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Looking, feeling, presence

Posted in Thought for the Week.

Looking through the air at sunset I see the light haze and the gentle glow of the oak trees as the light shines through.  The air offers the sense of a gentle touch on a late summer day.  A moment in time, an example of presence.  Breathing is effortless and an inner glow of balance and rightness is simply there.  Each moment offers these types of experiences.  Are you willing to be there and enjoy them?  Take a moment to feel and let your feelings carry you into a deeper experience of now.  Every sense we have carries us and supports us gently leading us into who we are.  –Alain & Jody Herriott

feeling, looking, Presence, senses

Awakening and Self-Realization

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“Your unrest is the last cramp in your legs as you climb this mountain.  Rest awhile if like. But do not return to your old house.  It is not your home any longer.” –Shyamananda on maya, self-realization, bliss.

Awakening is done in stages and the action of doing so may seem difficult, like climbing a mountain.  This is only because you believe that awakening requires you to strive and often suffer in order to achieve it.  Through feeling our feelings and allowing the integration of body and mind that results from this action, we arrive.  Believing that we need to strive is simply a view from the corridors of maya.  Relax, open and become, realization has been with you all along.  –Alain & Jody Herriott

awakening, effort, feeling, self-realization, striving

Creation of the World

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“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”  — Samuel Beckett, Proust

Our lives are like this; each day we are creating, evolving. Having said that we also desire things to stay the same in our lives, giving us something that we believe we can depend on. Yet give us too much consistency and we feel stale, bored and crave change. This paradox is the opportunity, creating the bridge between the desire for things to stay the same and for things to change. It is this inner conflict that drives us to look for new ways to be.  Feeling is what carries us over the bridge, bringing us to a new way to be.  It allows us to enjoy the consistency and embrace change as well. ~ Alain & Jody Herriott

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Awakening, experiencing Enlightenment

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Awakening, the act of experiencing Enlightenment.  Awakening occurs as we process the conflicting feelings inside us.  On the other side of each unraveling is more of who we are. As each resistance is unwound we experience greater presence and once enough pieces are integrated we awaken.  Now we understand our unlimited state and our connection to everything is self evident.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

awakening, Enlightenment, feeling, freedom

Presence through feeling

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Presence.  We hear so much about it and what it supposedly means.  There is also the idea of being “grounded” and how that goes hand in hand with presence.

Presence for us is a feeling that we experience.  It is a sense of being aware that we are settled into our bodies and really integrated with it.  This in turn gives us a sense of being grounded and connected not only to ourselves but to what is around us as well.  A deep abiding satisfaction and inner wholeness.  Feeling our feelings takes us there; it is a surprisingly short journey when we stop striving and start letting our concerns unfold themselves.  ~Alain and Jody Herriott

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Getting by in Life

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It is easy to fall into the lazy habit of avoiding feeling, just getting by in life.  When we choose to open to our feelings the fog that has been hiding who we are lifts and we discover the blue sky of clarity and understanding.  This is an ongoing process because cruising through life is so seductive.  When we spend even a little effort each day in feeling, life becomes surprisingly worthwhile.  Enjoy the journey!  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

discovery, feeling, Getting by, Life

Feeling everything

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It is a fabulous experience taking a day to feel everything that we can. The most mundane task takes on new meaning and we begin to see what it means to “be as a little child again.  So, we encourage you to feel as much as you can and to rediscover wonder in your world and joy in your heart.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

child, discovery, everything, feeling

Life, rules and regulations

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As we go through life we are taught that there are all kinds of rules and regulations.  These restrictions reduce our ability to BE.  Each rule creates a stop in us, a holding or limitation.  However the way to be creative and comfortable in our life is to move beyond the rules, to see limitations as opportunities to break new ground.  In essence we learn to give ourselves permission to be amazing and in harmony with a world that others won’t even let themselves imagine.  Feeling creates the bridge from holding to openness, from limitation to creation.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

feeling, freedom, Life, regulations, rules

The Lightest Touch

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The lightest touch is accepting, it opens the firmest door.  Feeling is like that.  It shows us the closed doors of our past and through the most gentle acts helps them to open, ushering us into a whole new world of possibility.  We invite you to feel, not in a pushing way but in a welcoming unfolding way.  Welcome to a path that never really ends, for each seeming difficulty is an opportunity to feel and heal.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

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A complete world

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Each of us thinks of ourselves as a world, complete unto ourselves. We see this world as separate, contained, and often judging the other worlds that seem to have it better or worse than we do.  As we process our emotions around these limiting thoughts and feelings we realize we are really a universe, connected and interacting with all the other worlds.  We are not separate, we are intrinsically linked.  As this realization occurs we become whole, compassionate and balanced.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

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