Originally posted on 27th June 2023
by Heinz Grill
Ten steps for learning to develop a life force that generates warmth.
The fire or warmth ether is that unique cosmic force-entity which, when it becomes effective, has a healing effect against degenerative cell proliferation, because in this fine ether force lives the ability to order and penetrate the innermost metabolic processes. It has the significance of organising and creating form. It penetrates without heating, it enlivens the cells like a fine fringe. Especially for this present time, with the extraordinary increase in pathological processes that generate carcinogenic growth, it seems important that the principles, according to which this cosmic warmth can be meaningfully brought into its fascinating intervention, be understood and brought into practice by individual people. There really are laws that individuals can use and, for the sake of their health, even must use.
Practitioners who wish for healing and bring this about with their own activity, develop various disciplines with conscious planning and perseverance that contribute to the most subtle formation of warmth with its balancing function.
There are simple methods and ways in which this subtle fringing and balancing stimulation of warmth can take place.
Generally, in natural health people speak of “the power of self-healing”. What is the character of this hidden, potential force that is inherent in every person? The initial basis for activating these self-healing powers lies in the development of the right conditions of the warmth in the body and in the soul.
1. Both a mental as well as a physical activity should be planned for every day. One-sidedness and overly intellectual demands usually rob the individual of a great deal of life force. They lead to cooling of certain areas of the body or to a deficit of forces that build up all the enzymatic processes in the body. A physical, sporty or well-chosen activity forms a balance on a very simple level to the intellectual exertions. If this physical activity is applied with sense, for example, with harmonious movements and ways of breathing that brings balance, it has a liberating effect. Many types of sport can also lead to a certain relationship with nature or, if it is a discipline like table tennis, to a better ability to perceive others. The more a relationship is created within the physical activity, the more easily the cosmic and subtle warmth effect is stimulated, because this flows from outside inwards or, in other words, from a greater whole to the individual physicality and finally right into the cellular system. Therefore, pay attention to the level of relationship brought into the sporting and physical activity.
2. The best activity for a penetrating and effective invigoration of the forces of fire, however, does not come from an excess of sporting and physical activity. Although every activity that is adequately carried out with the body stimulates metabolic warmth, a good interaction of thoughts, content-ful ideas and the resulting physical practices are also required. An idea should be thought sufficiently and gathered to become an intensive feeling, so that it can be subsequently implemented into practical life.
Invigorated ideas, developed mental pictures in a logical sequence, expanded subtle feelings through this clear and ordered work with thoughts and ultimately a practical implementation, form an integrated unity into which the cosmic warmth then flows.
An esoteric truth first requires meditation on the given words, with which it is formulated. Then a more intensive relationship and a subtle feeling for the truth and for its existing spiritual reality arises. After some time of carrying out this preparation those practising can try to formulate this truth practically in life and bring it into actions.
For example, on this path those practising get to know the esoteric truth, that the whole of the soul and spirit life, in present life and beyond in the afterlife, is not dependent on matter nor on the exploitability of matter. All thought content and consciousness activity that they bring, for example, into a yoga exercise, or even into a eurhythmy exercise gains a value for the life-forces and for the upholding of morality, whereas, all the demands that are expected from the exercise only have a physical and material significance. When students study this truth, which is the difference between soul-spirit activity and a consuming way of being, they must set out on the path of cultivating less expectations on outer factors and move towards the development of a more conscious relationship to an exercise, so that they learn to experience it in a more comprehensive way. The attitude that transcends consumption and ignites an active engagement in turning to and actively relating to the exercise, brings about an increase in warmth in the human being.
3. Those practising should pay attention to the consequences of their actions and in every case train themselves to be persistent. Every unfinished project, every work begun on an idea, that doesn’t result in completion, decisively weakens the whole ether force of individuals.
