Ancestry

One of the consequences of delving deeply into just one energetic teaching/lineage, and not allowing yourself the luxury (foolishness) of picking and choosing, is that you begin to feel your own sources. Especially with something like Tai Chi which is all about connecting with the ground, energies start seeping up from that place and awaken old memories from your ancestors and your roots. From where do you spring? Origins. But also coils, helical structures loaded with energy and possibility and wisdom, waiting to be realized. And it is only when these structures start to reveal themselves through the work that you are able to bound and unbind into your life with the deep confidence of connexion. In a way our original sin is that we have forgotten what really matters and instead cling to the mass of superficial garbage and baggage which our immediate and karmic environment presents us with. John always used to say that the curse for the individual is thinking that they are special – clinging to a feeling of separation and loneliness. He also used to add that people are special but never in the way they think they are. Your specialness arises from the fact of the unique coming together of all the genetic and energetic threads that define your possibilities. As each of these threads comes alive, through the work or other, it is like turning on a tiny light of connectedness. With time and work these lights become a shining beacon, enlightening both your own path and the lives of others. The key to opening the energetic heritage of your ancestry is the sacrum. The ancients believed that the soul resides in it. When you start to breath into it and from it, and adjust your posture so that the heart is held directly above it, then it starts to feed the heart with energy from the ground. The sacrum transforms earth into heart – brings that h around to the front – but only if it is relaxed, worked and correctly aligned. When you stand (or sit) your sacrum should feel as though it is sinking down into the ground beneath your feet and the heart should feel as though is is lifting to the heavens, not directly upwards but up and slightly forwards. Generally speaking this heart energy, from the ground via the sacrum, is the expression of your connectedness and is of course so much more than just you. Your ancestors spread out behind you like an ever widening wedge, doubling each generation. Go back 200 years and you have about a thousand. Go back a thousand years and you have, in theory anyway, in excess of a trillion, which is vast. Of course there will only be a handful of threads that dominate what you are, and maybe only one that interests you sufficiently to want to build on it, but with work the rich texture of your heritage relaxes and settles and begins to shimmer. Within that texture there will always be a common thread to whatever situation you are in or person you are with. Kith and kin.