“For philosophy to rule it is not necessary that philosophers be rulers, nor even for rulers to be philosophers. For philosophy to rule it is sufficient for it to exist; that is to say for the philosophers to be philosophers.” ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
In a nutshell, existentialism denies that the universe has any intrinsic meaning or purpose. It requires people to take responsibility for their own actions and shape their own destinies despite this inherent meaninglessness.
As such, the concept of the self is a process as opposed to a fixed essence. Existentialism is related to several movements within philosophy including Phenomenology, Nihilism, and Absurdism.
This article will discuss five heavy-hitters of the philosophy, and their contribution to human wisdom.
Existential philosophers don’t seek answers, necessarily, but rather better ways of questioning and taking responsibility for their personal existence within an impersonal universe. For an existential philosopher it’s not so much about personal enlightenment as it is about seeking greater understanding of human flourishing.
The epiphany of the existential philosopher isn’t, “I see the truth!” but, “What about perceiving things this way?”
Let’s look at 5 Existential Philosophers and their contribution to human wisdom
1) Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
“It is not the path which is the difficulty. It is the difficulty which is the path.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard
As one of the foundational figures of existentialism (along with fellow philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and novelists Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Franz Kafka), Kierkegaard’s contribution to human wisdom was profound in the sense that he distinguished that human existence cannot be explained objectively.
He wrote abundantly about despair, using metaphor, irony and parables to explain the primordial angst of the human condition and its reflection in the mirror of the universe.
As he wrote in Provocations, “Reflection is a snare in which one is caught (dependence/codependence), but, once the “leap” of enthusiasm has been taken (independence), the relation is a different one and it becomes a noose which drags one into eternity (Interdependence).” *Parenthesis added by the author*
His most famous work is Fear and Trembling, but Either/Or is considered to be his magnum opus, which is influenced by Aristotle’s question, “How should we live?” The “Either” essentially describes the “aesthetic” phase of existence: capricious and inconsistent longing.
According to Kierkegaard, eventually the limitations of the aesthetic approach leads to “despair” and a “leap of faith” must be made to resolve anxiety.
The “Or” is this leap, which essentially explains the “ethical” phase of existence: rational choice and commitment to a “path.” Both of these phases are eventually surpassed by a spiritual mode of existence. Ultimately, Kierkegaard’s challenge is for the reader to “discover a second face hidden behind the one you see… The pupil of possibility receives infinity.”
2) William James (1842-1910)
“Understand how great is the darkness in which we grope, and never forget the natural-science assumptions with which we started are provisional and revisable things.” ~ William James
William James is the foundational figure of pragmatism: the idea that thought is not merely a function which mirrors reality, but rather is an instrument for prediction, problem solving and action.
He is most famous for his book The Varieties of Religious Experience, which was originally delivered as two sets of lectures called the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 1901.
This book is a penetrating gaze into the human heart and a philosophical inquiry into the psychology of first-hand spiritual experience.
James brought to the academic world not only the blueprints for his idea of pragmatism, but also a healthy and optimistic way of interpreting the existential experience of individuals. He also introduced an elegant typology that divides spiritual experience into two categories: Healthy-mindedness and morbid-mindedness.
The former mindset believes in a cosmos that is harmonious and healthy, where one need only bring themselves in harmony with it in order to sustain suffering and pain and to achieve happiness.
The latter mindset believes in a world where evil is real and genuine happiness requires its defeat. His now sustainable philosophy of pragmatism is the essence of healthy-mindedness.
3) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
As one of the foundational figures of existentialism, Nietzsche wrote with brutal honesty and venomous wit about the human condition and its propensity for getting wrapped up in petty idols and short-sighted ideologies. Through poetic prose, he brought us a way of thinking that still has people’s brains doing backflips.
The core of Nietzsche’s work was the idea of life-affirmation, but he also presented ideas such as the will to power, perspectivism, and the Apollonian/Dionysian dynamic. But perhaps his most profound contribution to human wisdom was the idea of the Übermensch, or overman, which was Nietzsche’s epistemological elite and cosmopolitan vision of human excellence.
“Behold,” wrote Nietzsche in his magnum opus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, “I teach you the overman.
Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?.. What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…”
Nietzsche was exceptionally gifted at mocking mankind’s failure to evolve. He called for a kind of aggressive evolution, one dependent not upon things being, but upon things becoming, upon things changing and transforming into what nature has in store for us. Similar to the way an acorn becomes a tree, or a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
Our unique chemistry, our primal core, is perhaps similarly transcendent. Like the acorn and the caterpillar, we each have a natural, healthy, transformative process that only nature knows.
