Brief notes from the live session:

You are already whole, complete, peaceful.

• We are the creative force, source… this force becomes limited and contracted through our mental beliefs, woundings, emotional energies and then shows up at this dis-easeful, un-peaceful version of reality. Dissolving these mental, emotional, physical energies will once again let the natural state (ease, peace, love) manifest in our external reality. As within, so without.

• Practicing transitions physically: movement to stillness and from making sound to silence, from contraction (hand or body) to letting go/relaxing open.

• Remembering that in reality there aren’t two… Silence is in the sound, like Clay is both pot and a plate.

• Not entering into struggle with the twoness… keep an eye on both, stillness and movement/contraction. All is welcome.

• Noticing the space in the room… mind is natually drawn to objects due to safety conditioning... missing all the space around the objects.

• We can’t see, can’t smell, can’t touch or taste this space. It’s not being perceived by the body.. it always is, independently.

• Anything that moves or causes un-ease, any vibration, pain, contraction, is an object in awareness.

• Practice is the building up of neural pathways to spaciousness, to opening instead of contracting around objects.

• We’re taught to contract, to identify with, to focus on objects - inside and outside, thoughts, emotions. This creates a false sense of self and perceived reality.

• Practice: a stripping down to our simple, direct experience, outside of thought, labels and perceptions.

• All that’s ever happening and can ever happen is a sensation in the body!

• Everything is Energy!!

• Tenants of working with Energy (SO FAR :) and turning inward - respect, spaciousness and still silent, gentle noticing.

• If contracted, tight, conflicted, holding on, nothing can relax and dissolve.

• Stillness/silence are incredible dissolvers.

• Two ways that healing can happen: either the complaint will disappear totally and/or we’ll be at total peace with whatever is.

• We learn by repetition, a reconditioning towards the natural openess of Being.

• Boredom/resistance, low self worth and confusion are just energies moving through the spacious awareness that you are.

• Just one thought energy can cut us off from the practice, so do keep in touch and ask me if feeling overwhelmed or not understanding, feeling separate from the practice and group :)

• Not all that moves in us is necessarily anything to do with us and this lifetime. So much comes from socio-cultural, group, gender and national identifies, family dynamics and energies passed down inter-generationally, previous lifetimes.

• But we don’t really need to know what these are or why! Just dealing with the energies as they arise, here and now is enough.

• No need to go outside to fix and fiddle in poorly functioning situations from fear and stress… all is inside and reflected onto the outside, so we tend to the inside first and this new peace and ease can’t help but be mirroired back to us.

• If we can learn to compassionately be with the raw energy of our reactions and triggers in the moment, or in retrospect, with a little time, practice and patience, all upsets and patterns can eventually dissolve and return to peace.