Inner Pentecost - Speaking the Languages of Love
Published: Sun, 04/19/09
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We are now in the time of the Inner Year where we leave behind the attention to ourselves and bring our awareness to the inner experience of others.
The time between the Spring Equinox and the Fall Equinox (in the Northern Hemisphere) is the time when the soul's inner work becomes social in purpose. Imagine the breathing of the soul - for the dark half of the year, we focus on loving ourselves (not in vanity, but in self-awareness) and for the light half of the year, we focus on loving others.
50 days after Easter Sunday is the celebration of Pentecost. This is the supremely social festival of the Christian Liturgical year, yet few of us know about it, celebrate it or care about it. At Pentecost the disciples of the Risen Christ are filled with the Holy Spirit and find themselves hearing all speech in the language of their native tongue. Everyone feels understood and loved.
At Inner Pentecost, the soul's journey through the Inner Year develops into a deeper capacity to recognize and resonate with the personality and individuality of each one.
The most basic component of personality and the frame that contains our individuality is temperament. In learning how to communicate with others, knowledge and recognition of the temperamental gestures of personality are essential.
When I am counseling a couple, the first insight I bring to them is the characteristics of the Four Temperaments. I know nothing of more healing and liberating impact than working with a couple on recognizing their temperamental differences. Suddenly the core challenge in the relationship is compassionately understood. (There is still a lot of work to be done, but now both partners are looking at the issues from four perspectives and four interpretations - not just their own temperamentally-charged point of view.)
This is true for the challenges of parenting, surviving the workplace, asking for directions, choosing what to wear to the party, when to do taxes, even the style of flirting. And, of course, what spiritual questions are in the forefront of the soul, what style of meditation or prayer is practiced, and which spiritual festivals are celebrated. Each temperament bring gifts and difficulties.
Social/spiritual wisdom and harmony are found when the temperaments are embraced and when each of us speaks into the temperament of the other, not out of our own temperament. This is only possible when we understand our own temperaments and all the possible temperamental concoctions.
We are now in the time of the Inner Year where we leave behind the attention to ourselves and bring our awareness to the inner experience of others.
The time between the Spring Equinox and the Fall Equinox (in the Northern Hemisphere) is the time when the soul's inner work becomes social in purpose. Imagine the breathing of the soul - for the dark half of the year, we focus on loving ourselves (not in vanity, but in self-awareness) and for the light half of the year, we focus on loving others.
50 days after Easter Sunday is the celebration of Pentecost. This is the supremely social festival of the Christian Liturgical year, yet few of us know about it, celebrate it or care about it. At Pentecost the disciples of the Risen Christ are filled with the Holy Spirit and find themselves hearing all speech in the language of their native tongue. Everyone feels understood and loved.
At Inner Pentecost, the soul's journey through the Inner Year develops into a deeper capacity to recognize and resonate with the personality and individuality of each one.
The most basic component of personality and the frame that contains our individuality is temperament. In learning how to communicate with others, knowledge and recognition of the temperamental gestures of personality are essential.
When I am counseling a couple, the first insight I bring to them is the characteristics of the Four Temperaments. I know nothing of more healing and liberating impact than working with a couple on recognizing their temperamental differences. Suddenly the core challenge in the relationship is compassionately understood. (There is still a lot of work to be done, but now both partners are looking at the issues from four perspectives and four interpretations - not just their own temperamentally-charged point of view.)
This is true for the challenges of parenting, surviving the workplace, asking for directions, choosing what to wear to the party, when to do taxes, even the style of flirting. And, of course, what spiritual questions are in the forefront of the soul, what style of meditation or prayer is practiced, and which spiritual festivals are celebrated. Each temperament bring gifts and difficulties.
Social/spiritual wisdom and harmony are found when the temperaments are embraced and when each of us speaks into the temperament of the other, not out of our own temperament. This is only possible when we understand our own temperaments and all the possible temperamental concoctions.
To support your Inner Pentecost, I am offering
Learning the Languages of the Four Temperaments
a 4 session teleseminar, with great handouts and lots of fun.
Yes, this is the perfect course for Springtime filled with color and joy.
Here is a link to a great BBC radio program on the Four Temperaments and the History of Medicine.
Temperamentally yours,
Lynn