Blog Post #50, It’s Time for a Change in Direction

This blog post, which is post #50, will mark a drastic shift in the direction that FreeWithEFT.com is headed.  I had an incident a few weeks back, one in which I experienced life without the mind chatter or ego that was my usual norm.  For a week straight, I lived in the present moment unlike I had ever experienced it before, it was bliss, it was beautiful.

Much like Eckhart Tolle’s experience, I sat in nature for eight to twelve hours a day, just staring at the beauty of each blade of grass, leaf, bug, and bird that flew by.  Heightened by the lack of distractions that my mind had used as a coping mechanism for life, each moment was an adventure that I felt with all of my senses.  As a result of my releasing with EFT, Deeksha Oneness Blessings, dietary changes, and meditating, I had been granted the gift of “NOW”.

I experienced each moment with a tremendous amount of gratitude in my heart and peace throughout my body.  Nothing bothered me any more, nothing could shake this peace.  I experienced such a Oneness with nature, the divine, and all of humanity, I could feel the connection within every cell of my body.

As the week was coming to an end, the brain chatter of my ego began to slowly return.  Feeling disoriented, like I did not belong in the land of the awakened, or in my past reality of my ego, I discovered a wonderful book by Adyashanti called “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”.

He wrote the book as a means of assisting the large number of people who are experiencing awakening across the world. They are from all different religions and cultures, and yet experiencing the dissolution of self into the One consciousness of all existence.  He writes:

There’s a phenomenon happening in the world today.  More and more people are waking up—having real, authentic glimpses of reality.  By this I mean that people seem to be having moments where they awaken out of their familiar senses of self, and out of their familiar senses of what the world is, into a much greater reality—into something far beyond anything they knew existed.

These experiences of awakening differ from person to person.  For some, the awakening is sustained over time, while for to others the glimpse is momentary—it may last just a split second.  But in that instant, the whole sense of “self” disappears.  The way they perceive the wolrd suddenly changes, and they find themselves without any sense of separation between themselves and the rest oof the world.  It can be likened to the experience of waking up from a dream—a dream you didn’t even know you were in until you were jolted out of it.

He goes on to say…

This discovery I’m talking about is traditionally referred to as spiritual awakening, because one awakens from the dream of separation created by the egoic mind.  We realize—often quite suddenly—that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs, and images, is not really who we are.  It doesn’t define us; it has no center.  The ego may exist as a series of passing thoughts, beliefs, actions, and reactions, but in and of itself it has no identity.  Ultimately all of the images we have about ourselves and the world turn out to be nothing but a resistance to things as they are.  What we call ego is simply the mechanism our mind uses to resist life as it is.  in that way, ego isn’t a thing as much as it is a verb.  It is the resistance to what is…

…But with the dawn of awakening, this outside world begins to collapse.  Once we lose our sense of self, it’s as if we have lost the whole world as we knew it.  At that moment—whether that moment is just a glimpse or something more sustained—we suddenly realize with incredible clarity that what we truly are is in no way limited to the small sense of self that we thought we were.

Although I have slipped back into the dream state of my ego, my perspective has been forever altered, for now I am aware that I am dreaming and this is not reality.  I notice my ego now, not as myself, but as Adyashanti says as a collection of “ideas, beliefs, and images”.  I experience “relationships as a mirror” from a more self-loving perspective, where I am very gentle with myself when I feel triggered by a childhood trauma or limiting belief.  My relationships with friends, family, and loved ones have also been affected positively, as I connect more with their essence and not the story my mind had created about them.

From this new perspective of Oneness and presence, EFT has been the perfect tool to assist the process of honoring my remaining egoic triggers and mind chatter.  My newfound ability to notice the games my mind plays from a neutral yet loving perspective has proven invaluable in my self EFT sessions.  As a result, and with a little practice, I have been able to return to presence with relative ease, if even for only a few minutes or hours. 

This is the new perspective that FreeWithEFT.com will communicate with you, my readers, my friends.  It was already headed in this direction as I wrote “Relationships as a Mirror and EFT”, but from this post on, in addition to tapping with EFT, I will speak openly of awakening, enlightenment, Oneness, and experiencing presence.  This is who I am, this is me speaking and living my truth.  I am grateful for your friendship and I love YOU all unconditionally. 

With Divine Love,
Nathan

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