Do you ever experience a physical response in your body when you have a synchronous moment with a stranger?
After I meet with my counselor I often go to the same restaurant nearby while waiting for my meditation sangha to meet at the Unity Church. This time my waiter was a young man I’ve not ever seen there: a complete stranger. I had brought a notebook with The Healing Codes and had it open on the table in front of me when he showed up to take my order. He looked at it and asked me what was I studying. After pausing - trying to figure out how to tell him what the book was essentially about - I said some stuff - paused again - and he mentioned “Spiritual?” and I nodded yes….sort of.
Then he blurted out “I like to meditate”. He likes to blend Christian beliefs with Eastern traditions like Buddhism and I said “Why not…Christ’s teachings are similar to Buddha’s”. He lit up like a christmas tree and smiled.
I was surprised. Of course I warmed to this statement and inquired what method(s) he used, etc. We chatted for a minute and he left. I decided to write down a couple of web sites that gave free talks and guided meditations from a non-religious perspective and gave it to him to check out.
Later he approached me with a serious look on his face and asked permission to ask me a question.
“Do you believe Demons can inhabit human bodies?”…he said.
Wow. I know you guys all have the same thing going on in life. We have that sign across our foreheads that says “Talk To Me” - right? But I was really caught unprepared for this young man of about 19.
How does one answer a question like that coming from left field?
Anyway - I paused again - to formulate some kind of true response from myself. I respected him already - you see - and he deserved no less than the real me. So I launched into a quick talk about how when we are intensely feeling an emotion it radiates outward from our bodies and others can sense it. He readily agreed. I could see understanding dawning in his eyes. I went on to talk about how if emotions have their own energy signatures - then they can exist in energy form all on their own. How when people continuously think angry and negative thoughts that is what they attract to themselves. He said: “..like The Law of Attraction?”…and I said, “I can’t speak to that. I can only tell you for certain I have experienced it in my life. When I changed the way I view people from negative to positive - my life changed.” That is a factual observance. I went on to say that I think Negative Energy - be it in the form of Anger/Hatred can attract more to itself - sort of coalesce - and I held my hands to hold a ball - and therefore can affect people who are near it. I said I wouldn’t call it a Demon per se - but that intense Energies do exist.
He thanked me from a deep place within himself and said he had a new way of looking at things.
I - ummm - felt a shift within me?
When I was leaving the restaurant he was standing nearby and walked over to me to tell me goodnight.
Of all things he gave me a hug!
And even more astonishing - I gave him a kiss on his cheek. :kiss:
I was completely swept up in the moment and I can tell you - in my state of mind - I was Not in a restaurant in front of dozens of complete strangers.
After I got in the car to drive to meditation I was shaking - had the jitters - that fluttering feeling - in my gut. And I had a big smile on my face.
Do you ever have physical responses to random encounters?
After I meet with my counselor I often go to the same restaurant nearby while waiting for my meditation sangha to meet at the Unity Church. This time my waiter was a young man I’ve not ever seen there: a complete stranger. I had brought a notebook with The Healing Codes and had it open on the table in front of me when he showed up to take my order. He looked at it and asked me what was I studying. After pausing - trying to figure out how to tell him what the book was essentially about - I said some stuff - paused again - and he mentioned “Spiritual?” and I nodded yes….sort of.
Then he blurted out “I like to meditate”. He likes to blend Christian beliefs with Eastern traditions like Buddhism and I said “Why not…Christ’s teachings are similar to Buddha’s”. He lit up like a christmas tree and smiled.
I was surprised. Of course I warmed to this statement and inquired what method(s) he used, etc. We chatted for a minute and he left. I decided to write down a couple of web sites that gave free talks and guided meditations from a non-religious perspective and gave it to him to check out.
Later he approached me with a serious look on his face and asked permission to ask me a question.
“Do you believe Demons can inhabit human bodies?”…he said.
Wow. I know you guys all have the same thing going on in life. We have that sign across our foreheads that says “Talk To Me” - right? But I was really caught unprepared for this young man of about 19.
How does one answer a question like that coming from left field?
Anyway - I paused again - to formulate some kind of true response from myself. I respected him already - you see - and he deserved no less than the real me. So I launched into a quick talk about how when we are intensely feeling an emotion it radiates outward from our bodies and others can sense it. He readily agreed. I could see understanding dawning in his eyes. I went on to talk about how if emotions have their own energy signatures - then they can exist in energy form all on their own. How when people continuously think angry and negative thoughts that is what they attract to themselves. He said: “..like The Law of Attraction?”…and I said, “I can’t speak to that. I can only tell you for certain I have experienced it in my life. When I changed the way I view people from negative to positive - my life changed.” That is a factual observance. I went on to say that I think Negative Energy - be it in the form of Anger/Hatred can attract more to itself - sort of coalesce - and I held my hands to hold a ball - and therefore can affect people who are near it. I said I wouldn’t call it a Demon per se - but that intense Energies do exist.
He thanked me from a deep place within himself and said he had a new way of looking at things.
I - ummm - felt a shift within me?
When I was leaving the restaurant he was standing nearby and walked over to me to tell me goodnight.
Of all things he gave me a hug!
And even more astonishing - I gave him a kiss on his cheek. :kiss:
I was completely swept up in the moment and I can tell you - in my state of mind - I was Not in a restaurant in front of dozens of complete strangers.
After I got in the car to drive to meditation I was shaking - had the jitters - that fluttering feeling - in my gut. And I had a big smile on my face.
Do you ever have physical responses to random encounters?
