Helpful yes! Thankyou. At 4am I woke up after a set of unusually threatening dreams where fear and insecurity dominated. Once awake I watched the reactive thoughts and coping mechanisms spring up. I reached for my phone.. soothing music was the idea. Then I let go of that idea. I felt into the uncomfortable residue and it was kind of unbearable. The old patterns of fearful responses felt real. Doubting my overall ability to transcend the onslaught of difficult hellish scenarios living life can bring. Followed by thoughts like - "This non dual awareness is just a fad.. you are weak in the face of danger" "Letting go into the sense fields works well while awake, but hey, I'm a victim in my dreams and ultimately in big trouble, I will fall into despair" "You need help from somewhere, connecting with ascended masters or praying etc." " You haven't changed " "Woke? Yea right " It was the biggest wobble so far in this process of letting go of thought structures.. This video is reassuring and helpful. I will ride on, no turning back. Shadow material welcome. Oh boy
This has been one of the most relevant aspects for me recently. Ive become very tired of my addiction to distraction. Sick of sickness, as the Tao Te Ching so eloquently puts it.
This was definitely helpful and also validating too. I just went through a really rough period that took me a little bit to figure out that I was heavily back into thoughts. Sometimes they are so subtle.
Thank you. I've been a mess this week, woke up again in the middle of the night, picked up my phone and saw this. I think it's exactly what I need right now. Commenting so this doesn't become just another video in a cascade of distraction.
This is perfect! One thing I've noticed lately is the "trick" that the unpleasant body sense (shame mostly for me) that triggers the escape into mind, is exactly what I go back to when I break the thinking by ignoring it in favor of the senses. So first impulse is that "I'm doing something wrong...again," because I feel that unpleasant sensation more strongly than I did when thinking or distracting.
Thank you Angelo. Reading the comments I see my experience reflected in them all - your timing is impeccable. Woke up today so triggered with shame and anger and my mind wants to project and protect and use my “secret weapon” (?!?) of shutting down. This reminder to redirect my attention away from all these false promises of salvation back to the senses is all I need today. Thank you for this lifeline of sanity 🙏🏻
OMG Angelo , this just is spot on! Oh my goodness this description of what’s been happening is so clear and there’s so much gratitude for how you lay this out so simplistically! Thank you so very much. Seeing this mechanism is so much a part of being able to ride the wave of deconstructingthat 💜
Are you kidding me?!💎💎💎 This is not pure gold, this is diamond. I already knew it somehow intuitively but somebody telling you straight to your face... is a game changer. thank you very much Angelo!❤ These kind of videos are my favourite and hit pretty hard🤩 Josh also points this out A LOT, multiple times, in his own style and I get it now even more why this is so important for "the process". Today you were the dharma reminder for me.🤗
I was just dealing with strong repressed emotions a few hours before you posted this video and I have a sense that watching it probably did just save me a ton of time and unnecessary struggle in the long run 😅 Thank you for describing everything so clearly!
Yes, thank you, most helpful, bringing more clarity to how quick I am ready to use the mind, when a repressed emotion or reactivity arise, I at times, though not always soothe it with thoughts, utube videos or food, I am to a certain degree aware of what I am doing to calm the emotion or reactivity, yet don't always choose to go to the sense field into body awareness and feel what is arising in my direct experience without mind noise distracting me, I'm kind of in the middle of the stream, half 'n half, since I can ride the reactivity out through the senses or still use the mind or food to placate the stirring of discomfort. Not quite polished yet.
This is SO on point for me at this time. I am amazed that you can describe, so clearly and precisely, my inner experience. Thank you! This is very helpful.
