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If you simply follow the practice of relaxed awareness, you will soon
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life-stream, there is nothing further you need to understand – the only
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reason for giving all the various understandings is to allow the
mind/being to become comfortable with this state of “allowing” or Law of Attraction (10)
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First let me clarify the di erence between “awareness” and “attention”.
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wake up, and till the time you sleep, there is a eld of “awareness”
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in thought, or when you are lost in an activity, this awareness is present
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awareness comes from the stream of consciousness in whose space
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you are, in essence.

This stream of consciousness is also the energy space which I call your
“life stream” which is moving towards the manifestation of desired
realities, moving towards your well-being.

So in one sense, you as the body/mind is swimming in this space of

awareness, and your true body is this wholeness/totality which
combines your physical body and this space of awareness (or stream of
consciousness, whatever term you prefer) which is directly a part of
universal consciousness.

If you want to get a picturistic view of this, just imagine your body being
connected to a stream of conscious energy, which in turn is connected
a bigger stream (the stream of human consciousness), which connects
to a bigger stream (the stream of earth consciousness), and so on, and
at the base is the ocean of consciousness which connects to all streams
which I call universal consciousness. Essentially, your true body
includes this entirety of space of consciousness, and this “physical
body” is just one creation in it – so you are this physical body, but you
are also the wholeness of life. Most of us are only aware of ourselves as
this body, and have no awareness of how we are actually the
wholeness of life, the “one being”. It usually takes a few months for this
perspective of wholeness to really sink into the mind, once you become
aware of it.

Your mind also has the capacity to be “aware”, what we call – attention,
or concentration or focus. The mind has a “narrow awareness”, that’s
why it’s called “focus” or concentration. The mind can only, speci cally,
become aware of one thing at time.

For example, if you are aware of your “sight” your “hearing” becomes
passive, if you are aware of your hearing your sight is on passive, if you
are aware of your thoughts your sight and hearing are on passive etc
(by “you”, I mean the mind here). The mind can only focus, or be aware,
of one thing at a time.

The terms “attention”, focus, concentration are all terms I used to refer
to the mind’s capacity to be aware of something.

I hope you can di erentiate now between the awareness produced by

the mind (attention), and the awareness which is present in the
background all the time (coming from the stream of your
consciousness). It’s very easy to realize these two aspects of awareness
once you “identify” it using these pointers, it’s not complicated at all.

The term “Relaxed Awareness” is a pointer

When I talk about staying as “relaxed awareness”, the pointer is for the
mind to let go of trying to “focus” or be attentive, rather to just let go, so
that it can simply rest in the background awareness that’s present all
the time.

If you would just let go of trying to “focus” through your mind, you will
easily understand what the state of relaxed awareness is – it’s basically
when the mind lets go of its constant preoccupation with “attention”.

The mind in its “fearful state” is constantly trying to give attention to

every negative thought that pops in, it focuses intensely on fears
because of its nature as a survival machine, and this causes patterns of
“obsession” with negative thoughts (referred to in medical terms as
OCD, when there is a chronic obsession with certain thoughts).

The reason why a thought becomes obsessive, is because your mind

has been giving it “attention”/focus all the time out of its fear, and this
happens when the mind is totally unconscious of its freedom to just let
go of its focus and rest in the background of wholeness (space of
consciousness).

Whenever I use the terms – space of awareness, stream of

consciousness, life energy, wholeness of life, your life-stream or space
of consciousness, it’s all referring to the same thing – the wholeness of
life (which is conscious energy) in which your physical body/mind is
operating.

If you have never recognized this background

awareness/consciousness, which is always present, then it would feel
like a huge revelation for you to know that you (as the body/mind) are
always connected it. You are always connected to the wholeness of life,
non-physical conscious energy, which basically created the “physical”
you. You, as the mind, has the choice to rest in this wholeness, and let
go of its chronic habit of giving “attention” to negative thoughts and
thus allow the momentum of negativity to ebb away.
When your mind lets go of its “focus” and rests in this open space of
awareness, the momentum of negativity, running in it, starts ebbing
away, and it also allows the wisdom/intelligence inherent to your life-
stream to start dissolving inner con icts, confusions and brings forth
required solutions/ideas/inspiration/right-actions that move you
towards the creation of a positive reality.

