the simplest issues in life seem like a highly complex problems. The reason the simple things----like being peaceful, joyful, loving----become ultimate aspirations is that people are living without paying attention to the life process. The level of inhibition that, people live with is truly amazing. It is responsible for several diseases---both physical and psychological, that we see around us. An inability to be joyful by your own nature can make the simplest issues in life seem like highly complex problems. Right now being peaceful and joyful is made out to be the most significant problem in human existence. In pursuit of human happiness, we are ripping the planet apart. The reason the simple things--like being peaceful, joyful, loving---have become ultimate aspirations is that people are living without paying attention to the life process. When most people say "life," they mean the accessories of life--their work, their family, their relationships, the homes they live in, the cars they drive, the clothes they wear, or the gods they pray to. The moment you make this fundamental mistake of identifying something that is not you as yourself, life becomes an unnecessary struggle. The foundations of peace and bliss are not about attending to the external realities of your life, but in accessing and organizing the the inner nature of your being.
Your are capable of experiencing only that which is within the boundaries of your sensation. But if you throw the boundary of your sensation out in an expanded form, you can sit here and experience everyone as yourself. You can stretch it further and experience the very cosmos as you experience your own body. The trick is to work on being conscience, every day, in every way.
Thank you Sadhguru. Be good, do good.
Louis DiVirgilio
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