This session details a practice session focused on inhabiting the body and exploring the “eye of awareness” to facilitate inner transformation and release.
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The Experiential Essence of the Session
The fundamental premise of this practice is that we rarely truly inhabit our bodies; approximately 98% of the time, our awareness is elsewhere, lost in thoughts, worries, or external observations. We often treat our bodies with a collective imprint of abandonment, a habit inherited from historical spiritual traditions that sought higher consciousness by leaving the body behind. This session invites a shift: viewing the body as a divine instrument that we must learn to operate truly and rightly.
The core of the experience lies in distinguishing between thinking and awareness. While the mind is trained to ask questions and seek answers, awareness is a sensorial “eye” that can move, rotate, and observe without judgment. By consciously rotating the eye of awareness, we can deeply see and feel the width and depth of all parts of our body, thus enabling us to do sadhana within our body. When we have physical or emotional problems, a small portion of our awareness which is trying to fully ‘see’, often gets stuck in those areas, reinforcing the darkness or the problem. By consciously rotating the eye of awareness, we provide an opportunity for that trapped awareness to release and reunite with a fuller state of consciousness.
This process can be done as meditation or even with eyes open. When we notice our awareness is stuck within a certain part or point, we can rotate it, and thus freeing awareness and recovering its capacity to look across the body.
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Key Concepts for a High-Level Glance
• Inhabiting the Body: Occupying your physical form rather than observing the world from a distance.
• The Eye of Awareness: A sensorial capacity that has directionality—it can see or sense from above, below, or within in all directions.
• Rotating Awareness: Changing the direction of your inner gaze to reveal hidden dimensions and release “stuck” states.
• The Mouth of Awareness: A micro-gesture of surrender where the “mouth” of your awareness widens to let go of what it has observed.
• Interconnectedness: Recognizing how different parts of the body respond or “cry out” when you focus on a specific area.
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The Guided Inner Practice: Step-by-Step
Follow these steps to conduct the inner practice as shared in the session.
Step 1: Inhabiting the Body and Natural Breath
• Begin by watching your natural breath for a minute or two.
• Take your awareness deep within your body. Do not just observe it; inhabit it.
• Relax and isolate thinking: Distinguish between the mind’s questions (e.g., “What am I doing?”) and the actual sensation of being in your body.
• Scan your form: Occupy your chest, back, pelvis, thighs, knees etc.
• Physical Micro-adjustments: Notice any tension. To hold yourself inwardly, slightly draw your toes and fingers inward in a very micro-movement.
Step 2: Selecting and Entering a Part
• Intuitively select a part of the body to work on. This could be a “difficulty zone” or a quieter area that needs attention.
• Drop into the part: Enter the area sensorially. Notice your directionality—are you seeing it from above, the side, or from within-from which direction?
• Free Exploration: Spend a few moments moving around this part. Use your current sensorial capacity, even if it feels like only 1%.
Step 3: Rotating the Eye of Awareness
• Shift your gaze: Intuitively change the direction of your observation. Look from below to above, or around the area, shifting directions.
• Observe Breath locally: Be aware of your breath in your nostrils while simultaneously feeling the part. You may notice pulsations increase or the part “opening up” as the breath moves within it.
• Glimpse the Above: From within that part, turn your awareness to point just above or outside the body (diagonally or vertically) to glimpse an opening beyond the “stuck” state.
Step 4: The Gesture of Surrender
• Widen the Mouth of Awareness: To prevent the awareness from holding onto the “imprint” of pain or darkness it has seen, practice a micro-posture of surrender.
• The Action: Extremely slightly widen the “mouth” of your awareness. This is a subtle movement of letting go, aspiring that what is seen is not held.
• Softening: Soften and melt at the level of the eye of awareness to gain freedom from what has been observed.
Step 5: Connection to the Divine
• Once you have “opened the mouth” in surrender, immediately turn your eye toward the Divine.
• This can be done by calling a name, visualizing an image, sensing a specific presence (like a Samadhi or a sacred space), or simply sensing the space above the body.
• This movement should be brief—even one second is enough to feel the Divine presence from that location.
Step 6: Recognizing Interconnected Points
• While staying focused on your chosen part, connect to the entire body.
• Notice if other points are “crying for attention” through pain or sensation. Alternatively, notice if other parts are releasing tension as you work.
• Travel with your eye of awareness to these interconnected points and repeat the process of minute observation, rotation, and surrender.
Step 7: Completion
• Return to fully occupying your whole body.
• Be with your breath in a quiet, receptive state for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Conclude the practice in your own time, remaining with yourself and the Divine
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SOME FOCUSSED QUESTIONS AND INSIGHTS
How can I better distinguish between thinking and awareness?
To better distinguish between thinking and awareness, you must learn to isolate the mental activity of the mind from the sensorial act of inhabiting the body. Here is how you can refine this distinction:
1. Recognise the Nature of the Activity
• Thinking is characterised by questions and answers. When you are in your mind, it will constantly pose questions such as “What am I doing?” or “What’s going on?”. If you find yourself answering these internal queries, you are engaged in thought rather than awareness.
• Awareness, by contrast, is an “in-gathering”. It is the act of occupying or inhabiting your physical form—such as your chest, back, pelvis, or thighs—without needing to provide mental commentary.