Hopefully the above explanation was clear enough to drive home the
meaning of letting go of attention and resting in the open space of
awareness.

If you do this as a “practice”, even for 30 minutes a day, it has the

power to start dissolving the inner con icts and negative momentum in
the mind, which starts a shift towards the construction of a positive
external reality.

Soon (in a few months) you start feeling a sense of spaciousness in

your body, as the momentum of negativity starts clearing away – you
basically become an open channel to allowing the well-being inherent
to your life-stream to ood into your physical reality.

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88 Comments

angel
January 1, 2012 at 8:43 pm

ive had some serious moments, were i felt like my ocd was getting the best of
me . after months of trying to as you best describe fighting mind with mind has
left me restless ,ive notice that i had moments of total relaxation when i decide
to move foward to let go even if its for an hour or two and this comes about
when im distracted . only when i become conscious of what i ve done that it
leaves me to fall back at this pattern of negativity and i become frustrated for
looking back , its like i have to start all over again, with the exeption that i just
gain knowledge of what i have to do in order to feel good again.

Sen Post author

January 2, 2012 at 11:49 am

If you practice staying as a space of open/relaxed awareness of your

mind, for just 30 minutes everyday, for a few weeks, you will start
finding a stability in your being. From this place of stability you can truly
start understand your mind’s natural make-up, and it allows you to stop
being afraid of its fears, and its dark nature, it also allow you to bring in
a wisdom/maturity to dimensions of love and joy in the mind. The first
step is to gain some stability in the power of your awareness. The
practice of staying as relaxed awareness of the mind allows this
stability to come in.

NORMAN
January 2, 2012 at 2:50 am

THANK YOU SEN,

IN SUMMATION TO ALL OF US WHO HAVE OBSESSED ON THOUGHTS
TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT OR ANALYZED IT TO DEATH…PLEASE LET
US ALL RELEASE THE NEGATIVES AND AFTER SO MANY YEARS
REALIZE WHAT IT IT IS TO “BE HAPPY”…I AM TRULY A BETTER PERSON
FOR READING ALL THESE ARTICLES….MY HEART AND SOUL THANKS
TO YOU……NORM
Alliswell
January 8, 2012 at 3:45 pm

Sen,
One of the things I enjoy is research and looking for information. I would love
to make this a career in some way.

In the past I have not been successful at trying to figure out how I can do that.
What is your suggestion on how to handle this? I know you say not to focus
and try to figure things out, just let your lifestream guide you. When do you
know whether to give up on an idea and go a different direction?

Sen Post author

January 8, 2012 at 9:31 pm

To “let go” of trying to figure out things is basically just a “phase” that
allows you to stabilize in your awareness, get in touch with your inner
wholeness, get an understanding of your mind and what it truly wants,
make you receptive to the wisdom, inspiration and intelligence that
comes from your life-stream. At some point, you naturally feel a
movement towards becoming “focused” in a clear minded way. When
this happens just allow yourself to get engaged in the mind again, you
will sense that now you can engage in your mind without being lost in
it. The way I sense it, you’ve gained a good amount of stability in your
awareness, and are well in a place to get involved in your mind. You
don’t have to struggle to figure things out, but just come to a clear
minded focus on what it is that you want to explore/experience in your
life. Life takes care of the figuring out part, and you just have to stay
tuned to the inspirations/ideas that come from within.

As you can see, your mind naturally enjoys the idea of doing research,
which involves reading, analyzing information, structuring information
and coming up with ideas/conclusions with respect to a subject – you
have a scientific/technical mind, rather than a “fictional” mind. I think
you would rather enjoy reading a newspaper than reading a fictional
novel. However, your mind prefers being given a structure to work with
rather than being the “visionary” – so you might not prefer doing your
own business (or being an entrepreneur), rather you might enjoying
working as a research assistant under someone. The more you
understand your mind, the easier it is for you to be clear-minded about
the type of role you would fit into – the more clear-minded you become
the easier it is for you to attract it into your life.
Samrat
January 9, 2012 at 11:29 am

Do you mean to say that one needs to relax ones body and mind whenever an
obsessive thought crops up? I will describe my own experience. Whenever I
experience obsessive negative, angry thoughts, I start relaxing my body first
and mind thereafter, however sometimes the said thoughts disappear and
sometimes they persist. When they persist I again and try and relax myself till
these thoughts do not disappear. I try to be as relaxed as possible in this
exercise, however sometimes I feel very nauseated and uneasy, whic,
according to me, I am somewhere wrong.
Can u guide me in someway?

