D – But is it really possible to understand what the feel just thinking about it?
Reasoning about feelings can help provide logical connections and suggest intuitions that perhaps would be missed.
However, let's not forget that feeling is beyond the mental body, which it uses to obtain understanding but which does not, in reality, have the possibility of truly understanding something that escapes the possibilities of its mental schemes. It's like reasoning about God: reasoning can bring us closer to the perception of the Absolute, but it certainly cannot provide us with understanding. This does not mean that it is not right to try to use the endowment that was granted to us at birth, and the mental body is one of these endowments.
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Q – What is the connection between altruistic feelings and behaviors? These are always such, so are they always expressions of one's feelings?
As the Guides often say, we must at least make a distinction between altruistic behavior as an effect and as an action in itself and altruistic behavior from the point of view ofintention with which the action is performed.
Now, it is clear that the external impact of the altruistic action is almost always beneficial and helpful for those who receive it, and I say almost always because sometimes it happens that the altruistic action ends up bringing unexpected and unwanted negative consequences.
But if we observe the altruistic action on the basis of the intention that moved it, which pertains to the individual who carries it out, regardless of the consequences to which it gives rise, then its connection with feeling is evident. However, upon in-depth and objective analysis, it can equally evidently turn out that the action performed was not truly and simply altruistic, but possessed many individual connotations of selfishness (which I know io, helping others to avoid the repercussions of their discomfort on us, for example).
As long as one is incarnated and has an Ego, I believe that truly altruistic behavior cannot exist, except, perhaps, in the rare cases in which it is implemented with such impulsiveness that the Ego is unable to modulate it according to the own needs. Instead we tend to consider altruistic behavior as an expression of feeling, forgetting that feeling rarely manifests itself in a "pure" way within the physical plane through our actions. If this were really the case there would be no need for the incarnation.
More precisely to the question, I would reply succinctly that every altruistic action is partly the expression of the feelings of the individual who carries it out but not its true and total expression.
Q – How can we distinguish elements that we tend to consider similar, such as “feeling”, “consciousness” and “akasic body”? And can it be useful to try to make this distinction?
Definitions can and must help in exchanging information with oneself and with other people: finding common definitions on which to set up a logical process is necessary and indispensable for collaborating on common growth.
I think the important thing is to keep constantly aware that they are convenient definitions that do not exactly capture the reality of terms that tend to be influenced not only by subjective perception but also, for example, by the environment in which one lives and by transient archetypes which you are connected to. To understand how this is true, just think about the different interpretations that have been given to the term "consciousness" depending on the era and social area in which it was examined.
According to teaching, I would say that the simplest definitions that can be adopted are:
Feel: characteristic property of the individual's akasic body, perceptive sense typical of this body, just as, for example, hearing is a typical sense of the physical body. Therefore a tool that allows certain functional characteristics of the akashic body.
Akashic body: structured set of akashic matter connected to the incarnated individual which acts as a receptor of the elements coming from experience on the physical plane, directing the impulses in the search for understanding.
Consciousness: area of the akashic body in which the understanding gradually achieved through experiences over the course of several lives is being structured.
D – The process of understanding that belongs to the Akashic body passes through two intermediate stages: knowledge and awareness. Where can their respective fields of action be located?
Knowledge it is mostly connected to one of the three transitional bodies in particular, even if there are resonances with the other two bodies. For example, the knowledge of one's own body which is essentially linked to the physical body and its senses, but which is also structured thanks to the emotions it arouses and the reflections which, consequently, are implemented.
Awareness it belongs to all the lower bodies, unfolding in various degrees: from the awareness of one's physical body, to that of one's emotions, to the rational and intellectual one. It is almost always given by transversal elements of the various bodies, meaning by this to state that it sharpens and broadens by drawing the synthesis of physical, astral and mental results. Consequently its field of action is still linked to the ego.
There is no doubt, however, that understanding pertains only to the akashic body, even if the consequences of its gradual expansion are reflected on the other bodies of the individual and can manifest themselves on the physical plane through the actions and choices that the individual accomplishes.
Q – The Guides once said: “Your greatest responsibility as an embodied individual is to manifest your acquired feeling.” But if this is my greatest responsibility, and I don't have the slightest idea of what I feel, what do we do?
It is not necessary to know how and what your feelings are in order to express them. The responsibility that everyone acquires when they are incarnated is to try to facilitate the manifestation of our feelings by building paths that facilitate its manifestation, and to try to make these paths as "smooth" as possible, in such a way that it can manifest itself. in the “cleanest” way.
In this perspective, the concept of "overcoming the ego" and that of "self-observation" was brought, in addition to the indispensable "know thyself".
Q – What is the difference between expressing your feelings and letting them flow?
I would say none: if one's feelings are prevented from flowing, their expression does not occur or, at least, it differs from what it really is.
[...] Q – Does the return of feeling from the akashic towards the incarnated individual, in order to modify the manifestation of the Ego, modify the constitution of the lower bodies or, more simply, does it harmonize their vibrations?
Rather than modifying the constitution of the lower bodies or harmonizing their vibrations, I would say that the passage of the vibration of feeling orients the vibrations of the various bodies providing new order and new vibrational patterns which take into account the new nuances achieved and which allow these new nuances to broaden the individual's field of action and reaction within the experiences he faces. Vito
A post that sheds light on topics that are not easy and immediate to understand. Thank you!
Bed. This series of questions and answers, although apparently adding nothing new, clarifies several concepts. Thank you