Listening to Your Life
In adition to the battle to "get ahead," there is another:
This other war is the war not to conquer but the war to become whole and at peace inside our skin. It is a war not of conquest now but of liberation because the object of this other war is to liberate that dimension of selfhood which has somehow become lost, that dimension of selfhood that involves the capacity to forgive and to will the good not only of the self but of all other selves. This other war is the war to become a human being. This is the goal that we are really after and that God is really after. This is the goal that power, success, and security are only forlorn substitutes for. This is the victory that not all our human armory of self-confidence and wisdom and personality can win for us - not simply to be treated as human but to become at last truly human.
~Frederick Buechner
Stages of Awareness Awareness and awareness work has a developmental sequence. Simple Awareness The client comes and talks about the problem they have in their life. They are not aware of process, they are not aware of being aware, and they are not aware of relationship with the healer. Awareness of Awareness At this level of awareness the person becomes aware of being aware. It is in this process work that the existential is most indebted in phenomenology. This includes awareness of avoidance and resistance, bracketing, here and now contact work, development and refinement of tools of awareness and contact. What I call "Human Presence." Awareness of the Character of the Experiencing Person Awareness of awareness leads to awareness of the character of the experiencing person. As one is aware of the pattern of awareness and avoidance, conditions that lead to awareness and avoidance, way of awareness and unawareness, etc. One becomes aware of the overall character structure of the experiencing person. Phenomenological Ascent This is the stage at which the phenomenological attitude permeates the person’s ordinary life. An "Ahah!" if you will. The attitude of knowing that there are always multiple realities, bracketing, using repeated observations to achieve insight into the actual workings of situation become ordinary rather than something restricted to moments of being with the teacher or healer. One steps into the Now with "Full Human Presence" and Consciousness.
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Waking up to the New Earth Consciousness!
In the light of Eckhart Tolle’s, A New Earth... I wanted to bring forth some of what I learned years ago that resonates with me on the "voice in the head" and conscious awareness.
