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How to
Experience Pure Awareness
GAP
This technique is
the simplest way of experiencing Pure
Awareness. It’s really very easy using a
technique called the GAP – an acronym for
Greater Awareness
Place. This is done by simply
directing your awareness to notice itself, your
essential nature, which isthe silent background
in which all of your thoughts and perceptions
occur. Here’s an audio recording of how to do
that
AGAPE
The same Pure
Awareness that you experience as the background
of silence in which your thoughts occur
permeates the entire universe. This is not just
an idea that Pure Awareness permeates the
entire universe, lots of people have written
about that. Rather this technique, which I call
AGAPE – an acronym forAccessing
Greater Awareness Place
Everywhere, actually gives you
the direct experience of your essential nature
of Pure Awareness filling up everything in the
entire universe. It also gives you the
experience of your essential nature – Pure
Awareness – as the essential nature of every
other person and every other thing that you can
ever experience.
How to
Vaporize Your Ego
Vaporizing
Your Identifications and thus Your
Ego
What about if you can’t experience the
silent background in which your thoughts occur?
Although most people can experience it,
sometimes you may be so caught up in an
emotional reaction that there just doesn’t seem
to be any silence inside of you at all. You’re
caught in the grip of an emotional reaction.
You expected things to turn out a certain way
but they didn’t and now you are upset. What
background of silence? What are you talking
about?
SEE
When you are caught
up in the grip of an emotional reaction to an
unmet expectation you won’t feel like you have
access to that silent background in which the
thoughts occur. You are having a reaction and
it isn’t pretty. The technique for extracting
yourself from being lost to an emotional
reaction like this is called the SEE Technique.
SEE stands for Side Entrance
Expansion. It’s a technique for
very quickly directly experiencing the contrast
between first being lost to your emotion and
then being in Pure Awareness, again almost like
magic. It is so easy and quick to come out of
the grip of an emotional reaction that it will
amaze you. You will also recognize that your
reaction was based on a story that you had made
up that wasn’t even real. It was about
something that you were projecting on to the
future that only existed in your mind, not in
reality.
WONDER
The WONDER Technique
– Wait On Neutral During Emotional
Reactions, is a great way to
eliminate old conditioned responses and habits
that you want to change. This is also called
Unplugging the Power Cord or Shifting To
Neutral but those didn’t make as good an
acronym. This technique helps you to stop
engaging in habits that tend to perpetuate
themselves without you seeming to have any
control over them. These keep you stuck in
habitual ways of being that simply don’t work
for you any more. They comprise the part of the
Ego that is made up of our habitual ways of
being.
We are so identified with these kinds of
habits that we engage in them as if they were
actually a part of who we are. They aren’t. It
just feels like they are. Using the WONDER
Technique you will learn how to nip them in the
bud and let them sink back into nothingness
just as they are about to rear their ugly head.
This creates a gap of awareness that frees you
from the identification with the habit. With
just a little practice the default clueless
nature of such habits vaporizes. Instead of
replacing the old habit with a new one, you
start making choices and taking action from the
wonder of uncertainty, responding spontaneously
to the needs of the moment with the fullness of
your being rather then from a previously
learned habitual behavior that’s not
necessarily the optimal response to each
moment.
How to Know that You
Know
When you live from Pure Awareness all the
time you know things from deep within yourself
and you don’t need to justify this kind of
knowing with your intellect. This concept may
seem quite foreign to most people as we are so
deeply conditioned to rely on our mind and
intellect. But our intellect may not be the
best tool to use for important decisions like
who to marry, what career to choose, where to
live, etc. For such important things but for
that matter for everything in our life we would
certainly like our decisions to be based on
something that is really connected to who and
what we really are, to be based on what we
really want not on what we think we should do
or what others think we should do.
