AutoMomy & Practice

Taking a look at what and who we are, when we get down to it, when we do not avoid our inner reality, becomes an honesty like no other. Many times people consider being alone a lonely experience and long time meditators find experience quite to the contrary. When surveyed alone vs. being surveyed while in the presence of another or others around us, scientific findings reveal that our “honest” answers change. Why many of my new meditators new to meditation become enthusiasts in just one session is because they can finally see a whole new approach to the practice of depending on their interior reality as their guide and that they indeed find interior guidance independent and far and away from the feel of being tethered to the externals of society, physicality, and that the interior of themselves is even enthralling and a place to take flight within, without having to go anywhere but right here, right now, open and curious and a pathway or sequence that is sturdy and reliable for trustworthy insight. Interior awareness is fascinating or becomes fascinating when done in an intuitive way rather than a pre-programed, cookie cutter, mass produced or intellectually canned way; instead being within your own unique signature rhythm where, just like learning to ride a bike, you learn to take flight of your interior imagination that is like no other, just you, all yours and only yours.

What motivates us to delve into awareness is as unique as our fingerprints. As you listen to the accounts of people who have meditated, you will see that each found their own unique “fulcrum” that fulfills their own unique circumstances of what they need. Some, find that they are going to graduate from high school finally, after changing school for various reasons 5 times previously due to finding themselves in a temper every week or two that resulted in violence they couldn’t tamper down until she found a place within herself apart and away from the entanglement of violent patterns that normally overtook her emotionally. Still, months later, her need was to not feel pain while giving labor to her first child, in the midst of complications. This is not something anyone can teach, this pain free version of childbirth is no guarantee and actually quite a feat! In her particular journey, in her method she has established and unlocked in herself, which only she can do, she did! Yet, another meditator found in his daily practice a way that yielded to a lower blood pressure and a release from deep grief and sadness that usually came around the time of Christmas season finding a better path and pattern of genuine appreciation of what he has. Everyone has a unique life path but the common denominator of all those speaking to their experience, that each in their own way, call it revolutionary, in so many words, life changing. The largest challenge is addressed and overcome. From being skeptical to fining the inner fulcrum in just one session is not uncommon, and why? Because the imagination, our senses, are all worth our willingness to explore openly when moment to moment the approach is in harmony with what is natural and apparent as the shape of our fingerprint. Each moment we step forward together is only a step forward that is unfolding uniquely in each new client, student, artist, executive; that we all have in common the basic human sensibility of what makes us human, which is our fundamental five senses that are more than meets the proverbial eye, an awareness following the simultaneous use of imagination, intuition, instinct that is recognizable to each of us in our own way. What happens in every “first session”, which is often and usually enough to embark with me, is simply a determination to explore moment to moment what has always been here in a moment to moment dialogue giving room for experience in each of of, together intuiting and speaking to what arises naturally now, and next, and I suggest following a sequence, like reading a “choose your own adventure” books, we open the doorways within and then the next doorway and this is the unique sequence that makes sense in each of us that is natural, trustworthy, revelatory, and finally, reliable in the return again and again, with the knowing how to “ride that bike” or “take an inner flight” or “hone in on the awareness” … finding each, the language that comes naturally based on your own particular past and inner inclination and sincere curiosity and willingness to become aware in a new way that is it’s own unique deep delight to discover and within it the seed, a taste like no other, enticing and welcoming, beckoning to come back to again and again to slake the thirst the outer world with all it’s offerings cannot fulfill, for you are you and only you are you, no one else is, so here you must go within to see just who it is you are and discover the shape of you, the invisible to everyone else but you, you. How exciting!

The subtle can endlessly enthrall if you allow it: that is what awareness practice is all about! You do it once, like learning to ride a bike once, and you’ve got it! All yours! That’s all I do, is show you how to ride your bike and it is like a miracle to me, every time it happens, as every bike is another shape, color, or found perhaps locked up somewhere, or might need air in it’s tires… but with our mutual cooperation, openness, curiosity, and gentle willingness… it works, every time, right when you’re ready, and that is up to you but every day is a special day, so today is that special day, every moment that special moment, always, waiting to be discovered, waiting for you! That is the miracle of every moment opening “now.”