2. Monitor Physical “Activity Zones”
A key way to distinguish the two is to notice where the “energy” or activity is located in your head:
• Mental Observation: If your temple region or forehead becomes active or strained, it is a sign that you are trying to observe the body “from the mind”. This is an externalised, mental approach that “will not work” for deep inner practice.
• The Eye of Awareness: True awareness is a sensorial extension. It is a “sensorial eye” that exists within the part of the body you are focusing on, rather than looking down at it from the head. It is similar to the feeling of a hand placed on a body part; it is a felt sense rather than a thought process.
3. Identify Directionality
• Thinking is often a flat observation from a distance. However, the eye of awareness has directionality.
• To move from thinking into awareness, notice the specific direction from which you are sensing a body part—are you seeing it from above, below, or from the side?. By consciously rotating this gaze (looking from below to above, or around the area in multi directions), you engage the sensorial capacity of awareness and move away from the static nature of the thinking mind.
4. Practice Neutrality and Occupancy
• The mind often worries about the past or future, for example thinking that we are “not inhabiting our body” 98% of the time.
• Awareness is developed through the “hobby” of watching the natural breath. This builds neutrality, allowing you to simply “be” within the body as a divine instrument. While the mind might judge a sensation as a “problem,” awareness simply observes the “truth and the falsehood” of the sensation in a neutral, sensorial way.
In summary, if you are asking questions or feel tension in your forehead, you are thinking. If you are sensorially “parked” within a body part, feeling its pulsations, and able to rotate your internal gaze, you are in a state of awareness
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What does widening the mouth of awareness feel like?
Widening the mouth of awareness is an extremely subtle, micro-gesture of surrender performed at the level of your internal observation. Here is a detailed description of how this feels and how to perform it:
The Experiential Feeling of the Gesture
• A Sense of “Letting Go”: It feels like a conscious release of the “imprint” or memory of whatever the eye of awareness has just observed. If your awareness has been looking at a “stuck state” or a region of pain, widening the mouth feels like dropping the weight of that observation so you do not carry it with you.
• Softening and Melting: On a sensorial level, this practice is described as a state of melting and softening right at the point of observation. Instead of the awareness being a hard or fixed “looker,” it becomes a receptive, open space.
• Creating “Internal Space”: It is a “micro micro micro” movement that feels like an opening or a widening of the internal gaze or felt sense. This action provides a sense of freedom from the “truth or falsehood” of the sensations you have just investigated.
The Purpose: Why We “Widen the Mouth”
• Preventing Feedback Loops: When awareness observes a problem (physical or emotional), it can unconsciously “take that imprint” and feed it back to you, reinforcing the darkness or the problem. Widening the mouth ensures the awareness remains pure and does not “remember” or hold onto the difficulty.
• Preparation for the Divine: By “opening the mouth” and surrendering what was seen, you create the necessary detachment to immediately turn your eye toward the Divine or the space above the body without being weighed down by the “stuck” state.
How to Perform the Practice
1. Observe Minutely: First, use your “eye of awareness” to look into a body part from different directions.
2. Apply the Micro-gesture: A few seconds after observing, intentionally widen the “mouth” of your awareness slightly.
3. Hold the Aspiration: As you do this, maintain a quiet aspiration that “what is seen is not held” or “what is felt is not held”.
4. Transition: Once you feel that internal softening or “letting go,” use that same open gesture to connect to a higher presence or the Divine.
In summary, widening the mouth of awareness feels like breaking the grip of your own observation, moving from a state of “seeing a problem” to a state of neutral, surrendered openness
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How does rotating the eye help release trapped memories?
Rotating the “eye of awareness” helps release trapped memories by breaking the unconscious feedback loop that keeps a person stuck in a problem state. When a physical or emotional problem—or a trapped memory—exists in the body, a small portion of your awareness becomes stuck in that location. This fragmented awareness continuously “sees” the darkness or the problem, reinforcing its existence and preventing transformation.
The process of rotation facilitates release through several key mechanisms:
1. Breaking the Feedback Loop
The eye of awareness naturally has directionality; you might typically observe a body part only from above, the side, or from within. By consciously rotating this gaze—looking from below to above or around the area—you provide the “stuck” awareness an opportunity to release and reunite with your fuller awareness. This shift in perspective prevents the awareness from simply reinforcing the old imprint of the memory.
2. Revealing New Dimensions
Rotating the eye allows the “sensorial eye” to reveal different details and dimensions that were previously unseen. This helps you observe the “truth and the falsehood” of the trapped state. Shifting the directionality can reveal that while a part may feel “stuck,” there are points where the breath is fine or where the part can “open up”.
3. Glimpsing an “Opening”
From within a stuck state, you can orient your awareness to point just above or outside the body. This diagonal or vertical “glimpse” helps the awareness see an opening beyond the trapped memory, facilitating a shift away from the stagnant energy.
4. Purification and Reunification
We can describe the eye of awareness as the inner flame (Agni), which possesses the capacity for purification and transformation. By moving this “flame” through different directions, you enable it to act in its normal, free way rather than being confined to the memory.
5. Preventing the “Imprint” from Re-forming
To ensure the memory does not re-trap the awareness, the practice suggests a micro-gesture of surrender after rotation. By “widening the mouth of awareness,” you aspire not to hold onto the imprint of what was just seen, effectively dropping the memory so it is not fed back into your system. This softening and melting at the level of the eye grants you freedom from what has been observed
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