Very helpful, thank you for making videos shaddow work related, it seems the most important and harder part so far in this process. Practising this already, and it is a really nice reminder to keep going. At times it feels easier to keep attention in the body in the sences, times mind just becomes so intense, like no matter how good intentions i have to keep attention in the body, mind pulls it in back into thought space, and in these moments no agency actually clearly noticed, no personal will, just happening
Angelo, so so helpful, the space you speak of is so minuscule, sneaky, tiny and nearly undetectable. I’ve been ‘watching’ this… uncomfortable feeling/event>mental image >emotion/reaction…. Working on this over the last 2 weeks!!! It happens so fast!! I then return to the senses and THIS…. Poof 💨 🙏🏽💖 Trusting the process
Thank you so so much for all you that you share. I'm in a deeper process since 2 months of feeling deeper layers and recognizing survival thinking patterns. It sounds as the most complex and simple thing at the same time, but very helpful 🙏
It's literally the last week or so I've actually realised I have the capacity to just feel into these emotions fully, instead of resisting them and going into the mind to distract myself. What's weird is I didn't even know what an emotion was until I googled it a couple of weeks back lol. I'd read Angelos book twice but both times I struggled so bad to take in the emotion chapter I just skimmed through it without taking anything in. Realise now that the mind didn't want to go there at all. Now I can read the emotion chapter no problem and have read it properly 3 times and will continue to read over it. Also I'm currently half way through a book Angelo recommended in one of his older videos called The Power Of Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell, this has been so helpful also, so might be worth checking out for anyone in similar place. Much love ❤
This couldn’t be more timely. And validating for me! I just decided that the simplicity of it is when emotion arises, put your attention on the physical sensation, the strongest physical sensation you can find, and when thoughts arise note them, as in meditation, labeling them “thought “ When you don’t let yourself think you really really do see exactly what it is you are avoiding. And it is simply “this feeling right here! “ It’s quite challenging to do. But it truly is utterly simple!
i made a condensed version, helps me recognize more clearly what's going on in my experience, hope this is helpful: using thought to pacify/soothe oneself, through fantasy, distraction, screen use, arguing etc. is a coping mechanism: we feel uncomfortable for some reason, we move into the mind. we can’t notice we’re doing this before mind-identification starts to dissolve, then it becomes clear how deep the habit is. the brain’s default mode network always lays conceptual overlay over reality, so there’s always this onramp for mental activity to take over. it’s very tightly woven and seems like a lot of work to take down. after awakening it starts to feel wrong to give in to this habit, but mind will defend against this realization with doubt and threats. when you notice that happening you need to move out of thought into the sense fields, body, sound, sight. it can be an intense experience, discomfort about a strong emotion was the trigger and that’s still there, but staying out of mind will make it easier to feel it and let it be. you can go right to the intensity and stay there. the habit to follow thought and stay in it dissolves, and instead when you notice this kind of thought you take it as a signal to come back to sensing and presence. the struggle of mind with itself is experienced as different parts pushing and pulling on each other, as if these parts have their own will, this is the basis of the tendency to feel separate, like a doer. in the sensation fields there is no struggle, the more you orient on them the less isolated and helpless you feel.
It does get much easier..Been at it for a while but nothing else but keeping at it brings any lasting results.And the admission of that fact is maturity, sobriety..Unless you prefer to have another go on the not so merry go round.
Movement away from WHAT IS seems to be the whole damned game. There is discomfort in what is, thought resists this discomfort, and forms an identity around the resistance. The whole movement is rather absurd, but that doesn't stop it from being damned convincing.
Thank you Angelo, this video is a powerful pointer and a reminder to keep it simple, just the bodily sentations and everything will be revealed to you.
This is very helpful, thank you. I would say that I have now reached a point where I mostly choose to sit with the shadow rather than turn away from it. I still employ ‘escape mechanisms’ such as thought and occasionally other forms such as internet, TV and alcohol. But I consciously choose those, sometimes because I teach a point where, after hours exploring the darkness, I have had enough and can’t take any more.
I’m also curious about this. I had a few days last week at work where I tried to stay aware of bodily sensations all day, and those days ended up feeling extremely unnatural and weird. I wonder how we practically do this.
Orienting toward the body’s sensations was extremely powerful for me. It opened me right up. I did one guided body dissolving meditation and then carried that with me. Try focussing on the bodily sensations of your feet hitting the ground, your knees bending and your arms swinging etc. when you’re walking. You can keep open the apeture to everything else while doing this: sounds, sights etc. You might be amazed what can happen. Also, focussing on the bodily sensations in bed before sleeping or just after waking up can also be extremely powerful. Over the last two days I was struggling to deal with a family crisis and came to the conclusion Angelo talks about here. So timely.
I can’t say thank you enough. This video is one of the most helpful pieces of advice I have ever received. Your guidance is like a lighthouse in stormy seas.
Oh yes, oh my god so helpful! I’ve started to notice that disassociation and distraction has become sort of uncomfortable, but actually not knowing why. This video explains a lot! Everything in topic 🙏❤
Angello , Thank you so much, you feel so spot on to me and take me into the oneness. I needed to look at shadow work as I wondered if there was an easier way as its like entering a long dark tunnel that you don't if the end is bricked up and then the entrance will fall in behind you as you go in. I was practicing going into the feeling and did feel eventual easing, I got process this initially from Ekhart and Sedona method. But gave up a long time ago as could not confront it and suppressants became the therapy. I restarted recently due to an internal push and had been doing it the right way but with no confidence. watching this has just slapped me round the face and given me the excitement of an open end to the tunnel. Feeling a new lightness coming in all the time with understanding and dissolving. SO HELPFUL.
