Meditative self-inquiry in the non-dual tradition for groups and individuals: an in-depth dive into your essential nature
What an extraordinary experiment!
We welcome perceptions without trying to fix them or change them. We practice welcoming ourselves – and each other – in our brokenness – in our wholeness. We include and accompany the orphaned aspects back home into the sanctuary of belonging.
Can even unsafety be safe with us?
The Practice of Welcoming and iRest® offer life-skills in form of meditative self-inquiries that shift perspective and create a new track in the way our nervous system fires and wires together. Instead of addressing the Human Condition -and the human conditioning – as a “problem” this practice establishes parallel pathways of synaptic connections in our nervous system. The more we practice walking down that new pathway – “little and often” – the more the old habitual route is overgrown.
Like the arroyo– where energy in the form of water – leaves channels in the landscape, over time traces turn into deep and narrow grooves, with no alternative routes for the energy to travel. This is much like certain reactions and perceptions that have become embedded behavioral patterns in our nervous system. As we become aware of these established grooves in our neurocircuitry we learn to honor and respect them. Neither caught up in nor subjected to the fluidity of states we remain as witness to this aliveness.
We understand this is the organisms attempt to feel safe and secure.
Thankfully this landscape is adaptable and accommodates new energetic currents effortlessly.
The contours of what we perceive soften. The all-too-tight definition of ourselves bursts at the seams. We see through the mirage that held us safe and captive at the same time. While separation – individuation – is a necessary developmental stage in growing up and in navigating this organism through life it might also confine us to a limited repertoire of re-actions that keep us separate and delay our experience of freedom.
The invitation is to be aware of, observe and welcome phenomena that arise in the foreground of Awareness without getting tangled up in them. As we strengthen our ability to not identify with these perceptions space opens up. A new perspective is revealed when we allow this space to remain unfurnished and free of conceptual clutter. We learn to live in Not-Knowing.
The observer dissolves into observing, then into pure being.
– Nöle Giulini 2021
