This really relates to Ho’oponopono concept of data/memories in the subsconscious – and makes it really clear that when practicing the Ho’oponopono clearing you can only work with whatever “felt sense” you feel in the present – even if you don’t know what the story fully is you still ask to be freed from it as it is not of the present.
Buddhist perspective on subconscious as store consciousness. Beautiful advice that relates and parallels a lot to “focusing” but is thousands of years old and comes from the Buddha directly. The focus is on feeling in the body, bringing compassionate non-violent present awareness to difficult feels (not thoughts and thinking and story and judgment) – just embodied awareness – this brings relief, and ultimately transforms the personal consciousness into impersonal awareness.
the importance of psycho somatic felt sense in healing.
disassociation / freeze response and coming out of it – I like this body-based “embodying” therapy model- bringing awareness into the shutdown body areas. This relates to vipassana meditation and the repeated scanning for sensations that slowly brings life back into the dark zones. In my personal experience, it has been two steps forwards one step back. Each time I manage to feel into the body and do the practice – there is, after a while, a violent eruption of intensity of feeling, I try to not go into the story and stay present with it. However, I usually end up overwhelmed and disassociate, and the work then is to bring back contact into the body and felt sense, and come back into the present. I can be very present so long as there is not much emotion in my system, but as soon as intense feeling surfaces it is a bumpy ride. This is why I am looking for gentle ways to ease into impersonally being with feelings. The higher vehicles of just being pure present presence no matter what is what I aspire to practice, but the reality is that I need some personal and psychological support just in terms of the emotional load my nervous system can handle.
“if you can’t handle your feelings and see through our wrong perceptions you can’t have peace” Thich Nhat Hanh saying we need to be at psychosomatic peace here and now in the present – but to do so, we first need to learn to handle our feelings and master ourselves. (be at peace with unpleasent feelings) Live our own lives rather than be a victim of our situation. Then acting from peace we become vertices for the divine. Seeking refuge as personal consciousness we look to rest God – Thich’s point is that the only refuge (from difficult emotions) is to stay present and go home to the self within. Being present is the only refuge from suffering of feelings and story: the victimhood of the personal self.
focusing
No meditations just practical exercises:
“be with the uncomfortable” really echos Gangaji on self-hate.
“the safe place is without content” presence first, then sensations. if you get overwhelmed bring attention just back to presence
definitely about the commercialization of a business but valid principles. Comment under video:
“In most Shamanic Traditions rattles, drums and toning are being used, while the body free form moves and dances (preferably around the transformative energies of fire) in a state of self induced trance. This is the ancient and original way of successfully breaking up/releasing energies for the purpose of healing”
this is so lovely – “you want to explain it” – his focus is so embodied: so on actively feeling the felt sense in the present he doesn’t really care about explaining how it works. “it opens up a space between the self and the felt sense”
