Posted to Facebook March 21st.
What I am hearing Michael say in this chapter is we are energy, an endless supply of energy. The only reason I may not be feeling the energy is because I am blocking it. I block the energy by closing, and instead I want to choose opening.
Michael describes his experience of opening as something that happens in his heart centre. I recently read a metaphor by Wayne Dyer ("There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem") where he imagines a cord hanging from his hip and he can plug it into either the material world socket or the spiritual world socket. One creates a feeling of fear (closing) and the other a feeling of peace (opening).
I have always identified with the feeling of opening and closing in my solar plexus. When I am closed, especially for an extended period of time, I feel it as a knot in my gut. I also can conjure a feeling of opening by imagining a funnel of energy above my head (see page 139 "Living On Purpose: Life Beyond Mediocrity")
How, or in what part of your body, do you experience the sensation of closing and opening?
The quote I appreciate from this chapter is on page 46 where he simply and honestly says to us that, "defining what you need in order to stay open actually ends up limiting you." Which says to me that all the laws and rules we have are limiting us more than freeing us.
What are you defining you need to have a certain way in order to stay open? (Examples: the weather, how people drive, how much sleep I get, how my spouse or children act, how my house looks, the way others treat me, my body, our government, the food I eat.)
Suggested exercise: pick a day when you are going to notice, as often as you can, when you feel yourself closing/limiting yourself, and take a moment to consciously relax whatever area of your body you identified with in the first question.
LOP is limitless.