Enjoy! Do let me know what topics would interest you for future videos. If you would like to get in touch with me you can always do so through my website: www.sam-gow.com or write me at: forordinaryminds@gmail.com
Thank you again Sam, this is so helpful to me. At times certain thoughts catch me off guard and I lose the peace. This will help me relax back into the visual field without getting resistant to the thought. Thank you ❤
Hi Sam, I appreciate all your doing to be of benefit. Something arose here in response to the title of this video. It seems saying "this easy shift disolves the thinker" can be a hook for those still conceptualizing non duality. Perhaps just adding something like "can" dissolve... Truly brought up from Love. I used to be so literal, had I read this and then it wasn't easy or I couldn't get it then there would be even more labeling and feelings of perhaps being stupid because what is being claimed didn't happen here. With Gratitude for your pointings. There is still a tendency to get hooked by words even recognizing we just made them all up. 😂
Hi there! Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos and I understand your point. An ideal title would be "This Easy Shift Can Dissolve The Sense Of Being A Thinker", but from experience I can say that the UA-cam algorithm is punishing such titles. Nuance can easily be lost in titles, but I do try to deliver that nuance in the actual video. There's certainly a tricky balance to be had where video titles are both appealing and accurate.
Hi Sam, thank you for sharing this video❤ In the past years I could do such practices and it really worked. However, I want to ask you something regarding my unconscious control on the body. When I sit down and keep quiet, after a while I begin to feel trouble in breathing and realise that its because my body is clenching around chest area and shoulders are going stiff. As I observe it more, it relaxes but then I feel the pelvis is clenching. I observe that, it relaxes but then I find that the chest is clenching again. I feel I developed some kind of unconscious unnecessary control on my body. What do you suggest?
Hi Sapna, you're very welcome! I would not worry about achieving anything like "full-body relaxation". The relaxation I'm talking about here is merely an an antitote the state of fixation that can occur, in which one seems to merged into thought constructions. The point is simply to unhook that fixation by opening and relaxing. A relaxation of the body often comes along with this relxation, but it is not the main point. Once there is some amount of relxation, we drop any attempt to rearrange our experience and enjoy the uncontrived, natural openness of awareness itself. It then doesn't matter whether the body appears to be contracted or relaxed, as these are simply different kind of sensations occuring in awareness. They are welcome here, regardless of how they appear. I hope this was helpful. Let me know if you have any further questions :)
Isn't going to sleep (while relaxing) the right response but at the extreme end? It's not functional but if there's so much relaxing, there is sleeping. But obviously to navigate the relative world we need to have some alertness but is this right?
Sleep when you want to sleep, relax if that's what feels like the right thing to do and be alert when alertness is required. Mind likes to complicate everything! Where is the one thinking all of this?
@@harjotmahal8985 Thank you for your responses. I guess I was speaking from mind, more intellectually, it seems that the relaxation of awareness is what leads us to sleep everynight where our mind disappears for a while (until mind starts up with dreams). This mind is definitely interested in understanding the mystery (or taking steps to understand it better). That has been its goal in life (which is infinite job security).
Hi Ram! Sure, too much relaxtion would mean falling into another extreme. The relaxation I'm pointing to here is merely an antidote to the state of fixation. Once there is some spaciousness, there is no need to relax further. This spaciousness is enjoyable in its own right, but it is more importantly an opening to awareness itself. Awareness itself is neither relaxed nor tense. It simply doesn't fall into our usual conceptual duality of relxation and fixation.
Also isn't this about attention, either narrowed/spotlight attention or relaxed/floodlight attention? If we relax attention, then that is the same as open eyes?
Enjoy! Do let me know what topics would interest you for future videos.
If you would like to get in touch with me you can always do so through my website: www.sam-gow.com
or write me at: forordinaryminds@gmail.com
Thanks
Thank you very much for the support, I really appreciate it!
man what the hell, this was more relaxing than any hottub, sauna, massage or anything. I am in deep relief. I owe you a beer. Phew. Deep deep relief
I'm glad it was helpful, Andrew!
Thank you again Sam, this is so helpful to me. At times certain thoughts catch me off guard and I lose the peace. This will help me relax back into the visual field without getting resistant to the thought. Thank you ❤
Thank you very much for the support, I really appreciate it and am glad the video was useful for you!
Mind-heart coherence will change the world!
If someone had taught me this 50yrs ago it would have saved so much grief. Thank you so much!❤
You're very welcome! The time to be unburdened is always now :)
Same here. This is well received. Deep
A great definition for Being: "Awake effortless knowing "
That's the best explanation as simple as possible I've ever heard. Well done. Eckhart Tolle would be proud of you. 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent! Resting as awareness, our natural state 💙💜💚💚
"Sometimes there is something to be done, other times there isn't."
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for bringing me back to NOW. I AM grateful. I Love you.
Wonderful!
😊This is good. Just a thought in expansive awareness. Just be, naturally & effortlessly.