Perhaps nature knows that just as the ape had to overcome itself to become a man, man must overcome itself to become the overman. Indeed, the caterpillar is to the butterfly as mankind is to the overman.
4) Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Man is nothing other than what he makes of himself. This is the first principle of existentialism.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre, more than any other existential philosophers, did not shy away from being linked to the idea of existentialism. In his book Existentialism as a Humanism, he wrote, “existence precedes essence.”
Which is basically the existential assertion that there is no predetermined essence to be found in being human, and that an individual’s essence is defined by the individual and how they create their own unique life. As Sartre states: “Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and then defines himself afterwards.”
From this followed his magnum opus, Being and Nothingness, which he wrote specifically to explain how existence precedes essence. The primary idea that came from this book was the radical idea that people are “condemned to be free.” This means that freedom is essential to being human; each human being must make his/her own choices.
It further means that freedom is inevitably a shared experience with other humans. We are all bound up with the freedom (or lack thereof) of humanity as a whole. As Sartre suggests, “Our responsibility is thus much greater than we might have supposed, because it concerns all of mankind.” Indeed, as long as anyone is not free, none of us are truly free.
5) Albert Camus (1913-1960)
“I rebel; therefore we exist.” ~ Albert Camus
Along with his existential musings, Albert Camus is one of the founding fathers of Absurdism: the existential philosophy which arises out of the fundamental disharmony between an individual’s search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe itself. In his philosophical essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, he asks, “How should the absurd man live?”
His final answer coming in the form of a spirit warrior who relinquishes eternity to affect and engage fully in human flourishing, a person who chooses interaction over mere observation, and who is aware of the fact that nothing can last and nothing is permanent.
Essentially, Camus argues that one should embrace the absurd condition of human existence while also defiantly continuing to explore and search for meaning within an otherwise meaningless universe. Indeed, the solution to absurdity isn’t suicide, but rebellion.
It was such defiance that led to his book, The Rebel, an existential portrait of man in revolt. In this book, Camus weaves between the concept of the “absurd” and the concept of “lucidity” while explaining how rebellion stems from our being disenchanted with outdated and parochial applications of justice, and a seeming contradiction between the human mind’s unceasing quest for meaning and clarification within the apparently meaningless unclear nature of the universe.
Riding on the coattails of Sartre’s “people are condemned to be free,” he asserts, “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“When a person attempts to control someone else’s life, it only reflects the lack of control they have on their own.” ~ Daniel Chidiac
Relationships can be extremely complicated. It doesn’t matter if we are referring to romantic partnerships, friendships, family, or work relationships, it seems that the relationships we have with those closest to us are full of complicated dynamics that can often make even the healthiest of us turn into someone we no longer recognize.
And while most of us who are on a personal development quest know that the those people who are the toughest to deal with are our greatest teachers, it doesn’t make the inner workings of our relationships with these people any easier to deal with.
The fact of the matter is, the number one indicator as to how “well” we are doing in our emotional evolution process is how well our relationships with others are going. If we realize that every person in our life represents another part of our own self, how well we get along with these people tells us how unconditionally we are loving our own self.
The more harmonious our personal relationships are can only indicate how in tune we are with our own self and life in general. And the more rooted in ego we are the more our relationships will be based on co-dependent tendencies and egoic attachments.
There comes a time when we must make the discernment between what should be considered “healthy” and “unhealthy” in our relationships with others. A fine line exists between unconditional love and allowing ourselves to be mistreated or disrespected by another person.
So how exactly do we go about recognizing when we are in an unhealthy co-dependent relationship with someone while at the same time practicing being a loving, accepting person who doesn’t attempt to manipulate others into being the person WE want them to be?
“A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.” ~ Osho
How to recognise codependency
Co-dependent relationships are characterized by a number of things, the main ones being addiction to trying to “fix” someone, depending on another person to be happy, and a feeling of “needing” someone vs. just wanting to be around them, etc.
When our fear of losing someone outweighs our fear of losing our own self into them, we can be sure that we are co-dependent. For example, when we have found ourselves forgiving someone time after time, having to “get over” constant feelings of disappointment or frustration out of fear that the person will leave us if we don’t.
We are letting fear be the motivator of the relationship which means we have completely become prisoner to their behavior. Roles have been established, and the more we are attached to these roles, the more dependent we are on the other person to reinforce the one we are playing.