I like this because observing the mind can sometimes feel like im playing into it’s game and giving it more power than i should. I often question if that’s making the mind play up more. Great video. It’s funny how you put people asleep during the Day and wake them up when u get home 😂
Very helpful, clear, and relevant to what I'm going through right now. It is kind of amazing how relentless my mind is at trying to (and many time succeeding) at co-opting me. It feels daunting sometimes, but luckily I have been able to see progress.
Thank you so much for making these videos. I am so grateful. I just bought your book. My mind has been so loud and emotions so strong. For me, what sets you apart from other teachers is that you seem so genuinely kind. Thank you.
Also thoughts that hide as a memory of a thought are nasty. 'About 5 seconds ago I had this image come up . . ." These thoughts are less powerful now since I have trouble believing in memory, and if I really did have this particular image or thought reallt come up 4.5 moments ago. When its a memory and you are certain its a memory its easy to cling to the contents of the memory and start being mind identified again. Your inquiry on time really help me see through memory. Another good example is, I find myself meditating in a park, and I dont identify as a meditator who has destroyed ego and what not during this time. But I come home and I have a memory of this and I at that moment only place the label of 'cringe' to it. It was never embarassing, identifying, but now in thsi moment it was made into soemthing its not. Thabk you for this❤
I think I'm in this space. I can see the truth on the tip of my awareness, but a part is contracting back and telling me all kinds of very compelling stories. "I'm just not ready. It will be too much. My husband and kids won't understand. I'll start acting bizarre, and I won't know if it's just another ego trip, because how does anyone really know anything? I'm not really part of the universe. My will is all I have. My attempt to understand shouldn't be dismissed as futile. Our genius lies in our ability to learn from the past, from science. Losing that means an evolutionary step backwards. Without it, we're just helpless playthings of an unknowable and impersonal universe with our eyes forced open like that guy in A Clockwork Orange, compelled to watch something we don't even exist in. It's just a meaningless light show for all we know. And anyway, I have three books to write. How am I going to do that if I have no aims, no goals? What if it pulls me away to something else and the books never get written? I get that control doesn't work, but total surrender? Like, yeah, it makes sense, and things are heading toward accepting that. But... So I'm just stuck like a fly in amber in some multi-dimensional object of no time and no space with no purpose? And I'm not allowed to ask who came up with the whole thing or why? And so what if I do surrender? It doesn't seem to matter anyway, since everything is already written..." Chatter chatter chatter... It knows how to get under my skin. I am abiding. Letting it play itself out. No idea what will happen or when. This is just what's happening now.
Hi Angelo, yet another amazing and incredibly helpful video. I'm reminded of a message that would pop up on my smart phone: ' Power intensive app. operating in the background and draining the battery'! I always think this is a useful metaphor for the ego, or the subtle sense of separation and identification which can still operate in the shadows. All your pointings and guidance shines a light on these places and creates an opportunity to bring it in to awareness. Even just knowing about these attachments and processes, without the need to get rid of them, can create such a shift. Profound gratitude to you for all that you do, it's an invaluable and supportive companion on our journey of self enquiry and realisation. ❤🙏 X
This is really helpful my brother. I noticed that i was doing that without knowing that i was doing it specially on those dificult moments.. now make a lot of sense to me what u are saying! Thanks :)
I can relate and have been through this. The lies that can come up.. "You are goimg to go blind if you contniue this process..." etc. And the senses. The focus on the senses as a remedy for present centered awareness. But eventually the focusing on the senses still can feel like someone doing something. Awakening through the senses is the essence of Vipassana. It too, cam be helpful over here, in this body still. But there have been times that that too can fall away. As the root of the "I" thought behind every thoiught has been seen. And thought its;ef can begin to collapse.
