Topic: Taisha Abelar (Quiet your mind)

[Jennifer-]

If your breath is agitated, your mind becomes restless. To quiet the mind, its best to begin by quieting your breathing. She told me to keep my back erect and to concentrate on my breathing until it was soft and rhythmic, like that of an infant.
~Taisha Abelar

[Jennifer-]

Try to imagine yourself a giant warehouse. In that warehouse, someone other than yourself has stored, feelings, ideas, mental dialogues and behavior patterns. Since it is your warehouse you can go in there and rummage around any time you want and use whatever you find there. The problem is that you have absolutely no say over the inventory, for it was already established before you came into possession of the warehouse. Thus you are drastically limited in your selection of items.

Unless this storehouse is cleared out, there is no way for us to be what we really are.
~Taisha Abelar

[Jennifer-]

When we engage any item of our forced inventory, we are doing; anything that is not part of that inventory is not doing.
~Taisha Abelar

[Jennifer-]

But the spirit is not anybody's guardian, she went on, its an abstract force, neither good nor evil. A force that has no interest whatsoever in us, but that nevertheless responds to our power. Not to prayers mind you, but to our power.
~Taisha Abelar

[Jennifer-]

The double is controlled not by our intellect but by our intent.
~Taisha Abelar

[Jennifer-]

Being divided is our human condition. But our division is not between the mind and the body, but between the body, which houses the mind or the self, and the double, which is the receptacle of our basic energy.
~Taisha Abelar

[Jennifer-]

By concentrating on your breathing you can make the solid body dissolve so that only the soft, ethereal part is left. It is not that the physical body, dissolves, bit that changing the fixation of our awareness we begin to realize that it was never solid in the first place. This realization is the exact reversal of what took place as we matured. As infants, we were totally ware of our double; as we grew up, we learned to put increasingly more empathasis on the physical side and less on our ethereal being. As adults we are completely unaware that our soft side exists.

The soft side is a mass of energy. We are aware only of its hard outer casting. We become aware of our ethereal side by allowing our intent to shift back to it.
~Taisha Abelar