Eat to live rather than live to eat. For some of us this is easier said than done, however, it is necessary to discipline our lower nature in service of our higher nature. The evolutionary goal is ever to raise our vibration. Sacrificing the lower for the higher is called the Law of Sacrifice. We sacrifice the lower for the higher. We sacrifice our cravings for a body filled with light.
Our body is constantly renewing itself using the food we eat to build new cells. If we want to build a body of light that is vibrating with health and vitality, we need to nourish it accordingly.
6: TRANSFORM LOWER PASSIONS INTO HIGHER ASPIRATIONS
We live in a world of energies and forces. Energy can neither be destroyed nor created, it can only be transformed. Therefore, it is pointless trying to resist a lower temptation or passion which we seem unable to control.
There is only one way to get an unwanted temptation, passion or habit under control – and that is to lead the energy into a higher channel. If we do not lead the energy into a higher channel, it keeps accumulating until eventually it grows so strong that it overpowers our own reasoning and will power. Suppression is never the solution – transformation is. Suppressing a temptation or emotion sooner or later leads to an uncontrolled explosion because energy needs an outlet to express itself. So the name of the game is to lead the energy into higher channels.
For example, love for something of a lower, baser nature may be transformed / released / controlled by turning it into a love for something of a higher nature. We have to replace the low with the high. Nature abhors a vacuum. That’s why fighting a lower passion or habit will never work – only replacing it with a higher one works. Replace lower desire with aspiration for something higher.
Gross desire stirs up the lower, heavier frequencies of astral matter whereas an evolved desire body is composed of the finer, lighter frequencies of astral matter. The evolutionary goal is to replace coarse matter with subtle matter – the goal is to replace coarse desire (which stirs up the lower frequencies) with aspiration for the divine (which naturally stirs up the higher frequencies). This is how we raise our astral frequency and free ourselves from unsupportive habits and lower self passions and desires.
We cannot take our lower passions and desires with us into the higher realms. Therefore, we need to transform them. The sooner we start the work, the better. Let’s do it now.
7: PRACTICE EMOTIONAL STILLNESS
We live in a world that is mostly run by lower desires and emotions. As a human family, we are literally surrounded by a sea of base desire and emotion. Lower desires, passions and emotions cause vibrations in the coarser parts of our emotional body. Subtle feelings, on the other hand, cause vibrations in the finer parts of our feeling vehicle.
So long as we don’t take charge of our emotional nature and deliberately begin to master and control it, emotions keep „happening“ to us and so we keep going up and down on the emotional roller coaster, being at the mercy of the hectic motion of the various emotions. When a sudden wave of emotion (e.g. anger) „overcomes“ us, our emotional body is at once thrown into a violent motion and our emotional nature temporarily takes on the vibratory rate of that specific emotion. And we are just the onlooker, having no control whatsoever.
