In any given moment, we can choose either to suppress our natural energy or to use it to tran-scend. Suppression is about fragmentation, whereas transcendence is about union. Through suppression, our experience of our One Self becomes divided. The parts we ac-cept become semi-conscious and the parts we deny become unconscious. From this point on, they distort the energy flow of our body-mind network. The energy of suppression accumulates in our unconscious. Whatever we push down into our unconscious goes into every muscle, every bone, every cell of our body. From there it operates in secret and shapes our reality as we act out that which we have suppressed. We learn to suppress early in life when our natural self-expression is discouraged. How-ever, we can choose to express who we are now, no matter how old we are, and thereby tran-scend. As we express our suppressed energies, we bring them into consciousness, which heals them. When we express who we are, our life energy flows freely through us, so that we keep growing and ascending. It’s important to express who we are fully; otherwise, we close the door to our being, our essence. We should express it all, both the beautiful and what we consider ugly about ourselves. However, this doesn’t mean we mindlessly throw it at someone else. That’s just another form of acting out, not creative expression and transcendence. The point is to become free, not to start a new chain reaction! Transcendence happens spontaneously. In other words, when we transcend suppressed energy, we don’t do anything. We simply allow it to be whatever it is and express it appropri-ately. For instance, we might express the energy through jogging, painting, gardening, walking, or swimming. By expressing our energy, we are transcending our suppression, which enables us to relax into a life of trust and joy. To express and transcend is to live life fully, naturally, in-tensely. When we transcend, there’s no more fragmentation in us. We leave behind semi-consciousness and unconsciousness, becoming the infinite consciousness. In this silent under-standing—in the peace of this awareness—transcendence brings us home to ourselves.

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