You hear the word "presence" around the spiritual community
the self-help community, and the psychology community.
But what does presence mean exactly?
I want you to imagine that what we call God or Source
is really nothing more than aware essence,
or sentient energy.
It is pure collective consciousness.
This sentient essence has the capacity
to both create with the energy that comprises itself,
as well as to perceive itself.
You are essentially its creation,
but you've been created from its own energy
because there is nothing that is not it.
To understand more about this, watch my video titled:
"Oneness Is Not The Ultimate Truth Of The Universe".
This sentient essence not only created the world that you live in
and the Universe itself, but also you within the Universe.
It's a bit like a painter painting with an aspect of itself.
So, you are indivisible from what we are calling Source or God.
You are simply an aspect of it projected into the third-dimensional reality
which it also created.
Healing Your Mind
Anytime you focus on something,
what you are focusing is that sentient essence.
So you focusing on something
is essentially God or Source itself focusing on something.
And what we have to become aware of
is that the vibration of that consciousness
is innately healing in and of itself.
When we are present with something,
it means that we focus that sentient essence
with all our attention, onto that thing
without any intention to change it.
Just to be with it completely.
The healing power of presence cannot be underestimated.
It creates an alchemical process
in the thing that you are being present with.
This is why masters of your time-space reality
seldom need to open their mouth to talk.
That's just an addition
to what's actually causing change within people
which is simply sharing their energy field.
Beings who've mastered the art of presence
do not need to teach.
All they need is to be near you
and it creates an alchemical process
by which you become more of what you really are.
In previous seminars and videos
I taught how to be present with emotions.
To learn about this, watch my video titled:
"How To Heal The Emotional Body".
I have also introduced you in previous videos
to the concept of somatic experience.
Now, we have to understand that as we are interacting with our world
we are perceiving all kinds of things through our senses.
We are experiencing the world primarily through sensations.
Now, a sensation is a somatic event.
For example, if you hit your leg on a table,
you feel different sensations in your leg.
If someone breaks up with you, you experience that grief
as different sensations in your whole body,
especially your chest.
These different sensations are somatic experiences.
They happen relative to the body and/or being.
Emotions are felt as sensations.
Thoughts can come as sensations.
Auditory aspects can come as sensations.
And visual components can come as sensations.
By far, one of the most powerful healing experiences you can have
is when you stop what you're doing,
you turn your attention inwards
towards your body and your being.
And you remain completely unconditionally present
with the somatic experiences that are taking place with you.
When we do this, we wanna make sure that
that when we are completely present with ourselves
we don't do it with an attitude
like we're trying to change or fix something.
We're not trying to create any change at all.
To be unconditionally present with something
and to wanna change something, is a contradiction in terms.
Usually, when it feels like
we are focusing our sentient energy
or focusing our attention on something
it feels somatically like what we're doing
is we're taking all of the energy
collected on our head area
which we usually associate with our mind,
and we're taking that down into the body
or out into the world.
That's what focusing usually feels like.
What we usually miss
is that we can in fact, take all of our focus
and we can direct that sentient essence or energy
to the mind itself
and to the brain,
which is a bit like a computer or a translator
between the non-physical aspect of ourselves
and the physical aspect of ourselves.
What we also usually miss
is that our mind itself can be perceived by us
as a somatic experience.
And by approaching our mind in this way
it has massive implications for healing.
To do this process,
I want you to close your eyes
and take all of your attention to your mind.
Usually, most people associate their mind with their head area
or even sometimes just outside their head.
Imagine that your capacity to think
as well as the thoughts you think
reside in that area.
Just be very still observing
and being totally with and immersed in this part of yourself.
Step 2.
Care about what is taking place in this part of yourself
by seeing it and knowing it is valid and important.
No matter how this part of you presents itself,
there is a very valid reason why.
Step 3.
Allow yourself to drop into this internal journey work process.
Perceive what is occurring in this place of your mind
empathetically with open curiosity.
Do not seek to change anything about it
study it, seek to allow it completely.
Become aware of any experience that comes with doing this.
What do you notice?
What images come to you?
Do you notice any textures or colours or movements?
What sensations occur?
Do you notice any thoughts arising?
Do you notice any sounds or smells or tastes?
Can you see which ones wanna stay around a while
and which ones come, and float away?
Does any awareness or insight come to you as a result
of being completely present with this part of yourself?
#4. This one is the hardest:
Sit and be completely present with
and perceiving completely
this aspect of yourself that we could call your mind
and all things related to your mind
with absolutely no intention to change it, whatsoever.
That means if what you're experiencing is highly uncomfortable,
do nothing with that discomfort
except for be with the discomfort.
You can do this process
for anywhere between eleven and minutes and days
which is what people do
when they're practicing vipassana meditation.
Just bear witness to any changes
that may occur as a result
of you focusing your essence
on that aspect of your being.
Does anything shift?
Does anything change?
Does anything intensify?
Does anything decrease?
Don't forget to keep breathing.
When we're with somatic experiences that are particularly intense,
oftentimes, we forget to keep breathing.
Stay with this aspect of yourself that you call your mind
for as long as you feel guided to do.
And then you can stop the process there.
I like to have people practice the art of being completely present
with whatever is somatically occurring within their embodiment
for a good deal of time before they take any further step.
The reason is that in the very beginning
we have a very...
let's call it...
underdeveloped capacity to be present with other people
and with ourselves, and especially with uncomfortable experiences.
We wanna change it.
We wanna fix it.
We wanna do anything we can to get away from the experience.
So, being able to be completely present with something
and to make space for even very uncomfortable sensations,
is a bit like exercising a muscle.
To begin with, we can't lift very many pounds.
