Yogic sunscreen
I felt intense sunlight on my skin one hot summer day and noticed an element of fear in my reaction. I was startled and intrigued by how such a response had found its way in there. Here are the conclusions of much contemplation and reflection on the issue. In testing such an approach out I have further gained fascinating insight by contrasting the part of me that was surprised by the results and the part of me that reacted with the patient excitement of watching someone you love grow and change.
If we are beings of light, then how could that which we are harm us. The harm is caused by the resistance to what you are, the separation from your true self. Open yourself to that which you are, accept the light from the sun and along with it the warmth, the heat of transformation to burn away any last doubts about your true nature. Accept the rays to reinforce your true nature, absorb/drink deeply the light. I am a being of light, I accept these rays with the heat of transformation to help move me back to my true form, that of light. The resistance of this process causes stress and confusion. Less resistance, less resistance, more openness, more acceptance. Breathe/absorb deeply and allow this heat of transformation to help shape this light into what is needed to heal ourselves and express/release our true forms.
Too much resistance causes the light and heat to amass/build up on the skin. Our fears repel the light and confuse it. Why am I not being allowed to complete my journey? The light wonders. What is this blocking my path to this source, to this sun. For we are all suns, giving and receiving ourselves in a galactic sharing circle. Light is shared from source to source, from sun to sun, beamed around the universe across great distances in time and space, but always to another source. Our sun shares its secrets with us through its light. This is the conversation of Gods. But our fears, our resistance block out this life, denying the divine currents the completion of their journey, the fulfillment of their purpose. They build up on our surface, their intensity and heat unwittingly burning our fragile surface. In confusion they try vainly to get in, struggling against this invisible barrier of fear. So close, inches away from anticipated bliss, they can already feel the process of integration and mergence beginning; they sense the nearness of the next chance of expression in their evolution. The brilliance of your inner sun blinds them, as they can see your true form and their longing is great, they cry/weep for God when this last step is denied to them. Their confusion becomes our confusion, and we react, hurt, building more resistance, solidifying a veil into a solid barrier, moving us further from the light that fuels us. Cutting us off from the light that is the reply and answer to our searching and questions that we ask/plead/beg to the sun and wonder to starlit nights.
What to do…accept the light, remove all resistance to it, allow it to enter, disperse that intense heat that is created by the excitement of the rays merging with the bliss of your source. Relax your fear so a burning on the skin changes/spreads to warmth with such depth it comforts your soul. Allow the light and heat to change you, to spark memories and guide new creations. Let the feeling of bhakti you feel on the inside met the bhakti with which the light seeks you, let the meeting of such devotion erupt and shower through your aura, for surely bliss would rain around you.
Light from the sun is not the only form of our essence that we share with the universe. Our connections to others in a form of light we often label as love is constantly being shared from source to source. Our sensitivity to this light is great. Subtly different vibrational undertones to this light yield other descriptions/labels such as gratitude, patience, friendship. There are many sources all around us, we just need to open up and allow this abundance in, become part of the fulfillment and manifestation of such concepts. Release our separation/resistance to this richness and beauty and realize our true place among it, surrounded by it.
Chemical sunscreen addresses the symptoms only, instead address the cause. Our capacity is far greater then we think, release fear and witness miracles as our creative machine drinks fully/deeply of the light/love around us.
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Jivan