They need us to reinforce their role and we need them for the same reason. At the point of this happening we are able to establish the boundary between healthy and unhealthy, unconditional love and co-dependency.
As our feelings take a back seat in order to appease the other one, we see how fear of upsetting another person (which goes hand in hand with fear of losing them) sneakily disguises itself as unconditional love and forgiveness.
The most important thing to realize here is that another person cannot make us feel worthy, validated, accepted or loved unless we have unconditionally accepted and loved our own self first.
Another person cannot make us feel secure, confident, respected or important if we have not done these things for our own self first. Often, after we have realized that we are not always completely confident, or independent, or fearless we make a mistake that actually ensures we remain a prisoner in a co-dependent relationship.
We try and become who we think we “should” be in order to try and prove to ourselves and the other person that we can be who they want us to be.
Unfortunately, this tactic never works for long because to deny a part of our own self is to allow it to persist. What we try to avoid, deny and pretend will continue to pop up in the most inappropriate of times, which becomes another red flag telling us that the relationship is co-dependent. Healthy relationships need no “strategies.”
Loving people that respect themselves and respect one another do not need “tactics” in order to get the other one to act how they want them to.
Rewire your Dysfunctional beliefs
To recover from codependency, we need to recognise that dysfunctional beliefs exist and we need to replace them with healthier ones. Instead of trying to be “perfect”, we must focus on our natural emotions (which are only appearing in our reality to be embraced and loved like the scared child inside our hearts) we will start to notice a miraculous thing.
We are respecting ourselves, naturally. We are accepting and loving ourselves, naturally. We are not beating ourselves up for not living up to an image of how we think we are supposed to be and instead are just completely being ok with who or what we are.
We are not scared to have emotions and we trust that they are there to show us something. At the point that we start trusting our own emotions, we begin to form an intimate relationship with our own heart which begins to shift everything. Fear based relationships can no longer exist in this environment.
When we are looking out for our own best interest, people who don’t match up with this will no longer feel “right”. At this point, co-dependent relationships drop out of our life naturally or they heal themselves because one person is no longer playing the part they had previously been playing.
With one person no longer afraid to lose the other one and having an authentic relationship with his or her self, the other person is forced to rise to the occasion, or forced to leave the partnership (if that is an option).
Once again all roads lead back to love. Loving our self no matter what and embracing our feelings and emotions is the only thing that will ensure we remain true to ourselves and maintain healthy, positive relationships that are promoting growth and maturity.
Healthy relationships are just the natural by-product of how well we treat our own selves, and how much we listen to the feelings of our own hearts.
“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” ~ André Berthiaume
The subject of self is expansive to say the least. Will anyone ever get to know who we really are? Do we even know? Is the self entirely an illusion, or are we made up of a multitude of egotistical masks and archetypal projections that are layered upon each other as a reflection of the many lives we’ve lived and people we’ve been?
Or perhaps we’re all an expression of the Source yet also in essence of all other expressions of the Source, all experiencing each other simultaneously… as the lines of our separateness continue to blur, the collective consciousness can be the only thing to lay claim and ownership over who we really are…
But let’s not get too existential. When it comes down to it; on a daily and personal level, our experience of others can be a spiritual experience… if we let it. Some have been so bogged down, overwhelmed and stampeded by negative experiences we no longer even open up to ourselves.
We have become cold fish; the mask securely stuck on with superglue, smoothed down to perfection with no bubbles. Dependent on many factors, how disruptive our childhoods were, how deeply we’ve been hurt in relationships, and how far our parental figures rejected who we are will be the extent to which we’ve learnt to wear a mask.
This is for those who have begun to forget who the person behind their mask is. Those who are unable to discern between the mask and their true selves.
Those who have stopped ‘opening up’ or revealing themselves to anyone anymore, because, to do so would just be too dangerous. To do so would mean running the risk of feeling, and our hearts are quite comfortable in the veritable ice storm we’ve wrapped them in, thank you very much.
Here are 3 ways to drop the mask for good
Meditate
The most effective way to rip the mask from your face (without taking some skin with it), is to meditate. To what extent you wish to take this unveiling, is up to you. Meditation, to my mind, is all about authenticity and stripping away the layers of deceit that have clogged up your life for too long.
When we meditate and slow down the information our brains usually process at top speed, our frontal cortex goes offline, our beta waves decrease, and the reticular formation receiving incoming stimuli sits up and starts really taking notice.
