We struggle when we are disconnected from our higher selves, but by shaking to the rhythm of music, we can free our souls from emotional energy, connect to universal consciousness, and experience peace, joy, and balance.
Why do we struggle? We may think of particular reasons when we ask this question. Many of these reasons, however, can be boiled down into one: we are disconnected from our higher selves.
What is the higher self? It is the soul and spirit. Our souls and spirits may sound the same, but in the Sundo view, they are different. Our spirits are the information in our heads. It’s what travels around when we dream, going here and there. Our souls, on the other hand, cannot roam. They hold tightly to the qi energy in our hearts and only leave our bodies when we die. It’s OK for the spirit to be gone for a while, but the soul should not leave us.
Our souls in our hearts can connect to our spirits in our brains, and they can connect with the universal energy and consciousness around us. In fact, that is what they are meant to do. When our souls are connected this way, we cease to struggle, because we can use universal energy and consciousness. We’re not limited to our small selves. Our souls can escape from the sadness, loneliness, and pain that are inevitable with disconnection. Instead, they can feel absolute love, joy, and peace.
Then, knowing the preciousness of peace, we don’t hurt other people, for our own peace is shattered when we wound the heart of another. We also don’t fall furiously in love. Nor do we become enmeshed in passionate belief or lose ourselves in fervent faith. We maintain a peaceful state, always watching ourselves dispassionately. We discover the unchanging world of consciousness, transcending life and death.
How to Free the Soul
Our souls can only make this connection when it is free of emotional energy—when the energy around it is pure. Then, how can we keep our souls clean? These are the steps:
The first is knowing the state of our souls. It’s realizing, “My soul is suffering, oppressed and contaminated by emotional energy. My soul is not in good condition right now.” We can only cleanse our souls if we feel their condition, like being able to wash clothes only if we know they’re dirty. If we’re aware of being lonely, suppressed, frustrated, unworthy, and other disconnected conditions, then it’s time to clean our souls.
The second is having the attitude, “I want to restore my soul to its original state.” It’s understanding, “I should make my soul clean and pure so it can completely connect to universal consciousness and universal energy.” Then, we can choose to do it.
The third is cleaning the emotional energy around our souls. To launder the soul, we have to shake our bodies. We have to shake them without thinking of anything. Shaking our bodies means becoming like a little child. When we shake our bodies like a child, we achieve a very pure state, without any desires or thoughts. We shake until our minds become really peaceful, until they are really like that of a child.
Our bodies develop rhythm when we shake them. Rhythm is life and purity. We need to shake until we find the unadulterated rhythm of life. Shake all of it—your hands, knees, arms, your entire body. Find the rhythm. Your brain will become more flexible. Joy welling up in your heart is proof that your purity has been restored.
“I am frustrated. I feel frustrated somehow, and I need to change. I’ve grown distant from my soul.” When such thoughts come to mind, shake. When you want to restore the purity of your soul, sitting there thinking doesn’t work. When such thoughts come to mind, quickly accept them, choose to recover a pure soul, and shake your body. We have to move if we want to live.
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Add the Rhythm of Music
Music is also energy; it’s energy that can purify our souls. Play music as you shake, and feel your body moving to it, riding on waves of energy. Your hands and arms move, and your shoulders and torso move. Watch the flow of those movements just as they happen. Once you’re completely going with the energy, open your eyes but don’t use them to watch. Watch with your body. Listen with your cells, not your ears. Listen with your skin, with your muscles.
Move earnestly and powerfully! You have to keep moving, going with the energy. Do it to the music without overdoing it, and without sinking into it too much. Only then can you go deeper inside yourself. Your emotions shouldn’t lead too much, and they shouldn’t get too far behind, either.
All the movements that have been stored in your memory will come out. And new movements you’ve never done before will all come out, too. Your body will become balanced, side to side, front to back. The condition of your brain will be expressed, unaltered. The loneliness and sadness of your soul, its joy and enlightenment, all manifest. The more time goes by, the more the practice changes every time you do it. Continue it until your soul is completely free.
Even if people listen to the same music, the movements of each person’s neural network are all different, depending on the information he or she has. So the movements of each person are all different. It’s like how a cow drinking water produces milk, while a viper drinking the same water produces poison.
Vibrate Your Brain Waves
When you vibrate and shake, imagine the wave energy of the music entering your brain cells, causing them all to vibrate, the cells of your whole body absorbing the music. The energy spreads throughout your body through your cerebral nerves. Your brain cells move, and then your neural networks move.
When we do this, our energy completely changes—another kind of energy is created, a form we don’t normally use. Those changes yield more changes. They don’t stop but keep changing and flowing.
To keep our souls clear, unconfined by emotional energy, we need to keep moving, never stopping. Stand still and die, or move and live. If we stop, we’ll rot; if we move, we’ll be renewed. Our souls will be purified and refreshed every day, free of struggle and suffering.
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