Movement Flashcards

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The voice in the head tells a story that the body believes in and reacts to. Those reactions are the emotions. The emotions, in turn, feed energy back to the thoughts that created the emotion in the first place. This is the vicious circle between unexamined thoughts and emotions, giving rise to emotional thinking and emotional story- making.

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All things are vibrating energy fields in ceaseless motion.

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Gripping of both worlds

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Open focus

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Movement of thought

In addition to the movement of thought, although not entirely separate from it, there is another dimension to the ego: emotion.

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This is not to say that all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become “I.”

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Think about this: everything physical in your life is not solid matter—rather, it’s all fields of energy or frequency patterns of information. All matter is empty space - “no thing” (energy)

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Everything is empty space. But that space isn’t really empty. It’s actually filled with energy.

More specifically it’s made up of a vast array of energy frequencies that form a kind of invisible, interconnected field of information.

That means that our known universe and every thing in it - no matter how solid that matter may appear - is just energy and information. That’s a scientific fact.

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Matter really doesn’t behave anything at all like the matter we’re used to dealing with. It doesn’t adhere to the laws of Newtonian physics. It completely disregards the boundaries of time and space.
Matter is a momentary phenomenon. It’s here one moment, and then it disappears.

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It exists only as a tendency, a probability, or a possibility.

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They found that When they observed particles of matter, they could affect or change their behavior. The reason they’re here and gone(and then here and gone again all the time) is that all of these particles actually exist simultaneously in an infinite array of possibilities or probabilities within the invisible and infinite quantum field of energy.

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It’s only when an observer focuses attention on any one location of any one electron that the electron actually appears in that place. Look away, and the matter disappears back into energy.

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According to the “observer effect,” physical matter can’t exist or manifest until we observe it-until we notice it and give it our attention. And when we are no longer paying attention to it, it vanishes, going back to whence it came.

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So matter is constantly transforming, oscillating between manifesting into matter and disappearing into energy (about 7.8 times per second, as a matter of fact).

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The body and everything else is doing this disappearing and reappearing act all the time. Particles exist in an infinite number of possible places simultaneously, and so do we.

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And just as these particles go from existing everywhere simultaneously (wave, or energy) to existing precisely where the observer looks for them at the moment the observer is paying attention (particle, or matter), we’re also capable of collapsing an infinite number of potential realities into physical existence.

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All atoms emit various electromagnetic energies.

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Think of atoms as vibrating fields of energy or small vortices that are constantly spinning. To better understand how that works, let’s use the analogy of a fan. Just like a circular thing and creates wind ( a vortex of air) when it’s turned on, each atom, as it spins, radiates a field of energy in a similar fashion. And just like a fan can spin at different speeds and so create stronger or weaker wind, atoms also vibrate at different frequencies that create stronger or weaker fields. The faster the atom vibrates, the greater the energy and frequency it emits. The slower the speed of the atoms vibration or vortex, the less energy to create. The slower a fan’s blades spin, the less wind (or energy) is created and the easier it is to see the blades as material objects in physical reality. On the other hand, the faster the blades spin, the more energy is created and the less you see of the physical blades; the blades appear to be immaterial. Where the fan blades can potentially appear (like the subatomic particles the quantum scientists were trying to observe that kept popping in and out of view) depends on your observation-where and how you look for them. And so it is with Atoms.

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Subject object and awareness of both

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Subject object awareness of both

What am I aware of and what am I aware as.
How am I aware of the object
How am I aware of the subject

And how attend to movement of both

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Matter is defined as a solid particle, and the immaterial energetic field of information can be defined as the wave. When we study the physical properties of atoms, like mass, atoms look like physical matter. The slower the frequency that an atom is vibrating, the more Time it spends and physical reality and the more it appears as a particle that we can see as solid. The reason physical matter appears as solid to us when it does, even though it’s mostly energy, is that all of the atoms are vibrating at the same speed we are.

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But atoms also display many properties of energies or waves (including light, wavelengths, and frequency). The faster an atom vibrates and the more energy generates, the less time it spends in physical reality; it’s appearing and disappearing too fast for us to see it, because it’s vibrating at a much faster speed than we are.

