Peaceful Acceptance
In tune: The body is fluid, light, loose, all senses open.
Out of tune: clearly it is our body that warns us that something is wrong with a feeling of tension often located in the stomach; we put this feeling in words, we pass it through the mind (it can be to see that I have done or said something out of personal interest, done mind reading).
Why is it that there are times when you are in tune with yourself and at other times you are not?
What makes us in tune: grace, openness to discovery, simplicity, priority to body consciousness.
What makes me out of tune is: resisting the necessary suffering, boredom, anger, a sense of lack, resistance to pain and physical discomfort, identification. Being too much in my thoughts. Awakened dream.
When we feel we don’t tune in with ourselves, it’s a moment of forgetting. Forgotten the essential value, forgotten the body consciousness, lack of attention and vigilance. Even if we try to remember, it doesn’t always work, often we find that we can’t remember. So we don’t really know what makes sometimes there is forgetting, and sometimes reminding. Grace?
The moments when we tune in with ourselves are characterized by a kind of peaceful acceptance of who I simply am and what things are, rather than by a research to be better than this simplicity or that things are different. Bodily, through a presence to myself and to what emanates spontaneously from it.
Looking backwards, we notice that forgetting is at the origin of this stall. Forgetting what “I am”, the body consciousness. A little as if there were a permanent (and even timeless) attention, which when it “forgets” to recognize itself, falls into ignorance of what it is and lets itself be carried away by the flow of thoughts, discursive, emotions, identifying with them, in turn. Then there are our meetings, your constant reminders, the commitment that each one of us here has made with him/herself, this deep and intimate “languishing” to find oneself, the patience of the universe that constantly and relentlessly places us in the situation necessary for this return to self, that puts us back on the right axis, this verticality from which by recognizing oneself we find ourselves in tune with oneself.
By default, there is tuning. A dissonance appears if there is an unseen self-interest (lack of vigilance) or a blind spot. We have trouble finding a memory of the last time we didn’t feel in tune with ourselves, but we think it’s when we are asked and it goes very fast, that we have to answer one or more requests immediately, without having all the information, neither the time nor the perspective. At that point, we go into mental mode and lose body consciousness. And a few minutes later we find myself with the impression of being trapped and not in tune with ourselves. That said, it is becoming exceptional today, because we understood the root (wanting to please, afraid to disappoint, afraid to oppose). Paradoxically, allowing ourselves to be openly in disagreement with others allows us to be in agreement with ourselves.
We are in tune with ourselves, when we accomplish our task without attachment to the result, in the pleasure of action, step by step, without judging ourselves, without tension = we are in the body consciousness.
We do not feel in tune with ourselves when we identify ourselves, when we are attached to the result, we judge ourselves and we tighten ourselves up = we are no longer in the body consciousness.
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