Uncomfortable? (Try This)
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Do you have a feeling of heaviness, contraction, fixation, or avoidance? Here's one simple thing you can do to address these feelings.
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If you try it, let me know how it goes.
"The person I love won't let me in and it feels like I'm going to die" .. I felt into the thought sensation and then my body back and forth. There is discomfort but also calmness now. Thank you
@@GrandTheftSam wonderful!
So much relief. It felt like getting off the hamster wheel and simple staying on the hamster wheel. Like it didn’t matter anymore either way. Thank you Angelo. You are a gift. A door. A perfect mirror.
@@amandatrouette8455 wonderful!! Be free hamster!!
"I don’t know what I DO NOT KNOW " This thought is coming back to me every so often. I am feeling frustration, hopelessness ,tightness in my tummy. Now I know how to work with this thought ! Thank you Angelo for all your hard work!!!
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." - C.G Jung
indeed!
Truth
They tried telling me dark was evil, did they? Who are they. If dark is evil why shouldn't I go towards the light.
Who'd a thought that stopping drinking a year ago, getting away from all social media and distractions would lead or better said reveal such heaviness. Many thanks for this AD jedi
Why don't you have 3.276.639 million subscribers? Thanks 4 all ur videos. They are all so powerful and transformative. There is a transmission behind your words and through that it all instantly becomes experiental.
glad to hear it :)))
I just have to comment on this again. I’ve been under extreme stress, and in 35 minutes of practicing this twice 60% of my tension dissolved. I was trying to figure out how to get out of bed today. 🙏
Great pointers, thanks. If I had to single out what is awakening in my experience, the answer would be learning not to resist whatever happens in the momentary experience. Especially after the first shift, this was a key technique. It can be a thought, unpleasant emotions, restlessness, resistance etc. At some point, you feel intuitive that the avoidance of it leads to suffering and pain. You see it directly. This is how the non-duality spectrum opened up for me. It took some practice and willingness to be authentic to yourself, but is a major thing. We reach a point during the process where we have complete trust in our intuition, even if it tells us to feel uncomfortable.
Great points
There is no momentary experience..
I was "flat" and uncomfortable earlier today so I gave this a try. I found the root thought...basically guilt driven by perceived failure...and I felt into it. Kind of a body scan but right after clearly recalling the thoughts. Then, it just sort of evaporated. The sense of apathy and corresponding malaise just disappeared. Thank you Angelo. ❤
At first it feels unnatural to approach a thought that I don't like, and I realized that I had never done that before, but I quickly began to feel strangely comfortable. Thank you Angelo!
awesome!! This is a revolutionary act, truly . It has implications beyond what most of us can imagine
The fear of the situation come your way, and your inability to meet it guarantees the feared outcome. To know that you dont have to run or jump, but try to look at it calmly, probably is a half of the battle. Pray to be able to stick it into everyday life. Thanks.
This is exactly what I needed. I have been really struggling with resistance patterns over the last couple of weeks and just sitting and feeling the emotions and contactions hasn't been helpful. But practicing this just for a few minutes has helped so much thank you! It really does work and it is such a relief when the resistance drops. 🙏🙏
Thanks!
Welcome
Thank you, this was so helpful! Right now I feel like I am in all these uncomfortable "damned if I do, damned if I don't" situations and this helped me find the thoughts behind both sides and just let them be OK!
Holy smokes, there's so many of these thoughts! I guess I'll be taking one at a time. Thank you so much, this is the exact practice / knowledge I've been looking for for some time: how to systematically trigger myself to then let go
Hi, Angelo,
You asked for reports, so, 4 months after your post, here’s mine:
Since the interview a week ago, I’ve been feeling an underlying uneasiness nagging at me. So, when this video showed up in my feed (again!), I took the hint.
The thought that presented was, “I can’t let go.”
So, I followed your prompt and “moved closer,” back and forth from the thought to the feeling/sensations in the body. I was in bed, and somewhere in the middle of this process, I fell asleep.