Superb description if what's been happening here. I'd take it a step further and say those sensations, those contracted energies which need to be felt are that which directly produces the thoughts. Based around fear , anger and desire. Desire thought is a powerful 1 to distract away from feeling the fear. The desire is another contracted energy that needs to be felt and purged just like fear
This is very helpful. I am noticing this more and more especially when inquiring. As soon as the contraction in my solar plexus increases, which it seems is always there, the mind pulls me away. My attention shifts. It’s like a back and forth movement- sensation, attention goes to a thought like I can’t handle this, then back to attention on sensation. I also notice (usually after) getting pulled into thought when trying to focus on watching one of your videos. Out nowhere- wonder what’s on Facebook? So subtle. Anyway, great video. Very helpful.
Yes to this. The mind is incredibly seductive and insidious in its ability to co-opt our consciousness. It's almost like the mind doubts its own existence and insists on thinking thoughts to prove that it does indeed exist. But at such a cost to our experience of life. And so lately I have been trying to go on a "thought diet," cutting down on my number of thoughts per day and focusing instead on my sensations. This video helped to confirm. Thank you!
Great stuff Angelo, very descriptive and somewhat familiar as to what I've been increasingly experiencing recently, as if the mind is having less of a gravitational pull, so only the more severely, extreme emotionally charged forms of thought can can really get through to break up the that peace of presence. I've read in the Course of Miracles that as the soul goes through deeper stages of realisation it becomes increasingly more sensitive to discomfort and suffering, thus less tolerant of negativity or heaviness, that gravity of struggle with oneself. Thank you as always, you're one of the teachers I most resonate with and always come back to, and you never disappoint to bring something new to the table on this subject, just listening to you talk alone almost always instantly brings me to this space 😉
When In doubt come back to the senses and just feel then just stay there. Don’t believe thoughts about why you feel the way you do, just feel. Presence will reveal itself inevitably.
I guess my mechanism is to seek explanation for thoughts and emotions instead of just letting them be. Like there must be a reason this thought or this emotion is here and I need to explore whatever it is. if I understand it more I can prevent the behavior that caused the emotion to be there in the first place. I’m pretty sure I have lived my whole life to this point doing that.
Can't figure out if you're getting better and better describing the nuance of this deep process, or if I'm getting better and better grasping the profound colors of your . Rather, it seems like it's simultaneously happening... neither from one nor the other, but simply by this mysterious silent profundity of all, whispering through your empty canvas. 💙🙏
For me personally this was one of the most helpful videos I've ever watched.
Perhaps the most helpful.
Helpful yes! Thankyou. At 4am I woke up after a set of unusually threatening dreams where fear and insecurity dominated. Once awake I watched the reactive thoughts and coping mechanisms spring up. I reached for my phone.. soothing music was the idea. Then I let go of that idea. I felt into the uncomfortable residue and it was kind of unbearable. The old patterns of fearful responses felt real. Doubting my overall ability to transcend the onslaught of difficult hellish scenarios living life can bring. Followed by thoughts like -
"This non dual awareness is just a fad.. you are weak in the face of danger"
"Letting go into the sense fields works well while awake, but hey, I'm a victim in my dreams and ultimately in big trouble, I will fall into despair"
"You need help from somewhere, connecting with ascended masters or praying etc."
" You haven't changed "
"Woke? Yea right "
It was the biggest wobble so far in this process of letting go of thought structures..
This video is reassuring and helpful. I will ride on, no turning back. Shadow material welcome. Oh boy
I’m right with you blue sky eyes slap a smile on ya face and let’s crack on peace and love to you
@@martynbrown1347 that's really nice thankyou brother 🤗
I can absolutely relate to what you are saying here.
Not only is this amazingly helpful, but you as an apparent individual are just the most incredible conduit of this simplicity and communication
I realize more and more how much I suffer and how much that sufferance seems absolutely unavoidable
This has been one of the most relevant aspects for me recently. Ive become very tired of my addiction to distraction. Sick of sickness, as the Tao Te Ching so eloquently puts it.
This was definitely helpful and also validating too. I just went through a really rough period that took me a little bit to figure out that I was heavily back into thoughts. Sometimes they are so subtle.
You asked to let you know if this is helpful.... This is helpful. 👌🏼👍🏻🙏🏻
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. I've been a mess this week, woke up again in the middle of the night, picked up my phone and saw this. I think it's exactly what I need right now. Commenting so this doesn't become just another video in a cascade of distraction.
This is perfect! One thing I've noticed lately is the "trick" that the unpleasant body sense (shame mostly for me) that triggers the escape into mind, is exactly what I go back to when I break the thinking by ignoring it in favor of the senses. So first impulse is that "I'm doing something wrong...again," because I feel that unpleasant sensation more strongly than I did when thinking or distracting.
