From Healing: Finding Self Love
Chapter 17 - The Gift of Light

AS IN THE EXPERIENCE OF ALL THINGS, GRATITUDE IS APPROPRIATE. When I release fear fiction through venting emotion, the judgment associated with it is also gone. This opens me to the possibility of sincerely expressing gratitude. For what am I grateful, and how do I express my gratitude?

I am grateful to no longer have the deep-rooted emotion that gives rise to my judgment and fear. I have vented it and am empty. I show my gratitude by filling the emptiness inside of me where the emotion lay for so long without light. I do this by asking for light to fill the void left by releasing the unharmonious emotion. Judgment and unharmonious emotion hide in the shadows of the past. They block the light. When I vent them, the light can now flood in and illuminate the dark corners of my past.

How does this work?

The ability to bring light into my energetic body to fill the space vacated by the vented, heavy, unharmonious emotion is enabled by the laws of energetics. Energetics tells me that my energetic body (the combination of my physical, mental, emotional bodies with my Soul and Higher Self) has a finite capacity to hold energy. Energetics also specifies that my energy must stay balanced, that is, when I release energy, some form of energy must flow in to replace it. If I do not consciously request a different form of energy than what I released, then the same energy will be attracted to my energetic body and fill the void.

If I vent unharmonious, heavy energy, and fail to ask for another form of energy to replace it, I will, sooner or later, receive more of the same. This phenomenon explains fights that go and on. Each party to the fight releases angry, heavy, energy only to receive the same energy in return released by the "opponent" and cycling indefinitely, sometimes for years or a lifetime. This continues until one person "wins" or both retire, exhausted.

On the other hand, if, after I release angry, heavy energy, I ask for light to flow into the void created by the released angry energy, then I have no more angry energy to release. Regardless of what the other party does, the fight then ends. There is no longer any reason to fight, because by not reciprocating angry energy I have no reason for fighting. This is but one example. There are many, many others.

After the upheaval and stress that accompany emotional venting, I can go to that place within where unharmonious emotion once held sway, and which is now calm and be comforted in the presence of the light energy that now reposes there.

For this to work, I must have the awareness of my need for light. I must remember to ask for light, for if I do not, the nature of energy is such that, after I vent and release, my emptiness will attract more unharmonious emotion to refill itself. Bringing in light must be done with consciousness and gratitude.

I am grateful to God for the gift of light and my ability to fill my emptiness with it.

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© 2003 Ron McCray

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ron McCray is on a spiritual journey that started in 1991 and continues to lead him though many experiences including studying shamanism, group work, a formal study of spiritual psychology, channeling, experiencing sacred spots around the world, and other practices. As a result of these varied pursuits, his book A Tao Of God clarifies and condenses what he understands about the nature of God, humanity, and the mysteries of spiritual evolution. He is published widely on the Internet, has a monthly newsletter, Modest Proposals, and is an Associate Editor for Planetlightworker.com and the Children of the New Earth print magazine. He can be reached through his website.