Regards,

samrat

Sen Post author

January 9, 2012 at 2:29 pm

You are trying to use the pointer of “relaxed awareness” as a technique

to get rid of some certain thought patterns in your mind – if you are
authentic with yourself you will sense that you are doing this out of fear
of the mind. The point of relaxed awareness is not to before a
“defense” mechanism against the mind, rather it is to bring an open
awareness into the mind, so that you are fully involved with the mind
without being lost in it. It’s your approach that matters – ask yourself, if
you are using relaxed awareness as a technique to “escape” from
some fearful thoughts, or uneasy thoughts in the mind, or if you are
using it as means to understand your mind’s domain. If you are using it
as a technique to escape the mind you are bound to feel uneasy and
nauseated, because you are being totally unnatural. If you allow
awareness to just be natural, and fearlessly allow what arises in the
mind, you will have sense of being “engaged” with the mind without
being lost in it – this feels like an “enjoyment” of the mind, irrespective
of the thoughts its producing. It’s like watching a movie, you are not
trying to escape it, neither are you totally lost in it, you are just enjoying
the movement in an involved way.

Alliswell
January 9, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Samrat,
I have read through this entire blog,,, and I continue to re read material, if I
need to.
The most important point Sen made that helped me, is that we are not our
thoughts. The internal voice that is constantly chattering negativity and self-
doubt is the ego and not your true self. This is how I was able to dis identify
with all of those false beliefs I had continued to feed for so long. I believed all
of the negative thoughts as truth. Once I was able to let them go, as just “mind
chatter” is when things turned around for me.

Chetana
January 19, 2012 at 6:08 am

Hi Sen,

I read and re-read your posting on the practice of relaxed awareness. And i am
not getting it. My mind is irritated and agitated and i do not have a clear idea of
what is causing it to be that way, though i have a general idea. I so want to get
my mind to the place of awareness you speak off but how to i start. I am aware
of my agitation and irritation, i donot try to avoid feeling it. I do acknowledge
the presence of these feeling to myself but beyond that what is it i need to do
to reach the state of awareness. Are there any steps, a beginner like me can
follow/practice to help my mind reach that state naturally? Please help.

Thanks a lot

Sen Post author

January 19, 2012 at 2:34 pm

Chetana, consciously allowing the mind its movement and allowing the
feelings that arise in the body, causes you to deepen in the space of
awareness. Initially it’s difficult to observe any stability because of the
high momentum of the mind, and the torrent of energy in the body
(which is basically releasing a lot of suppressed energy). But as you
continue to stay in relaxed awareness you will start observing a sense
of space within you, as this spaciousness increases you will sense that
you are not so taken in by the pull of the mind’s negativity. You must
understand that the momentum of negativity has taken years to build
up, through unconscious identification and hence it take time for it to
start dying down. You will need give yourself the time to start seeing a
stability in your being – it can take anywhere between a few weeks to a
few months depending on the momentum present in your mind.
Chetana
January 20, 2012 at 4:44 am

Thank you Sen. I am now consciously making efforts to explore my reactions

to stimuli in my life instead of reacting to people and situations. Your guidance
came at a very right time and i feel like I have found a guide.

D
January 20, 2012 at 9:17 am

Hello Sen!

