I have written before about 'embodying' in this human experience, but today I am noticing the real gift of physical mattered reality. I hear many people speaking of transcending matter, leaving form behind, as they aspire to become fully conscious, enlightened in this life. I don't believe that with increased consciousness comes reduced human physical experience, but rather just the opposite.
While it is true that we can transcend our 'needs' and even transcend our need for food (e.g. Breatharians), it is my sense that the more conscious we become the more access we have to experiencing the absolute joy of physical reality. Most humans are living in a dream state or dissociated state of consciousness --meaning most of us are not aware that we are anything more than our physical bodies, and are actually uncomfortably comfortable in that lack of awareness. As our wakefulness grows --meaning we have direct experiences of the dream nature of reality, of being energy beings connected to all other energy beings (which means everything), and we live with a conscious intention to stay awake-- the world of physical matter holds a much greater potential to amaze us and be enjoyed fully.
Many of the people I have met over the years who are doing personal growth work have described astral or out-of-body experiences that, if not frightening, were much more compelling than their physical Earth experiences. Some of these people spend their lives trying to 'get out' again. Why? They felt more alive, more real, more expansive and free. What if those same states can be lived daily right here on our beleaguered Planet Earth? Imagine feeling so alive, free, expansive and real here, even if you know you are more than your physical body, and thus actually want to be here and have the time of your life!
In the dreamtime, water (whether frozen, flowing, steaming, or falling from the sky) is always a representation of the Emotional Body. So that dream of sliding down the muddy hill into the scary, dark, cold lake, is about you sliding into your emotional body that for some reason is perceived as frightening and cold. Yesterday, I was at the beach with Whinni ji (our golden retriever companion), and, wearing my rubber boots, I walked into the water and stood there looking around at my surroundings while feeling joy and gratitude. I suddenly became fully aware that I was standing in my emotional body in my own personal dream life, and my emotional body was resonating joy and gratitude. Sweet.
This subtle awareness of dreaming while being fully in my physical form is an example of what I am talking about. This is the joy of embodying, of being present, of being awake in this physical experience... while knowing that it is only ideas and perceptions that hold the whole Earth experience together as reality. {I will be posting a video soon that will speak more to this awareness.}
It is not only in the joyful moments that we can wake up, but also in the painful ones. I have never been a big alcohol drinker, but what used to happen for me if I had even half a glass of beer was that 48 hours later I would suddenly feel sad, depressed or angry. It was like clockwork. It was suggested to me that I experiment with this timely awareness, so I would choose a day to have a beer when I knew that I would have some undisturbed time, by the outside world, 48 hours later. It was magical to watch the clock and wham! there it was, the sadness, depression and/or anger. By being very present, initially with loving support from my partner, I could sit with the emotions and I realize my pain body, as Tolle says, was being activated. Embodying in the present moment allowed me to go into the physical sensations, the emotional waves, and the mental thoughts and memories to release many childhood and adult painful residual energies from my emotional body.
When we do not fully embody here in physical form we cannot fully heal and release historical trauma, nor can we expansively experience the joy of loving another or ourselves, or of the simple experience of tasting a fresh strawberry.
Whether our physical form is 'real' or not may be debated, but I suggest that since we are all experiencing ourselves as mattered beings we make the conscious choice, moment by moment, to be here and to wake up in your physical form.
Wake up! You are dreaming. (-:
Edward
While it is true that we can transcend our 'needs' and even transcend our need for food (e.g. Breatharians), it is my sense that the more conscious we become the more access we have to experiencing the absolute joy of physical reality. Most humans are living in a dream state or dissociated state of consciousness --meaning most of us are not aware that we are anything more than our physical bodies, and are actually uncomfortably comfortable in that lack of awareness. As our wakefulness grows --meaning we have direct experiences of the dream nature of reality, of being energy beings connected to all other energy beings (which means everything), and we live with a conscious intention to stay awake-- the world of physical matter holds a much greater potential to amaze us and be enjoyed fully.
Many of the people I have met over the years who are doing personal growth work have described astral or out-of-body experiences that, if not frightening, were much more compelling than their physical Earth experiences. Some of these people spend their lives trying to 'get out' again. Why? They felt more alive, more real, more expansive and free. What if those same states can be lived daily right here on our beleaguered Planet Earth? Imagine feeling so alive, free, expansive and real here, even if you know you are more than your physical body, and thus actually want to be here and have the time of your life!
In the dreamtime, water (whether frozen, flowing, steaming, or falling from the sky) is always a representation of the Emotional Body. So that dream of sliding down the muddy hill into the scary, dark, cold lake, is about you sliding into your emotional body that for some reason is perceived as frightening and cold. Yesterday, I was at the beach with Whinni ji (our golden retriever companion), and, wearing my rubber boots, I walked into the water and stood there looking around at my surroundings while feeling joy and gratitude. I suddenly became fully aware that I was standing in my emotional body in my own personal dream life, and my emotional body was resonating joy and gratitude. Sweet.
This subtle awareness of dreaming while being fully in my physical form is an example of what I am talking about. This is the joy of embodying, of being present, of being awake in this physical experience... while knowing that it is only ideas and perceptions that hold the whole Earth experience together as reality. {I will be posting a video soon that will speak more to this awareness.}
It is not only in the joyful moments that we can wake up, but also in the painful ones. I have never been a big alcohol drinker, but what used to happen for me if I had even half a glass of beer was that 48 hours later I would suddenly feel sad, depressed or angry. It was like clockwork. It was suggested to me that I experiment with this timely awareness, so I would choose a day to have a beer when I knew that I would have some undisturbed time, by the outside world, 48 hours later. It was magical to watch the clock and wham! there it was, the sadness, depression and/or anger. By being very present, initially with loving support from my partner, I could sit with the emotions and I realize my pain body, as Tolle says, was being activated. Embodying in the present moment allowed me to go into the physical sensations, the emotional waves, and the mental thoughts and memories to release many childhood and adult painful residual energies from my emotional body.
When we do not fully embody here in physical form we cannot fully heal and release historical trauma, nor can we expansively experience the joy of loving another or ourselves, or of the simple experience of tasting a fresh strawberry.
Whether our physical form is 'real' or not may be debated, but I suggest that since we are all experiencing ourselves as mattered beings we make the conscious choice, moment by moment, to be here and to wake up in your physical form.
Wake up! You are dreaming. (-:
Edward
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