Awareness & The Body; Being’s being.

[Phil]

In exploring the intricate relationship of awareness and the body, this thread aims to serve as a comprehensive space for various distinctions, insights & discussion.

 

While the body may respond to certain situations with defense mechanisms—an intelligent and sometimes necessary response—awareness offers a subtler, more profound & often surprisingly effortless approach.

 

Instead of reacting defensively, the simple subtle feeling of offness is ample for awareness in lending an inherent pointing to alignment & the true nature of awareness therein.

 

Feel free to share any distinctions manifesting in day to day life and how they inform, enhance, clarify & feel in the navigating of this most intimate interplay & informing of Being and Being’s being. 

[Phil]

A typical day to day example…

 

A challenging conversation arises and there is a bodily contraction, a muscular tensing or tightening. As this is not a bodily threat, but rather - is a challenging conversation… the tensing up or rigidity is not truly justifyable, and is a reaction to the belief that one is a separate self inside of a body, and the bodily reaction is a preparing to defend this separate self of thoughts. Put another way, the body is preparing to defend the belief, that awareness is finite and inside of the body. 

 

The ‘offness’ of this is that a belief is a thing. The relief & truth is that a belief is an appearance.

 

That a belief is true is illusory, and is the basis of misidentification as, a body. 

 

The discord felt could seem to be of the conversation, while in fact the discord felt is much more direct, and is of the belief. 

 

 

Awareness, the actuality of the body, is always ample. It is enough to be aware of the contraction & discord of the belief, which serve as a gentle pointer with respect to misalignment, to the truth & true nature. 

 

In short, being aware of reactivity based on misidentification is ample. It’s not a problem to be solved. It’s not some thing (to be figured out). It’s a belief, and the discord of the belief is felt.

 

Being aware of the contraction, the belief, and the discord of the belief, and any reactivity such as judgments, rationalizations & justifications - is ample.  

 

 

For example, during a conversation about misidentification, anxiety & a tightness in the chest arises. Being aware of the belief (anxiety), and the discord of the belief, and the bodily reaction to the belief (the tightening)… is ample. Should any judgments, rationalizations or justifications arise, it is ample to be aware that they are. 

 

While one is never not present, arising beliefs and defensive rationalizations, judgements & justifications can obscure, making it seem like awareness is not aware of these thoughts, the rationalizations etc. Again, being aware of these thoughts is ample and inherently reaffirming that awareness is in fact ever-present & these phenomena are appearing of & within awareness. In short, whats clarified is that you are not a finite thing inside of a larger finite thing, but rather are the indivisible infinite awareness, aware of apparent phenomena.  

 

 

As awareness is ever-present, as in doesn’t come & go… and the bodily is not ever-present, and does come & go, awareness is aware that it is what’s appearing as the body.

 

In terms of day to day life, this shift from reaction to & defending of thoughts & beliefs, to awareness unobscurred of this apparent activity, is the unobscuring of the profound truth of self-abundance, and therein the truth of effortless attracting & receiving. 

[Isagi Yoichi]

9 minutes ago, Phil said:

to awareness unobscurred of this apparent activity, is the unobscuring of the profound truth of self-abundance, and therein the truth of effortless attracting & receiving. 

 

Doesn't this mean that awareness isn't infinite? Bec you're saying in order to the profound truth of self-abundance, and therein the truth of effortless attracting & receiving to be unobscured, awareness needs to be unobscured from the other apparent activity 

[Phil]

2 hours ago, Isagi Yoichi said:

 

Doesn't this mean that awareness isn't infinite? Bec you're saying in order to the profound truth of self-abundance, and therein the truth of effortless attracting & receiving to be unobscured, awareness needs to be unobscured from the other apparent activity 

This is often referred to as recontextualizing.  Therapeutically & psychologically, the ‘inner’ experience of recontextualizing or recontextualization is referred to as denial, while the actions and behaviors aspect is referred to as deflection and projection. The ‘outer’ experience is often referred to as transference.

 

Recontextualization, deflection & projection are a reactionary habit of the apparent body on behalf of & in defense of a non-existent finite separate self presumed to be inside an apparent body.

 

The reality of this is the body is in fact apparent, and you, awareness, are what’s appearing as perception & sensation, as well as the thoughts about, perception & sensation. 

 

 

What was said was…

3 hours ago, Phil said:

In terms of day to day life, this shift from reaction to & defending of thoughts & beliefs, to awareness unobscurred of this apparent activity, is the unobscuring of the profound truth of self-abundance, and therein the truth of effortless attracting & receiving. 

 

What was said doesn’t jive with discordant limiting belief(s), namely which center around identification as the apparent body. The belief(s) is felt as suffering, and emotion is felt as guidance for the alignment of the misinterpretation. As the misinterpretation is aligned, the actions & behaviors of the misinterpretation(s), including the habit of recontextualizing, no longer occur. This is often referred to as ‘getting out of your own way’ or ‘receiving mode’. Receiving what is is experientially opposite to defending what isn’t. 🤍 

 

As the suffering / discord is ignored, and the ever-present ever-available unconditional & infallible guidance of emotions is ignored as well, belief(s) essentially override perception and it seems like something different was said. Apparently it seems like what was said was some thing, about awareness being finite and therein needing some thing or to do. 

 

That is the deflection: the recontextualizing of what was said in accordance with limiting beliefs rather than in accordance with direct experience, and believing something else was said, and proceeding in the overlooking of, what was actually said, in spite of the discord and guidance felt. 

 

Then the projection is onto someone else, as the one who said it, which there isn’t / wasn’t in the first place. Often referred to as aversion from feeling (emotions), this is like taking a trip, and yet suddenly realizing it was an experience of thought(s), and you never actually went anywhere, did anything, or even actually moved. You’re just appearing as a body and world which is making it seem so, and that is the point and only way, of making it seem so. 

 

The beliefs, misidentification, recontextualization, deflection, projection & transference, are the very activity of thought which is obscuring, which is / was referred to.