For one year now, I’ve been struggling, trying to integrate the glimpses of
connectedness and love and communion I’ve experienced into my day to day
life. But my mind is such that I’ve been feeling really confused, jumping from
teaching to teaching and between techniques and that has left me exhausted
and I feel I can’t quite deal with the shift in emotions that have accompanied
this period. For instance, when I just let my mind be without really trying to
focus awareness on anything, I find I become too vulnerable to my emotions,
and in my interactions and relationships, I can sorta sense that my limiting
beliefs are very much active. Alternatively, there were periods where I focused
on the all-encompassing awareness – as if it were a field, so to speak – and I
think those might have been the best experiences I’ve ever had in my life in
terms of my relationships with people and with existence – it was as if I was
operating in a realm beyond the mind, very loving and compassionate. The
problem is that you eventually I “fell” from it, and sometimes I try to go into it
again, I can’t sustain it for long because my heart starts getting upset and I feel
weird and when that happens and I let go of it, my mind takes over again and I
start getting miserable again. This teetering between one and the other has
been going on for some time now, and I don’t know which one to stick too.
I also wanna relate an experience that I’ve had just last week, I was reading
this book on ecopsychology and at some point it said that human beings, like
the rest of nature, work by natural attractions (there are 53 of them) and that
most of us suppress them due to the heavy conditioning imposed by our
culture, thus our way to healing is through rediscovering our natural attractions.
I’ve had wonderful experiences in natural environments but as I read that
passage something clicked in me and it’s hard to explain, but I recognised
myself as a “child of nature”, and as such, there’s nothing inherently wrong with
me or any other human being, so that spiritual practices are mostly socially
created superimpositions on something that is already the case – I felt my
being glowing and humming along with the rest of nature (I live above a
beautiful setting of ocean and pine trees) and it was as if my heart was pouring
enormous amounts of energy and love. But then again, that realisation seemed
to be gone the next day. So I guess my other question is, when people refer to
living from the heart, is that possible? If you progressively shift your attention to
the heart, would that gradually “appease” the mind and eventually do away
with its negativity? Or the opening of the heart is more like a natural unfolding
as the negativity in the mind dies down?
Thanks, I really appreciate the enlightening work you’re doing through this
blog!

Sen Post author

January 20, 2012 at 10:30 am

All experiences are fleeting in nature, even the most spiritual or

mystical ones. Enlightenment is not about reaching an experience, it’s
about understanding who you are in all aspect – as the non-physical
and the physical. If you are clinging to “experiences”, it could well mean
that you are shying away from your natural “expression” in some way.
By your natural expression I mean your creative expression and your
desires. Experiencing is one part of physical life, the second part is
expressing – a balance is needed between the two. What is the desired
reality you see to express into your external world? And what is your
heart’s calling towards your creative expression? These are questions
you need to ask yourself and allow the answers to come from your
being. Following your heart is about following your mind’s natural
makeup, it’s natural capacity/aptitude towards a creative expression,
and it’s also about focusing on your desired realities to allow their
manifestation.

gary guthrie
January 20, 2012 at 5:17 pm

Sen,

So perfectly said. I’m happy I ran across this comment. You’re a blessing. We
will have same great news soon, I certainly feel things are lining up. Trust

Gary B

Carpe Diem

Nisha
January 26, 2012 at 7:28 am

Sen,
Your writings are truly unfolding the teachings of great Saints like Ramana
Maharshi which are so deep and difficult to understand.
While being Conscious of my thoughts, I get so afraid of my thoughts that i
immediately tend to distract. I distract my attention because I very well know
that these thoughts are harmful for me and for others as well. It is really terrible
experience to face our negativity.How can reach to that place of mind where i
can stay fearless and relaxed so that i can stay atleast 30min in that relaxed
awareness?

Sen Post author

January 26, 2012 at 8:54 am

Nisha, whatever you resist starts persisting in your mind because your
resistance is indirectly fueling it. You are fearful of the negativity of the
mind, which causes you to keep trying to escape it through distraction
– this is not freedom but pure bondage, where you are a prisoner to
your mind. The only way to come to a place of freedom is when you
allow yourself to face the negativity in the mind without shying away
from it. A negative thought can only influence your reality when you are
unconsciously lost in identification with it. When you are conscious, you
can allow the mind to have its negative thoughts, and they won’t have
any influence on your reality, since you are not fueling it with your
belief/identification. So feel free to allow your mind its negative
movement while staying in a place of relaxed awareness, just watching
the mind without fear (even when the mind produces fear).

