Anger, Enthusiasm, and what it means to Embody FIRE (Ep. 4 in the Soul-Care Series)
Join me for the forth episode in the Soul-Care Series for a ritual-like auditory journey through the fire element.
I took a few RISKS in this episode, as I embodied the fire through my creation process. I was honest, I was direct, and the last chunk of air time is dedicated to a somatic attunement to the fire itself. I invite you to light a candle on your altar with me before you listen...
and be prepared to DANCE.
In this episode of the Soul-Care Series you will:
- Learn about the various qualities of fire as they ignite our anger, rage, personal power, and enthusiasm!
- Hear about my own challenges with fire and the ways I often "burn out" (and how I hold space for these patterns to move and express).
- Learn the polarity perspective on staying neutral, objective, curious, and yet related to the elements and the often difficult emotional qualities that show up as we explore what it means to be "spirit greatness having a human experience".
- Experience a poem on fire (at the very start of the episode) from my book which you can learn more about or purchase on Amazon here: The Soul-Care Workbook: A 33 Day Journey Through your Chakras and Elements
- Join me in a guided movement experience and receive a somatic attunement to FIRE
- Dance like nobodies watching.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Go to elevationhive.com to learn more about in-person classes in polarity therapy and our monthly in-person dream circle
- Check out my art at AmandaLux.com
- Buy my book The Soul-Care Workbook: A 33 Day Journey Through your Chakras and Elements
- Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation!
Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing, and sending me your dreams!
I love to read them.
(email me at be@elevationhive.com or try the mail-to link above if you have g-mail. xoxo)
Summary
Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community membership for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path.
Songs used in this episode:
Alone/All One theme song written and performed by Amanda Lux
All other music from: #Uppbeat:
Transcript
fire.
Speaker:I am furious.
Speaker:Action, never tempted by distraction.
Speaker:My will, my bow, my arrow, my quill.
Speaker:I am the visionary master of my destiny.
Speaker:Sharp, loud, fast, strong.
Speaker:I long for new beginnings, spontaneity to live wild and free.
Speaker:Chaotically, crazed, and delicious.
Speaker:I am burning through the yearning.
Speaker:Flames, devouring, destroying, giving, taking with sparks that fly.
Speaker:I am the war cry, the eye of the storm.
Speaker:The gaze warm and bright as the sun.
Speaker:My power propelling my light, compelling and free.
Speaker:I devour and delight as you cower before me.
Speaker:I am the bow, the arrow, righteous action, never tempted by distraction or desire.
Speaker:I am fire.
Speaker:Welcome to a Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine, a podcast for
Speaker:seekers, healers, dreamers, and anyone on their healer's journey.
Speaker:My name is Amanda Lux, and this episode is all about fire which
Speaker:relates to our third chakra.
Speaker:The emotional qualities, the energetic qualities associated with fire are anger
Speaker:and rage, as well as enthusiasm and action and focus, these kinds of energies
Speaker:can be both supportive and dangerous,
Speaker:so in this series we've been exploring the ways we can tend to ourselves,
Speaker:elementally, and the challenge points that each of the elements bring that offer us
Speaker:opportunities to grow and learn and heal.
Speaker:And so with the Ether element, we were talking about grief and bliss, and ether
Speaker:is that very first incarnation of energy into physical form, through sound,
Speaker:through inspiration, through spirit,
Speaker:and then as ether moves into air, it becomes thought and communication.
Speaker:And that's, you know, can take the form of anxiety and overwhelm, or it can take
Speaker:the form of judgment and envy, or it can be compassion and unconditional love.
Speaker:And as the air element moves down in its vibrational qualities, in
Speaker:its frequency, it becomes fire..
Speaker:In our body.
Speaker:That's the third chakra in the solar plexus, when we become embodied enough to
Speaker:take action in the world, in the physical.
Speaker:And so the fire has qualities of being very direct and very clear and very
Speaker:focused when it is in alignment and we're channeling fire in its purest
Speaker:sense, we are in our true power.
Speaker:We know what to do and how to do it, and we don't think about it.
Speaker:We just do it.
Speaker:We take the actions that need to be taken.
Speaker:We are about focus and direction, and we have that visionary.
Speaker:Capacity Through the eyes, the fire shows up in three different areas
Speaker:of the body and polarity, and one of them is, is through our eyes and our
Speaker:forehead in the Aries of the fire.