Near morning, I had a vivid, intense dream. A death by heart attack of a kind of archetypal masculine figure in my life, then an unexpected reawakening quite a long time later. He came back to life much softer and more open, tearfully expressing his long-repressed love for an equally archetypal feminine figure in his life.
Even in the dream, I could feel the huge energy this released.
When I woke up, I could still feel the energy and freedom in my body.
Also a thought/realization just kind of floated up: “It’s not about letting go; it’s about letting be…”
I forget, have I thanked you lately?
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Wonderful to hear!!
I did this exercise ans actually became calm and drifted into sleep. Just woke back up a few minutes later. Felt peaceful, oddly.
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This really helped me today, thanks for posting this video.
Love this!
“Can I notice without trying to fix?” It’s challenging, because the noticing kind of brings an automatic “fixing” by deepening the breath, moving the body if it feels like that’s what it desires… and then it’s more of a blend of discomfort and relief. It would feel forced to really stay with the discomfort, as it’s not a static energy (thank goodness 😅).
So good. Thanks so much for sharing 🌸✨
this is something I know and do on a regular basis but it was nice to have this guided version during a particularly fearful thought 💜 it's old news now lol
Lately, I have been trying to do this several times. One time, I really touched that hidden thought and felt the charge associated to it. The weight then just was like lifted. And it felt very peaceful and relieving to directly feel what was hidden. Simple and honnest.
But after that, I had other opportunities to try it again, and it went different. It seems I have an intuition about the hidden thought. I can have a glimpse or a vague feeling of it but it's like when I'm formulating it, it is somehow counterfeit. It feels like a pale copy of what is hidden. I don't have this taste of being in direct presence of it.
This is a place I often end up to. With that feeling that I'm not in touch with "the real thing" but with a mock.
Great content...thank you for being a great vehicle🙏for the awakening of the world. Appreciate your effort, be blessed man💪
Thanks for your book/videos/app. I will be listening to this one many times as this seems to be a major issue.
Always on Point 🙏🏽
This is great, thank you 🙏
You seem to post things perfectly timed to what I seem to need at the time.......weird and fantastic.........always new and original, too, unlike many nondual teachers who sound like a broken recored ("It's just a story." " There is just this." "There is no one here" etc.....you know the drill).
Beautifully explained, thankyou so much ❤️
My pleasure 😊
Thank you Angelo, This Is brought Really as a set helpfull practical tools. Gonna save this video
This puts any easiness to looking and feeling. Gratitude for this, 🎯♥😶 🙏☮ may the power of love, grace, courage and understanding happen to all. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Gratitude.
Thanks for listening
Grazie Angelo appena mi hai portato o mi sono portata in questo esercizio ha cominciato a salire in me una tale commozione e gratitudine per la semplicità e l esperienza così diretta che contatto ! La mia mente è sempre più stanca e facilmente vado in confusione e qualche parte di me si sente malata nella mente perché non capisco più le cose come prima!
Quindi grazie immensamente per questo esercizio così facile ma ha un grandissimo impatto e qui emerge la Consapevolezza che sono e che siamo così potentemente in primo piano e non dobbiamo andare a cercarla da nessuna parte perché è sempre qui ora in questo momento presente!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Much Love to you and All of you that are reading ❤❤❤❤
Uh…Angelo. Discovered this video yesterday. I have been trying how to figure out how to address tension and get it to release for 10 years while I was meditating. It would always come back. This is SOOOO helpful.
This is really helpful, thanks so much. It really felt uncomfortable and enjoyable at the same time which was weird but in a good way.
Thank you for this. It is very enjoyable and helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
I just love your videos Angelo
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Great exercise. Thank you! I found grief
Magic FEEL 💗
Thank you so much 🙏
You're welcome 😊
THANK YOU
You’re very welcome ☺️
Thank you. This was really helpful today. I’ve still got one foot in the matrix, but I’m more constantly aware. At this juncture - no matter the nature or intensity of difficulty - redirection toward realization is the only answer that’s left. Everything else falls apart real quick. Nonetheless, this cage still rattles… and rattles.
