HEART MASTERING

The quality of every level of consciousness defines its own terrain. Every level of consciousness has a "mode of perception"; that is, a way of accessing and directing the energies available to that level of consciousness.

At the first, the Physical Level of consciousness, the mode is "sensation"; from a purely physical perspective you only know that you are alive because you can see, hear, touch, taste and smell.

-This is the territory of "patterned" awareness of the collective "unconscious" of our species.

At the second, the Feeling Level of consciousness, the mode of perception is the quality of "response-ability": that is, your ability to respond as to how you've been impressed by your senses is gaged as being to some degree pleasurable or painful and responded to as something to be approached or avoided.

-This is the territory of "conditioned" awareness that ranges from the generic to the personal "subconscious".

At the third, the Intellectual Level of consciousness, the mode is "symbolism": every thought that runs through your mind, no matter how simplistic or complex, is a symbol leveraging your awareness into a relationship of form and function.

This is the territory of "programmed" awareness, from blind involuntary compliance with an indoctrinated belief to creative visionary probability, of becoming "self conscious".

Each of these levels of perception, along with the way in which any or all of these levels interact with each other, has its own distinct qualities of access and limitation. As you may have noticed, the history of our species is crammed with problems resulting from the disjointed utilization of these first three levels of conscious awareness.

- For too long now, too many people have been at war within themselves between their conscious idea of how they should be, and the tyrannical censorship of how they subconsciously feel they have to be; with the health of the body bearing the brunt of this confusion.

- In turn, this inner combativeness has been projected outward and overlaid onto the social patterns by which we relate to one another.

The Fourth Level of consciousness had been meta-colloquially referred to as the "Heart". When identified with and operating from the Heart Level you are:

-consciously operating as an individualized "human being"

-virtually invulnerable to negative emotional disruption

-able to see the construction and interaction of the field of awareness comprising the first three levels (i.e., senses, feelings and thoughts), and make appropriate adjustments at will.

- able to access more expanded qualities of awareness and integrate them into the totality of your awareness.

At various times you may have touched upon that Heart quality of awareness. Usually this comes about by some kind of peak experience exaltation.

-Such as: successful completion of a project; a breakthrough discovery; athletic/warrior victory; an orgasmic sexual crescendo; a stroke of luck; discovering love; drugs; an intellectual epiphany; sensory deprivation; fasting; public acclaim; etc.

...Or by deliberate immersion in mind altering, meta-spiritual disciplines. -Such as:, meditation; prayer; yoga; Zen; Tantra; Kabbalah; magic rituals; biofeedback; etc.

However, unless you have achieved Self-actualization, you will most probably tend to confuse the "state of mind" accessed with the person, place, thing and/or situation that seemed to be going on at the time of your breakthrough.

Once you have accessed a heightened, more encompassing quality of perception, even if for just a moment, regardless of how you try to rationalize about it, you will be haunted by that access until you learn how to incorporate it into the "psychomotional" bottom line of your overall range of awareness.

As in a effort to regain the pleasure facilitated by that heightened state of mind, you will keep trying to replicate the associated outer circumstance.

Ironically, such psychological rigidity will inwardly lock you into a defensively armored, desensitized position, which will only drive you further away from quality of awareness you're seeking.

To try and relieve the internal pain caused by ignorance generated confusion, people will use various techniques in an effort to distract themselves, to mentally control and/or to transcend the torment of picking on themselves.

Many people use techniques for altering the way they respond to stimulus. They are trying to get distance from endless bickering caused by the runaway misunderstanding of the first three levels of perception.

Depending on their orientation and approach to appeasing their inner tension they can wind up addicted, self delusional and/or cut off from their humanity in a self proselytizing attempt to stay immersed in a quality of consciousness in which they don't cue in those associations that normally remind them of all their unresolved inner conflicts.

The absence of pain is not pleasure!

If you've been in pain - physical or emotional - and you get relief, it will feel like pleasure. However, it is only a respite from pain. Pleasure is not getting away from something that doesn't feel good. Pleasure is moving from an acceptable state to a more expansive and inclusive quality of experiencing.

