Our attention is our reality
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When the observer begins to realize that he is not his thoughts, feelings, and emotions, but rather someone watching, the beginning of the process of disidentification opens, which is gradually built as the first bridge to your Attention.
Second stage
Everything consists of the energy of thought, feeling, emotion, sensation, Association.
In the second stage we will consider our relationship with energy. When you experience yourself as an observer, you can begin to experience how all that you have observed as happening in "your mind" consists of the same fundamental energy. Anger consists of the same energy as joy. The second level allows you to remove titles or content and then you will automatically negate the charge of any experience that you observe.
Third stage
I am the Creator of what I observe.
The practical importance of the third level is that it will give you the opportunity to move from the passive position of the witness to the active position of the Creator. When you realize, for example, that you are creating your anger, fear, or anxiety, you can stop creating it. This step will lead you further out of thought to the extended freedom of your Attention.
Fourth and fifth stages
The physical universe consists of energy, space, mass, and time.
Now in the fourth stage we will better study the time aspect of our universe and how we create the concept of time. In the fifth stage, we will pass through an aspect of our world: the omnipresent space. At this level, we come into contact with the unchanging nature of space, and explore how our experience is transformed by touching it.
The energy we experience on the second level can be more accurately described as the unfolding and folding of energy, space, mass, and time.
When I realized that my fear consists of energy, space, mass and time. The observer-Creator (I) consists of energy, space, mass, and time, and the situation I fear consists of energy, space, mass, and time, it has become easier for me to experience the illusory nature of the boundaries I create and temporarily believe in.
In other words, we as creators and what we create-the objects of our creation-are all made of the same substance.
Sixth stage
"Everything interpenetrates everything else»
David Bohm
Here in practice, this level will remove those divisions that we take for granted. For example: we assume that the feelings "I love" and "I hate" are fundamentally and irrevocably different. That success is obviously different from failure. The world as we know it is crowded with boundaries that mark differences.
In the sixth stage, we will experience how the manifested and invisible are constantly "folding" and "unfolding", where all the boundaries are created by ourselves, and not given by nature.
Seventh step
"Everything consists of emptiness, and form is condensed emptiness.» (Einstein)
In other words, everything is made of the same substance.
Everything in physical reality has a form.
Agreed boundaries define how we normally perceive the world, how we live on an explicit level of form. When we see that these boundaries do not exist, that the perceived, open space consists of the same particles as the objects that we perceive as dense and "physical – – then our limitations, experiences of "you" and " I " dissolve in the cozy space of unity.
At this stage there is pure, unbroken " is-ness."
Chapter 3. How to get out of what we create
As an observer of the contents of my mind (thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, associations), I am more than the contents of my mind.
The point is observation. Therefore, the task of the first stage is to teach you how to observe your inner experience and not merge with it.
Such observation gives you the experience of considering the events of your life without judgment, evaluation, significance, or preference.
In most of us, judgments, biases and biases jump out automatically, we "discover" that we do not like something, or can not stand some event. We don't consciously choose a reaction. Reactions happen to us, often without our control. These automatic reactions greatly embellish and modify the way we perceive and experience the world around us, and as long as the reactions remain "on the machine", we can not choose how we feel, how we live.
When you use part of your Attention to observe a reaction, you are essentially putting a distance between you and the reaction. In this space you are not absorbed by the reaction. Even when the reaction goes its own way, the space of observation creates a distance that reduces the feeling of attachment to the reaction.
Since your Attention is more an experience than a concept, it is useful to create an environment for experiencing this phenomenon, reactions and responses. Similarly, each level is accompanied by exercises and contemplations.
Exercise 1
Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Remember the incident that upset you. It can be a case when water flooded the apartment, and except you nobody was at home, or it can be an angry exchange of gestures with the driver of the car, misunderstanding with the official, or quarrel with the loved one.
Imagine this incident, seeing it from the inside. Be at its center, reproducing the scene with all the confusion and irritation with which you originally experienced it.