The awakening happening because of youtube is amazing. Such a simple message. Thank you for your sharing ❤
So simple. Present@
Excellent technique, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice one! Simply beautifully put!
Glad you like it!
Beautiful as always. Thank you Sam 🙏
You're welcome Warren! I hope all is well.
Great video Sam!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks again.
My pleasure!
If you want your thinker dissolved, it already is.
Excellent video, thank you 🙏
My pleasure!
Thinking has become the enemy of overthinkers. Just get into action
Or non-doing 👁️
Hi Sam, I appreciate all your doing to be of benefit.
Something arose here in response to the title of this video. It seems saying "this easy shift disolves the thinker" can be a hook for those still conceptualizing non duality. Perhaps just adding something like "can" dissolve...
Truly brought up from Love.
I used to be so literal, had I read this and then it wasn't easy or I couldn't get it then there would be even more labeling and feelings of perhaps being stupid because what is being claimed didn't happen here. With Gratitude for your pointings.
There is still a tendency to get hooked by words even recognizing we just made them all up. 😂
Hi there! Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos and I understand your point. An ideal title would be "This Easy Shift Can Dissolve The Sense Of Being A Thinker", but from experience I can say that the UA-cam algorithm is punishing such titles. Nuance can easily be lost in titles, but I do try to deliver that nuance in the actual video. There's certainly a tricky balance to be had where video titles are both appealing and accurate.
THANK YOU FOR THIS
I'm glad it was useful!
Thank you 💗
You’re welcome 😊
Mind-Heart coherence aka heart based Consciousness. Breathe into the heart. Pause into the heart.
Exhale into the heart
Hi Sam, thank you for sharing this video❤ In the past years I could do such practices and it really worked. However, I want to ask you something regarding my unconscious control on the body. When I sit down and keep quiet, after a while I begin to feel trouble in breathing and realise that its because my body is clenching around chest area and shoulders are going stiff. As I observe it more, it relaxes but then I feel the pelvis is clenching. I observe that, it relaxes but then I find that the chest is clenching again. I feel I developed some kind of unconscious unnecessary control on my body. What do you suggest?
Have you tried Hatha Yoga?
@@sharkbanji4293 I have started doing Ashtanga Yoga. Body is slowly getting into it. Going to India next month, have plans to do Hatha Yoga.
Consider doing TRE
Hi Sapna, you're very welcome! I would not worry about achieving anything like "full-body relaxation". The relaxation I'm talking about here is merely an an antitote the state of fixation that can occur, in which one seems to merged into thought constructions. The point is simply to unhook that fixation by opening and relaxing. A relaxation of the body often comes along with this relxation, but it is not the main point. Once there is some amount of relxation, we drop any attempt to rearrange our experience and enjoy the uncontrived, natural openness of awareness itself. It then doesn't matter whether the body appears to be contracted or relaxed, as these are simply different kind of sensations occuring in awareness. They are welcome here, regardless of how they appear.
I hope this was helpful. Let me know if you have any further questions :)
Check out Eckhart Tolle...😊
Isn't going to sleep (while relaxing) the right response but at the extreme end? It's not functional but if there's so much relaxing, there is sleeping. But obviously to navigate the relative world we need to have some alertness but is this right?
Sleep when you want to sleep, relax if that's what feels like the right thing to do and be alert when alertness is required.
Mind likes to complicate everything!
Where is the one thinking all of this?
@@harjotmahal8985 Thank you for your responses. I guess I was speaking from mind, more intellectually, it seems that the relaxation of awareness is what leads us to sleep everynight where our mind disappears for a while (until mind starts up with dreams). This mind is definitely interested in understanding the mystery (or taking steps to understand it better). That has been its goal in life (which is infinite job security).
Hi Ram! Sure, too much relaxtion would mean falling into another extreme. The relaxation I'm pointing to here is merely an antidote to the state of fixation. Once there is some spaciousness, there is no need to relax further. This spaciousness is enjoyable in its own right, but it is more importantly an opening to awareness itself. Awareness itself is neither relaxed nor tense. It simply doesn't fall into our usual conceptual duality of relxation and fixation.
@@Sam_Gow excellent 👌
Also isn't this about attention, either narrowed/spotlight attention or relaxed/floodlight attention? If we relax attention, then that is the same as open eyes?
Yes ! Yes ! Yes!
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I am curious, are those church bells my imagination or real? ❤
They are real! I seem to often accidentally capture them in these videos.
Thanks. I have heard them several times! Thanks for your advices! ♥️🔔
Too much fear here 😢 Imense sadness
Constant mild headache and discomfort in the head
@@SparcBR You may need to see a doctor to be sure it's nothing serious.
What about the unconscious stuff in the body though?
🦋🕊🙏
Notice where you have tension on face, jaw or body
🔔🔔🔔
Nice! Lesley Bribie Island Qld Oz
Sorry " Awake effortless openness "
Thank You ✨💜✨
You're welcome!
Thank you 🙏🏼
You're very welcome!