By Doug Scott, LCSW, MA

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Are you feeling some intensely painful feeling? Anxiety? Depression? Confusion? Anger? Grief? Shame?

The world will not get calmer, so it is up to those of us who want to take on the honor/responsibility to process our catalysts with efficiency, intention, and love. The following brief exercise is very beneficial and is informed by good mental health techniques, healthy spirituality, my own Catholic Christian tradition, and the Law of One metaphysics.

One way to do this is what I call the “Sacrament of Solidarity.” It utilizes some of Dr. Kristin Neff’s work on self-compassion and Ra’s description of the different energy centers (See below for graphs and links to more chakra material from Law of One). As a mental health professional, I developed this ten-step process to help some of my clients. I also use it daily. Try it out for yourself?

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First, try to name the feeling you have as accurately as possible. Differentiating the feelings we feel is helpful because by naming them, we detach from them a little. If we don’t name them, which is another way of saying that we bring them into the conscious level, they just stay inside a kind of cloud of pure emotions within our psyche. This can be problematic because we will experience the feelings not as something we have, but rather something we are. In other words, we will feel as if we were “possessed” by them.

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Second, visualize the feeling(s) as a kind of amorphous mass which has a color or colors. Locate this mass down around the belly button, inside your guts, as it were. We will call this colored energy a “feelings-mass.”

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Third, bring the feeling(s) up to your solar plexus, the space between your belly button and your heart. Allow the feelings-mass to sit right there for a few moments as you pause and prepare yourself for the next step. The next step will require you to admit your powerlessness over these intense feelings. In order to do that well, you need to give yourself some time to emotionally and spiritually prepare yourself for the kind of honesty and vulnerability that this sacrament requires for it to be effective. Take a few more moments.

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Fourth, state out loud or in your mind some form of surrendering prayer or statement. Something like, “I acknowledge that my [intense feeling] has become unmanageable and I cannot control it. I surrender my desire to change how I feel about reality. I only desire to be an instrument of the Creator’s love, wisdom, and peace for others and for those in the immediacy of my life’s situation.”

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Fifth, you will then visualize the feelings-mass move into the heart. See it being transformed by emerald green light, which is the archetypal color of renewal, healing, refreshment, Spring, rebirth. Notice if the mass takes on another shape. Sometimes it can become a sphere.

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Sixth bring the feelings-mass up to your forehead. You might start feeling a pressure between your eyes. That’s good. It’s okay if you don’t feeling anything, either. From here, begin to visualize all of the people in the world right now–all your brothers and sisters in this one human family–who may be suffering the same kind of [intense feeling]. Allow for a few seconds for your visualization to make this global sweep.

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Seventh, say to those brothers and sisters, “I see you. I am with you in this. I love you. I am one with you. You are not alone.”

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Eighth, while holding the visualization in place, breathe in and wish yourself wellbeing and peace. Breathe out and wish your brothers and sisters wellbeing and peace. “May I be well and connected.” “May you be well and connected.” Do this for a few times.

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Ninth, bring your attention back into your body by noticing how your feet feel as they are touching the ground. Then notice the feeling of the palms of your hands.

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Tenth, release the exercise by a gesture or acknowledgment of gratefulness for this moment and for your life. Say this outloud or in your mind. You can open your eyes if you had then closed.

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• Cosmic Christ