Contemplating Gene Key 52 and practicing slowing down.
Lately, I’ve been really diving into the teachings of The Art of Contemplation and The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd. I’ve been randomly contemplating certain gene keys on my chart for a year now. But recently I found an hour long video on YouTube where Richard Rudd talks about the importance of the Life’s Work key in our chart. He says that our Life’s Work gene key is the gateway into our chart. I will be honest, that was the gene key I was less interested in learning about until I watched this video. My life’s work gene key is 52. The shadow is Stress and it’s transformed by the gift of Restraint and the siddhi is Stillness.
At the shadow level the 52 gene key is always stressing out and reacting out of fear. In the gift level we learn to practice restraining from reacting. We are more mindful and we allow ourselves to go with the flow of nature. The siddhi levels of the gene keys are pretty complex to explain but what I got out of the text is that you become so still within which then in turn creates a feeling of no beginning or end.
“The 52nd siddhi contains the seed of a great new beginning and the original intention and dream of humankind – to realise our position as the stillpoint in the heart of creation.”
“Stillness is how the world will be transformed. Stress contains stillness, and only when you slow down do you begin to remember that stillness … is bursting with potential and potency. The selfless man is still. He is still because he is not. He is so in harmony that he has merged into the background and all of love moves through him. Stillness … is beyond effortless, beyond frequency, beyond mind, beyond understanding.” - Richard Rudd, The Gene Keys: Embrace Your Purpose
As I started to contemplate gene key 52 I noticed how much I was rushing through things and fighting within my mind when things didn’t go as planned. One place I saw the shadow aspect, stress, playing out is at work. I was constantly rushing through my shift to get it over with and I didn’t realize how much stress I was causing on my body. I would experience pain on my right leg almost every time I worked. It wasn’t til I started to speak about it out loud to my friends that they reflected back that our legs help us to move forward, so where am I rushing to get to?
I always felt this pressure inside of me that I should do and be something different then I am right now. My own actions have mirrored this by me always hurrying ahead and resisting the present moment. Letting the fear of “never getting there” take the wheel. The truth is I always end up at the same place I am suppose to be no matter how fast or slow I go.
What stressful patterns can you create a pause to this week?
I’ve started to practice Restraint in small moments in my life, when there’s traffic or when I’m waiting for a friend. I’m trying to not fight the current moment but instead see it as a beautiful pause to observe my surroundings. The more I’ve slowed down I’ve noticed how much energy I’ve gained back. Where now instead of bumming out after work, I have the energy to write. We don’t notice this but us constantly fighting our current reality and trying to control everything drains our sacred life force. We are so much in our head trying to figure everything out that we can’t see what’s right in front us. All that we need is in the present moment.
Being more present through my day has been helping me see things differently. Each time things don’t go according to plan at work I’ve just surrendered and tell myself “I’m still gonna get there but maybe in a different way.” All of sudden things play out in ways I could of never imagined. For example, one day I finished a shift at work and then decided to immediately turn on the Uber Eats app to get some food orders, nothing was coming in. I was like okay, this is a moment to rest. I took off my shoes and just relaxed. A few minutes later as I chilled in my car and didn’t worry, a food order of $50 came in. Mind you, this isn’t something that normally happens. Moments like these have felt very mystical, like the Law of Attraction is playing in my favor. I surrender and poof something happens! Or we can also be super practical and say that my calmness and groundedness is able to see more possibilities. Richard Rudd mentions that we are more efficient when we slow down then when we are rushing around. I can agree to this because as I practice slowing down I possess more energy, I feel much lighter and I have an open mind to do things differently.
Someways to start planting seeds of slowing down in your life:
Start your mornings slow
Make plans with enough time in between the next thing you need to do
Connect with your body and breath through out the day, this can just be for 5 mins
Meditate
Every time you catch yourself rushing, remind your self to slow down.
Which of these would you like to add into your daily routine?
P.s I’ll be away next week for a writers’ retreat in the Catskills so there won’t be a newsletter Friday. But I’ll def share my experience at the retreat when I get back :) I hope you all have a delicious and fun week ahead!