The liberty of consciousness
“If our freedom is our consciousness, we achieve our freedom by selecting to focus, to stay acutely aware, even when giant elements of us need to run away from what we’re seeing and experiencing.”
Pricey Integral Meditators,
This weeks article focuses on liberation via consciousness. In case you take pleasure in it, then will probably be the topic of the primary class of my new collection: The Way of the Mindful Warrior – Meditating with the Warriors creed. The primary session on the fifth & sixth of April, you might be welcome to affix us within the journey, in individual or on-line!
And heads up for this Saturday’s Monthly Qi Gong & Taoist Breathwork Clinic & Mini-retreat
Within the spirit of freedom,
Toby
The liberty of consciousness
“I’ve no freedom : I make consciousness my freedom,
I’ve no energy : I make the rhythms of nature my energy”
– The Warriors Creed
We’re not in control of the whole lot that occurs to us in our life, however we’re probably in control of the best way by which we take note of our expertise, mentally body it, and make it into one thing worthwhile. We’ve got the liberty of consciousness. To personal this freedom we have to decide to remaining stay acutely aware in our life. Remaining deeply acutely aware isn’t at all times simple, however it’s elementary to all of our progress. To cite Nathaniel Branden:
“The first option to focus, to set one’s thoughts to the aim of cognitive integration, is causally irreducible: it’s the highest regulator within the psychological system; it’s topic to wo/man’s direct, volitional management. In relation to all of it different decisions and choices are sub-regulators”
And
“The selection to focus one’s thoughts is a major, simply as the worth sought, consciousness is a major. It’s consciousness that makes some other values attainable, not some other values that antecede and make consciousness attainable. Consciousness is the starting-point and pre-condition of goal-directed (worth directed) human motion – not simply one other worth alongside the best way, because it had been. The choice to focus one’s thoughts (to worth consciousness and make it one’s aim) or to not focus, is a fundamental alternative that can’t be diminished additional.”
So, if our freedom is our consciousness, we achieve our freedom by selecting to focus, to stay acutely aware, even when giant elements of us need to run away from what we’re seeing and experiencing.
Different advantages of selecting to stay acutely aware embody:
- I’ll know actually that I’m alive within the second, in all of its uniqueness
- I’ll prime myself to study from what I’m experiencing
- I’ll collect confidence in going through my fears and tribulations
- I’ll are likely to make higher decisions and be more practical
- I’ll circulation and transition higher between actions and circumstances
Meditation – Cultivating the acutely aware thoughts
To meditate primarily means to domesticate the energy of the acutely aware thoughts, to decide to remaining conscious. The acutely aware thoughts is perhaps although of because the CEO, or chief of the completely different components of our consciousness. The stronger the acutely aware thoughts, the better it’s for it and us to make higher govt choices. Occupied with it on this approach we will see that if we want for the liberty of consciousness in our life, a meditation follow goes to assist lots! Beneath is a quite simple two stage meditation follow for cultivating the facility of your acutely aware thoughts:
- For the primary half of the meditation, merely breathe via your nostril and in a relaxed, targeted method keep conscious of the respiration, take it as your object of focus. In case you like you’ll be able to actually emphasize respiration with consciousness of the solidity of your physique, or you’ll be able to let your thoughts change into extensive and open, with the respiration on the centre of this extensive, open expertise.
- For the second half of the meditation, take into consideration the following time frame in your day, no matter is forward of you. Plan what you need to focus your consciousness on for this time. Anticipate instances once you may get distracted or block your consciousness for no matter motive. Think about executing these actions in a state of targeted, acutely aware consciousness. Discover what this looks like and appears like in your minds eye.
After you have completed the meditation, you then concentrate on remaining acutely aware in the best way that you simply had imagined in your meditation; you follow the liberty of consciousness in your each day life.
Associated article: Working Samadhi – The way of the mindful warrior
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Begins Tuesday 5th/Wednesday 6th April 2022 – The Way of the Mindful Warrior – Meditating with the Warriors creed
In a sentence: Set up the internal energy, ability and braveness wanted to make you resilient within the face of life’s challenges, and thrive in each instances of adversity and instances of peace.
Overview: The Warriors Creed is a poem by an unknown Samurai within the 14th century. It outlines a code of conduct and a state of presence primarily based round a collection of internal qualities that may be cultivated via aware contemplation, then utilized to our each day life…read full details
Saturday April ninth, 9.30-11.30am – Monthly Qi Gong & Taoist Breathwork Clinic & Mini-retreat
In a sentence: Expertise distinctive Qi gong and Taoist respiration methods to enhance your immune system, vitality degree, psychological wellness and improve your meditation…read full details
Saturday 23rd April, 9.30am-12noon – Zen meditation deep dive mini-retreat
These 2.5hour Zen ‘mini-retreats’ are an opportunity to enter a lot deeper meditation states than you’d be capable of in your individual private each day follow, and even in case you got here to a one-hour class. Utilizing sitting meditation strategies together with respiration methods and mild stretching/mobility workouts Toby will information you into deep meditative circulation states that create the expertise of a relaxed, unified, harmonized, resilient physique, thoughts & coronary heart…read full details
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Saturday ninth April, 9.30-11.30am – Monthly Qi Gong & Taoist Breathwork Clinic & Mini-retreat
Begins Tuesday 5th/Wednesday 6th April 2022 – The Way of the Mindful Warrior – Meditating with the Warriors creed
Saturday 23rd April, 9.30am-12noon – Zen meditation deep dive mini-retreat
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