It is unpleasant, initially, to allow the negativity of the mind, and the

suppressed negative energy in the body, in the space of your
awareness. But this is required so that you can release this momentum
of negativity. If you keep running away from it, you are basically just
suppressing it, which means that it keeps staying in your energy space
and thus keeps getting amplified. Just look at this as a “detox” process,
to clear your being of the negative momentum – it can take a few
weeks for the momentum of negativity in the mind to slow down in
force as you stay allowing of it in your awareness.

A few posts which you can refer are

http://www.calmdownmind.com/the-practice-of-relaxed-awareness/
http://www.calmdownmind.com/positive-thinking-vs-fearless-
awareness/
Jim
March 2, 2012 at 9:41 am

Sen,

If I let go of the thoughts and feelings i.e., beliefs of my mind, I also let go my
sense of self. In other words, I throw the baby out with the bath water. Talk
about fear. How do you get around that?

Sen Post author

March 2, 2012 at 2:34 pm

Jim, the mind has a penchant for the “dramatic”. It likes to create all
kinds of dramatic thoughts about what will happen, and if you keep
buying into it you will stay a prisoner to your mind’s tricks. This thought
that “if i let go i will lose my sense of self” is a pretty common thought in
most minds, and it’s just a fear-based dramatic thought. Nothing like
that happens. When you let go all that happens, scientifically, is that
the momentum of your brain activity starts coming down and hence you
become more “free” in your being and more receptive to life’s
guidance, you don’t lose your sense of self, you won’t wake up one
morning not knowing who you are. Don’t buy into these dramatic
thoughts, and use your awareness to see through their false
assumptions more deeply.

Jim
March 2, 2012 at 10:00 pm

Sen, you said, “Don’t buy into these dramatic thoughts, and use your
awareness to see through their false assumptions more deeply.” That’s seems
easy enough, however, awareness seems to be no match against these fear-
based thoughts. I seem to make inroads in some areas, but they either
eventually come back or morph into other areas of my life.

Sen Post author

March 4, 2012 at 6:55 am

Jim, having been lost in the mind for so many years, it obviously have a
strong pull. It takes time for your awareness to grow in strength so that
you are not pulled into the mind so easily. The best practice right now
for you would be to simply watch the mind, in a detached manner, as
 much as you can. Don’t be too hard on yourself, it takes time for
awareness to grow in stability – it’s not something that will happen in a
few weeks, it can usually take a few months. Just think about it as
letting go of an addiction, where you were addicted to the mind and
now you are weaning out of it, so that you can have freedom and
balance. From this place of freedom, you can enjoy the mind and use
the mind creatively. Right now you are just a puppet to your own mind,
where it pulls you around.

ben
March 24, 2012 at 9:08 pm

thanks for this inspiration.

Susan
April 10, 2012 at 12:37 pm

Sen

I’ve just recently started to read your articles, and I do have many questions.
One of your readers commented on not asking why, but just accepting or
surrendering. My mind always asks why.
How do our emotions relate to our mind? What is our natural makeup? I want
to start the practice of relaxed awareness. Any suggestions?

Sen Post author

April 10, 2012 at 8:09 pm

Susan, basically there are just two feelings – good feeling and bad
feeling. The good feeling is labelled as good feeling emotions based on
the thought associated with it, like a thought of joy or love. The bad
feelings are labelled bad emotions, or negative emotions, based on the
thought associated with it, like grief, sadness, hatred, fear. Thoughts
create emotions in the body based on whether they are aligned with a
vibration of wholeness or with a vibration of resistance.

Natural make up is just the natural conditioning of your brain and

physiology, including your IQ, talents, creative abilities, emotional
makeup (based on what are the dominant dimensions in your mind).

You can try sitting for 20-30 minutes a day, without distractions, just
allowing your emotions and your mind movement, in a space of relaxed
 openness – this is what the pratice of relaxed awareness is. Slowly you
will notice that this sense of being spacious keeps growing in you, and
then there is no need for a “practice”, it’s just that you become stable in
this space of allowing.

