Shaumbra Newsletter - December 2009

Letting go of old baggage and literally saying “Yes” to yourself and Life

Dear fellow travelers on the road of Life in the visible world and the unseen realms of reality: thank you for “tuning in” to the Shaumbra newsletter and the wonderful New Energy which permeates it and emanates from it and helps us to transcend the regular limitations of a purely materialistic perspective of life and consequently a very limited experience of Life.

You are surely familiar with the saying, “Let go, let God.” Or with this insight: “When we cannot solve a problem we may dissolve it, we may disentangle us from it.”

“Oh, if it would be that easy,” you might think now. Yes, it can be that easy – if and when we are willing to let go. Most people know about the healing model of homeopathy: A small physical particle of a healing agent is “diluted” in specific repetitive processes until there is but one or two molecules in a little bottle of medicine. And in so-called high-potency homeopathy – C 200 or D 200 or higher – no molecules at all are contained any more. And still for many people and in many cases it “works.”

I would like to suggest a similar approach to letting go. I came across this proposal in a wonderful book by Alla Svirinskaya, a Russian healer who lives in London (the book is now called “Your Secret Laws of Power”). It is a form of symbolically letting go of the burden and stress of a problem and thereby gaining new mental and emotional space and freedom and clarity.

I adapted her method a bit and here it is:

Step 1: Decide on a problem you would like to let go of. It can be a small or a medium problem. I don’t advise you to pick a huge one at the beginning but only later when you are more familiar with this symbolic exercise.

Step 2: Take a balloon and slowly blow it up. With each exhalation from your lungs into the balloon you symbolically breathe out your problem, its stresses, residues, blocks and so on, into the balloon.

Step 3: If you feel that you really have exhaled your problem into the balloon and it would burst if you wouldn’t stop now, then tie a knot at its base and hold it in one hand. In the other hand you hold a needle.

Step 4: Only if and only when you are really, really ready to let go of your problem – at least now and at least for the short span of this symbolic exercise – then allow yourself that your super-conscious (or your un-conscious or sub-conscious, as you will) brings both hands slowly together until the balloon pops.

Step 5: Let the air and the earth absorb and transmute the energies of your problem – they are able to do that!

By the way: If you absolutely insist in getting back your cozy old problem because you feel too lonely without it, then just go around the room and try to inhale it back into you. Good luck.

One more “By the way”: The word problem comes from Greek, pro ballein. That means, “to throw something somewhere respective to somebody” So, a problem has been tossed to us – maybe because we are the one who is best suited to deal with it. Oh how sweet the consideration of problems can be if one hovers above – and how bitter when one is immersed. Albert Einstein said that a problem can never be solved or changed of one remains on the same level of where it comes from. So we should find ways to other levels and dimensions. But that is another story one day.

The Great Yes!

In the middle of the last century a German librarian and student of metaphysics by the name of K.O. Schmidt wrote among his many books one with the title Das große Ja – “The Great Yes.” It deals with a general unspecific but wholehearted acceptance, approval and affirmation of a person to Life, to life, to everyday life and his or her own Self, self and ego, and so forth. K.O. Schmidt had found out that it not only behooves and befits us but most of all it empowers us, heals us and inspires us to say Yes!

The American Gary Quinn, of Angel book fame with Glennyce Eckersley and on his own, suggested recently in Zurich, Switzerland, to say “Yes” out loud many, many times.

Again, this exercise may seem trivial, purely symbolic, even childish to some. But I do implore you to try it out. This is how I do it in my seminars:

Step 1: Stand up and find an easy, relaxed and self-empowering stand and stance. Keep your eyes open or close them, as you prefer. You may change in the course of the exercise, too.

Step 2: Say “Yes” semi-audible – meaning neither totally inaudible and only mentally, because then it will not work as well on the psychosomatic levels; but also not too loud because then the ego will get too much involved to sense fine changes. You do not and should not think of any joyful or sorrowful event, neither of happy moments nor of fearful experiences. The speaking of the “Yes” should happen without any specific intention!

Step 3: Say “Yes” at 100 times. After about the first 50 times think a few times “I say Yes to myself” and “I say Yes to my Life” and “I say Yes to Life.” Then resume the regular “Yes” another 50 times.

Step 4: Register afterwards how you feel. Did you start smiling? Do you feel lighter and better? Do you feel a new energy, more ready to go on? What else?

Enjoy and many Blessings!

In the upcoming issue we will deal with the topics “What Are Our Imprints?” - “What Will Heal Us?” – “What Fulfills Us and the World?”

Thank you for being who you are! Please continue to discover the Power of Source within yourself and to work with the New Energy in ever more masterly ways.
And: Thank you Crimson Circle, Geoff and Linda and staff and volunteers, for creating such a beautiful virtual space of love, light and spirit which translates into more love, light and spirit in our own everyday lives.

About Wulfing von Rohr, b. 1948

Wulfing von Rohr has written and co-authored about 90 books, mostly in the fields of spirituality, meditation, personal growth and holistic natural healing. Wulfing brought Edward Bach (Bach flower remedies), Dane Rudhyar (humanistic astrology), Chris Griscom (consciousness pioneer) a.o. leading edge authors into German language publishing as general editor, co-author and translator. He was member of the board of directors of the German yoga teacher´s association (BDY), is a member of the International Society of Depth Psychology and a founding and honorary member of the Marianic association of Großgmain. He has served as the founding chief editor of the first German bi-monthly angel magazine. Wulfing serves as organizer and host for international peace and for intercultural conferences (Munich, Luzern, Salzburg), for Angel Congresses (Salzburg, Munich, Nuremberg) and for Wholistic Conferences (Zurich, Basel). Wulfing lived and worked in Santa Fe, NM, from 1986 until 1998. Now he makes his home in Austria at the magic Untersberg close to Salzburg.