BODY WISDOM: the path of healing

BODY WISDOM: the path of healing

by | | Embodiment, Healing, Wound Wisdom

Within the body – this vessel of consciousness and organ of perception – exists a rich tapestry of wisdom whispering in mysterious melodies and yet longing to be decoded by the one willing to listen. To the one who’s grown accustomed to perceiving through thought – who relies on the mind to decide and discern – this wisdom may be untapped or even muted. However, it’s never too late to open the doors to a world that defies confinement and expands beyond the logic of mere intellect!

Welcome to the altar of your Soul.

Through the body, we can dismantle the patterning with a grace and an accuracy that blows the mind to pieces. The body is the doorway to the blueprint of your Soul. She carries all information that you came here to unravel – every memory, every contraction, every karmic knot that awaits resolution. There’s no need for you to understand, remember or even know what awaits illumination; but if understanding, remembrance and knowledge should arise then that’s beautiful!

What’s required is the capacity to Be With what arises, no matter how painful or uncomfortable. What’s called for is the courage of Heart to fully feel and welcome all that’s calling for your attention. And so begins a healing journey, an inner relationship and an awakening within.

Healing through the Body

The body (and all her subtle layers) is the store-house for all that remains exiled. In this contracted state, there’s fragmentation, as if pieces of your Soul are no longer available to you. When you call these forgotten parts home – the parts that have been pushed out of view – you invite them back into wholeness. The contraction is ultimately transient and only held together by fear. Through your loving presence it relaxes back into Source. As the contraction unravels, the latent energy stored within it is unleashed.

What may be felt and experienced as a release or dissolution is actually a transmutation, for energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed.

There’s no right way to traverse this path. The purification of consciousness is as varied as it is vast as it is deep. Each Soul, each Body and each Heart calls for different subtleties in approach, navigation and surrender. So the core of this journey calls for your willingness to experiment, to fall, to get back up again and to listen deeply to what works for you. Having said that, there are some underlying principles that can be adapted to your own way of working. If we start with a felt contraction or known issue at hand – one that’s perceived in this very moment – then we can began this inner dialogue …

Awaken your Innate Capacity to Heal

 

Your job as Presence is to restore mobility to the paralysed parts of you. As loving-awareness, you breathe new life into stagnant, frozen energy.

Four Steps to Freedom: 

  1. Clear-seeing (establishing awareness)
  2. Pure-feeling (cultivating heart)
  3. Being With (making contact)
  4. Surrender (letting go)

1. Clear-seeing (establishing awareness)

The first step to freedom is the capacity to see and then acknowledge what’s here.

As the objective observer you’re able to hold space for everything that arises without judging or identifying with it. You are the Seer and Perceiver of all experience.

Practices to cultivate Awareness include mindfulness techniques, spiritual inquiry and meditation. 

The orientation of these practices calls for a re-direction of attention from phenomena (the objects we perceive) to the one perceiving. To rest as Awareness is to rest as the silent space of pure subjectivity.

Related Article: Seeing is not believing: emerging from the story of Me

 

2. Pure feeling (Cultivating Heart)

The second step to freedom is the capacity to sense and feel that which is here.

The Felt Sense of an issue is the recognition of it as comprising a visceral and energetic presence. Through careful and patient investigation one can begin to locate and describe the felt sense of what’s here, whether this appears as sensation, emotion, image, symbol, thought or all of the above.

Pure-feeling is the capacity of Heart to stay open in the midst of pain.

Practices to cultivate your feeling system are any embodiment practice that fine tunes your ability to sense and feel what arises. Any practice that brings you into the body and expands awareness to include subtle energies enhances pure-feeling. Think dance, movement, body-work, breath-work, voice-work, and emotional awareness practices.

3. Being With (making contact)

The third step to freedom is where clear-seeing meets pure-feeling and enters INTO RELATIONSHIP with that which is here.

This is where that which was set aside for future digestion is brought into the light of awareness to be seen, felt, heard and met. Through this meeting there’s the opportunity to practice and cultivate all the qualities that are vital for relationship to flourish: openness, understanding, compassion, and tenderness. When the lost and forgotten part is finally held in Deep Empathy, then the Life energy trapped within this karmic knot is finally able to move. What releases is the misunderstanding that this part became bound by. However, this does not happen through trying to fix, change, avoid, or eliminate; but by simply Being With.

Practices to cultivate being in relationship with what arises include all heart-based and devotional practices. In addition, engaging in service and conscious relationship cultivates the qualities required to make empathic and respectful contact with whatever you’re relating to (whether that be another sentient being or fragments of your psyche).