4. There are for example many people that have started a spiritual development and out of comfort, fear of change, or out of purely human feelings of attachment, do not develop a meaningful guiding thread in life. They will then often become very weak, ill or need endless compensation, so that they over bridge their own weakness. The perseverance to sustain aims in the sense of a spiritually true mental picture, generates a large amount of warmth ether forces, whereas, a barrier is created between the cosmos and the individual personal being when aspirants deny the aims by excusing themselves, mostly as a result of attachment to life.
There are a number of people who do not rise to a decision right from the start, believing they are thus better protected from fear, exhaustion or illness. The first strengthening in the sense of a spiritual self-awareness takes place in the fire ether and with this in the consciously made decision to do something, that has a worthy value and satisfies a demand for meaning. Decisions bring the warmth to take hold because they constitute a part of the self. Self-resolve forms the seed of any fruit. One of the most serious mistakes anyone can make is to avoid making decisions for themselves and others. They cannot gain their own position in life and as a result of this deficiency, they lack the warmth element that represents a kind of centre within the self. The avoidance manoeuvres that people often like to adopt in life, lead to a wasting of time that cannot be recovered and it weakens the health. It is not a solution for students to copy the maths homework from a colleague to get a good mark because they will never learn maths this way, in the same sense no human nature can avoid a spiritual task. Or maybe they can? It is part of the apparent freedom of mankind that people can create a life plan for themselves, in that they can acquire the best strategies to swing through life comfortably and without commitment. They swing first out and then back again. How alien they remain to themselves by avoiding the implications of a responsibility that they have for soul and spiritual reasons. People constantly become less free with all these avoidance strategies and ultimately must use magic and lies to assert themselves in life. They remain a nothing and as a result of their lack of individuality they are more ill even than some others who suffer physical difficulties.
5. With regard to the activity with yoga, meditation, anthroposophical work and general religious reflection, the requirement is that individuals do not cultivate a personal inclination in the sense of nice sounding words or belonging to a group. They must engage much more with the concepts of spirituality, with the exercises of yoga and with the objects they chose to concentrate on. It is truly a confrontation and it is movement and these bring forth the fire. The term advaita, non-duality, can be extraordinarily misleading to the mind of the aspirant. Many people today want to prematurely get into a kind of unified connection with the higher worlds, with their Master or with their personally chosen conception of Christ. However, the quick connections that individuals form eliminate the real, actively acquired relationship. How many people in groups are in an apparent enlightenment? Yet, what is the real relationship that can only develop in the dvaita-form, with the so-called observer and the object to be observed, in other words, in a consciously chosen dual form? From its deepest needs, the human soul wants to establish an orderly and intact relationship with the world, with spiritual teachers and with fellow human beings. Therefore, it needs the challenges of life and the many events in which limits are surpassed.
The meeting with objective processes of awareness from an I to a you, from an individual thought to another thought, forms a foundation of development. The illusions that many people adopt through a premature apparent connection, a connection that is in reality cheap emotional attachment, disturb the state of warmth, and the self cannot flourish in hasty ideologies, symbiosis and unification, in group feelings and in quickly acquired concepts of belief.
Any meditation work therefore requires overcoming quick sympathies and defensive feelings of antipathy. In this sense, yoga speaks of raga and dvesha, from attachment and aversion.1) See here the Raja Yoga Sutras from Patanjali (2.7-8)
sukhānuśayī rāgaḥ
duḥkhānuśayī dveṣaḥ
Attachment (raga) is that which dwells on pleasure (sukha).
Aversion (dvesha) is that which dwells on pain (duhkha).
Patanjali, PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS, Swami Vivekananda These must not be a guiding factor because they create unrest.
Practitioners must work out a real relationship to the object of meditation. For example, if they take the words from Christ, ”I am the way, the truth and the life”2) John. 14:6, they first need time to discover the sentence in its depth. That real relationship that the individual soul develops to matter, to fellow human beings and to the spirit with its truths, provides a basis for the fire being in the life-force body.
