The Current Running through the Moment

 As we go through life, sometimes we experience moments that can be difficult to describe. We might call it “getting energized” or “getting inspired.” In this case, Sensei points out to a student that she is “speeding up.” He says to her:

“Take another look at the post you just wrote. As you read it, notice how it speeds up in the second to last paragraph, right after you went through the principles. The speed change is happening because you are right on your oscillation point. This IS the point you want to validate right now. This oscillation is where you are working on your balance at. There is nothing terrible; it's just a point or way of being in the moment that stands for a more positive value.”

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Sensei:

This more positive value has a more positive charge. This charge is part of the CURRENT Moment. You  need to practice being okay in that. Now, this is a very important thing! Everyone has to learn to manage the change in current or they will ground out the charge in negativity. It can feel good and sometimes it can feel uncertain. There is nothing to fear if you are willing to dwell in between the rights and wrongs. It is like balancing on a bicycle's two wheels, feet off the ground. When you get comfortable doing that, you can begin to ride and ride and ride.

You will begin to ride better too. You will want to ride through the neighborhood, visiting your friends and passing by trouble spots. You will want to feel the air and feel the road beneath you. You will lean left and right to turn, you will accelerate and brake, and at times even get off the bike.

This is how we engage the higher Self and you are opening to that. Do not be too concerned about the rights and wrongs. Just love the truth. Read your post and see how you were speeding up. It’s just the building of momentum and some people get very nervous with that. I have seen people run from the actual moments that empower them the most, simply because they do not understand the nature of that sensation. I have seen people run from love because they don’t understand those feelings.

Remember what we are here to do and practice. I remember when I first taught my son how to ride a bike. The first thing I did was teach him to fall. First to the right, then to the left. Then I had him pedal once and fall right, then pedal once and fall left. Then pedal twice and fall right and pedal twice and fall left. After reaching four pedals, he says, “Dad, I don’t want to fall so much now, can I pedal ten times?” I said, “Sure” and he went about riding saying he still wasn’t quite ready to fall yet.

Student:

i can clearly see that increase in momentum you point out... i felt it when i wrote it, and i feel it now... and it also occurs to me how sometimes it really can be hard to balance in that... i didn't quite understand that at first when i read that, and then i got up from the chair to go do something else just now, and all of a sudden a lightning bolt hit me... a little over two weeks ago i painted a colorful little painting of Eve... and i put the words on the painting that said "Look for Wonder in Everything"... noting and highlighting the letters and word EVE in everything and the ONE in wonder by painting them in gold paint... after the completion of that painting and still while riding that lovely and joyful forward momentum came what i called "the fall", and even wrote about it as "the fall" and metaphorically related that to the change of season... ... i think this is a perfect example of what you are saying about grounding out the charge into negativity!!... i fell deeply into invalidation, even became critical of the very little painting that had brought me so much joy those couple of weeks earlier...

and even now the momentum feels even faster than it did before... right now it feels much like the way you feel when you are a child who is very excited to tell something they have discovered and they are talking so fast they become breathless, finding they can't quite keep up to express as fast as the discovery is happening to them in that moment, and maybe don't even say it quite the way they want to say it, but the other person hearing them totally gets what it is they are saying without them having the exact right words to express it, and even helps them to express it even better because they soooo get what is behind what is actually being said... sometimes that energy reaches such an intensity the child will start jumping up and down or flailing their arms in their excitement... it feels just like that... energy buzzing all through, like a very sudden clearing through of cobwebs that have served as bindings, and to be able to see more light shining through...

Sensei:

Yes, that is the Current running through the moment as the person gets caught in the momentum of excitement. This current is somewhere in every moment and if you center on it, you will stabilize better with it. If you are a little off balance, it can throw you. Some get thrown into depression and some into mania. Some oscillate into both. The goal is to center on a love of truth and the truth of love. It may be a hard truth to balance with or even a hard love, but if it is truer and more loving, work to handle it. If it is less truthful and loving, then adjust to what is better balanced.

The energy is also known as kundalini and this energy is present when we balance ourselves to the spiritual Truths and Loves. Some people try to force the energy on themselves without opening to the Truths and Loves it represents. This is not recommended as it creates an energy for which there is no assignable value. The best practices involve opening to Truth and Love in meaningful ways that coincide with the depth of being you want to be about. This gives the energy an assignment and it will move to empower you inwardly. If you open the energy channels and hold back to the depths of Truth and Love it represents, you will shutter and it can cause fear and anxiety, or elation that cannot be appreciated in your way of living. But if you honor the Truth and Love that is more True and Loving, it will fill you, fulfilling your inner being because you are living more authentically in line with the inner Self.

Scott Walter, Sensei

September 18, 2009