Thinking that line from "Stairway to Heaven"
And as we wind on down rhe road
Our shadows taller than our souls"
And if you listen very hard
The truth will come to you at last
Where all is one and one is all
Thank you Angelo. Reading the comments I see my experience reflected in them all - your timing is impeccable. Woke up today so triggered with shame and anger and my mind wants to project and protect and use my “secret weapon” (?!?) of shutting down. This reminder to redirect my attention away from all these false promises of salvation back to the senses is all I need today. Thank you for this lifeline of sanity 🙏🏻
OMG Angelo , this just is spot on! Oh my goodness this description of what’s been happening is so clear and there’s so much gratitude for how you lay this out so simplistically! Thank you so very much. Seeing this mechanism is so much a part of being able to ride the wave of deconstructingthat 💜
Wonderful
This is SO clear and validating of what has been happening here. So much gratitude for your skillful pointings!!❤🙏🏻☯️
Are you kidding me?!💎💎💎
This is not pure gold, this is diamond. I already knew it somehow intuitively but somebody telling you straight to your face... is a game changer. thank you very much Angelo!❤
These kind of videos are my favourite and hit pretty hard🤩
Josh also points this out A LOT, multiple times, in his own style and I get it now even more why this is so important for "the process".
Today you were the dharma reminder for me.🤗
"Josh"?
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I was just dealing with strong repressed emotions a few hours before you posted this video and I have a sense that watching it probably did just save me a ton of time and unnecessary struggle in the long run 😅 Thank you for describing everything so clearly!
Thank you for this video. Shadow work can be very confusing and this is very helpful.
Yes, thank you, most helpful, bringing more clarity to how quick I am ready to use the mind, when a repressed emotion or reactivity arise, I at times, though not always soothe it with thoughts, utube videos or food, I am to a certain degree aware of what I am doing to calm the emotion or reactivity, yet don't always choose to go to the sense field into body awareness and feel what is arising in my direct experience without mind noise distracting me, I'm kind of in the middle of the stream, half 'n half, since I can ride the reactivity out through the senses or still use the mind or food to placate the stirring of discomfort. Not quite polished yet.
This is immensely helpful. I almost asked on your last video for help with exactly this, but didn't know how to articulate it.
Yes!
Extremely helpful, thank you!
You have help me so much in my journey
You always exactly confirm my experience and you hold the lantern leading the way🌟
Yes, very very helpful, Angelo. Thank you❤
This is SO on point for me at this time. I am amazed that you can describe, so clearly and precisely, my inner experience. Thank you! This is very helpful.
Very helpful, thank you for making videos shaddow work related, it seems the most important and harder part so far in this process.
Practising this already, and it is a really nice reminder to keep going.
At times it feels easier to keep attention in the body in the sences, times mind just becomes so intense, like no matter how good intentions i have to keep attention in the body, mind pulls it in back into thought space, and in these moments no agency actually clearly noticed, no personal will, just happening
Angelo, so so helpful, the space you speak of is so minuscule, sneaky, tiny and nearly undetectable. I’ve been ‘watching’ this… uncomfortable feeling/event>mental image >emotion/reaction…. Working on this over the last 2 weeks!!! It happens so fast!! I then return to the senses and THIS…. Poof 💨 🙏🏽💖
Trusting the process
Thank you so so much for all you that you share. I'm in a deeper process since 2 months of feeling deeper layers and recognizing survival thinking patterns. It sounds as the most complex and simple thing at the same time, but very helpful 🙏
It's literally the last week or so I've actually realised I have the capacity to just feel into these emotions fully, instead of resisting them and going into the mind to distract myself. What's weird is I didn't even know what an emotion was until I googled it a couple of weeks back lol. I'd read Angelos book twice but both times I struggled so bad to take in the emotion chapter I just skimmed through it without taking anything in. Realise now that the mind didn't want to go there at all.
Now I can read the emotion chapter no problem and have read it properly 3 times and will continue to read over it. Also I'm currently half way through a book Angelo recommended in one of his older videos called The Power Of Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell, this has been so helpful also, so might be worth checking out for anyone in similar place. Much love ❤
Beyond helpful...a game changer thank you!🙏
Beautiful sharing ❤ right on time 🤛🏻
This couldn’t be more timely. And validating for me!
I just decided that the simplicity of it is when emotion arises, put your attention on the physical sensation, the strongest physical sensation you can find, and when thoughts arise note them, as in meditation, labeling them “thought “
When you don’t let yourself think you really really do see exactly what it is you are avoiding. And it is simply “this feeling right here! “
It’s quite challenging to do. But it truly is utterly simple!