After a while,
it becomes a very developed muscle.
And it is at that point
that we can take this practice one step further.
Once you are sure, you can be unconditionally present
and focus your sentient essence completely
without resisting or needing it to change,
you can go one step further
by deliberately offering healing to your mind.
To heal something is really quite simple.
It is to experience the opposite.
To understand more abut this subject in depth,
I ask you to watch my video titled:
"What is healing?"
Now that you have fully experienced your own mind
chances are very high that you now understand
what it is that your mind needs.
What opposite experience, it may be craving.
Just watching the shifts that take place within it
when exposed to your focused presence
will tell you a lot about what improvement or healing actually is for it.
And with that information you can offer new thoughts,
new feeling signatures, or feeling flavors,
new sounds, new smells, new tastes,
new visuals
and new sensations to it.
To understand more about feeling signatures, watch my video titled:
"How to Feel Better (Feeling Signatures)"
Again, this is not about fixing anything.
When you take something as part of yourself,
it's not about trying to change it.
What it is is that in loving that thing and taking it as part of yourself
and perceiving it completely
and therefore knowing what it wants and needs,
we can then offer those things to it
as a gesture of genuine love.
So you can understand better how this type of inner journey work
into your own mind might go,
I'll give you an example of a man that I worked with lately:
He closed his eyes
as if going on an internal shamanic journey.
When he put all of his attention up towards his mind
what he perceived was tightening and tingling sensation there.
He was with that tingling and that tightening for a while
before he realised that outside of that tingling and that tension
was in fact a kind of numbness.
Like a blanket settled over his whole mind.
There was no movement.
What he saw was the image
of a deer hit by a car on the side of a road.
Intuitively, he knew that this image was being communicated to him
about the state his mind was in, which is shock.
He suddenly watched a thought come into his mind
that he must be in shock because someone in his business
had turned against him earlier that week,
who he never thought would be capable of such a thing.
Ah, he must be frozen in that shock
because he still can't understand why.
That thought was very sticky.
It stayed around dominating the experience for a while,
and then it began to fade.
That numbness seemed to be
dominating and controlling the inside of his mind
and also extending about a foot around his head.
He could also feel that numbness
going down the right side of his face and neck
and even down into his clavicle area.
He saw an image of his brain.
But what struck him about this image
is that he noticed he couldn't see or sense
much activity in channels of his mind.
It was as if the electrical current going through his mind
was frozen.
He was completely present with the sensation
of the control of that numbness.
The numbness felt empty and cold.
It looked light blue
and felt like stale air with no movement to it.
He sat with this numbness of his mind for 10 minutes
before holes began to form in the numbness.
He said it felt like film strip being burnt.
He felt like his focused essence
dropped though the holes in that numbness
as it was dissolving entirely.
And he felt like he was in blackness.
The blackness was also not moving.
He said that what it felt like was futility, endedness.
It was very difficult for him to stay with that feeling of futility
and not try to move around or get away from it.
Why is it so difficult for somebody to be with futility?
Because obviously, it feels futile
to be with something that's futile.
He heard a voice inside his mind saying
"This is pointless".
"This is pointless"
"There is no point in this".
Over and over again.
Instead of trying to argue with the voice, or change the voice
he just let it keep speaking.
He heard another thought arise unintentionally.
"It's ok if it's futile. I'll be with you forever then".
He saw an image of a cat curling up inside this dark futility
which now seemed more like a cave.
The minute the cat did that,
the sensation and experience changed.
~ Snap ~
The darkness became warm.
He sat in that warm accompanied darkness.
Letting it permeate all the areas of his brain.
All the areas of his mind.
Each time it permeated into a thought,
the thought itself burst.
He sat with that warm darkness for about 20 minutes
before he experienced a sensation of completeness.
And he said he was ready to return.
He could have stopped right there
because it was a profoundly healing experience for his mind.
But I decided to amplify this healing further.
I asked him what he felt like,
based on this experience with his mind,
that his mind needed.
And his answer was:
"I think my mind needs to know that it's not alone.
What I've realized is that through the betrayal of this friend
I realised that I feel completely alone in that betrayal
which is even scarier because I feel like I have no understanding of it".
So I asked him when was the time in his life
that he felt the least alone,
the most accompanied.
When was a time that he felt like
there would never be a time when he would be isolated.
And his answer was:
"with his grandmother".
So I had him mentally go back to the sensory experience
of being held by his grandmother.
He sat in this feeling for 4 minutes.
At the end of 4 minutes,
I had him take that feeling signature of being with his grandmother
and bring it up to his mind
like an offering to that warm darkness.
I also told him to offer the thought "I'm right here for you always"
to his mind as well.
A big smile spread across his face.
The experience of his mind changed completely.
The darkness started transforming to an orange sunset coloured light
with a creamy texture.
He could perceive movement slowly occurring in his brain.
He watched the thought cross his mind
“this is amazing”.
Emotionally, he felt a thousand times better.
There was no tension in his mind.
He sat unconditionally with that sensory experience
for five minutes
and then, when he felt fulfilled, and when it felt right,
he took a few breaths and opened his eyes.
Being unconditionally present with any aspect of our being,
can provide so much healing for us,
and it is in fact the key component
to healing in and of itself.
Us figuring out how to focus the divine presence
which not only makes us up,
but also acts as the foundation of our own creation.
Being completely unconditionally present with our mind
has amazing implication
for anybody who is experiencing mental illness
or any ailment related to the mind,
which is all people on Earth.
It has the capacity to change the way that we think
and to change the way that our minds and brains function.
Have a good week.
Subtitles by: Tanya Duarte www.tanyaduarte.com