RECLAIMING ENERGETIC PEACE

(this posting was rewritten, it was originally titled "Migration from Chutzpah to Gusto")
© 2009 Howard McQueen

There is a profound reclaiming of energetic inner peace when we consciously move away from embracing reactionary energy.

The revolutionary overthrows and brings in the new. And in that act, force accompanies the revolution and this sews the seeds of revolution’s extreme polar opposite energetic expression, oppression.

Until we center ourselves confidently
in non-aggressive energies,
we will continue to manifest into the world
these contrary pairings of aggressive energies.

Only centered in peace can we manifest joy and jubilee
and move to uncover our more profound evolutionary authenticity!

Modern day prophets of change-thru-peace that come to mind
include Ghandi and Martin Luthur King.

PEACE must be an internally felt sense within.
I manifest a feeling of peacefulness when I practice creating win/win relationships. All parties feel good about the outcomes!

So called negative emotions undermine and erode inner peace
I found it enlightening when I recently read the causal points for the core human emotions of fear, anger and grief.

Fear: short circuited, suppressed jubilation from rejecting the authentic life, and being rewarded to practice pretense and what is inauthentic. All this breeds separation and all the fears of a disconnected self.

Anger: frustration with suppressing jubilation and the need to blame others for our inability to take responsibility for our emotional weaknesses and hi-jackings.

Grief: sadness experienced from our lost innocence and playfulness we are born with and feelings of hopelessness that we will not recover our authenticity.


These definitions (I have changed the wording), come right out of Michael Brown’s insightful book, Alchemy of the Heart . So do many other perceptual surprises to stir our imaginative evolution.

A PERSONAL CHALLENGE: Energetically Migrating from Chutzpah to Gusto

I am undergoing some inner vibrational re-tuning and refinement,
something akin to finely tuning a rare, priceless musical instrument
(ha, a 58 year old human operating system).

My insider’s perspective of the vibration,
that which I’ve been tuned to embrace,
The one word that keeps coming to the surface - Chutzpah.

Chutzpah (defn)
Chutzpah can be used to express admiration for non-conformist, gutsy audacity. Chutzpah is nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence.

Chutzpah can have an extreme, edgy quality, almost as if there is a deep need to rebel and push back from something suffocating freedom. Reactive mental habits reinforcing the revolutionary can seed the crop and birth the energy containing the other polarity: oppression. More subtle contrary pairs: [revolution <-> oppression!]

Yeah, right, spot-on!

I see with newly awakened “real eyes” [1] that I have been embracing chutzpah as a means to liberate myself from the clutches, the extremely deep gravities of trauma and conformity. Chutzpah has been the booster fuel to power the necessary escape velocity to achieve and sustain an orbit (that will not decay).

Right. Perfectly sound concept. OK.

But all these mental concepts of "escape" and "orbit" and "velocity", they are really redirected energy happening inside myself. Sounds like an awful lot of efforting.

Right. Spot-on!

Take a sip from the well. Take another.
Have a sit and be with what is already here, in abundance.

MY MIGRATION TO GUSTO

Gusto (defn)
Vigorous enjoyment, zest, or relish, esp in the performance of an action the aria was sung with great gusto . When I feel into Gusto, I sense a celebration, a toasting with friends and family to the deep richness and sensual texture that living from the heart opens us to experiencing. We can use gusto to feel into and express more than joy; gusto can empower us to explore fear, anger and grief (see above). Gusto is one of those magic key energies to welcome back authenticity, without needing to invoke rebelliousness.

For me, gusto is a healing, inner-unifying we-ness. It takes the ego out of a need to perform extreme acts and puts the heart at center stage to offer welcoming energies as well as rich gratitude, 24-hours-a-day, through our endless journeying.

BLESSINGS FLOW OUT OF GUSTO
I celebrate you by pouring two glasses from my container of freshly distilled sense of gusto.
May you live richly, sensuously connected to your authenticity.
May you surrender those older energetic patterns that may have served you well,
but are now holding you back from expressing a more profound love and respect for yourself.

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[1] Michael Brown’s insightful book, Alchemy of the Heart