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”: to experience the breath, or the body, or a cessation.
Experiences can help increase awareness or relieve tensions, leading to more integrity, and so more energy. But the point is to end with more energy.
Training more awareness can help notice and release what’s blocking you, so you can have cleaner flow of energy. Awareness helps you notice tensions and misaligned parts. Fewer tensions means more energy can flow through the system. Integrity is to decrease the diff. 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 internalized the cause-effect relationships, even if those connections haven’t become conscious yet.