The Dance of the Soul and the Body: It’s more like a dance, an integration, than a struggle. Taking a big picture perspective looks at how the system is working, rather than seeing it as broken.
Question:
Which is stronger, the human form denying the soul or the soul directing the human form?
Participant: I am not even sure I’ve thought this out, but it just came to me, which is stronger, the human form denying the soul or the soul directing the human form. I think it was the talk of creativity and people that deny that in themselves, I guess.
Cheryl Marlene:
So the way they want to answer that question is to say, even though human beings might describe it as almost like a fight or a struggle, like say between the body and the soul, what they see it as is a dance, and some people have a kind of different dance, and because the whole thing is a feedback system, energetically, it’s a feedback system, there’s a way in which everything is always going from potential to form, to potential, to form to potential.
So the body, mind, heart, and soul experience that feedback loop in a variety of different ways.
Part of it can be like unconscious choice.
Part of it can be conscious choice, but it’s more or less guided by what the integration of body, mind, heart, and soul wants to learn, what it’s trying to understand, what it’s exploring, and different human beings have different solutions to supporting that exploring.
So for some people, from our points of view, it might look like they’re struggling and they don’t need to struggle or whatever, but it’s driven by the overall dynamics of body, mind, heart, and soul, rather than the individual expressions of body, mind, heart, and soul.
Does that make sense?
That’s interesting.
It’s an interesting dynamic because there’s a lot more fluidity to all of this than we will ever have tended to acknowledge, and that’s partly because we look at things so much from the linear point of view, from the static point of view, which doesn’t get very well to the large overarching picture.
If you’re taking things more from an integrated physical spiritual point of view, you have a greater access to the large arc where things that don’t make sense make better sense, that there’s a way to explain almost any trouble that we have by taking a couple steps back and maybe a couple steps up just to see, get that bird’s eye view of it instead of being down in it.
You get that view of it, which they think, in part, that’s part of what happens in the Akashic Records.
You’re able to get that bird’s eye view in a way that you can’t get it when you’re down in the bush, stuck in the forest somehow, where you can’t see beyond yourself very well.
Because for a whole lot of things that we think, oh, this isn’t good.
It’s because of our perspective.
So finding a way to take a step back and be able to go into a bird’s eye view of it is a helpful technique to help shift your perspective.
Which, when you’re down in it, the question tends to be more like, why isn’t this working? Why is this broken?
Whereas the bird’s eye view picture is more like, how is this system working? I mean, not that you can’t ask about how it’s broken up here, but it’s also shifting in a sense, the question that you take to it, because often when we don’t understand why something is the way it is, it’s because there’s a perspective that gives us the understanding of it in a way that it makes sense, that it makes sense as compared to when you’re down in it and you can’t really see beyond.
Did I answer your question?
Participant: Yeah. In a way, it was the big picture view, and I got from you that it’s all in the perspective, which changes the question.
Cheryl Marlene:
And so they’re saying to me, this is part of the reason why they’ve just hammered at me about the difference between the static and the dynamic views, because that’s a change in perspective and in the static view, usually we’re more focused on why is this broken? Whereas in the dynamic, it’s more a question of how does this work?
And in a lot of cases, the question, how is this broken is a false assumption.
It’s not broken.
It’s just working in a way that you don’t understand.
Whereas if you take that more dynamic view to it, you try to get the bird’s eye view, you’re stepping out of the assumption and opening to just asking the question of how does this work? Because the judgment always puts blinders up.
It always limits your view.
It tends to, because most of us aren’t great at seeing that.
Part of what’s making us frustrated and anxious and fearful is that we’re either in a battle or we think it’s broken, and pulling yourself out of the battle, pulling yourself out of the assumption that it’s broken, and just simply asking, so what’s going on here? gets you above the limits of the judgment that there is either something wrong or there needs to be a fight, which ends up being pretty scary for most people to do that.
It’s a scary thing because it’s basically approaching life in a very different way than essentially how we learned or were taught.
And because it’s also stepping into what they were talking earlier about the view, the awe of the boundlessness, and then it gets to all the power stuff that we’ve been talking about, because it’s about how you move from fear to awe, and there’s no guarantees of that, right? You move into awe.
There’s no guarantee.
Not that there’s a guarantee with fear, but we’re more accustomed to responding in fear than we are in awe.
So that’s why more people will choose fear, because that’s the habit.
It may not be the thing that people want to do, but it’s the thing that people know to do and are comfortable to do, because to walk the path of awe means that you’re also saying as a physical being that you’re okay with the unexpected and the unknown, which is really hard for most of us to be able to say with any kind of confidence.
Wow.
I always love this feeling of being out on the edge of stuff.
I guess it’s my drug of choice! All right.
Any other questions? Okay.
I don’t know.
We got into some big stuff, folks.
I know I’m going to need to go think about some of this.
Participant: It’s just funny how the themes sort of run through all these questions. I was going to the shop earlier and I thought I have to ask about where souls come from, and I come and join the class, and we’re talking about what souls are doing.
Participant: And how someone can ask a question that seems like it’s totally not for you in some way, and then halfway through the answer it’s like, oh my God, that is for me.
Participant: I just love the description of walking the path of awe as a lead into the unknown, because it’s so much more awesome.
Cheryl Marlene:
Exactly. I know it kind of changes your experience to the word awesome too, doesn’t it?
Yeah. I mean, that whole thing about awe, it’s just amazing to me.
I’m with you on that. To me, in some respects, it’s also the place I go right now because things are so unsure.
The Dance of the Soul and the Body is an article in Wisdom from the Akashic Records.
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