Extremely helpful and the only way to go as far as I can see! 🙏🏻❤️
i made a condensed version, helps me recognize more clearly what's going on in my experience, hope this is helpful:
using thought to pacify/soothe oneself, through fantasy, distraction, screen use, arguing etc. is a coping mechanism: we feel uncomfortable for some reason, we move into the mind. we can’t notice we’re doing this before mind-identification starts to dissolve, then it becomes clear how deep the habit is. the brain’s default mode network always lays conceptual overlay over reality, so there’s always this onramp for mental activity to take over. it’s very tightly woven and seems like a lot of work to take down.
after awakening it starts to feel wrong to give in to this habit, but mind will defend against this realization with doubt and threats. when you notice that happening you need to move out of thought into the sense fields, body, sound, sight. it can be an intense experience, discomfort about a strong emotion was the trigger and that’s still there, but staying out of mind will make it easier to feel it and let it be. you can go right to the intensity and stay there. the habit to follow thought and stay in it dissolves, and instead when you notice this kind of thought you take it as a signal to come back to sensing and presence.
the struggle of mind with itself is experienced as different parts pushing and pulling on each other, as if these parts have their own will, this is the basis of the tendency to feel separate, like a doer. in the sensation fields there is no struggle, the more you orient on them the less isolated and helpless you feel.
Thank you for putting this out… very practical and simple.
This is beautiful ❤ and very helpful ❤Thank you ❤
Brilliant and super helpful
Wow !! Exactly what I need to hear! very encouraging ! I’m really getting some horrendous thoughts coming up atm ! thanks so much 💯❤️🥰🧚🏽
🙏🏻 learning to say yes and this
It does get much easier..Been at it for a while but nothing else but keeping at it brings any lasting results.And the admission of that fact is maturity, sobriety..Unless you prefer to have another go on the not so merry go round.
“The not so merry go round.” That’s a good one. 😂
Movement away from WHAT IS seems to be the whole damned game. There is discomfort in what is, thought resists this discomfort, and forms an identity around the resistance. The whole movement is rather absurd, but that doesn't stop it from being damned convincing.
Thank you Angelo, this video is a powerful pointer and a reminder to keep it simple, just the bodily sentations and everything will be revealed to you.
Yes, very helpful. It is also helpful to get reminded ;-)
Very powerful. Very clear. Even going to non-dual video can be a form of pacification.
Darn, so sneaky!!!
Thank you so much Angelo. This is definitely helpful!!
A great explanation of the habit of disassociating
This is very helpful, thank you. I would say that I have now reached a point where I mostly choose to sit with the shadow rather than turn away from it.
I still employ ‘escape mechanisms’ such as thought and occasionally other forms such as internet, TV and alcohol. But I consciously choose those, sometimes because I teach a point where, after hours exploring the darkness, I have had enough and can’t take any more.
Just listened to this video…perfect time. Just what I needed encouragement on…mind is working overtime to deal out distractions. Thank you.
So just orient toward the senses at all times?
I’m also curious about this. I had a few days last week at work where I tried to stay aware of bodily sensations all day, and those days ended up feeling extremely unnatural and weird. I wonder how we practically do this.
Orienting toward the body’s sensations was extremely powerful for me. It opened me right up. I did one guided body dissolving meditation and then carried that with me.
Try focussing on the bodily sensations of your feet hitting the ground, your knees bending and your arms swinging etc. when you’re walking. You can keep open the apeture to everything else while doing this: sounds, sights etc. You might be amazed what can happen.
Also, focussing on the bodily sensations in bed before sleeping or just after waking up can also be extremely powerful.
Over the last two days I was struggling to deal with a family crisis and came to the conclusion Angelo talks about here. So timely.
@@renko9067 that's awesome. Thanks it definitely helps!
Thank god for reminding me of this.
I can’t say thank you enough. This video is one of the most helpful pieces of advice I have ever received. Your guidance is like a lighthouse in stormy seas.
Thank you for this! I am starting to dive into shadow work and am worried about navigating and integrating.
This came at the exactly right time. So helpful, as the mind intensifies to such intense degrees after having its worldview seriously challenged.
