INNER WORK
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves
the tides and gravity,
we shall harness for God
the energies of love
and then, for a second timein the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Harnessing for God the energies of love.... How can we do that? We'll never invent a machine capable of generating love... We'll never develop a software program that can burn love energies onto a DVD disc. There's no getting around the fact that we have to do this work ourselves. We'll never be able to harness for God the energies of love until we learn how to generate these energies out of our own being in order to harness their inherent power for good.
Most of us have experienced fleeting feelings of love for all humanity, for nature or animals, elicited perhaps by a moving passage in a book, an emotionally stirring scene in a film or TV show. These feelings most often well up in us spontaneously. Few of us think of love as a powerful force that we can generate at will, and utilize.Through Planetization, we learn to give up all our pre-conceived notions about love, and begin to perceive it as the powerful force it is. We'll begin to understand Love as a force that can be willfully utilized for good, and not just an emotion that sometimes moves over us unbidden, like a spring breeze. Our initial efforts to generate this universal force can at first be a little awkward and self-conscious. We might feel the inner work is 'hokey', 'stilted' or futile. It might take several sessions before you 'get the hang' of it. But once you get used to perceiving love is an energy - powerful in its effects - you'll soon grow adept at generating and harnessing this singularly transformative energy.
Because of the intense focus, you should do only one inner work exercise at a time. You can stick with one Specific Energy Expression for several weeks until it is familiar to you, then go on to the next - or try them all out at first, then pick one to stay with for a few weeks in order to increase your capacity for generating the emotion that particular exercise is evoking. You can focus on a different Specific Energy Expression from the 3 mentioned here, these areas are suggested because this is where the need for the inner work is the greatest. Just keep in mind that any Specific Energy Expression used must be for the good of all.
One begins an inner work session by first centering inwardly, several suggestions for how to center inwardly are described below. The first 2 steps of the Planetization inner work involve grounding oneself in our collective Planetary Presence and Planetary Togetherness. These first 2 steps of the inner work are the same for any Specific Energy Expression you might be working with, whether that's Peace among humankind, Love for Animals, or Love for our Earth. These first two steps are important because they phase-entrain our collective consciosness energies as one as we all share the same focus on our Planetary Presence and Planetary Togetherness. These first 2 steps also ensure that we carry out the Planetization inner work from our wave aspect. You might want to make a print copy of the Centering techniques, and the first two steps as they will be the same no matter what area or Specific Energy Expression you're working on.
Below, a very simple inner work exercise is provided for each area, along with one of greater length and complexity. Feel free to tailor the words and associated images in these sample exercises in any way that works best for you, and helps you to generate the energies the exercise is intended to evoke.
PREPARATION: CENTER INWARDLY
To begin the inner work, find a comfortable spot, close your eyes, and relax. Take several deep, cleansing breaths. If you have a personal routine you ordinarily follow when centering inwardly such as a stress reduction visualization, a mantra, etc., you can do that as well. Some people center inwardly by closing their eyes, getting into a prayerful posture, or just by folding their hands in a prayerful attitude. Some people first visualize that they're completely surrounded by Divine White Light....Others arrange themselves in the lotus position, or visualize that they're connected from the base of their spine to Earth's center by a golden cord to ground themselves to Earth before entering the meditative state. Use whatever method works best for you.
Steps 1 and 2:
Grounding Ourselves in our Planetary Presence
and Planetary Togetherness
Once relaxed and centered inwardly, visualize in your mind’s eye, an image of Earth within the backdrop of Cosmic space... Hold this image in awareness... Begin to get a sense of all of humankind, now collectively focused on the larger Planetary/Cosmic dimension of our existence...Stay focused on this image of Earth as seen from space... Begin to actually feel your presence on Earth ....Our collective presence... When it feels right to you, proceed to the next step.
Still relaxed and centered inwardly, maintain and deepen this sense of all of us collectively focused on our planetary presence... We are now experiencing it together, as all our habitual busywork and pre-occupations come to an end... We collectively take this time to literally feel our togetherness on our home planet... As we deepen our focus on our planetary togetherness we center as well, on how much we care for each other...value each other... and appreciate each other... All our previous internalized borders and boundaries dissolve, as we now stand together in our planetary presence and togetherness... Bonds of affection and caring for each other now unite us as one.... We feel our perspective widening and expanding beyond our ego... beyond our physical body, to become ONE with this collective centering on our planetary presence and togetherness...We feel ourselves in At-One-Ment with all of humankind simultaneously, as we collectively center ourselves in this more expanded sense of place, and unity. When it feels right to you, proceed to the third step, THE SPECIFIC ENERGY EXPRESSION by clicking onto one of the links below.
SAMPLE INNER WORK EXERCISES:
1. Short Inner Work Exercise for Peace
2. Longer Inner Work Exercise for Peace
3. Short Inner Work Exercise for Animals
4. Longer Inner Work Exercise for Animals
5. Short Inner Work Exercise for our Earth Mother