Speaker:And then as we move down it to the solar plexus, it's the Leo that shining sun.
Speaker:And then as we move down into the thighs of the Sagittarius, it's those large
Speaker:muscles that help us to run and to, to take forward momentum in our lives.
Speaker:To actually go out and accomplish, and achieve, and fire is incredibly, amazingly
Speaker:helpful as an ally for getting anything started or getting things initiat.
Speaker:we can use it to protect the boundaries that the earth holds.
Speaker:So the fire is the protector of our boundaries.
Speaker:Fire can be the, the most potent ingredient if we wanna
Speaker:organize and, , create change.
Speaker:If we wanna up rise, if we want to channel our anger and rage in a healthy way, we
Speaker:want to be in right relationship with fire
Speaker:you might remember, , the first time you encountered fire when you were little.
Speaker:I don't remember my own first encounter, but I remember my son,
Speaker:first time he touched a light bulb and he learned the word hot.
Speaker:That was an unpleasant experience, right?
Speaker:He got burned, his little tender fingers, and so I remember . That event.
Speaker:And it reminds me how Fire teaches us to be in touch with our humility.
Speaker:Because when we get too close, we get burned.
Speaker:Or when we let it get out of control or untended, when we ignore it, it can
Speaker:internally combust and when we, don't honor our fire, , in a healthy way.
Speaker:Then
Speaker:it can come out in outbursts.
Speaker:It can come out in unhealthy ways in violence,
Speaker:So it's good to have a healthy respect for fire, to be a little humble when we
Speaker:relate to it because again, , it does deal with our power, our personal power.
Speaker:And to be in right relationship with our power is to know the
Speaker:difference between our authentic truth and our ego, and to be able.
Speaker:Really discern between the two, when we talk about soul care and how we
Speaker:can tend to our fire elementally and to the fire of the world, right?
Speaker:This question of what does it really mean to be in right
Speaker:relationship with the fire.
Speaker:And I think that's a really important thing for us to contemplate
Speaker:in this episode, and what I would like to explore with you
Speaker:As we invoke the energies of fire as an ally and a wise teacher.
Speaker:This being human is a guest house every morning, a new arrival, a joy, a
Speaker:depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Speaker:Welcome and entertain them.
Speaker:Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your
Speaker:house, empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably.
Speaker:He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
Speaker:The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
Speaker:Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Speaker:Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Speaker:As I was contemplating how I wanted to approach talking about the fire
Speaker:element, this, in this episode, I came across that poem in two
Speaker:different ways in two days, and.
Speaker:It's a beautiful poem by Rumi that I've heard many times.
Speaker:I'm sure you have probably as well.
Speaker:And I thought it was just absolutely perfect for sitting around the
Speaker:fire of this discussion and kind of looking at how we can relate to
Speaker:fire in the healthiest way possible.
Speaker:How we can invite its lessons in a way that, that doesn't burn, or
Speaker:at least not too harshly, right?
Speaker:That can keep us warm and alive and vibrant without, you know,
Speaker:burning our, our house down.
Speaker:The way that I think this poem speaks to that is, is.
Speaker:The invitation to treat each of our emotions and the, uh, conditions that,
Speaker:that greet us in life as guests and to.
Speaker:Acknowledge and honor them for their wisdom and the teachings
Speaker:that they come to offer us.
Speaker:We can recognize that these visitors are not us.
Speaker:They are not the home we live in.
Speaker:They are just passing through.
Speaker:And when we relate to each of these energetic qualities as honorable guests,
Speaker:as wise visitors, as teachers, and we take the time to get to know them.
Speaker:To invite them to our table for tea and to ask them questions or to maybe go
Speaker:on a walk fire would probably rather walk than sit or maybe dance it out.
Speaker:But it has something for us always, something that either in the
Speaker:energies of our lives or in the energies of ourselves that need to
Speaker:be witnessed, that need to be heard.
Speaker:So in answer to that question, how do we create a relationship with
Speaker:the fire, with our anger, with our rage and our enthusiasm, with our
Speaker:gumption to to do and take action?
Speaker:How do we create a healthy relationship with our fire?
Speaker:I think that really comes down to how can we observe with curiosity, listen.
Speaker:Be willing to be courageous and sit down and hear what our
Speaker:energies have to say to us.
Speaker:Take the time to get to know them and to not be so overly identified.
Speaker:Dr.
