We take our awareness of the world, each other, and ourselves for granted. Understanding awareness is the first key to awakening it, which transforms how we think, feel, and experience ourselves and each other. A closer look at awareness reveals it as an essential part of us and an extraordinary gift.
But what is the nature of this gift, our awareness? Can we free it, enlighten it, expand and uplift it?
To work effectively as an energy healer and grow as a human being, it helps to master several awareness skills, especially the skill of enlightening awareness. More on that later.
As you "pay attention" to your awareness, or in other words, become aware of awareness, its secrets slowly begin to reveal themselves.
You may begin to notice that both the quality and quantity of your awareness vary throughout the day.
Sometimes we have just a little bit of awareness...like when we just get up in the morning and are shifting from our inner world of dreams to the outside “real” world.
And there are moments in life when we have gathered a lot of awareness...and seem to be aware of everything. Great!
Most of the time, we aren't aware of these changes in the quantity of awareness. But if you “pay attention,” you will find that the quantity of awareness varies throughout your day. Sometimes we have more awareness of ourselves and the world around us, and sometimes less.
The quality of our awareness also varies from moment to moment. Sometimes we get caught up in negativity or uncomfortable emotions and get trapped in them. We can't escape!. At other times our awareness is flexible and free. At these moments, we are open to joy and love, and if we experience an uncomfortable emotion, we are less likely to get caught up in it.
In The Star Experience, the name I have given to this methodology, I will use specific language designed to help you understand and grow in awareness, life energy perception, and healing. Some of this language was developed by Russell Paul Schofield, one of my teachers. Following his usage, I refer to Low-quality awareness as low frequency and high-quality awareness as high frequency. This begins to convey the idea of a spectrum of frequency, or vibration, from low to high quality.
High-quality/high-frequency awareness is characterized by flexibility and freedom. In high-frequency awareness, we are not attached to, or identified with, what we see, feel, or even think. We can experience uncomfortable thoughts or feelings without being trapped in them.
Mystics and awakened masters can often live in this high-frequency awareness, sometimes called Enlightened Awareness. Because they are not caught in any specific state of consciousness, they are free. Awakening is the process of becoming free, free to choose to stand in and live in love and in light.
Now, many enlightenment experiences that masters, teachers, and healers have had have been temporary. This is because they rose in awareness into a peak experience, but soon tumbled back to a more ordinary consciousness. They may have arrived there through inner work, spiritual practice like fasting that altered consciousness, or other means.
To make the experience last longer, to stay at the peaks more and more, we need to transform our body and mind. We'll do that later on as we talk about the relationship between awareness and life energy.
The guided meditation that you can listen to in a few moments is called The Upper Room. In it, you will move to a "high place" within yourself and experience your awareness lifting and gathering as you connect with the divine Presence within you. That work will prepare you for the next step: a future meditation. The first skill is to connect your awareness with Presence and this higher state of consciousness.
Upper Room Meditation: To get the most out of this guided experience, find a place where you will not be disturbed for a few minutes. It is best to sit in a chair, with your spine straight and your feet and arms uncrossed. You can place your hands on your legs or somewhere comfortable. When you are ready, play the recording:
The Upper Room-Star Exp#1
Let me know how this experience was for you…Was it difficult? What did you experience about Presence? Leave your comments here
When you are ready, go to Focused, Scattered and Diffused Awareness.
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Now there are other aspects of awareness that are also are important. Go now to Awareness Part Two.