Aquarius workshop

Peace between body and soul

“Peace between body and soul is an inevitable outcome and product of self-realization.
It is erroneous to believe that the body can simply be left aside in the great venture of integration.
When the body is shed without this integration having taken place,
it is a work that still remains to be accomplished.”
Quote from Pathwork Lecture 149: Cosmic Pull towards Evolution

The Pathwork lectures understand the soul as the sum of the total inner personality: the thoughts, feelings, attitudes, patterns, character traits, temperament, emotions, personal quirks and unresolved problems. The movements of the soul are energy currents of positive or negative feelings, thoughts or attitudes. Therefore, the quality of our thoughts, feelings and attitudes determines the quality of our soul movement and that soul movement affects the physical body. Our soul movements are cramped when we fear that we will not achieve our goal or that our wishes will not be fulfilled. We cling to one alternative and demand that we must have this one in order to be spared the other. Truth creates positive feelings and flexible, harmonious soul movements that have a positive effect on the body. False ideas, misconceptions and images create disharmonious emotions and tense, rigid soul movements that negatively affect the body. Both the body and the soul strive for wholeness and health. But when a second (unconscious) counterforce – a no-current that wants to be unhealthy on a physical, mental and emotional level – pulls the other way, that inner struggle causes a painful feeling of dissatisfaction. In this workshop we will explore with a loving curiosity three themes of the Pathwork Lectures regarding the peace between body and soul.

1st theme: Opening yourself to the life force

The life force, the yes-stream, the true self, the divine and the Now are one and the same. This superintelligence is constantly available to give answers and guidance. It will never impose itself, but we must make the connection with the life force ourselves. However, if soul movements are disharmonious and tense through illusions and misconceptions, contact with the life force will be impossible,. If we realize Now that we are not in truth and long for the truth, then we open ourselves to the life force.

“Wherever you have your images, your wrong conclusions, your conscious and unconscious ignorance and errors, you do not live in truth, and therefore you prohibit the life force, which, among many other attributes, is always a healing force — healing for your body, for your mind, your soul, and your spirit. Thus you will readily believe that all physical sickness is only a chain reaction, a final outer manifestation of obstructed life force. Whenever you have such blocks or obstruction within your soul, the only way to cure this malady is to prepare for the proper reception of the life force.” (Quote from Pathwork Lecture 48)

2nd theme: Moving through your negative emotions

The greatest pain and confusion we experience is when we do not realize that we ourselves have created our experiences through negative emotions. At that moment we feel helpless at the mercy of a greater power that we do not understand. We can voluntarily choose to face these negative emotions and try to understand what has caused them in us. Then we accept these emotions in a healthy and relaxed way. Only when we fully accept our negative emotions can we move through them and transform them.

“Quite a few of you have, for example, experienced how anxiety can loosen up as you fully face and understand it, as you express it directly and convert it into its component parts of other emotions you had denied — perhaps rage, hurt, sadness. When these emotions are fully experienced in body and soul and honestly expressed without acting out against any scapegoat, the torturous feelings turn into warmth and pleasure. The feeling of alive peace accompanies this experience. Your body and soul are streaming in pleasure currents when you no longer run away from feared emotions.” (Quote from Pathwork Lecture 160)

3rd theme: Experiencing the unity of body and soul

Due to collective misconceptions about the body, we tend to ignore the body and consider the needs of the body as secondary. On the one hand, we overestimate the body by thinking that it is all there is to it and on the other hand, we deny the importance of treating our body as a precious gift. Enjoying the body is no less spiritual than spiritual, mental and emotional pleasure. The Aquarian experiences the unity of body and soul and loves all aspects.

“Where and how do you love your soul, your mentality, your body? Go deeply into the meditation in which you let yourself know that you are divine, that you need to fully face yourself in all aspects and only increase the sense of divinity. Let your consciousness align itself with the divine will of loving yourself; loving yourself without indulging yourself, without whitewashing your lower self; seeing it straight, and loving your beautiful structure, loving your incarnation, loving all that is around you, even that which seems to infringe in some way on you. Recognize its lesson and begin to love it.” (Quote from Pathwork Lecture 240)

The workshop lasts 1,5 hours. We will start with an introduction meditation. This will be followed by  the opportunity to discuss your experiences on this subject and to ask questions.

The last part of the workshop consists of a guided meditation and the sharing of received inspirations.

The free workshop will be held on Saturday at PST 8.00-9.30, EST 11.00-12.30, GMT 16.00-17.30, CET 17.00-18.30.

After you have registered for the free workshop (s.hontele@hetnet.nl), you will receive a zoom link.