Speaker:Stone has this great section.
Speaker:He's the creator of polarity therapy in one of his volumes.
Speaker:Where he's discussing the fivefold combinations and it's, it's in a piece
Speaker:called Inquiry into the Gross Body.
Speaker:. So , there's five elements and each element contains all the other elements.
Speaker:And he's saying roughly fire is only about half fire.
Speaker:And then it's also made up.
Speaker:Of water and earth and air and ether.
Speaker:Those are the other four parts.
Speaker:And the fifth part would be making up half of the hole, which is fire itself.
Speaker:So within each element are all the elements.
Speaker:And he goes through the fivefold combinations of each of these elements
Speaker:and how they show up for each other and in the negative pull or the
Speaker:challenge points of the fire as it, uh, manifests through the other elements.
Speaker:He writes this hunger, sleep, thirst, luster, laziness.
Speaker:Hunger is the main quality of fire.
Speaker:Sleep is produced by the combination of space with fire.
Speaker:Thirst is produced by the combination of wind with fire.
Speaker:Luster is produced by the combination of water with fire.
Speaker:Laziness is produced by the combination of earth with fire hunger.
Speaker:Thirst, luster and laziness.
Speaker:I am not.
Speaker:These are objects and I am able to see they are not mine.
Speaker:They belong to the elements noted above,
Speaker:I just think it's fascinating that the way that he describes the qualities of
Speaker:fire and how they show up in the gross body, right in the densest versions of
Speaker:themselves and of our physical experience.
Speaker:And my favorite part is he lists all of these qualities
Speaker:and he says, I am not these.
Speaker:I am not these things, these are objects that I am able to see and
Speaker:observe and be in relationship with.
Speaker:They belong to the elements.
Speaker:They don't belong to me.
Speaker:They are visitors, they are guests, and yet we are made of all of these
Speaker:things, but they are not us at the same.
Speaker:One of my favorite references to this is in the Hawaiian.
Speaker:Tradition.
Speaker:The idea that what we truly are is spirit greatness, and they have a
Speaker:way of describing our emotions as opposed to saying, I am angry.
Speaker:You would say, , I am spirit greatness, having an experience with anger.
Speaker:And this is one of my favorite ways to approach the challenging
Speaker:experiences that life has to offer is with this kind of observation.
Speaker:And usually in order to get there for myself personally, I
Speaker:start out in the midst of it.
Speaker:I, I always start out in the forgetting place.
Speaker:Otherwise, I wouldn't be challenged at all.
Speaker:And sometimes for me, the way that my challenge with fire shows
Speaker:up is I push too hard, too fast in the beginning and I burn out.
Speaker:And even when I was preparing to record this, I lit a candle.
Speaker:I have this little beautiful.
Speaker:Oil lamp candle that I lit, and the flame was huge, and I'm like, this is perfect.
Speaker:I have this giant flame to inspire me for this episode.
Speaker:And sure enough, it, it just burned itself out within minutes
Speaker:and I thought, this is hilarious.
Speaker:It's just completely demonstrating, you know, my own issue with fire.
Speaker:And so I went and I got a different candle.
Speaker:That a friend of mine made, and I lit this candle, but the flame was so small,
Speaker:and even now it barely looks lit.
Speaker:It is just a glowing orange wick, really.
Speaker:There's no actual flame to it, but it's not completely extinguished.
Speaker:It's just the tiniest flame.
Speaker:So the contrast to me, Absolutely hilarious, and I thought, well, this
Speaker:is perfect because this candle, even though it barely has any light coming
Speaker:off of it, will, will last through the whole episode, if not longer.
Speaker:It's, it's not going anywhere.
Speaker:Whereas the really big flame burned itself out.
Speaker:It, it ate up all that oil right away.
Speaker:It was so hungry, it needed a lot of energy and it consumed
Speaker:itself really quickly.
Speaker:And I, I tend to have that experience in my life where I just have all this gusto
Speaker:and ambition and excitement and I dive in and then I get kind of burned out.
Speaker:And it really can be, that can be my negative pull experience where
Speaker:I'm like exhausted and frustrated.
Speaker:And inevitably, that often tends to.
Speaker:Initiate a feeling of failure or a lack of confidence will start to come in.
Speaker:This comes up for me.
Speaker:And I, I meet it in different ways, listening to my own, , patterns,
Speaker:observing them and being willing to learn and to get burned a little
Speaker:bit, yet to like, just honor it.