I tried being uptight. It made me feel bad. So I gave it up!

Can you think of anytime in your life when being depressed, afraid, confused, or any of the other negative ways by which we emotionally torment and tyrannize ourselves has ever been beneficial.

Don't such negative emotions always weaken your body, obscure your awareness, and distort your perspective on the moment?

If such negative emotions never help, yet always impair, then why, come hell or high water would you ever resort to them?

Realize how much physical vitality and mental energy you've wasted making yourself uptight. Imagine how much more vital and mentally perceptive you would be if all that wasted energy was returned to you; and what that would mean to the quality of your life.

Now go beyond that and imagine what it would mean if you not only didn't exhaust yourself, but started to accumulate a surplus of physical vitality and mental energy beyond what is required to keep you in a superlative state of well being.

Strength means "choice"!
For instance:
- Peace and war are two sides of the same coin. If you have the ability to fight, but you choose not to fight, then your choice to be peaceful is full of power. However, if you are unable or afraid to fight, then your abstaining from violence lacks power.
- If you can go either way, whenever you choose, then whatever you choose will be a display of your strength.

Choice comes from "understanding"!

When you understand how something works - especially the workings of your own consciousness then you have control over it. It is clear, simple, direct and it works every time, no exceptions. You can pick it up, put it down, leave it alone, or rearrange it at will - the choice is yours.

The basis of understanding is "experience"!

When you can "stand under" an experience till your consciousness fully merges with it... till you clearly see what it is, how it is constructed, what is its interactive range of motion, and how you can access it in your own way for yourself - then you understand!

Experiential understanding is the territory of the Fourth - the "Heart Level" of consciousness.

The Heart is the gateway:

- where you switch from the never ending time line of rearranging what you've interpreted as your "past" into an apprehensive "future"

-where you start an eternal ingression towards more expansive and inclusive qualities of awareness.

When centered in the Heart you are balanced, at ease, and invulnerable to emotional distortion. If you get caught out of the Heart, trapped in the conflicting factionalism of the composite of the first three levels of perception- the "Ego" - then you become torn an buffeted till you believe it will take a flaming miracle to rescue you.

So, out of exhaustion and emotional confusion people speculate that the road to salvation from inner self-torment must become more torturously difficult.

The truth is: The closer you get to your center the more at ease, the more vital, clear and in control you become!

Your "ego" is your"self image".

It is the point of intellectual self notation by which you try define yourself by the incessant juggling of the battling factions of the first three levels of perception.

You cannot function as an intelligent individual without an Ego.

Even if you are directly hot wired into the Godhead, with the full conscious spiritual authority to set a new standard for human attainment, the moment you go to express your awareness you are doing so through the Ego.

The question is: From where is your Ego being directed?

For too many people their self image is routed through a battling composite of subconscious, semi-repressed, half hysterical irrationalities - i.e., "I can't help it, That's just the way I feel"!

It's not a question of getting rid of your Ego.

That would be like imagining that you're not imagining. Rather, when centered in the Heart, operating from Fourth Level perception your self image can be turned on, turned off, rearranged, and utilized according to what best suits your understanding in any given moment of experience.

Heart Mastering creates an inner "Tantric" relation between the direct experiential understanding of the Heart ("Who I am") and the self image generated composite of the Ego ("who I think I am") - However, now the Heart has become the master in control.

Heart Mastering:

Enables you to move, at will, more completely "into and out of-senses, feelings, emotions and/or thoughts" in a psychologically safe manner. Thereby your ability to experience pleasure and passion increases and becomes more accessible.

Provides a secure, inviolable inner space of balanced ease where you can reclaim the purity of your awareness and gather energies to heal and enhance the mind and body.

Becomes and integrative center of conscious awareness for processing all new considerations of external motion as well as more expanded ranges of inner sensibility.

Heart Mastering will help you to:

Attain optimal health and find out how good you can feel Enhance your sexuality by mastering the art of erotic intimacy so that you can achieve sexual satisfaction

More detailed information on Heart Mastering can be found in my books & audio tapes. Detailed instruction is given in workshops and/or through private consultation.

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-with Am Rosen