Who or what is it that’s unawake or has emotional issues?
I find it most helpful to think of it as our parts. A part of me is unawake. A part of me has an emotional issue.
Sometimes, there is identification with this part, and then it seems like “I” as a global whole is unawake or has an emotional issue.
In a sense, that’s accurate since there is a kind of global identification with it and we perceive and live from that part of us. And it is more accurate to say that a part of us is like this, and there is a conscious identification with or as that part.
WHAT IT MEANS FOR HEALING AND AWAKENING
Seeing it this way is practical and helpful, in many ways.
It helps us dis-identify from these parts of us, and recognize them as parts and not (even close to) all of who or what we are. We can see them more as objects and relate to them more intentionally.
It reminds us that even if we have done a lot of healing, there are very likely parts of us still operating from confusion. We don’t know how many they are, or what many of these are. They will color our perception and life. And when they are triggered, we may get temporarily identified with them.
And it reminds us that even if there appears to be a kind of global awakening here, there are likely still many parts of us that are unawake. Any part of us that has something unresolved, and doesn’t recognize it’s nature, is unawake. Here too, we don’t know how many of these parts there are, and we often don’t know (yet) what they are. They will color our perception and life. And when they surface, we may get temporarily identified with them and perceive and act from and as them.
Recognizing this keeps us a bit more sober.
SAME DYNAMICS FOR AWAKENING AND HEALING
I have differentiated between unawake and emotional issues here, and they are really two names for the same.
The terms unawake, emotional issue, belief, identification, hangup, contraction, and trauma, are all names for the same dynamics.
That’s why psychological healing and awakening go hand-in-hand. They are part of the same process.
We heal from emotional issues, and we heal from separation consciousness. The same dynamics create emotional issues and separation consciousness. The same approaches can invite in healing for both.
And thorough healing from our emotional issues can only happen through awakening. It can only happen when we notice that our nature, as a whole, is the nature of our contracted parts, and when we invite these parts of us to find and rest in and as their own nature.
HAPPENING WITHIN AND AS WHAT WE ARE
It’s not wrong to say that this human self being unawake or having emotional issues. It’s how it appears to most people.
And it’s perhaps more accurate to say that parts of us are like that, and when there is a conscious identification with these parts, it appears as if we – as a whole – are like that.
We can also say that what we are is capacity for all of this, all of our experiences related to this human self and the wider world. And that we are the field all of it is happening within and as. We are what takes all these forms.
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This process is the same for psychological healing as a human self and noticing what we more fundamentally are. In both cases, we heal out of a painful fantasy.
And it is really just about healing parts of us. When there is an identification with these parts, it feels like we are healing as a whole.
And the healing involves recognizing that it is a part of us, not even close to the whole of who and what we are.