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How do you make your body become more energy and less matter. More wave and less particle. Using your consciousness how can you create more energy smiths mater can be lifted to a new frequency.

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All disease is a lowest of frequency.

With subject, object and awareness of both

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Subject of event object of event

And awareness of both

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Subject of event object of event.
And how I am paying attention to both

Movement of event.

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Subject object separation and effort.

Separation is distance

Effort is

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How I am aware of the subject

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Understanding of how the universe functions

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demonstrating that energy and matter are so fundamentally related that they are one and the same. Essentially, his work showed that matter and energy are completely interchangeable.

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Meaning! No meaning is the best meaning

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When we recognize consciousness as the central theme of the universe, it becomes clear that creativity is our lifeline to that consciousness.

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“Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities,” he says gravely. “And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.”

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Quantum physics explains how our creative process involves both the conscious realm of manifest reality— what we see when we look around— and the realm of possibility, or pure potentiality.

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creativity involves three things: discovering or inventing new meaning that has value— new or old, in new or old context(s)— or combinations thereof. Think

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To understand human creativity we need a new paradigm that includes both matter and consciousness; it must be inclusive of all human modes of experience— sensing, feeling, thinking, and intuition. We have discovered such an inclusive paradigm. We call it science within consciousness. It is based on quantum physics and the metaphysics that posits consciousness as the foundation of all being.

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Here are some fundamental aspects of this new science.

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1 Consciousness is the foundation of all being. Manifest matter is preceded by quantum possibilities or potentialities. There are two realms of reality— potentiality and actuality. Conscious choice collapses the possibilities into manifest actuality. Since this choice is made from a state of consciousness beyond the ego, we refer to it as a “higher” or “quantum” consciousness, spiritual traditions refer to it as God. And since our conscious choices are shaped by higher consciousness this process can be described by the term downward causation. Within one undivided consciousness, there are four worlds of quantum possibilities: the material world that we navigate with our senses, the vital world whose energies we feel, the mental world in which we think and process meaning, and the world of supramental archetypes that we intuit— truth, beauty, love, etc. Conscious choice precipitates the collapse of quantum possibilities (waves) of each world into the manifest realm (of actualities). The multiple parallel worlds do not directly interact; consciousness mediates their interaction ( figure 1 ). The collapse is nonlocal, meaning that it requires no local communication or exchange of signals. The need for local communication via signals holds true only for space- time; quantum consciousness is nonlocal and therefore outside of space and time. The quantum collapse from possibility to actuality is discontinuous. The word transcendent , which we apply to the realm of pure potentiality, evokes both nonlocality and discontinuity. In the transcendent quantum realm of pure potentiality, consciousness remains undivided from its possibilities and there is no experience. Collapse produces “dependent co- arising” of an experiencing subject and an object that is experienced. Creativity is fundamentally a phenomenon of consciousness discontinuously manifesting truly new possibilities from transcendent potentiality. This is why in ancient traditions, creativity is referred to as a marriage between (transcendent) heaven and (immanent) earth. The mind gives meaning to the interaction of consciousness and matter. The value of creative work comes from what we intuit, what Plato called archetypes. The role of the brain is to make representations of mental meaning. Creativity is invention or discovery of new meaning. What is truly new is meaning invented or discovered using old or new archetypal contexts and combinations thereof.

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consciousness is the foundation of all being, including matter; when choosing from material possibilities, consciousness is choosing from itself and therefore doesn’t require a signal.

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I choose the subject and object and my awareness of both.

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Volume in space
Intensity in mental space

Duration in time

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Motion in awareness

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Motion -flow is the key

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Attention of

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Self Subject object time space motion self

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Volume in space
Intensity in mental space

Duration in time

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Motion in awareness

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Motion -flow is the key

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Identification with movement of

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Supramental intellect body
Mental body
Vital energy body
Physical body

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feelings of separation.

the relationship between you and what you experience.

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When the mind is asked to imagine or attend to space, however, there is nothing—no-thing—to grip on to, to objectify and make sense of, no memories of past events or anticipation of future scenarios.

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The way we attend controls the intensity of our experiences and reactions.