Pete
April 19, 2012 at 12:20 am

Sen,

Is the practice of relaxed awareness synonymous with meditation where you

let thoughts come and go without giving them attention
and just focus on the breath?

Thank you

Sen Post author

April 20, 2012 at 2:46 pm

Pete, it’s not about ignoring the thoughts but about bringing an
awareness to the thoughts, observing their movement,
observing/sensing deeply the feelings created by these thoughts,
without trying to escape from it, by staying as an open space of
allowing. The meditation of focusing on the breath is mostly about
ignoring the mind, and creating temporary sense of silence in it –
relaxed awareness is about bringing an open awareness to the mind’s
movement and the emotional energy in the body, staying in a state of
allowing.

Pete
April 22, 2012 at 1:09 am

Thank you for the response. I have an issue with thoughts that have been
stuck with me months. So the best practice to help reduce the frequency of
these thoughts are to sit with these thoughts for as long as they are present. I
guess this would be considered similar to exposure therapy. What can I do or
practice each day to help alleviate this problem?

Pete
 Sen Post author

April 23, 2012 at 2:48 pm

Pete, it’s about consciously allowing the thoughts without being

identified with them – it’s not about ignoring them or suppressing them,
but about allowing them to happen in your awareness without shying
away from it. This fearless awareness is a field of intelligence.

Radiance
May 14, 2012 at 7:48 pm

Sen,

If we are talking about trying Relaxed Awareness for 30 minutes, are we talking
about meditation where we don’t try to quiet the mind?

Or, is this something we do as we move about our day?

Sen Post author

May 14, 2012 at 8:32 pm

That’s right, the practice of relaxed awareness can be performed as a

sitting meditation initially (for a few weeks) to get some grounding in it,
after that it’s not needed to do it as a practice rather it starts becoming
an “interest”/desire to connect with our inner being – and this
connection starts becoming evident as a space within even as we
move about in our day.

David
May 16, 2012 at 3:45 pm

Sen, what is the difference between being open and staying as awareness? If
you are just observing without denying anything, are they the same thing?

Sen Post author

May 17, 2012 at 6:29 pm

David, at one point you can even let go of trying to be aware of the
mind and just be “free” in your being – this is a state of total allowing,
what I also call “being open”. But initially you need to develop
awareness of the mind to come to this place of total allowing, as
discussed in this post – Reaching a place of total allowing
One Love
May 18, 2012 at 1:05 am

Hi Sen,

I understand the relaxed awareness that you need to watch all your negative
emotions old or new as they surface up but can you please tell me so when
can you focus on positive feelings and about what you love to have in your life.
Does it happen automatically, the positive thinking part I mean or I have to set
aside some time during the day and do that as well. I still can see that there
were some instances that I have had a negative thought in the past and later I
released it by relaxed awareness but it still did happen in my reality. Thankfully
it was sth small and insignificant but still I am worried what I need to do? but
none of the positives ones has happened yet. Can you please let me know
what I need to do and if I should try to think positive too or simply being in the
state of relaxed awareness takes care of the positives and I only need to be
open and embrace all my emotions.

Thnaks a world for your help.

Love,

One Love

Thank you,

Sen Post author

May 18, 2012 at 11:29 am

Once the momentum of negativity ebbs away, you automatically sense

yourself moving towards a positive cycle – there is no effort needed to
force a positive state of being. I’ve explained this in the post – Coming
to a passively positive mind. So for now, just stay in a space of relaxed
allowing, letting the momentum of past negativity and mind intensity
ebb away – also, stop judging your reality as “negative” rather look at it
as a mirror that’s helping you identify/unearth your inner negativity and
thus allowing an opportunity for release. A positive reality (or your
desired reality) starts manifesting as the negativity/resistance ebbs
away in force, it’s an automatic process. The only real deliberation
needed from you is to let go of struggle, let go of trying to “force”
anything.
One Love
May 18, 2012 at 4:09 am

Hi Sen,

I wanted to know what about positive feelings and dreams and goals that we
have, staying open to all negativity through relaxed awareness (RA) is for
cleansing our minds from negativity, so if I want to reach my desire should I
visualize as well and feel or allowing negativity out through RA is just enough
and positivity and all my desires would manifest automatically as I let go of
negatives by RA. I want to make sure should I also visualize my desires and
feel good about them or just RA and letting out negativity is enough? What
about self love? should I actively love my self as much as I can or just by doing
RA my self love will happen automatically?