4. Surrender (Letting go)

The fourth step to freedom is an act of letting go beyond what you know.

When the exiled part feels deeply heard and met then its function of protection dissolves and it can be absorbed and integrated back into pure consciousness, no longer solidified by its misunderstanding. We may notice life energy beginning to flood the system as the wounded structure begins to collapse. At this point, a letting go beyond identification is possible. As Life begins to flow again, our only job is to surrender to this movement.

The key here is to really receive and relax into any movement, opening, and expansion. If anything arises as resistance to this re-calibration, then we can repeat steps one through three by acknowledging, sensing and being with this resistance.

Disclaimer

As with any spiritual instruction, this may sound more simple than it is to put into practice. We all know that we need to cultivate awareness and accept our feelings but when the rubber hits the road we may be easily consumed by panic, shame and overwhelm. 

In truth, what these words point to (which is the act of Being With) is incredibly simple. However, the recognition of this simplicity arises from a somewhat complex journey. As we apply these principles to a fragmented psyche, we’re bound to meet up with all kinds of twists and turns + tricks and traps as the survival strategies get activated. It’s not our job to lament this reality, but rather our duty to show up and deal with the hand we’ve been dealt. Practice is the key word here and it’s the practice of Life.

The awakening to your Self and the inclusion of everything you pushed away is a subtle terrain to navigate. That’s why it can be incredibly helpful to have a witness and ultimately a support system to hold space for those things that feel challenging and just out of view.

Black Footprints in the Sand

Black Footprints in the Sand

by | | Devotion, Healing, Wound Wisdom

 

A black grain of sand appears in the shimmering golden desert of my Self

Silent winds blow serenely, lifting veil-like sheets of sand across the surface of the golden dunes

All is at rest beneath the blazing fire, pulsating in the sky above

Except one sooty grain of sand

 

She winks rapidly, untouched by the flames that lick her cheeks

She is the unclaimed particle from which all ignorance arises

She wanders this desert in search of water to quench her parched and cracking lips

And for every grain of sand she touches on her way, she leaves black footprints in the sand

 

I send out search parties through the landscape of my Being to locate this lonely one

She has been extricated and discarded, exiled and forgotten, and now paints the desert black with the tears of her pain

But I will find you, and when I do I will not exile or forget, extricate or discard

I will take you in my arms and kiss light into the black folds of the cloak that masks your blinding light

 

Every wind in my Being now blows towards you and the world can wait until I find your trail and trace you back into mySelf

As I meet you from every angle and embrace you through every crack, your eyes, heavy with forgetfulness, will open and ignite

In the fiery heat of my gaze, not one particle of blackness will escape these flames

You will return to me my love, and when you do I will shine on you until only gold remains

 

And on cloudy days, when my Heart is weary

If one should wander where others dare not tread

They will see the shadows of your footprints and the traces of your tears

As they burnt the ground with your longing

For my eternal embrace

 

 

True Healing

True Healing

by | | Awakening, Healing, Wound Wisdom

Relative Healing vs True Healing

Relative Healing brings that which is out of balance back into greater harmony and can occur with great success whilst leaving the core construct of a ‘person’ relatively intact. This is when healing is approached by ‘someone’ (the separated self) to ‘get something’ (an improved experience).

As long as the core construct of the person is left in place, the root of all issues and ailments remains untouched, because all issues are rooted in the ‘person’, which exists as a conditioned web of identity rooted in fear and perceiving itself to be separate from Source.

For True Healing to be the case, the very root of suffering (which is the personal identity) must be resolved and dissolved into Source. True Healing therefore happens WITHIN and DUE TO the Full Embrace of Truth. This includes the embrace of your Self across all dimensions of Reality ~ from Absolute, across Heart, and deeply into the Human / Body / Earth ~ as the very integration and incarnation of Truth into Form.

 

What remains is not trans-human, but the purity of the True Human dancing as the Absolute through and as Creation.

 


The 5 Keys to True Healing

(a brief and by no means comprehensive summary, but nevertheless that which has consistently shown itself (at least to this one) to be utterly essential)


1. Dedication (to Truth)

When you align with Truth, which means to say that this becomes the one-pointed focus of your existence, then everything else within that begins to align itself.

When every move you make arises from this Dedication to Truth, then everything that needs to be seen is seen, everything that needs to be released is released and everything that needs to be healed is healed, because when you align with Truth, you align with the true purpose of your existence, which is to awaken to who you truly are, and you begin to unravel the root cause of your suffering, which is the belief in yourself as a separate identity.

So before any move is made, root yourself in this Dedication. Let this become that which moves you. Integrity is Key and the foundation for Living Truly. Allow your Dedication to bring everything that has anything to do with you into this alignment.


