When an emotion is embraced and welcome with an attention free of mind patterns or personal reactivity, the energy gets transformed, in a natural way. The sublimation is fueled by the alchemic athanor (the alchemic furnace) of the Heart. This is the most natural way to sublimate individual energies and emotions. As long as energies or states of mind are not embraced in the radiance of the pure presence, the changes will continue to occur at individual level and will be governed by lower ego based intentions. This type of change does NOT allow a vertical leap as spiritual growth such as the one from the sphere of the individual consciousness into the Pure Presence.
Speaking about the importance and the significance of sublimation, Daniel Odier said:
b) Non-Reactivity Replaces Ego-Based Responses
During the meditation for the revelation of the Spiritual Heart, the non-reactivity is important: to be non-reactive to the pressure of time, to thoughts and emotions. But even more important than to be non-reactive to the mind and psychological content is to maintain a state of awareness and to not respond in a reactive way to the psycho-mental patterns underlying our life, or, in other words, to the mental and emotional patterns developed in our lives.
Who seeks joy may be upset by anything which is not joy;
Who seeks peace may be upset by anything which is not that peace;
Who seeks purity may be bothered by what is not pure.
The ego based search triggers the rejection of everything opposite to the object of the search.
c) There is Nothing Personal in Pain
In the Yoga of the Spiritual Heart, the student or follower must develop an intimacy with What There Is, without comparing it to “What there should be”. So, the emphasis is not on “correcting”, but on intuitively knowing the divine nature of the Spiritual Heart.
The Heart is the expression or the “dimension” of Perfection of our being, of the existence, in general.
This is the significance of sublimation in our yoga school. Thus, the transformation occurs spontaneously, because it is supported by the power, the wisdom and the light of the Infinite inside us.
Speaking about human pain and the right attitude towards it, in Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle said:
"There is nothing personal in human pain. It is simply an intense pressure or an intense energy you feel somewhere in the body… See what happens when you just allow a feeling to be."
“…When you are unaware of that inner essence, in the end, you always create misery. It's as simple as that. When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force."
(Eckhart Tolle - Stillness Speaks, New World Library, 2003 page. 106-107, page. 48)
When we maintain our awareness in the Spiritual Heart, our individual transformations will synchronize with the cosmic transformations. Thus, we move from "out of phase changes" to “synchronized transformations”. We get to feel in our being the pulsation of cosmic rhythms.
d) Celebration of the Creative Flow of Life
As we internalize this attitude, we become more and more aware of the Sacred Tremor of the Spiritual Heart. The revelation power of this Sacred Tremor, the Spanda, allows us to gain awareness of the flow of divine energies in our beings. Their vibration radiates, comes out of our ultimate essence, the Atman.
This profound understanding is naturally followed by an awakening of our aspirations of expressing and celebrating the creative flow of life through our yoga practice and, in our entire life thereafter.
Thus, both meditations for the revelation of the Spiritual Heart and the hatha yoga sessions become a consecrated offering of our individual consciousness and of our energies to love, beauty and spirit.
e) The Transformations of the Energy of Emotions
Fear is thus alchemically transformed into confidence or courage and sadness into joy or compassion. There are no preset patterns, most of the times.
In the mystical experience, the Sublimation is a process which occurs as a result of the intensity of personal aspiration and intimate life experiences. It is a process in which the transformed, sublimated energy occurs as a resultant force of the vector forces represented by all the tendencies and echoes of an individual’s intimate life experiences. Sometimes the energy of emotions gets self-absorbed into a pure energy, (into an energy “without an object”, as a result of the Witness Consciousness attitude), into the Sacred Tremor, the Spanda.
f) The “Heart’s Flames” and the Sublimation
When an emotion returns into the stillness of the Heart, it no longer leaves behind, in the subconscious, the usual trails and residuals which form the samskara.
As an effect, the spiritual expansion of consciousness occurs. It is a spiritual expansion in which the sacred vibration of the Heart, the “Heart’s flames” process that particular sensation or feeling bringing it, metaphorically speaking, to a state of “incandescence”. After that, the sensation or feeling, in its individual form, gets dissolved into a pure, non-personal energy and then into the consciousness, the infinite space of the Heart.
Just as the “sacrificial fire”, the Spanda dissolves into the infinite of the Consciousness all “the gifts” it receives. For this purpose, we must only stay aware of the Spiritual Heart which radiates devotion and gratitude. The Spanda is what remains after the personal intention, the ego based control and the desire to access a feeling or experience are simply seen as useless and they are, then, abandoned. They are replaced by the unchanging effulgent flame of the open attention free of any reactivity.
To open to this pure vibration, we must stop focusing on anything in particular and personally reacting to it. It is as if desire, love and thinking suddenly have no object or form. They exist only as vibration. The respective energy in itself - desire, for instance - becomes the open attention itself.
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