2024-10-18
I look for belief systems that cash out in wise and effective action.
It is very funny that most western meditation courses start with attempts to have an experience: experience the breath, or the body, or a cessation.
Experiences can help increase awareness or relieve tensions, leading to more integrity. But the point is to end up with more integrity.
Training more awareness can help notice and release what’s blocking you, so you can have cleaner flow of energy. The point is to have stronger flow of energy.
Tensions are when there’s a mismatch between what some part of you knows, and what some other part is willing to acknowledge or do. Fewer tensions means more energy can flow through the system. Integrity is to decrease the diff between the the default actions and the more-life-affirming actions. High integrity is higher energy.
There’s a trust that the direction of higher-integrity is Good. The nervous system naturally gravitates towards directions that are life-giving, like a plant stretching to reach for sunlight.
Your nervous system has already internalized the cause-effect relationships, even if that connection hasn’t been allowed to become conscious yet.