This level includes a very simple exercise, called Heart Gold Thread, which seemingly has a very powerful ability to evoke latent emotions. Now, the previous 18 or so lessons were a lead-up to this lesson, and it is my understanding it is best to open up other energies nexuses before doing this exercise (consult your physician, astrologer, priest, tarot cards, best friend, chance before trying: I’m half serious, because I can’t claim at this point to know how any of this works), but I will describe it and my own experience.
You simply stand, feet about 6″ apart, and slowly raise your arms, palms down, to slightly higher than shoulder level, and stand there for 10 minutes. Working up to 25 minutes is a desirable goal.
Needless to say, I hope, your arms get tired and painful. I have very strong shoulders, but I also have large arms, and 10 minutes, I would assume, is a lot for nearly anyone, at least until they build up. It seems after a few minutes an impossible task. I have to lower my arms even now a couple times.
Nothing happens for some period of time. You are just standing there, wondering what the point is. You close your eyes, and in a strict iteration put your tongue to the back of your teeth, open your mouth slightly, and try to breathe evenly between mouth and nose.
I don’t know if anything will happen–good or bad–for folks who have not done preparatory work, and would again encourage folks to sign up for the whole program at http://kumnyeyoga.com/e-kum-nye/ ,but in my own case particularly when my arms started getting wobbly, and I decided to keep them up there anyway, powerful emotions would after a time rush through, so strong I wanted to yell: feelings mainly of fear, but also sadness, and occasionally calm.
And like any Kum Nye, you just stay with the feeling. You let it burn. You tolerate it, knowing it will not last forever, but that it is or was a part of you that was holding you back, keeping you from manifesting something better. You embrace it, welcome it, thank it. Whatever its role was at one time in your life, it was useful, protective, needed.
It is very literally like emotional housecleaning. It is getting into the corners and attic, and just seeing what all is there, and letting what you don’t want manifest and then diminish. This process is still on-going. I am going to start the next level today, but will continue to do this every evening, probably after doing my Emwave 2 for ten minutes, which seems to be beneficial.
So often people feel a sense of powerlessness because knowledge is power, and they lack knowledge. Most of what you need to know does not consist in “be nice”, despite what our educational system would have you believe. Being nice is the consequence most of the time for people who are emotionally healthy, with the only exceptions being when it is inappropriate.
The dictum “be nice” is soulless, devoid of meaning, devoid of POSSIBLE affective depth. In our world we are taught close to nothing about how to become deep, meaning-full human beings. We are taught how to describe our emotions, but not how to feel them, how to be present now, so that some new present can manifestly (forgive me) presently.
Our culture is weak. We lack the TOOLS needed to become otherwise. I submit this is one possible such tool that is virtually unknown.