The Unbelievable Happiness of What Is by Jon Bernie

Author:Jon Bernie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SEL000000 Self-help / General, OCC012000 Body, Mind & Spirit / Mysticism, REL007020 Religion / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, REL062000 Religion / Spirituality
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

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Clearing, Grounding, Integrating, and Expanding: A Seven-Step Protocol

I want to offer now a series of exercises I’ve found to be very useful in helping people stabilize as they deepen in presence and insight. I call this series “A Seven-Step Protocol for Clearing, Grounding, Integrating, and Expanding.”

People can of course access presence in ways that are profound and transformative without doing practices or techniques at all. But what I’ve observed over time is that although many people have spiritual openings or expansions, they often fail to integrate and then fully embody those experiences. They may initially become very open energetically and spiritually, but if their body and mind are not conditioned to handle that kind of energy, then that transformation can’t really take root and fully stabilize.

A lot of the reason for this is the way energy can become stuck in the body. It’s important from the beginning to clear that energy. As I’ve said already, you need to be a channel for energy rather than a receptacle. So it’s important to work with your physical body, your emotions, and your thoughts in such a way as to facilitate the freeing up of that energy, so you can allow it to move through and out of you.

There can be other issues as well. If your energetic channels are blocked by unprocessed physical and emotional material, spiritual opening can be accompanied by destabilizing physical or emotional symptoms. Some people experience involuntary movements, for instance, or mood swings and emotional instability. So it’s important to also do the work of training the body and working with your emotions. Spiritual transformation is a full-scale operation!

Additionally, people can be imbalanced in their development. Individuals can become very developed and sometimes even quite powerful spiritually, but often there remain challenging aspects of their human psychodynamic structure that haven’t been fully examined. These difficult aspects of ourselves, as challenging as they can be, need to be brought fully into consciousness, healed, and integrated. This work facilitates that process of healing and integration.

I think it’s important to continue with these or similar practices no matter how enlightened you get. Think of it as psychic hygiene. We’re human beings, and we’ll always have human experiences that need to be cleared out of our system. Our bodies need to release tension. Our hearts need to release emotion. It’s important to embrace and allow these natural functions. As I’ve often said, spirituality is about fully embracing our humanity, not simply transcending it.

The attitude with which you approach these or any practices is very important. This isn’t about just applying a formula or performing a series of steps to produce a specific result. Rather, I invite you to approach this process with an open mind and a non-expectant heart, and with a spirit of openness and curiosity. Do these exercises not with some idea of what will happen, but simply to do them, without expecting anything at all. Let yourself be surprised! Be an explorer in unknown territory and a scientist in your own spiritual laboratory.

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