Speaker:So I think for myself, I would say, how do I meet the negative pole of any element?
Speaker:How do I greet these unwanted visitors, these guests as as honorable teachers?
Speaker:And how do I make them allies for myself and my soul on my path?
Speaker:And I think what I would say, Is just through curiosity and through
Speaker:attention, just being willing to listen and to hear what they have to say.
Speaker:Fire is also about embodiment . The fire element is that third chakra place
Speaker:of power where we come into physical manifestation, where we get to be form.
Speaker:And flesh and muscle where we get to actually take our ideas and our
Speaker:inspirations and do something with them.
Speaker:And for me, fire is my greatest teacher around embodiment and how
Speaker:to really be in relationship with the chaos and our life energy
Speaker:So I wanted to offer a.
Speaker:Exercise around meeting our fire in our body and exploring how that feels to be
Speaker:in relationship with it in a visceral way, and not necessarily in a heady
Speaker:way, cuz fire is about experiencing things in the physical realm, right?
Speaker:So I'm gonna use my voice to express this, but I wanna invite you to listen,
Speaker:not with your head, , but more with your body to just let the words move
Speaker:through and into your body, and ideally allowing yourself to move with them.
Speaker:So wherever you are and whatever you're doing in the moment, you can multitask
Speaker:if you want to, or you could just put that down and you could intend to
Speaker:have an experience with your own fire.
Speaker:And that begins by just.
Speaker:Having a little sort of body scan or check-in a little somatic attunement
Speaker:where you bring your attention from your thoughts or your mind, or from
Speaker:the external world into the realm of your own physical geography.
Speaker:Noticing the universe that exists within.
Speaker:Noticing that there is as much known as there is mystery here,
Speaker:probably way more mystery actually.
Speaker:And to just bring your attention with curiosity and playfulness and openness
Speaker:into the realm of your own fire, your own third chakra, your solar plexus, and
Speaker:noticing that you have this light within.
Speaker:That burns hot sometimes and dim at other times, and noticing just
Speaker:how it feels in the moment without judgment, without needing to change it.
Speaker:There's no right or wrong way.
Speaker:It's just an invitation to become acquainted with where your fire
Speaker:is at right now, I invite you to treat it as an honored guest
Speaker:to acknowledge that it's ever changing, ever responding,
Speaker:ever evolving, you are the.
Speaker:. You are the master of your own domain.
Speaker:And this guest here, the fire that lives within you in this
Speaker:moment is just passing through.
Speaker:And so how can you honor this guest by giving it your attention?
Speaker:Noticing how it feels to behold this elemental quality
Speaker:and maybe even becoming curious about how that fire wants to move through you.
Speaker:What is the movement or the motion or the gesture or the posture that
Speaker:comes forth as you make relationship with this energy within you with this.
Speaker:How does it flicker?
Speaker:What is its heat like?
Speaker:How does it breathe?
Speaker:How does it move your lungs and your diap?
Speaker:How does it ignite your muscles?
Speaker:And if you're so inclined to take this inquiry into motion, I invite
Speaker:you to dance it out, whether that's dancing in your chair or dancing in
Speaker:your living room, or dancing on the sidewalk, wherever you are, whatever
Speaker:that movement, whether it's subtle.
Speaker:Or whether it's total wild abandonment.
Speaker:I invite you to explore how the fire moves through you today, and if there's
Speaker:a place that you have felt particularly uncomfortable with fire, either with anger
Speaker:or with boundaries, or in needing to.
Speaker:Learn how to better focus or discern or take action in your life or to
Speaker:face things that need to be faced
Speaker:To step into your full power.
Speaker:Even if it's uncomfortable at first, even if it's strange and awkward, to just be
Speaker:willing to dance that dance with fire,
Speaker:and to see what can be created, what, alchemical marriage can be formed from
Speaker:this allyship, and how can your life possibly benefit from more empowerment
Speaker:and clarity and discernment and agency,
Speaker:How can you dance that dance?
Speaker:Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Alone
Speaker:Traveler's Guide to the Divine.
Speaker:Please check out elevation hive.com for all resources on
Speaker:classes and upcoming events.
Speaker:Thank you for listening for bringing your energy,
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Speaker:I would appreciate it.
Speaker:Thank you so, so much.
Speaker:It's such an honor to be in sacred community with you.