Thank you,

Thank you,

Radiance
May 21, 2012 at 12:32 am

Hi Sen,

My main challenge here is when I try to do this during a moment of depression.

I am mostly positive, vibrant, enthusiastic. However at times I go down in
depression and sadness…I guess I become fearful.
In trying to observe my mind when this happens becomes very painful. I want
to fix it, I want to feel better.I cannot avoid but twist and at least reach out for a
journal and write. Or reach out for your blog and read

Perhaps I could try to connect with my wholeness at times when I’m more
neutral. And leave this depression times for later when I’m more stable? Or I’m
just creating excuses?

30 min feels like a really long time….

Sen Post author

May 21, 2012 at 7:11 am

You may get some insights regarding your query in this post –
Wholeness in physical life. Your fear of the “low state” causes you to
 keep clinging to the high state (out of fear) and this causes an
imbalance in your energy because a balance requires an integration of
the high and low, light and dark. This imbalance causes you to go
through some intense low states, mostly because you’ve been
suppressing its expression. When you come to a place of “allowing”,
you will go through a phase of release where you may experience
periods of low states in the form of anxiety, anger or depression, and
it’s just a part of the release of past suppression of these states. Once
the release is done with, you will sense a balance in your inner space,
the highs and lows lose their intensity and they are felt as subtle
movements that don’t disturb your being. Going through a phase of
release is, however, critical to coming to a place of balance and this
can only happen when you stop resisting the low states when they
arise, and stay in a place of open allowing to what arises, the more you
try to escape the more you suppress and delay the release.

Don’t bother with any “time limits” like 30 mins and such, I am never a
proponent of “practices”, it’s just that when people specifically ask for a
practice that I suggest a time limit which can they use for a while. As
long as you have an understanding of what the state of “relaxed
awareness” points to it’s enough, it’s just a state of open allowing
nothing else, you can do it whenever you sense that you are trying to
escape a low state that’s arising.

Pavlo
May 27, 2012 at 6:33 pm

Greetings Dear Sen,

In this article you where you explain the

mind’s awareness in terms of “attention”
and “focus”, my sense of my mind’s
awareness is a little different. I accept
your understanding but my experience
concerning my mind’s evolving awareness
is a little different. Ever since I started letting
Go and I started allowing all to surface,
I am sensing my brain
becoming more consciously aware of these
changes on an existential level as well as on
the intellectual level. I feel There is a sense
of an evolving calmness and a deepening intelligence.
I’m not sure if this is a result of my total commitment
to trusting in the flow of life. I don’t resist anything
that enters my field of awareness. I let go of every
thought. I don’t make any thought my “truth” it’s
more like I’m moving into an existential truth where
many small “truths” come to me on a daily basis.
So I feel this is all part of my continuing liberation
from my mind, but in a sense it is also the evolving
conscious awareness my mind is going through.

You mention in your other articles how the light of

awareness (who we essentially are) dissolves
previous trauma only if we allow ourselves to
be open to fully allowing these emotions to
surface. This very practice has allowed my brain
to become more aware and free of resistance so
In a sense because the light of my being is
touching all my suppressed thoughts/emotions
The resulting experience is that my brain is sharing
in the very awareness itself. Could it be that the
dropping of all barriers allows the brain to become
“one” with awareness itself thereby adding a physical
dimension to wholeness itself?

Kind Regards.

Sen Post author

May 27, 2012 at 6:48 pm

Pavlo, that’s how it is, I mentioned this in the post – the space of being
– which is basically the space you connect with as you rest in relaxed
awareness. This space allows your brain to get in touch with your life-
stream’s intelligence.

stonez
July 16, 2012 at 8:38 am

hi sen. What do you think of holosync and such, the binueral beat thing.

Sen Post author

July 18, 2012 at 9:31 pm