Connecting to your true core
The Vertical Axis of Grace. Consider for a moment the spinning top. It spins on a vertical axis. It spins with momentum. It can take a hit and it simply spins an inch or two from where it was a moment before, as if unaffected by the blow. It seems as though momentum was not diminished and it gracefully remains vertical. Now think of it at rest on its side. It is no longer animated with centrifugal force or momentum. Bump it and it moves erratically around the room perhaps out of sight under a toe kick or piece of furniture.
We are in many ways like that spinning top. When we are animated with enthusiasm and joy, we feel emotionally upright, we are also aligned with creation itself and others can sense this. Our core feels connected to source. We can see the way ahead or even feel at peace not knowing. We can even take a hit and simply keep on spinning.
Spin fast enough or rather consistent enough and I have found that the world around us starts to align or arrange itself on our behalf. We start to see synchronicity occur around us. Opportunities seem more likely to show themselves. The people around us find our joy and enthusiasm contagious. Our momentum not only seems to carry us forward but it makes us less fearful. At our core is stillness, a peace or serenity.
Once, I had experienced this after playing the piano. Composing a new work with such joy, such freedom, I actually had the feeling that I had, like a child been sitting on the lap of God. I could even feel I had elicited a smile. It just doesn’t get any better than that. At our core there is a connection to the source of creativity itself yet as we look outward we see fleeting glimpses of the world beyond us, what others are doing or at least what we think they are doing or feeling. Concern ourselves too much with this and we find ourselves second-guessing ourselves or we trip over our assumptions and suddenly we feel pain, separation and a disconnection from our source.
The surest way to know if your top is not spinning? Notice your whole focus is on the outer world around you. Not in a connected way but as a victim. Like the top, our emotional body moves erratically and can be a victim to nearly anything that can come along. Check this for yourself. If you are pointing a finger at someone else and claiming victim hood you cannot gain access to peace or even your own power.
My chiropractor once told me he could tell in the first few moments of a consultation how fast a patient would heal by how they describe the moments leading up to their injury. If they say, “I did something really stupid, I picked up something too heavy or incorrectly etc. vs. I was in my car when THEY HIT ME” this is not to say that we cannot be victimized by someone else’s acts. That was not his point. He was simply saying that healing is much slower when victim hood is present. I can assure you I have a couple friends that upon reading this would say “OK Mr. Bleepin smarty pants, lets see you avoid feeling like a victim after I hit you with my car”. I think I would still agree. My healing would still be slower if I held the emotional charge of victim hood.
I believe there comes a point where we are given the chance for a reset, a point to reclaim our connection. The hint of this can be found with the feeling of joy, when it happens, your heart will know what to do. Perhaps your mind or at least mental ruts or habitual thinking can be given the day off.
My wife had a fabulous dream once where our grown daughter appeared to her as a young child and corrected her thinking by saying
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