Our European Vice-President, Bogdan Pammer, offers advice on banishing negative energy in 2024.
The Winter Special Great Works was a festival of prayer, music, and physical exercise. Countless brothers and sisters gathered in the training centre in Cheongpyong. Among them were some young, bright and happy European faces. There is something special about meeting friends in a spiritually high atmosphere.
It was nice to see the participants of the different ongoing Cheongpyeong Workshops performing. Their adaptations of ‘Reckless Love’ and ‘Way Maker’ were especially powerful. Flowers, the giant LED screen, tasteful animations, and two smoke machines came together nicely!
While in the leadership and theology meetings, the majority is male, during the Great Works, sisters outnumber brothers x-fold. This is an imbalance that we need to correct. (Especially after True Mother’s recent words on the Unification Church being too male-dominated.) The basement is still crowded on such weekends, but one cannot help but be touched by everyone’s efforts.
“Let’s dispel all selfish energies” was a central message this weekend. But what does that mean? And how can I dispel the selfish energies in my life? Three answers were given during the weekend.
Be specific in your prayers
The words of our prayers are concentrated energy. Be specific in your prayer. There are several ways you can make your prayers more straightforward to focus your prayer’s energy.
We can ask ourselves: Who do I address? It could be God alone. It could be a beloved one in the spirit world. It could be both. What is the character of my prayer? I may pray to share with my mum/dad in heaven, or we pray for answers to questions we carry in our hearts.
Other prayers, again, are prayers of manifestation. When we pray this way, we speak a new reality into existence and gather support to break down spiritual barriers.
Specificity is not necessarily a matter of the right word. Also, a visualisation, a picture in our mind and heart, can be clear, specific, and powerful when praying.
Be aware that you have a spiritual body
Of course, we know that, but do we really get it? To get rid of selfish energy (a.k.a. bad vibes), the awareness that our physical body lives in our spiritual body is super helpful. Our physical body is permeated and surrounded by our spiritual body. Our spiritual body carries emotional energies (or vibes).
The centre of our spiritual body is our spiritual heart. When we resonate with each other heart-to-heart, our spiritual bodies lighten up. That is why we pray in the Cheonshim Won. It’s in the name.
天 Cheon (Heaven)
心 Shim (Heart)
苑 Won (place, small hill)
Receive the gifts of the spirit and develop them
Lee Ki-song also referred to spiritual gifts at several points. Christian tradition speaks of both gifts and the fruit of the holy spirit. Our hearts need to express themselves. ‘HEART’ without art is just ‘H-E’. Developing our artistic expression and skills lets us dispel selfishness. This may be cooking, coding, cleaning, dancing, starting a business… The list hast no end.
We need that spark to find the one thing to pour ourselves into. Turning that spark into a fire is one of the best ways to get rid of negativity and selfishness from within ourselves and our relationships.
So, yes. Those negative and selfish vibes have no chance in your 2024 blue dragon self.