In a way, during meditation as we loosen certain neural pathways we lose the fog and anxiety and become more alert, weakening the distracting ego-centered prefrontal cortex has on us and for once releasing our fear and taking a good inner look around us; both with our hearts and with our senses.
That is how focus and receptivity sharpens up after sittings as well as the ability to react correctly to whatever life throws at you – less of the personal attack and more of the authentic, playful balance that the universe is also operating on of brutality and innocence.
For those of us who have frozen all emotional pathways, meditation may be just the thing to get the life force flowing back into us so that we can rejoin life and experience it to the max.
Stop caring what others think
The more our parents rejected who we are as children; constantly correcting, restricting natural expression within the boundaries of what they perceived to be ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, and generally opting for convenience over consciousness, the more we will have learnt to bury ourselves.
The more we felt ignored or unheard and the more we perceived an injustice occurring when we needed understanding, the more we may have become frozen in time; frozen anger, frozen expression, frozen self. When we stop expressing ourselves as a healthy child does then we become inert – building a persona and living to please others.
Every harsh word you heard as a child meant you curbed your behaviour. Adults can be incredibly manipulative and as we become parents we recognize that our own parents were exactly what we thought they never were – human.
They were dealing with their own stuff, their own failings and expectations, and yes, at times – many times over they probably forgot you were just a child, barely able to process most of what was going on around you let alone understand it and react accordingly.
It’s time to stop pleasing others and please yourself. Entirely – with your whole being. Sometimes, though apparently petty and childish, just having those feared confrontations and arguments can shine them up for what they really are – meaningless. Just tell those who have let you down or hurt you that they did just that.
You may be angry for a while, but I promise, the more you express it the more likely it will gradually leave your life for good. How freeing! What a release! Now you are free to start focusing on what you really want to do and for once, give it your full attention.
Open up the dialogue
Having become more authentic through meditation and finally facing those fears that lurked at the back of your closet, now you must consistently keep up the dialogue with yourself – for the rest of your life. Keep putting yourself back on the true path, and learn to recognize and be honest with yourself when you’re going astray.
This is probably the most difficult one as often we just wake up and realize we have become everything we never wanted to be. It happens. Don’t be scared of it.
But at the same time, the more you consistently review your life (during daily self love rituals and ceremony such as chanting, manifestations rituals and anything else that comes under ‘me’ time), the more you will get it touch with and be able to really start to build an authentic relationship with yourself.
“The point of a maze is to find the centre. The point of a labyrinth is to find your centre.”
The ancient symbol of the labyrinth, being both the spiral and the circle wrapped into one, has long since represented wholeness.
Looking like something between a human brain, a map and a maze, the labyrinth is anything but; not a puzzle to decode, but the beginning and the end all rolled into one.
Labyrinths represent our spiritual journeys, seemingly confusing when viewed from an earthly and analytical place, yet woven with the loving care of higher wisdom and a deep awareness that echoes back to us our ancient selves and civilized holiness.
“Fishermen probably used labyrinths for protection against the perils of the sea, and probably also to increase their catch. Lapps and shepherds have used labyrinths for protection against wolves and wolverines, and it seems as if labyrinths have also been used as protection against other threats and as a remedy for mental illnesses.” ~ John Kraft.
The Cretan Labyrinth
The classical or Cretan Labyrinth holds seven pathways to its zenith and are the passageways that Theseus trod in his search for the flesh-eating Minotaur.
The monster within has a talent for destroying us and could be lurking around any corner of our lives.
Having slain the monster and put an end to the senseless slaughter or suffering of the other aspects of ourselves, the final and perhaps most trying challenge was to find our way out of the Labyrinth alive, mirroring similar beliefs of the dark night of the soul.
The significance of the seven circuits is that seven is the number of transformation. Seven is the number of chakras we must pass through to reach transcendence and is also the cycle of the number of years where the individual becomes reborn in their attitudes and habits.
The Labyrinth, though taking us in all sorts of directions ultimately leads to the centre and so, despite appearing cruel and merciless, actually puts a heavy emphasis on spiritual guidance, or the guidance available to us from our higher selves.
Three Stages Labyrinth
The three stages of the Christian Labyrinth unites the three stages of Purgation, Illumination and Union. Like the holy trinity, the individual releases or learns the lesson of humility (the Son) at the threshold to the Labyrinth, heralding new beginnings; at the centre they meet Illumination and clarity (the holy ghost/divine feminine), then on the way out reach the ultimate goal of Union, (the father/mother/balance of genders) where they integrate their knowledge and become Whole.