Perfect timing and message. Thank you so much for the clarity that comes from the depth of your being. Very helpful. 🙏♥
Oh yes, oh my god so helpful! I’ve started to notice that disassociation and distraction has become sort of uncomfortable, but actually not knowing why. This video explains a lot! Everything in topic 🙏❤
12:46 ❤
It's amazing how well you describe how this feels like, so spot on. Thanks a lot for your videos, Angelo.
Angello , Thank you so much, you feel so spot on to me and take me into the oneness. I needed to look at shadow work as I wondered if there was an easier way as its like entering a long dark tunnel that you don't if the end is bricked up and then the entrance will fall in behind you as you go in. I was practicing going into the feeling and did feel eventual easing, I got process this initially from Ekhart and Sedona method. But gave up a long time ago as could not confront it and suppressants became the therapy. I restarted recently due to an internal push and had been doing it the right way but with no confidence. watching this has just slapped me round the face and given me the excitement of an open end to the tunnel. Feeling a new lightness coming in all the time with understanding and dissolving. SO HELPFUL.
I like this because observing the mind can sometimes feel like im playing into it’s game and giving it more power than i should. I often question if that’s making the mind play up more. Great video. It’s funny how you put people asleep during the Day and wake them up when u get home 😂
Very helpful, clear, and relevant to what I'm going through right now. It is kind of amazing how relentless my mind is at trying to (and many time succeeding) at co-opting me. It feels daunting sometimes, but luckily I have been able to see progress.
Good to hear. It’s rather non-linear. It can feel rather disorienting and stagnant for a while. But the work is being done. ✔️
In answer to your question, yes, very helpful.
It's funny just before you said "oh I'm interested in something else now" is exactly what started happening with my mind. 😂 Thank you for the video!
Love that!
Thank you so much for making these videos. I am so grateful. I just bought your book. My mind has been so loud and emotions so strong. For me, what sets you apart from other teachers is that you seem so genuinely kind. Thank you.
I keep returning to this video. It is helping me a lot. On my way to making the sensing primary. Not there yet, but certainly on my way! ❤
Wonderful!
Also thoughts that hide as a memory of a thought are nasty. 'About 5 seconds ago I had this image come up . . ."
These thoughts are less powerful now since I have trouble believing in memory, and if I really did have this particular image or thought reallt come up 4.5 moments ago. When its a memory and you are certain its a memory its easy to cling to the contents of the memory and start being mind identified again. Your inquiry on time really help me see through memory.
Another good example is, I find myself meditating in a park, and I dont identify as a meditator who has destroyed ego and what not during this time. But I come home and I have a memory of this and I at that moment only place the label of 'cringe' to it. It was never embarassing, identifying, but now in thsi moment it was made into soemthing its not.
Thabk you for this❤
Welcome!
Extremely helpful!
Love this, good and strait, thanks Angelo.
Yeah "the flip". Super helpful man!
I feel like it's still landing with me, but I can sense that this is really helpful (or going to be haha!)... thank you Angelo! :)
Thank you!! VERY helpful!❤
I think I'm in this space. I can see the truth on the tip of my awareness, but a part is contracting back and telling me all kinds of very compelling stories.
"I'm just not ready. It will be too much. My husband and kids won't understand. I'll start acting bizarre, and I won't know if it's just another ego trip, because how does anyone really know anything? I'm not really part of the universe. My will is all I have. My attempt to understand shouldn't be dismissed as futile. Our genius lies in our ability to learn from the past, from science. Losing that means an evolutionary step backwards. Without it, we're just helpless playthings of an unknowable and impersonal universe with our eyes forced open like that guy in A Clockwork Orange, compelled to watch something we don't even exist in. It's just a meaningless light show for all we know. And anyway, I have three books to write. How am I going to do that if I have no aims, no goals? What if it pulls me away to something else and the books never get written? I get that control doesn't work, but total surrender? Like, yeah, it makes sense, and things are heading toward accepting that. But... So I'm just stuck like a fly in amber in some multi-dimensional object of no time and no space with no purpose? And I'm not allowed to ask who came up with the whole thing or why? And so what if I do surrender? It doesn't seem to matter anyway, since everything is already written..."
Chatter chatter chatter... It knows how to get under my skin.
I am abiding. Letting it play itself out. No idea what will happen or when. This is just what's happening now.
SO helpful. Thank you 🙏💕
This is great! Thank you for all you do ❤
Exceedingly helpful.
Extremely helpful.
Truly helpful 🙏🏻
You are always doing such a great job in putting things in a way that is really easy to understand for me, thank you so much! Greets from Holland💛
You're very welcome!
