CONCRETE, EXPERIENTIAL PROOF: "You are Not Your Body"
Goal: to recognize your are not only the physical body, you are the greater Soul/Light (light body)
Objective: to observe Soul/Light through hands-on experience
Objective: to experiment with techniques to find your personal blueprint
Objective: to share experience and knowledge.
Introduction: I am a work in progress. This thread is for the beginner, the curious, the opened mind, and the outside the box thinker.
Summary: The heart is the key. It unfolds when the time is ripe. Nothing to do. Nothing to become. Just Be. That is the perfection of the human condition. There is no one way; I offer my personal experience.
What I know: I am not my physical body
What I experienced: All Oneness, Only Silence, inexplicable Love
I was “a part of everything”: all the trees and the stove and the book and the bird on the deck, the one that flew by, the buzz of an insect. And crazy, silent laughter and simplicity. And then I looked at my arms and hands I understood it was all a big mistaken farce.
I have gone beyond the silent place, beyond all tears of joy, and silent gut wrenching sobs of awe. I experienced knowledge or an understanding that there is no experiencer having an experience.
I experienced:
- a wave of peace interlaced with silence, stillness, and non-desire
- understanding of why the body is here
- nothing matters, and don’t waste time with worry and fear.
Description of returning to consciousness: My body sat both heavy and light. Not needing, not wanting to move because this state was leaving. I wanted it to last as long as possible. Like the slow evaporation of a hand print on a window pane, the "I" watched from the sublime to material return: All-ness, to heart, then to heart-mind, to mind, and lastly fully conscious material reality.
Post update: “Alex Collier Earth Transformation Conference,” on how one is not the body. (8 minutes into the vid)
QUOTE: “...My body is moving before my thought were... Because now I’m connect directly to my Higher Self, to my soul ... I’m not waiting for my ego to click in and start walking. In other words, if they start walking, I’m walking before I start thinking about it ...” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyMga...eature=channel
PART TWO - PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF BODY ACTION, NO PERSON
Example #1: one is not the body, nor the action: Fire walking at “Stuart Wilde’s Warrior Wisdom 5 day Intensive,” Taos, New Mexico, 1990.
Description: There was a body stepping on coals walking from point A to point B. No mind giving instruction that its hot, or move forward, be scared, or don’t fall. Body does it’s job without mind tripping it up. Body doing it’s job as it’s designed to do. Mind steps in and steals all the credit. Goes around all puffed up, saying look what I did. I walked on fire.
After the initial right foot step on the coals, there was absolutely no feeling, no doer, no action, no experiencer. Nothing, no one.
The secret? ANY ONE can do it. Nothing profound, absolutely nothing magical. It's only fear that makes it seem like a monumental challenge. I learned that the unchecked mind is a trickster. Fear is a false, and we feed it life. Awareness is the antidote. DISCLAIMER: (because that's what I see in other places) Don't try this at home.
Example #2: one sees body action, but you are not the action: Falling water glass caught in mid-air
Description: Degrees of slow motion unfolding. No observation, then observed but not experienced, then mind takes all the credit for experience.
There’s a nano-second of time where I caught a glass in mid-air before thought said, “Watch out, catch it.” It was body doing it’s job. Without the name Paula attached. So not my awareness, but awareness watched the movie of an arm and a hand catch the glass.
There was no feeling to feel. There was no doer and experiencer. It was all one and the same. No need to separate out. It was only after that the mind of the doer pat herself on the back and took credit for what body did all on it’s own.
PART THREE - BODY ACTION, NO PERSON
I discovered another way to prove I am not this physical body.
Exercise: While under the covers, in absolute blackness, I ran a finger over my face.
Technique: Less than 30 seconds. Used “passive action”, which is where one engages only to the point of awareness and not trying to produce an outcome. Keep the inner dialogue down to as close to zero as possible. If it sounds complicated, I’d say - just try it. Don’t think, just do it.
Awareness of Steps: It was like a time lapse movie. Simply, I got out of the way. Finger upon the face was replaced with, the label “sensation”. Then, I let the label “sensation” go. The sensation of touch was gone. Only “motion” remained. Lastly, was the focus on the only thing left. Let go of the movement of the finger which faded into the background.
Plain and Simple Directions: Again, this sound more complicated that it is. For some of you, I'd say, just run the finger across the cheek in a dark place like a closet. No one doing anything. Just sensation that dissolves.
What is most important in life? “...just laugh, just love, just share. Please, how can anyone go wrong with that?”
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