In the process of healing from separation consciousness, we use medicines for particular conditions. We use pointers and approaches to help us unstick from stuck places.
We use certain medicines to heal from separation consciousness as a whole and in general, through noticing what we are and exploring how to live from it. The main medicine may be basic meditation combined with certain forms of inquiry, supported with a range of other practices (prayer, other forms of inquiry, heart-centered practices, and so on.)
And we use medicine to help different parts of us to join in with this general noticing, and helping them heal from the separation consciousness they operate from and are stuck in.
Even if we generally notice what we are, we likely still have parts of us operating from separation consciousness – parts that don’t notice their nature and are caught in painful beliefs, identifications, emotional issues, traumas, and so on.
I’ll here focus on the second part: awakening issues.
REMEDIES AND CONDITIONS
What are some of the conditions that keep parts of us operating from separation consciousness? And what are the remedies for these conditions?
I have gone into this more in detail in other articles, so will just give an overview here.
BEFRIENDING & ALLOWING TO RELAX
The first several ones help us befriend the issue, get to know it, allows it to relax, and make it easier for us to notice that it has the same nature as we do.
Rejecting and struggling with an issue holds it in place, so instead, we welcome it.
Instead of trying to make it go away, we allow it.
Instead of trying to contain it, we invite it to get as big as it wants.
Instead of getting caught up in the sensation-thought mix, we bring attention to the physical sensations.
Instead of avoiding or joining the stressful thoughts within it, we examine them.
Instead of secretly hating the issue, we find genuine love for it. We notice it is here to protect us, and typically was created early in life and from a child’s view on the world.
The issue has neediness and comes from a sense of lack, so instead of trying to feed it through other people and life situations, we directly give it what it needs (love, attention, safety, etc.).
Instead of getting caught up in resistance, we notice and examine the resistance. We may find we sometimes, without noticing, identify with and act on the scary stories within it. And we may find that behind the surface form of the resistance – distraction, frustration, anger, hopelessness – is unexamined and unloved fear. We meet it as another contraction and scared part of us.
NOTICING THE NATURE OF THE CONTRACTION, AND INVITING IT TO NOTICE THE SAME
And then a couple more directly about noticing the nature of the contraction, and inviting it to find it for itself.
Instead of distracting ourselves from noticing the nature of the contraction, we notice the nature of the contraction. We notice it has the same nature as we have – capacity, oneness, love, stillness and silence. We rest in this noticing.
The contraction doesn’t notice its own nature, so we invite it to notice its own nature. We allow it to notice and find peace and rest in it, and unravel and realign.
NOT JUST ISSUES
We can do this with any part of us, not just issues.
For instance, I have symptoms from the CFS (and possibly past Lyme), so I do the same with these symptoms. I notice the physical sensations. Welcome and allow them. Notice they have the same nature as me, and invite them to notice and rest in that noticing.
We can do this with any part of our body, energy system, or anything else.
NOTES
From a previous post:
There is also several other things we can do here to ease and support the process. Basically, we notice how the issue is kept in place and do the reverse. Instead of rejcting and struggling with it, we welcome it. Instead of trying to make it go away, we allow it. Instead of trying to contain it, we invite it to get as big as it wants. Instead of avoiding or joining the stressful thoughts within it, we examine them. Instead of secretly hating the issue, we find genuine love for it. Instead of getting caught up in the sensation-thought mix, we bring attention to the physical sensations. The issue has neediness and comes from a sense of lack, so instead of trying to feed it through other people and life situations, we can give it what it needs directly (love, attention, safety etc.).
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DRAFT FRAGMENTS
What are some of the conditions that keep parts of us operating from separation consciousness? And what are the remedies for these conditions?
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The essence is that we notice what holds issues in place, and do the reverse.
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THOUGHTS Instead of joining in with the painful story, we notice the thoughts as thoughts. Instead of getting caught up in the sensation-thought mix of the issue, we bring attention to the physical sensations. Instead of not examining the thought, we examine it to find what’s more true for us.
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First, a few remedies that help us befriend the issue, learn more about it, and makes it easier to notice notice that the nature of the issue is that same as our own.