Hi Angelo, yet another amazing and incredibly helpful video. I'm reminded of a message that would pop up on my smart phone: ' Power intensive app. operating in the background and draining the battery'! I always think this is a useful metaphor for the ego, or the subtle sense of separation and identification which can still operate in the shadows. All your pointings and guidance shines a light on these places and creates an opportunity to bring it in to awareness. Even just knowing about these attachments and processes, without the need to get rid of them, can create such a shift. Profound gratitude to you for all that you do, it's an invaluable and supportive companion on our journey of self enquiry and realisation. ❤🙏 X
Soooooo helpful!! I’ve been experiencing this to a tea for several days. Thank you!!!
Excellent! Very helpful and understandable. Thank you. ❤
Very helpful. Really explains things.. 🎉 Tnx!
This is really helpful my brother. I noticed that i was doing that without knowing that i was doing it specially on those dificult moments.. now make a lot of sense to me what u are saying! Thanks :)
I can relate and have been through this. The lies that can come up.. "You are goimg to go blind if you contniue this process..." etc. And the senses. The focus on the senses as a remedy for present centered awareness. But eventually the focusing on the senses still can feel like someone doing something. Awakening through the senses is the essence of Vipassana. It too, cam be helpful over here, in this body still. But there have been times that that too can fall away. As the root of the "I" thought behind every thoiught has been seen. And thought its;ef can begin to collapse.
Superb description if what's been happening here. I'd take it a step further and say those sensations, those contracted energies which need to be felt are that which directly produces the thoughts. Based around fear , anger and desire. Desire thought is a powerful 1 to distract away from feeling the fear. The desire is another contracted energy that needs to be felt and purged just like fear
OK, Put the attention into the body senses, sensations. Keep Feeling!!
Yes really helpful. As ever you seem to know just what needs tweaked.
This is very helpful. I am noticing this more and more especially when inquiring. As soon as the contraction in my solar plexus increases, which it seems is always there, the mind pulls me away. My attention shifts. It’s like a back and forth movement- sensation, attention goes to a thought like I can’t handle this, then back to attention on sensation.
I also notice (usually after) getting pulled into thought when trying to focus on watching one of your videos. Out nowhere- wonder what’s on Facebook? So subtle.
Anyway, great video. Very helpful.
Thank you, Angelo ❤
Welcome!
Yes to this. The mind is incredibly seductive and insidious in its ability to co-opt our consciousness. It's almost like the mind doubts its own existence and insists on thinking thoughts to prove that it does indeed exist. But at such a cost to our experience of life. And so lately I have been trying to go on a "thought diet," cutting down on my number of thoughts per day and focusing instead on my sensations. This video helped to confirm. Thank you!
Thank you Angelo
welcome
Great stuff Angelo, very descriptive and somewhat familiar as to what I've been increasingly experiencing recently, as if the mind is having less of a gravitational pull, so only the more severely, extreme emotionally charged forms of thought can can really get through to break up the that peace of presence. I've read in the Course of Miracles that as the soul goes through deeper stages of realisation it becomes increasingly more sensitive to discomfort and suffering, thus less tolerant of negativity or heaviness, that gravity of struggle with oneself. Thank you as always, you're one of the teachers I most resonate with and always come back to, and you never disappoint to bring something new to the table on this subject, just listening to you talk alone almost always instantly brings me to this space 😉
When In doubt come back to the senses and just feel then just stay there. Don’t believe thoughts about why you feel the way you do, just feel. Presence will reveal itself inevitably.
It’s very helpful, 🙏 Thank you ❤
You’re welcome 😊
This video answered/addressed part of my comment/question on the other video. ❤
I guess my mechanism is to seek explanation for thoughts and emotions instead of just letting them be. Like there must be a reason this thought or this emotion is here and I need to explore whatever it is. if I understand it more I can prevent the behavior that caused the emotion to be there in the first place. I’m pretty sure I have lived my whole life to this point doing that.
Can't figure out if you're getting better and better describing the nuance of this deep process, or if I'm getting better and better grasping the profound colors of your . Rather, it seems like it's simultaneously happening... neither from one nor the other, but simply by this mysterious silent profundity of all, whispering through your empty canvas. 💙🙏
Very helpful!🙏🏾💪🏽✌🏽🤙🏽👍🏽
And what about focusing on "I am sense"at those moments? Tnx ❤
If that resonates with you :))))
Thank you!
You bet!
Thank you
„Think me, think me, I‘m real!“
Thank you Angelo.
You bet