Balancing the Astral/Emotional Body

To walk the spiritual path one needs balance, just like walking a tight rope with a stick. To achieve this, one needs to work diligently on the astral/emotional body.

Our physical body appears to be wrapped up in emotional/astral, mental, causal and spiritual bodies. These are nothing but energy fields surrounding the physical body. These energies interpenetrate the physical body and form the aura around it.

The emotional body, comprising our conscious mind and memory, is a store house of our emotions and life’s desires. The quality of energy is highly dependent on our emotional state. Anger, guilt, jealousy, pride, depression, fear etc. create grosser energies whilst energies during states of joy, love, peace, happiness etc. are subtler in nature.

In today’s day and age, emotions play a major role in shaping our lives. We have a tendency to react to a situation rather than responding to it. As a result, we oscillate between extremes of good and bad. We are at our wits end, shouting, screaming; a wave of rage, irritation and frustration governs us. All these reactions affect our emotional body, making the energies grosser.

Every emotion has an evil twin. To name a few :– calm – anger, faith – doubt, joy – sadness, love – hate, active – lazy. So if you are depressed, cheer up, inspire yourself. Balance the opposites and generate steadfastness. Positive alteration of the energy can be brought about by the use of simple words of joy, peace, love directed towards your heart and solar plexus. These areas are responsible for emoting. Directing these words repeatedly at these centers will create a habit of positive thoughts/affirmations and a positive change in behavior.

However, every emotion has its own purpose --- they teach us the lessons of life. That is to say when a situation repeatedly crops up and you react in the same way, then it is not your trying period but in reality it is a signal for you to stop, go within and reminisce. You should look for the positives hidden in the negatives.

Disciplining our emotions brings in balance and helps us overcome unwanted stimuli. Staying focused brings in stability. You may fail once, twice, thrice, it may take months or maybe years, but do not give up.

 Because Failure is an opportunity to start all over again…..