Awesome, I love your dedication
love you
I could have used this, yesterday!!! Lol I had “me” roasting over a spit of my own making… I can laugh about it today!!!
we are the grist for our own mill
Calling me out in this video… 😬 “Bearing witness and giving it space.” Thank you, Angelo 💜
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"I had an awakening and I don't know where it is now" man was I stuck on that one for a long time lol 😅
yeah it's quite seductive bc you know what is possible lol
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Yes, and the suffering is strong because the desire to get back to reality is so strong, but eventually the suffering compounds enough to push through the next barrier.
@@gantonia99Its been 24 years since a "kundalini nuclear explosion" brought me to 40 minutes of samhadi. Still trying to end this process. Wtf am i doing ? What am i missing ? Gosh its unbereable.
Some suggestions Brother ? Thanks !
It is so simple it is often missed. You literally tell us how to do it.The poor mind is so often on alert it doesn't want to see. It's like a soldier on guard who doesn't realise the war is over.
Best bit I have a new word...squirmy squirmy squirmy 😂😂😂💜
Hey K K,
1.) Hope you had a lovely Mother's Day and got plenty of spoils and lots of love from your KIDDOS! 🤗💕
2.) I love how you see your mind in an innocent, almost curious way... a soldier on guard who doesn't realize the war is over... that's really seeing the good in everything and I for one can dig the heck outta that 😎✌️
3.) Squirmy 🤣🤣🤣
Take the most greatest of care xxx ❤️
@@nat998 Hi Nat, how's it going?
I had a two hour phone call with my son who lives in another city. That was nice.
Make love not war works for everything really.🤗❤
If you push stuff away you'll never understand it, and you'll spend your life pushing. If you give it a hug. it might calm down and be ok.😉💜
Squirmy, squirmy, squirmy 😂😂
Words are a mystery and a delight for me.People seem to take them sooooo seriously. 🧐
Have a nice day. Oh i mean evening, funny time,haha 💜
@@KK-qd6ro PS Have an Awesome day! 🙏 Peace & Love ✨☮️❤️
@@nat998 Haha . He'll always be my boy, but at 40 he might not see it that way.😊
People that live in your heart are always close.🥰
You are your own life coach, no one can do Nat better than Nat.🙃❤
There is no superior sex. The pendulum of humanity swings from Matriarchy to Patriarchy, and the swinging blinds us to our sameness. 😵💫💥❤💜
@@nat998 tissue capsule...Yes😂 That was what held me back for years. Raging against being told I was the body called Karen. " it ain't me. It's of me." YES . "I" am not the body, but "I"or life experiences this plain of reality through the body. I am grateful for what the body allows me to experience. The only way out is through. Or as Angelo would say "lean in "😊💜
Thank you. I know when I feel uncomfortable, like you described here, when I curse under might nose for no apparent reason. Sometimes when I feel like that I let myself shout or dance or sing gibberish or something in a language I don't know. The funny part is that I can see it all happening, .. then I might feel slightly guilty for doing something crazy, then it all goes away.This is all so funny strange and often funny- delightful.
Yes those muggy thoughts cause a lot of problems. They keep us dazed . Like the cloudy unclear thoughts, just below the surface of clear thought.
My man
Could you make a video on resistance towards cringe sensations or anything like that and awkwardness? That's from a perception of seperation right, and taking ownership over actions? A video would show a lot of clarity on this thank you!
This is great. I really like these guided videos! In my experience, it's really hard to find thoughts when looking within. I feel the sensation, but when I ask what thought am I trying to avoid, I just hear silence. If something does pop up it feels forced, if that makes sense? I notice there is spaciousness and then what feels like a constant hum of background discomfort - an inner agitation/pressure.
