'The Work': Spiritual Teaching
CONTENT: Trusting feeling and emotions Experiences sensed and felt in your own body Inquiry - What is really so? What is important, right now? What is happening in the stream of your being? Feelings, experiences, thoughts, images, snatches of song, fleeting memories, associations......nothing is random, nothing What is here in this moment? Trusting your own experience What is happening in your life with food and eating? With money? With relationship/s? and sex? With....?
CONTEXT: Below-the-neck is more trustworthy than what-is-believed-in above the neck Recognizing that thoughts come from feelings, not the reverse Thoughts have feeling qualities, if we are sensitive to ourselves deeply enough Feeling - trusting emotion Experience sensed and felt in your own body Trusting yourself - life is trustworthy, you are trustworthy Your own experience is crucial Yearning and longing point the way Who - or what - are you?
DIALOG: Dropping into the deep space of yourself - with a friend and ally Being heard Feeling felt You are not alone - and you can feel that DOMAIN: What we deeply are is not separate from one another We are not two And not one Compassion, kindness and deep empathy for yourself and the other well up from this very miracle - completely human and spiritual |
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