Open Focus is an inclusive style of attention that admits both narrow and diffuse forms of attention into awareness at the same time. If, while attending in narrow focus, we simply include some awareness of space and of other sense experiences, our attention will be distributed more evenly and our attention will diffuse and dissolve stress.

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Objective attention distances the observer from the object of awareness, enhancing one’s conscious ability to evaluate and control it.

Objective attention has allowed humans to step back from the sense of unity that our early ancestors had with the physical world and to discover the laws of nature.

Object focused - in body aware of matter

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Thinking or direct sensation

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by paying nonjudgmental attention to your experience on a regular basis, you can completely turn your life around for the better.

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Notice how your attention keeps wandering off and returning. Be aware of the movement of attention as it shifts from one thing to another, from thoughts to feelings to sensations and back again. In other words, be aware of awareness itself. In doing this, you’re accessing a level of awareness that’s prior to your usual habitual awareness.

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Now ask yourself: If I’m the one who’s aware of my thoughts, who is it who’s aware of the movement of awareness? In being aware of the thinking, am I not completely outside of the thinking process itself? Can I locate the one who is aware? Just sit with this inquiry and see what arises.

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your bodily felt experience and entrains you to pay attention to what’s happening right now, rather than to your interpretation of what’s happening. Unlike thinking, direct sensation is a portal to the present, whereas thought generally transports you to an imaginary past or future. As your practice matures, you’re able to expand your awareness for extended periods of time to include the full range of sensations, both inside and outside your body, and eventually to include thoughts and feelings as well, without getting caught up in them— the spacious awareness discussed earlier. At a certain point, however, the practice of mindfulness, as a particular state of mind that you need to keep efforting to maintain, can begin to seem laborious and mechanical, and you may find yourself longing for a more spontaneous, less manipulative way of being present. When I was a monk, I became so focused on maintaining deliberate attention to my present- moment experience that I lost my natural ease of being and morphed into a kind of mindful automaton. No matter how beneficial, techniques can only take you so far, and the goal of mindfulness is not better and more concentrated mindfulness, but greater openness, spontaneity, and authenticity. Buddha likened technique to a raft designed to take you to another shore. Once you arrive, you don’t need to carry the raft around on your head but can leave it behind on the bank.

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Only our achievement- oriented conditioning tends to turn the practice into something obsessive. My work with people over the years has shown me that the habit of focusing on a future goal and regarding meditation not as an opportunity to be still, present, and open to the moment right now, but rather as a task- oriented methodology for achieving some distant end, be it better health, greater concentration, or (ironically) peace of mind, runs deep and dies hard. This goal orientation defeats the very purpose of mindfulness, which is to invite you to be present for your experience without judgment, interpretation, or agenda. At a subtler level, the emphasis on the deliberate application of attention, while helpful at first, has a number of potential pitfalls and limitations. For one thing, it may gradually reinforce a new identity as a detached observer. Rather than breaking down the apparent barriers that separate you from others and the world around you, mindfulness may actually reinforce them by giving you the sense of being a separate observing ego, localized in the head, looking down mindfully on your experience and actions from above. Instead of inviting you to be more intimate with life and other people, mindfulness can become a kind of deliberate, habitual distancing that robs you of warmth and spontaneity and feeds the subject- object split. As one Zen master puts it, “If you are mindful, you are already creating a separation. When you walk, just walk. Let the walking walk. Let the talking talk. Let the eating eat, the sitting sit, the working work.”

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The key word here is “ego”: spacious awareness without fixation somehow morphs into a fixed position (ego) that perpetuates separateness. People who fall prey to this fixation may become proud of their detachment and be difficult to reach, even in intimate relationships, where they tend to withdraw from genuine, spontaneous interaction. The difference between spacious awareness and detached observation is crucial here but can be tricky to discern: Spacious awareness relaxes the sense of separation and fosters greater warmth and intimacy with what is; detached observing creates distance, aloofness, and a subtle (or not so subtle) aversion to what is. Related to this fixation on detachment is the tendency to use mindfulness to avoid or actively suppress emotions that you find uncomfortable or threatening. Rather than facing and welcoming them, as mindfulness is actually intended to encourage, you develop a level of concentrated awareness that enables you to rise above and seemingly transcend them entirely, whereas in fact they continue to roil beneath the surface and ultimately get expressed in unconscious ways.

