One can use one's own "shakti" (spiritual energy) as a cleansing to find the wisdom of one's awareness. A shakti cleansing is that which moves the cobwebs from between the chakras and ignites kundalini so she can rise safely. A shakti cleansing goes through your entire being. It can enable you to hear your inner voice.
What is it that you want to hear? It may be this silence where you know intuitively, exactly what you have to do. Every day there are smaller things that happen that you pay for karmically because you do not listen intuitively to yourself, and follow your heart.
Everyone has the ability to find their silence, ignite their own fire and saturate themselves. We have the ability to recognize the aspect of God that is the silence. Is it the compassionate Christ? Is it the compassionate Mother? Is it the divine Mother Kali? Is this silence that which will take away fear? When the fear of God is removed, you are able to embrace the joy of God. You can then embrace yourself.
I don't care about your religion, just become passionate about it. I don't care about your color or gender, I care about your soul. I don't care what path you're on, I care about your truth.
Follow your instincts. A shakti cleansing is indeed a God cleansing, a clearing out or a very gentle washing of the spirit. The spirit can get caught in places, such as jealousy, greed and confusion. It can be anointed through a shakti cleanse. Your ego screams out with indecision and confusion, it does not want you to be comfortable in the arms of God. It wants you itching for power and screaming out for lust. If you truly love and have faith in God, confusion will slip from you. This is Samdhi (liberation).
You need to see yourself as you are. In order to be cleansed, you must love you as you are. If one forgets how to feel, one may bring pain to someone. Without awareness, we are puppets. Without awareness one goes around the true heart of spirituality and escapes into the comfort of a mind long dead to that which is good and kind. Without awareness, a person may see themselves as the highest point and become afraid to look within. Without awareness, one is completely alone and in that aloneness there is no God or joy. Cultivate the awareness that you were born with. Dig down deep into that place that hurts because you've been wounded, into that heart that is afraid to open for fear of drowning in the waters of life. When you dig down and feel the pain, using the breath, a certain joy will come. You can learn to feast on that which you passed by, avoided, ignored, or didn't have the wisdom to understand. The wisdom of awareness comes not from being well schooled or well educated. The wisdom of awareness comes from a heart that has been in pain, a heart that has touched upon the negative and has learned well from mistakes past and yet not dwelled upon. This is the wisdom of awareness.
If you dwell in that which is negative, you will not have any time to bask in that which is positive and you will constantly live in duality. With awareness one gets the clearness of meditation: a clear lake that becomes so big in your life, that you are in awe of a world so beautiful and profound. With awareness, you know that you are one with all things.
The great poet Ram Prasad speaks out, "All differences and distinctions I shall forsake." You then forsake duality for the single mingled truth of awareness. I call awareness God. When one is aware, laziness of the human mind, soul and body cannot exist. With awareness one controls their life, life does not control them. With awareness, perhaps you will notice a tear in you mother's eye or a restlessness in your son, or a want in your daughter, or a pride in your father's heart. With awareness you do not just exist: you create your own day, in the sunrise of your heart .
If you do not have awareness you will drown. Each day will be like walking through molasses as you contemplate only on the negative and do not reach for that gentle fruit of God, the ripened awareness of a human being who watches and learns.
Without awareness you will learn nothing. With awareness you are king. Without awareness you are a beggar without a begging bowl. With awareness there is nothing you cannot ask from God. And how do you get it? You ask God.
Ma Jaya Bhagavati is an internationally-known spiritual teacher, caregiver, author and artist. Also Spiritual Director of Kashi Ashram, an interfaith community near Sebastian, Florida. She guides retreats there. (800) 226-1008 ext.106.