Our cultural way of training each other is primarily through "shame" and "blame."
We now know that the most effective way to train towards self-realization is via "acknowledgement" and "encouragement".
However, because so many of us learned what we learned and know what we know via shame and blame we have skewed our awareness to a very intellectual plane. It is easier and not so scary to spend time in our heads. It also is not as productive or "healing"!
Here is the gest (interesting that "gest" is so similar to "jest", isn't it?) of what that is about. Our thoughts are mostly linear: our feelings and sensations are holographic. The hologram contains tons more information than linear awareness; and, as that is so, it is very easy to get overwhelmed with our holographic sensational awareness. This is the realm of the poet, musician and artist. It wants us to become expressive and there-in is perhaps the rub. Our very expressiveness in life is what so often brings about the shaming and blaming messages which has led to our wariness of un-bridled expressiveness.
My experience, personal and professional, is that having some clear and respectful boundaries not just between self and other but also, and maybe most importantly, between self and selves!
Without these boundaries we get flooded! Overwhelmed and "put-upon." We loose our sense of place and direction. With them we can more easily function along our own paths paying attention to our own agenda.
Learning to explore our holographic awarenesses is incredibly exciting and engenders wonderful productivity. It has to do with breath, relaxation, focus of awareness on what we are experiencing "in-the-now" and basking in our own creative awareness. An operative question is: If what you are experiencing right now were an object in your body what would it be like? What in our world could create the sensations you are now experiencing?
It continues to fascinate me as to what people experience when they go to that place with curiosity and creative imagination. Depression can be a huge sphere, dark and cold and bigger than the room. It can also be experienced as a deep hole that sucks energy. Love can be a warm glow that is rainbow hued and vast. Clarity can be a bright light flowing from a crystal. The experiences are infinite and very dependent on personal experiences and beliefs.
A fully developed holographic sensation would have shape, size, color, form, texture, temperature, weight, energy, etc. Imagine how creative expression can stem from these ponderings!
Imagine, also how some sensations, connected to past experiences or feared consequences can be all consuming in a frightening way. When connected with past experiences which have not been resolved they can assume the portions of terror or abject loss! Deep and toxic shame or overwhelming guilt.
Such potential experiences are why we must enter such territory with great and careful approach of boundary setting; gratitude, breath and a sense of our ability to "Stay Present in The Moment!" Without that we can too easily regress into our reptillian brain stem, fear, anxiety, terror, etc.
What do you think?
I think more people should respond to these writings! It would be very well appreciated.
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