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Or maybe you’re appreciative of the spacious awareness you’ve discovered but weary of the constant doing, the addiction to maintaining a certain state, and you wonder if there’s a way through or beyond mindfulness to a deeper, more natural, and more self- sustaining level of awareness. Or you may experience moments when your mindfulness spontaneously drops away, you lose touch with the observer entirely, and you effortlessly find yourself beyond spacious awareness in a kind of no- man’s land without a reference point.

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make the transition from mindfulness to a more natural, spontaneous, self- sustaining level of awareness. I call this level (which is actually a level beyond levels) awakened awareness,

Awakened awareness is not some new or special state of mind and heart that you need to cultivate or create, it’s actually intrinsic to who you are as a human being, your natural condition, which years of conditioning have conspired to obscure. Traditionally, this natural condition or state is likened to the sun, which is perpetually shining, no matter how cloudy the sky. If you want sunlight, you don’t have to practice sunfulness or cultivate shining; in fact, such effort would seem ridiculous. Rather, you just need to clear away the clouds that block the light— or wait until they dissipate on their own. Similarly, once you recognize the bright sun of awakened awareness, practicing mindfulness can seem like shining a flashlight at midday in the hopes that it will make things brighter.

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mindfulness enables you to relate with your emotions without being overpowered by them. Just be aware of the pitfall of becoming addicted to your meditation practice as a refuge from difficult emotions, rather than using mindfulness to welcome them as they arise.

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When you practice mindfulness, you discover that awareness is a function you have the power to manipulate and control. Rather than letting it wander aimlessly and unconsciously from one object or topic to another, you can focus it deliberately, like a beam of light, from your thoughts to your physical sensations to the coming and going of your breath, and back again. As your mindfulness practice matures, your awareness builds like a muscle (or, to extend the metaphor, like a light that grows progressively brighter), your thinking mind settles down, and you reap all the wonderful benefits that awareness training confers. Rarely, however, do you meet a teacher who guides you in exploring the nature of awareness itself and invites you to take the “backward step” that the great meditation masters describe, which “turns the light of awareness inward to illuminate the self.”

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From your practice of mindfulness, you realize that your awareness is separate from your thinking, otherwise you couldn’t be aware of your thoughts. In fact, the ability to pay attention to your thinking without becoming identified with it is a key benefit of mindfulness practice that gradually frees you from the tyranny of your mind. The more time you spend noticing your thoughts, the more space or distance you have from them and the easier it gets to reflect on.

spacious awareness, a kind of inner openness that welcomes thoughts and feelings without being immediately identified with them. The ability to maintain spacious awareness for extended periods of time is one of the more significant stages or levels of mindfulness practice. No longer are you constantly controlled by your mind— you now have greater freedom from its dictates. But when you practice mindfulness, you’re generally taught that spacious awareness is a function you need to maintain through diligent practice. Let up on your practice, and the open window of awareness gradually closes. What if, instead, you realized that openness was not a special state that needs maintaining, but your natural state of awareness that’s always present but generally obscured by the clouds of discursive thought? When you open your eyes in the morning, do you need to make an effort to be aware of your surroundings? Or is awareness immediately present and functioning as soon as you open your eyes?

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The distinction here may seem like a subtle one, but it has far- reaching implications. If you don’t need to maintain spacious awareness, you can relax and let it happen on its own, rather than practicing it as if it were a skill.

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Instead of practicing mindful attention, you can let go of any effort or manipulation and allow awareness to happen on its own. Instead of perpetuating the observing ego, you can relax into the natural observation that’s always occurring. Like the sun hidden behind clouds, awareness is constantly shining, you just need to see through the layers of thoughts, beliefs, identities, and emotions that obscure it. As long as you don’t cling to the old form, your mindfulness practice holds you in good stead as you progress to this next phase of awareness training, because you’ve developed the capacity to stay present for extended periods of time, which you can now use to help penetrate the layers.

