Kundalini Awakening (Part 1), Pretending and Don Miguel Ruiz (Part 2)
October 13, 2024
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Kundalini Awakening
This is Part 1 of 3.
I said in a post two weeks ago “the moment you remember God, an unmistakable, physical shockwave is sent through your brain and body, resulting in an upgrade of your body’s systems.”
I want to expand upon what I meant.
All organisms undergo radical physical transformations at some point in their lives.
For insects and amphibians, this reformation period is called “metamorphosis”. Caterpillars cocoon away to emerge as butterflies. Tadpoles trade their tails in for feet and become toads. Grasshoppers grow wings and fly far away.
For other mammals, this process is called “puberty.” During this stage, birds develop new plumage and learn new calls; male lions grow manes and leave their pride; chimpanzees begin competing for social status.
Humans are not an exception: you were once a pre-teen flooded with hormones that deepened your voice, grew your body hair, and made you more sexually active. And some day soon you will be an elder undergoing menopause (typically thought to just occur in womb-carriers, it’s now known that men experience a similar hormonal shift later in life).
Amazingly, there’s a third physical transformation you can potentially go through during your time on this planet: a Kundalini Awakening.
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The art of pretending
To pretend is to act as if something is true or real when it is not, and is often associated with naive optimists or hopeless romantics.
In other words, pretending is what we think immature dreamers do to escape the cold, harsh facts of reality.
Looking at the breakdown of the word paints a more favorable picture, though.
Pre is a prefix meaning “before” or “in advance.”
Tend means to “care for” or “look after.”
Put together, pre-tend can be seen as the requisite step before nurturing something.
For example, when growing vegetables one must “pre-tend” the garden by choosing which seeds to sow and where they will be placed.
In this view, pretending isn’t a tactic used by those unwilling to confront the truth — it’s a necessary part of manifesting reality!
We must pretend that the cake already exists before we bake it. We must pretend the race is already finished before we run it. We must pretend the retirement account is already filled before we invest in it.
What things are you hoping to create in your life that aren’t there yet? Do you see how pretending is the first step in making it real?
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This is Part 2 of 4 on a series about the Four Agreements. Click to read Part 1.
Why is it that when a stranger gets in a car accident, loses their wallet, or falls sick with pneumonia, you don't suffer — but if any of those things happened to you, it causes great misery?
Your car; your money; your body = no suffering. My car; my money; my body = suffering. The only difference between the two is identification — who seems to own what.
In other words, it is the my, not the object itself, that causes anguish.
So what would happen if you began seeing experience as impersonal? As if happening to a stranger?
I’ll tell you: you would begin to enjoy life more. Good, bad, ugly, beatific, and every shade in between would become like a riveting film. Every day would be honored for its victories, setbacks, and mind-blowing plot twists. Every year would be seen as an important evolution to one’s character. Every lifetime would be seen as an opportunity for the soul to grow through.
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