Realizing yourSelf as Fundamental Consciousness
Inhabiting versus being aware of
There’s a great difference between being aware of our bodies and inhabiting them.
Try this experience to see for yourself:
First, become aware of your hands - notice if they are warm or cold, and if your palms are dry or sweaty.
Now enter into your hands, inhabit them. Feel that you are the internal
s p a c e
of your hands. Feel that you are living and present within your hands. Feel the space within each one of your fingers. Feel the space between each one of your fingers, from within your hands. Feel the space surrounding your hands, from within your hands.
“As fundamental consciousness, we let go of our grip on ourselves and our environment. We allow ourselves to experience the clarity of our thoughts and the full impact of our emotions, physical sensations, and perceptions.
This is freedom: freedom from our own constricting grasp on our body and being.”
Judith Blackston, p. 39, The Fullness of the Ground
THE REALIZATION PROCESS
The Realization Process, from where the exercise above originates, was developed by Judith Blackstone to foster Nondual Realization, or what is also commonly known as spiritual awakening.
It is a series of attunements to fundamental consciousness.
Nondual realization is the uncovering of this fundamental, undivided dimension of consciousness.
“We open to Fundamental Consciousness by first inhabiting the internal space of the body.”
Fundamental Consciousness
when embodied in a human life,
can be experienced as
Sheer Emptiness & Presence.
It can also be experienced
as a blend of both emptiness and presence.