2. Honesty

This requires that you take a deep and honest look at yourself and ACKNOWLEDGE ~ through Profound Honesty ~ that which you un-cover.

At your core, you may be whole and complete, but the Reality is that your whole existence is rooted in the belief that you are a person, and the web of this separate identity has bled into every area of your life, creating a baseline of suffering. There is nothing pessimistic about this. We have chosen this. This is the great web we weave and the purpose of our existence ~ to unravel this web into perfection.

The profundity of the honesty that is required, is testament to the fact that through this honesty (which penetrates all layers of self-protection) there is the coming face to face with the deep loss of everything that you cling to and the deep pain of every wound you harbor. This honesty removes the option of all hiding and running and reveals that which is vital to be seen for Truth to happen.

So be honest, and SEE that there is much within (and without) that is waiting to be brought into a MUCH greater alignment.


3. Responsibility

In the Grand Scheme of Reality, you are the Great Web Weaver of your experience. This recognition requires a quantum leap from personal perception (where you perceive that things just happen to you) to God Perception, where you recognise that every move in this game of God ~ even the apparent atrocities ~ has been designed to further evolve and open you.

KNOW that everything that ever happened to you was created by You. There are no mistakes or accidents. You ARE the creator. This does not mean berating yourself for horror and devastation. No. This is about owning your pain and not buying into blame or victim stories. Every challenge we receive is a gift in the form of carefully crafted lessons placed at the core of all experience.

This is about knowing that you have the Power to respond accordingly and that you are literally response-able. It means acknowledging the pain and negativity you carry, holding it in your Heart, and daring to look. It means no longer lapsing into avoidance, denial, or blame, and it means no longer running away from that which haunts you. It means having the courage to walk into the darkness of your own psyche and taking responsibility for what you find there, because you alone can walk there, and you alone can bring it to the light.


4. Inquiry

You Are the Light, and it’s the Light of your Honest Looking, fuelled by your Dedication to unveiling Truth across Everything, that initiates True Healing.

Become the eagle’s eye that catches even the slightest movement within. Know that your laser-like vision is sufficient to dissolve (when combined with surrender) that which it penetrates. Your Seeing ~ combined with dedication, complete honesty, and the full taking of responsibility ~ cannot be underestimated. You are the light bearer whose radiance shines through your conditioning leaving only transparency in its wake. Through thorough and passionate self investigation, you hold the power to deconstruct and dissolve everything you look upon.

And in the moment that you deeply acknowledge that which you look upon, a dual revelation unfolds ~ You are Not That which you look upon, You are That which looks. Deeply rest as the Spacious Awareness of all phenomena. Know that everything that rises is but a passing show, and You remain utterly untouched.


5. Surrender

Give Way. Let Go. Dive Deep.   

It’s the very act of Surrender (which is the letting go of everything that stands between you and Reality) which allows you to fall through every layer of the conditioned self.

This is not a simple step by step process. We are speaking of opening to pure Life Force. We are speaking of the great resolution and dissolution that opens you to God. This is your Life’s Work. Embrace it, and know that this is what you came here to do.

With all the winds in your sails pointing in Her direction, she will carry you, carry you, carry you Home.

And as you pass through layer after layer ~ OPEN. Open your Mind, Open your Heart, Open your Gut. Open, Open, Open!

Birds

It’s the Fusion of these 5 keys that enables the purification of Consciousness.

But the moment we enter into this embrace with any agenda to move away from pain or move towards pleasure (disguised as a desire for Healing) then not only do we miss the point (and the boat), but we actually move more deeply into the ignorance that gives birth to the need for that Healing in the first place.

True Healing does not start with any movement away from your present experience, even if that movement is dressed in the clothes of wanting to wake up (out of here). There is no True Healing without deeply meeting everything you are standing with as an individual.

This is not about self-improvement. This is about the dissolution of our perceived sense of identity to reveal our True nature, and no-one can tell you how to do this. It’s divinely unique for each Soul. It can be pointed to and transmitted, but ultimately it requires You surrendering to Your Self, for the weave to be gracefully unwoven by Life Herself, as yourSelf.

 

Life was not born to be transcended. Her every move is guided by the intelligence and power required to unravel you from the Heart of your Individuality to the Heart of God. By Living your Life as Love for YourSelf, you invite the support of Creation to burn everything that stands between you and Reality.

 

And in your willingness to face the pain and the fear at the root of your person, Life will provide you with the exact situations you need to undo every layer that has risen on top of that, and then deeply into the core of that.

When every cell in you is vibrating with the same agreement, then you open yourself to the facilitation of all the forces in the Universe.