6. Just as the metabolic warmth that is stimulated through physical activity, for example, through mountain climbing, is more valuable than heat, that is passively supplied from outside via favourable temperatures, so in the same sense the fire element can then more effectively take hold when practitioners learn to continuously overcome their personal limits in life and do not turn too fearfully to a modest and passive life. Every individual needs challenge and human beings must seek it out in every phase of their life in an appropriate way.
The days pass quickly and to one’s cost without independently formed aims. Practitioners should definitely set themselves spiritual tasks and consistently lead them on the path of realisation. They will naturally overcome their personal limits with joy. The many self-fabricated feelings of calm and tranquillity, for which every human being longs, remain very relative anyway.
7. The belief that people can find a nice harmony in life and a nice personal ease of relationship is, upon more exact reflection, probably very naïve. Practitioners ideally set themselves some higher aims, because if they do not do this, they will certainly not discover a nice life balance. As it is said in the Bhagivad Gita that those who devote themselves to the highest duties will get everything they need in life, and, moreover, will even receive special advantages for the future, the same is true for the life forces. The aims that people set for themselves give life a greater will and they have a stabilising effect on the individuality with its possibilities to give warmth. What is this individuality? It is definitely based in fire out of a superordinate spirit in the personal. In the Bhagavad Gita, this advantage that arises naturally for life is called yoga-ksemam.3) Bhagavad Gita Chap 9, Verse 22
Aananyas cintayanto mam
ye janah paryupasate
tesham nityabhiyuktanam
yoga-ksemam vahamy aham
“To those men who worship me, meditating on me and on no one else, and who are constantly devoted, I give new gifts and preserve what is acquired by them.”
THE BHAGAVADGÎTÂ WITH THE SANATSUGÂTÎYA AND THE ANUGÎTÂ
translated by KÂSHINÂTH TRIMBAK TELANG
The Godhead of the Bhagavd Gita (Krishna) can today be replaced by the pure thought:
“To those men who worship the thought, meditating on the thought and on nothing else, and who are constantly devoted, it gives new gifts and preserves what is acquired by them.”
8. Unphysiological withdrawals should be avoided at all costs. Both in relationships, as well as, with work commitments people should by no means give themselves over to the temptation of avoiding obligations and the necessary dialogue. The tendency to retreat at the crucial moment of responsibility, should be at best torn out of the personality as the worst vice that can afflict the soul.
9.Warmth ether forces arise through repeatedly turning to spiritual content. This active taking up of relationship should be done carefully, it should be neither too enthusiastic nor emotional, it should happen concretely, with a clear consciousness and unfold into the knowledge that, through repetition, the content is prepared for recognition. The cosmic force of fire and warmth lives in spiritual, true content and this unfolds in the individual when the content comes to a subtle-feeling and finally into practical implementation.
10. Both during an illness and in the preliminary stages of any illness, people today need the knowledge of how they can build up warmth a deep way. They do not need a religion that gives solace, because this cannot adequately lead them on a path of healing. Rather, they need practical and real approaches to how exercises, studies and real, chosen activities, can help by having an ordering effect on themselves, an uplifting effect on relationships and a beneficial effect on the health of one’s entire existence.
Anmerkungen
| ⇑1 | See here the Raja Yoga Sutras from Patanjali (2.7-8) sukhānuśayī rāgaḥ duḥkhānuśayī dveṣaḥ Attachment (raga) is that which dwells on pleasure (sukha). Aversion (dvesha) is that which dwells on pain (duhkha). |
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| ⇑2 | John. 14:6 |
| ⇑3 | Bhagavad Gita Chap 9, Verse 22 Aananyas cintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate tesham nityabhiyuktanam yoga-ksemam vahamy aham “To those men who worship me, meditating on me and on no one else, and who are constantly devoted, I give new gifts and preserve what is acquired by them.” THE BHAGAVADGÎTÂ WITH THE SANATSUGÂTÎYA AND THE ANUGÎTÂ The Godhead of the Bhagavd Gita (Krishna) can today be replaced by the pure thought: |