How To Wake Up

I spoke in my previous post about Sleepwalking - what the sages mean by "being asleep". Multitasking as a sure way to somnambulent oblivion and so on. If you truly wish to awaken inside your life, there are a few very simple things you can do without being a wise old monk or nun to begin with. For us moderns without access to a deep forest retreat or monastic cell, the following are both doable and mostly easy.

1. Read Eckhart Tolle's works and listen to his recordings. I particularly savored his Findhorn Retreat while ill. It brought awareness to the processes of illness and enabled me to heal myself more quickly. Ill or not, it's a classic, as is his seminal work "The Power of Now".

2. From Tolle you will learn this one simple thing: Pay Attention To The Now.

Sounds Simple.  Isn't at first, for most modern humans.  Takes work, but gets infinitely easier.

It is however, the single most important tenet to Awakening that anyone can point you towards.

3. How to do this: just pay attention to what is around you, wherever you are. Get used to modeling these awarenesses to yourself in terms of what you see, what you hear, what you feel inside and outside your body, what you smell and if applicable, what you taste.

4. You'll notice that your awareness fades after awhile. At first, you may only be able to keep a few seconds of awareness going. As your mind comes to the realization that you've dropped out of the Now, gently allow your awareness to refocus on the present moment. As the past and memories or future projections come up into your conscious awareness, allow yourself to gently slide back into the Now, as you become aware of your reminiscing.

5. Ask: what are you aware of behind yourself? In front is easy, we use our eyes. Humans have an almost over-reliance on vision. Get used to using the senses that don't rely on vision. Skin sensation, the pressure of a breeze on your body, the temperature of a room, the energy of another person or animal passing behind you.

6. It's fun to have a friend pass behind you at different distances. Learn from practicing easy exercises like this to calibrate exactly where other beings are in space relative to you. When you can do this, you will have Awakened that part of you that lived in caves millenia ago and knew within microns where things were in very dark places without candle nor moonshine to guide them. This is an old and valuable knowledge. And it came to those who were much more Awake than we are now.

Enjoy it.

The Present Moment - "The Now" is all the time that we ever have. It is all that is truly real, for the past once experienced is gone, and the future has not yet happened*. Now is all we truly have. May you make the most of yours....

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*Exception to the Above: The Now is all we have until we learn to manipulate time (which of course,
doesn't really exist), but this is deep magick indeed, and a topic for another time and place. Anon!

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Stay tuned for Even More Ways to Awaken inside of Life...