In entering the Labyrinth they give, or release old habits and outworn thoughts and on exiting they receive, taking on new insights and a greater wisdom and responsibility.
The Unity and Barbury Castle Labyrinths.
The Unity labyrinth in Portland is a modern Labyrinth, similar to the Yin Ying symbol in Chinese philosophy, was created to represent the union of two entities or energies. Like the afore mentioned Labyrinths, the Unity Labyrinth honours sacred geometry and a transformative element, weaving in the beauty of a naturally formed Labyrinth similar to those that have been found in crop circles such as at Barbury castle in Wiltshire.
One of the most famous crop circles found at Barbury castle in 1991 was something that looked very much like the holy trinity; three circles (including a ratchet effect in one of the Fibonacci spiral which many believe represents the misinterpretation of the sacred feminine and the message that we would/have entered a new era), surrounding a central and strongly defined spiral.
Many believe that the trinity and alongside images of treble springs and the Labyrinth emphasize balance and the reminder of the feminine aspect within that triangle. In this way Labyrinths, much like a more European Yin and Yang do symbolize the balance and integration of these two energies.
The Chartes Labyrinth
“The Labyrinth represents both a journey to our own centre and back out again into the world… at the same time as acting as a metaphor for the path we walk throughout our lives.”
The eleven-circuit Labyrinth of the Middle Ages became popular and celebrated in architecture such as the Chartes Cathedral in France where a floor Labyrinth was laid like a pavement maze for your sins to be walked away, pilgrimage or repentance style.
Like all other Labyrinths the spiral represented a journey that brought you closer to God or your higher self. The rosette design at the heart of the Labyrinth trigger lotus and other flower symbolism being the centre of enlightenment where we find our true selves and also the absence of self.
To walk on such a Labyrinth should be taken on like walking meditation; every step with heightened awareness and with attention to the shifts of weight within the body. The Chartes Labyrinth is floral both in the central as well as overall design; four segments create the whole piece and from above look like the four petals of a flower. There is a similar one at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
The Lost Labyrinth of Egypt
As well as their healing properties and ability to cast the wanderer directly onto the spiritual path that always ultimately leads to their centres, many believe that Labyrinths contain the wisdom of their age. The lost Labyrinth of Egypt was located near the City of Crocodiles as described by Herodotus, who described in Book II of his Histories was more of a palace sheltering ancient secrets from the outside world:
‘It has twelve covered courts — six in a row facing north, six south — the gates of the one range exactly fronting the gates of the other. Inside, the building is of two storey’s and contains three thousand rooms, of which half are underground, and the other half directly above them.
I was taken through the rooms in the upper storey, so what I shall say of them is from my own observation, but the underground ones I can speak of only from report, because the Egyptians in charge refused to let me see them, as they contain the tombs of the kings who built the labyrinth, and also the tombs of the sacred crocodiles.
The upper rooms, on the contrary, I did actually see, and it is hard to believe that they are the work of men; the baffling and intricate passages from room to room and from court to court were an endless wonder to me, as we passed from a courtyard into rooms, from rooms into galleries, from galleries into more rooms and thence into yet more courtyards. The roof of every chamber, courtyard, and gallery is, like the walls, of stone.
The walls are covered with carved figures, and each court is exquisitely built of white marble and surrounded by a colonnade’
The Labyrinth was discovered in 2008 to not be the foundations, as previously suggested by Flinders Petrie an avid Egyptologist in 1889, but the roof. The Mataha Expedition scanned parts and discovered complex chambers and thick walls, plunging deep into the ground. The fabled Labyrinth did exist.
Labyrinths modern and old go on to be gentle reminders of the loving aspect of our spiritual paths and that we will always find our ways in to the centre, no matter how difficult challenges may seem. Labyrinths continue to be modest natural wonders and breathtaking architectural feats; giving in receiving in equal measure, encouraging us to mindfully take our time.
“If everything goes well & sex is natural & flowing, it is a beautiful experience because you can have a glimpse of the second through it. If sex goes really very deep, so that you forget yourself completely in it, you can even have a glimpse of third through it. And if the sex becomes a totally orgasmic experience you can even have a glimpse of the fourth, Turiya the beyond through it.” ~ Osho
Sexuality is closely associated to spirituality in many ways. Although the topic of sex arouses a strong reaction and is often viewed as an obstacle on the path of spiritual development due to the wild nature of sexual energy.