SANYAMA
We can cultivate the ability to access our
inner Knowing and begin to get the clear
distinction between our Knowing and our
conditioned thinking by using a Pure Awareness
Technique called SANYAMA. SANYAMA is originally
a word from the Sanskrit language that was used
to describe a technique dropping a desire or
question into Pure Awareness and getting a
response. The practice was originally described
by Yogi Patanjali who is thought by some to be
the father of the whole field of yoga.
I found that the
word SANYAMA could also be used as an acronym
that beautifully describes this process. It
stands for – Silent Awareness
Notices Your Answers Manifesting
Automatically. This technique
develops the ability to clearly distinguish
between your thinking and your knowing. As you
get good at it you begin to have clearer and
clearer perception and the reach of your
perception begins to extend outwards in both
time and space. One consequence of this is that
you begin to trust and act on your intuition
more and more. You also develop the ability to
more and more clearly “remember the future.”
WAIT
Also part of the method of knowing that you
know is to learn to WAIT. The WAIT Technique
stands for Waiting Accesses
Intuitive Truth. Have you ever
had a desire and then forgotten about it for a
time and then all of a sudden the fulfillment
of your desire just shows up without you doing
anything to bring it about? The WAIT Technique
helps you to live like that all the time.This
is a technique for bringing yourself into
alignment with the Law of Least Effort in
nature. When you learn how to wait for the
perfect timing for things then they happen
either seemly by themselves or with an “in the
Zone” like effortlessness.
How to vaporize the
unresolved emotional pain stored in your
body
When we are little we are easily emotionally
overwhelmed. We have a delicate nervous system
that doesn’t yet have the capacity to process
many of the intense emotional experiences that
we have as a very young human being. As a
result we end up not completing many of our
intense emotional experiences and it appears
that these become stored in our body. These
incomplete experiences become our “emotional
baggage.” Everyone seems to have plenty of
these and they produce a kind of screen or
barrier between us and our natural experience
of presence of Pure Awareness.
CORE
What is needed is an efficient way to complete
these incomplete overwhelming emotional
experiences from the past. The CORE Technique
is the most efficient way I have found for
doing this. CORE stands for Center
Of Remaining Energy. It is a
process of doing the opposite of what we are
conditioned to do. We are conditioned to go
away from where the energy of emotional pain
stored in the body is the most intense. During
the CORE Technique you dive right into the
center of the most intense part of the energy
of the incomplete emotional experience that is
held in your body.
Allowing yourself to
feel into the most intense part of the energy
of an incomplete experience of emotional
intensity is VERY different than simply
“feeling your feelings.” It is as different as
a laser beam is from a flash light beam. Laser
beams can be so powerful that they can cut
through very hard materials. A flash light can
penetrate the darkness but it doesn’t cut
through anything.
Like that the process of just feeling the
energy of a feeling in your body is an
inefficient way to complete incomplete intense
emotional experiences. The CORE Technique
however is laser like. It penetrates down into
the heart of the most intense part of the
energy of the incomplete experience. This
allows you to rapidly and thoroughly complete
the experience of the energy that is held
there.
Imagine for a
moment that the suitcases filled with
incomplete emotional pain from the past for a
layer of energy between you and the continuous
experience of Pure Awareness. This layer of
energy is like a layer of cheese between you
and Pure Awareness. Each time you use the CORE
Technique to complete one of your incomplete
intense emotional experiences you have made a
hole in the cheese. It has become more Swiss
cheese like. The idea is to keep making holes
in the Swiss cheese until it is all holes and
the Pure Awareness shines through
unobstructed.
GPS
When there are
subtler residual patterns of emotional energy
held in the body that are difficult to get
access too there is a simple way to be able to
bring them into awareness. This technique is a
special case use of the SANYAMA Technique
combined with the CORE Technique. It is called
the GPS Technique. The acronym stands for
Gentle Provocation
System. The GPS Technique is used
as a kind of vacuum cleaner for cleaning up any
residual emotional energy of incomplete
experiences when it is otherwise not easy to
determine if something is still held in your
system or not.
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