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Awakened awareness isn’t my invention or discovery; it’s been transmitted and taught for thousands of years as the natural next step after mindfulness, indeed, as the final fruition of mindfulness. In the Buddhist tradition, from which most secular mindfulness trainings are drawn, it’s called “big mind” or true self, clear light or the nature of mind, and it’s considered the ultimate realization and the only abiding source of fulfillment.

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It differs from mindful attention in a number of significant ways. Perhaps the most important is that awakened awareness is not a state of mind; whereas mental states, no matter how exalted, come and go, awakened awareness exists prior to all passing states, as the ground of being in which all experiences arise and pass away. As I suggest earlier, it’s like space or air in this regard; without it, experiences would not occur. The ground of awareness is the sine qua non in the absence of which nothing could exist. (If you’re not convinced of this, imagine an experience occurring without awareness; the very notion of experience presupposes the existence of awareness.)

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I use two separate terms here, the ground of awareness and awakened awareness, for a reason. In reality, awareness is the ground of openness in which everything arises. Experientially, awakened awareness dawns in your life when you recognize that this ground awareness is your natural state, in fact, is who you really are. This shift from recognizing awareness as a function, to recognizing awareness as the ground, to realizing it to be your fundamental nature and identity, is the awakening that the great spiritual masters describe.

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Only this shift can bring ultimate fulfillment because it breaks down the illusion of being a separate person at odds with a reality out there that’s constantly threatening to attack, withhold, or disappoint. As Buddha taught several millennia ago, the illusion of a separate self, and the greed, anger, and ignorance it instills, is the root of all suffering. Only when you see through the illusion of separateness and realize the essential nondual nature of reality

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What are emotions. Emotions are composed of thoughts, memories, images and bodily sensations. Gain insight of their ephemeral, insubstantial nature, which frees you from their grasp.
Emotion is resistance.
Emotion is pain.

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The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer. Or you may put it like this: the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering — and free of the egoic mind.

“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer. Or you may put it like this: the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering — and free of the egoic mind.
Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable”

“Let me summarize the process. Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don’t think about it — don’t let the feeling turn into thinking. Don’t judge or analyze. Don’t make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of “the one who observes,” the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.”

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Body is energy

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I am beyond it

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The action is before hand

With the expectation of it

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During it I have it as long as I don’t inference. So just be pure consciousness effortlessly aware of nothing

I am felt sense nothing stillness Eufeeling.

No focusing no thinking no feeling no experiencing
No knowing no meaning no thinking no judging by just not identifying with in or as

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Distance self from physical body and physical body movement.

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One with all. And nothing with no effort. Stillness

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Awareness of felt sense and

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Movement

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Primary and secondary awareness

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S

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Relativity and absolute

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Primary secondary

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Primary awareness and secondary awareness

Absolute and relative

Which one is background foreground and level of each

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Felt sense and movement and how I am paying attention to both absolute

And

Relative
And Which one is the main focus and which one is the background focus

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“attain a state of mind in which even though surrounded by crowds of people, it is as if you were alone in a field extending for tens of thousands of miles.” The Japanese have a philosophy of ma—the ability to see the space between objects as well as the objects themselves. Other traditions use guided visual meditations on mandalas, in which practitioners focus on the space between the lines of the sacred symbols. All of these “technologies” no doubt slow cortical rhythms and relax the central nervous system; certainly they deserve further study and research.

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“attain a state of mind in which even though surrounded by crowds of people, it is as if you were alone in a field extending for tens of thousands of miles.” The Japanese have a philosophy of ma—the ability to see the space between objects as well as the objects themselves. Other traditions use guided visual meditations on mandalas, in which practitioners focus on the space between the lines of the sacred symbols. All of these “technologies” no doubt slow cortical rhythms and relax the central nervous system; certainly they deserve further study and research.

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Absolute and relative attention

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Absolute and relative awareness

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Gripping of object and subject

And grip of movement of both

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Sense of rhythm and sense of control

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Movement

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Subject object

Awareness of both and awareness of movement of both and awareness of awareness of movement

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S

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Effort resistance effort resistance

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Hold on holding off holding on holding off

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Likes dislikes judgement interpretations

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Judgement meaning thought knowledge
Physical body energetical body
And movement of all