Vertigo
‘Vertigo’ is defined in a medical environment as a ‘major symptom of a balance disorder’ and in that sense somewhat reflects the subject of this contribution, although medical issues are not at stake here. Rather what concerns me . . is something like a disturbed verticality, a desperate attempt to escape gravity and change. Although we are all without exception subject to the problem, most humans are completely unconscious about it.
Basically we are constantly in a falling movement, caused by gravity. We are drawn downwards and try to balance this fall. This leads us often enough to ‘defending against gravity’ positioning. We try to build up against it. But, of course, gravity will always win. Down we have to go. Sounds depressing? Wait!
More frightening then the pure physical act of building up tension are mental concepts and emotional expressions of those tensions. Because we have to deal with gravity every second of our three dimensional lifetime (and maybe in other lifetimes, too!), most people develop severe disturbances. The real problem begins when we try to control the latter by ignoring the basic challenge and pretending to know better. We keep up an attitude. We become numb, even stiff in our body and our mental and emotional states adjust to this kind of numbness by responding with stubborn concepts. We are stuck in our heads and emotionally contracted.
As a consequence we develop ‘survival’ hierarchies which express itself in comparison (‘I am better than you’), competition (‘I am more capable than you’) and status (‘ i am more valuable in the hierarchy and you better acknowledge it’). Which in turn produces lots of victims (‘I am less, lower etc’). Both want to execute power over others. The first group by domination/suppression, the latter by being so helpless that others have to help if they don’t want to be seen as ‘inhuman’ (bad for reputation inside the hierarchy).
Arrogance and ignorance are the main ‘pillars’ of these attitudes. One couldn’t be further away from insight and wisdom. There is an incredible amount of suspicion and hostility, open or hidden, and a lot of potential violence in such an environment. Is anybody threatening me? My position? My posessions?
Hierarchies based on survival instincts are NOT what express the best of humanity! Our talents are more in the consciousness and creativity department. Nevertheless we can learn something from animals. They naturally surrender to gravity by choosing the most efficient movement. Which is why they move so gracefully. No mental concepts keep their body from letting their energy flow into the earth! And that is exactly what we have to learn in order to efficiently deal with gravity: we want to use it rather than resist it.
We can do this by letting our bodies ‘fall to the center of the earth’, in other words, we try to solve the dichotomy ‘earth against me’ by surrendering to earth/gravity. But that is only one part of the solution. The other one is to open up our minds to the space above our heads instead of creating suspicious concepts that actually imprison us. In other words, by opening up our minds to receive intuitive messages from infinite consciousness we will change the way we think. So there is one arrow pointing down into the earth, another pointing up into the sky. Is that all?
Well, there is just one little thing . . . opening our heart will help us to change the way we look at our fellow human beings, other living creatures, the environment and everything else. Learning to surrender to love paradoxically will set us free . . . and all our rich gifts are finally allowed to blossom.
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