Keeping guard in your heart and spiritual protection

We continue with the passages from the book "Alchemy of the Heart" These lessons deal with "Keeping Watch in Your Heart" and "Spiritual Protection.

A particularly subtle danger that emanates "from the heart," a danger that can be as corrosive as anger, is the power of irritability. In the Agni Yoga books, the adept El Morya describes the poison that comes from irritability as "imperil. Imperil is a poison that can infect, weaken and ultimately destroy. It can cause projects to fail, relationships to fail and businesses to disintegrate. Imperil can spread like a virus unless we decide to stop the chain reaction, draw a line, and answer the power of irritation with absolute harmony. When we connect with the pattern of imperil instead of guarding our hearts, we adopt that same energy and add our momentum to it. We become a carrier of this contagious disease. What is the antidote to the poison of irritability? 'We put our faith in the power of patience,' says El Morya. 'In the intensity of patience, a special substance is produced that, like a powerful antidote, neutralizes even imperil.' Patience is a powerful form of love.

Calm down and count to nine. We all face circumstances that test our patience and harmony and provoke our anger. "The best remedy for anger," Seneca said, "is procrastination. For example, if you are attending a meeting, and notice that you or someone else is getting very angry, try to suggest a 15-minute break. Calm down with a glass of water, go outside for some fresh air and take a few deep breaths. Imagine that no one or nothing at that meeting will take you out of your center of harmony. Affirm aloud three times with love and determination, "I will not be taken out of the love and harmony of my heart! When you have decided this, consciously transfer the matter in question to God.

If you decide to embody more love, you can expect to be confronted with the power of anti-love. Every time you want to rise higher on the spiral of love, you will come face to face with the antithesis of love on that rotation of the spiral. As the saying goes, and there is some truth in that, "No good deed goes unpunished. You may discover, for example, that those who are jealous of your loving relationship or your new venture will try to undermine it. The forces of the human ego that respond to our love with envy, hatred and anger try to distract us from our concentration on love. They are trying to get us to engage in envy, hatred and anger.

How do we deal with anti-love? First, the adepts tell us to remember to focus not on the people who seem to be against our love, but on the energy that comes through them. It is "anger, my real enemy," says Shantideva, that causes suffering. The first step is to render impersonal the anger, irritation or jealousy directed at us. Second, as we mentioned in the previous section, the adepts say that the only way to deal with anti-love, however intense, is to generate more love. The light and fire of the heart encounter and consume the approaching darkness.

Only a heart full of the fire of love can face the irritation or disagreement of the other without an automatic reflex of irritation or disagreement. Only a heart full of love is sensitive enough to realize that irritation or anger is essentially a cry for help. Only a mature heart can greet harshness with Shantideva's affirmation, "May I be the doctor and the medicine, and may I be the nurse for all the sick beings in the world.

Sometimes guarding the heart means lovingly drawing boundaries. I have learned this lesson over the years through trial and error. One time someone called me who was throwing out all his frustrations in a tirade of anger. After I hung up, I felt as if I had absorbed in my body and in my heart the pain coming to me through that phone call. I realized that the most loving thing I could have done, for myself and the person on the other end of the phone, was to politely but firmly draw my boundaries.

When people are angry, we always have a choice. No matter how upset they are, we can stay focused on our hearts. We can kindly explain that we would like to talk to them at a later time, when they feel better, but right now we will have to end the conversation.

If a situation or relationship is so full of criticism, disagreement or abuse that it has become toxic, then for the sake of our own spiritual growth we have the right to explain, "I have to move on. There is nothing my love can do to help you now. You will have to find what you need in some other way.' Or if someone is about to make a serious mistake, you may have to say, 'This is unhealthy for you and for me. I want no part of it. And I advise you to put it behind you as well. Let's move forward together in love.'


Excerpt from the book: Alchemy of the Heart available at: Amethystpress.com

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