Sexual energy is the primal and creative energy of the universe, it opens our heart to love, and enable us to experience deep meditative states and mystical bliss. Many wise traditions consider the peak moment of sexual energy the death of the ego.
When somebody experiences intimacy and reaches orgasm, we feel vulnerable, defenseless, carefree and there is a sense of timelessness. These are the characteristics and true nature of our spirit.
Living your life with this level of intimacy would allow the creative energy of the universe to merge with your spirit. Wouldn’t that make it important to be aware with who you share this intimacy with?
There is nothing casual about it
We have evolved both in terms of our thinking and approach towards life. The freedom to choose a sexual partner without any hesitation has also increased.
But there is nothing such as casual or meaningless sex. When we get intimate with anybody we tend to receive their positivity or negativity and unknowingly incorporate it in our everyday lives.
Even if we do not meet the other person ever again, or if we do have a continuous physical intimacy with our partner, each time we get into the act, we receive a part of their energy into our aura and leave a part of ours into theirs.
So each time we have sex, we create an energy cord with our partner. Their thoughts, feelings, desires, etc., are left as impressions in our aura, which unless cleansed, stays with us.
If the same is done under the influence of alcohol, we lower our natural protective field, which further exposes us to negative & discordant energies. If we have sex with a positive person, we are bound to receive her/his positivity and vice-a-versa with a negative person.
Jeffery Armstrong in his article, The Ancient Art and Science of Sexual Healing says, “..what could be accomplished by bringing the male and the female body together. The answer to this question is physical, biological, vital, mental, emotional, and spiritual. And since our bodies share characteristics with the animal realm, it is obviously possible for us to be pulled in both an upward and downward direction through our endowment of energies.”
Power behind the Act
Sexual energy is one of the most powerful form of energy available to living beings, but it is only man who has the intelligence to truly understand it. If we learn the true art of sexual healing, we can deduce a way to convert sexual energy into creative & healing energy.
Osho in his book ‘From Sex to Superconscious’ emphasized the presence of God in the act of coitus and closeness to the divine in an orgasm. “The coupling of a man and a woman has a very deep significance: the ego evaporates in this assimilation of two human beings.
A person who really understands the essence of this unity, of this longing for love and oneness, can also comprehend the meaning of yet another kind of unity – a yogi unites; an ascetic unites; a saint unites; a meditator unites. A person is also united in intercourse: his identity merges with that of the other person, and they become one.”
In spite of all these positive connections, we approach sex with indifference, guilt and shame, which devoid us from experiencing its true power.
Our energy system requires constant cleansing in order for it to be balanced and to keep us functioning properly. It is essential that we cleanse our aura of all the negativity and debris from time to time. Here are some simple and easy methods to remove unwanted energies left in your aura body through physical intimacy.
Sunlight is man’s main food, but since we are unable to directly consume it, we absorb it by way of fruits, vegetable, etc. Therefore, it is best to step out into the sunlight every day for minimum 15 minutes. A conscious thought, ‘I am cleansing my aura of my sexual past’ can be extremely helpful in the cleansing process.
Water is a natural cleanser, which cleans the body both physically, emotionally and energetically. Therefore, a bath with sea salt or Epsom salt can remove stuck negativity in the body.
Forgiveness is a powerful tool to release trapped energy in our body. In the case of a hurtful relationship, by forgiving the other person as well as yourself for the act of sex can lead to acceptance and discharge of energy.
Nature is yet another way to connect to Mother Earth and replenish your energy. Walking barefoot or Earthing is a great way to feel energised, because Earth’s surface contains limitless, natural, healing energy.
Meditation, when practiced in any form is enlightening and emancipating. It strengthens the aura body and gives the practitioner a sense of knowledge about their energy field. Practicing White light meditation (imagining white light going in and black light out of the body) will also discharge the debris from your aura field.
Aura cleansing techniques with experts who have the knowledge of various methodologies for aura cleansing and combing is undoubtedly a great way to remove energy blocks, debris, negativity, etc.
The above mentioned techniques are only some measures to reduce the impact of casual sex. But if we want to get physically involved with someone, it is better to weigh the situation first.
Sex is not good or bad, it is ecstatic and to truly experience the possibility of connecting higher states of awareness with peak sexual experiences, we have to first understand its significance.
“Sexual energy is not opposed to spiritual energy. In fact they have the same source. But you want your spiritual intelligence to guide and lovingly direct your sexual instincts, rather than have your unconscious instincts guide your thought and behavior.” ~ Deepak Chopra