Oh wait, giving more space and silence I heard, "I can't do this" - referring to selling my house, moving, having a more aligned life, getting into a relationship, etc.
Thank you for the video, very helpful! 💖
You can ask yourself what was the last thing that triggered me, or who did I get upset with recently and why? This c
an also lead you to the thought. If there is no feeling of heaviness or contraction, you may not find anything in that moment.
Hi Lisa,I think I’m like you. Many people see they have a constant internal chatter. For me most of the time it’s quiet (in terms of not much internal verbalisation) I do see images though. It feels like I only talk internally with effort it doesn’t just seem to happen on its own.
You're speaking of FOMO. The thought comes, "I don't do that..." haha. So, then I must re-wind and re-listen because I'm laughing at the absurdity of the thought. Humor - laughing at everything - is my familiar - it draws me back into thought, yeah? So this is, as usual, very helpful. Thanks again. I know you don't "have" something I don't have - unless it is an uncanny sense of knowing precisely what I need to hear every morning. That must mean I also know it.
This works. It simply works. Shining the light of consciousness on the thought somehow gives it space and reduces its ‘charge’.
Angelo, thank you.
I have a slightly unrelated question: Four days ago, Elon Musk replied to a tweeted question “What’s the most amazing thing you know?” with the two simple words “Awareness awakening”. Do you think he’s talking about awareness in the same sense that we are? I feel that he is.
Sounds like he just might be, good for him!
Relatively speaking is the end goal of this practice basically just realizing that everything is okay and there’s actually nothing to be worried about?
Not exactly, that's a bit too cerebral
John, “okay or worried” would be labeling experiences. Experience doesn’t require a label. Peace to you.
I needed some time to think. Not to discern my block, I know what it is. I guess I had to decide how honest I wanted to be with this community versus the reaction I've received my entire life. Here goes nothing 😁
I never remember having to accept that everything is connected to everything. I've always known there isn't any question in my mind. My problem is and always has been that I can't feel everything, you, these nice people, the mouse in the forest. It feels like I should be able, like I'm supposed to be able but am cut completely cut off somehow and left with a sense of something I never possessed. A ghost limb I never grew. Now, I've never heard read anything about having this feeling in philosophy and nothing else I've studied fits either.
So there you go. If you all think it's crazy, that's cool, just be easy on me. Lol.
Let me be clear. It's not some super power I wish I had. I am actually constantly stunned others do not feel the same.
You’re intuition is good, you are in direct contact with the truth of non-separation and you (rightly) perceive that the overlying dualistic experience is flawed. The only thing I will add is that this often feels very personal because of the resulting sense of isolation, but in fact it is quite impersonal, this shared delusion of separation. The good news is you have all the tools to right the ship so to speak.
Something about how you said what you said. I might just drop off social media for a few days. I learned to read late and spent years pouring over jibberish until one day I just had an epiphany and I could read. This feels much like that. Thanks, wholeheartedly.
Your not alone here. And I don't think your crazy.
I always knew humans were all the same / part of the same stuff.
I did not see that as connected, when I was a child because I could feel them! And that could be overwhelming. I have learned to trust my intuition. I no longer jump to help everyone in pain. When helping happens now it's mostly cos life takes over.
I get the super power thing. I had lots of that at school. Silly me didn't understand that the teacher wouldn't appreciate me pointing out he got something wrong. I naively thought he might like to know. I never thought I was special. But I picked up a belief that I was worthless. Done lots of work on that one. Now everyone is special, no exclutions. The uniqueness and sameness of everyone is magic.
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Edit( I didn't read until I was in my twenties, Trust yourself, good luck.)
@@nat998 Day 1: No nightmares last night for the first time in my adult life 😁. I slept! It's a wonderful start. See you all in a few days.
Angelo, can you make a video about ethics? Not in the abstract but as in how your personal ethics relate to awakening.
It seems to me something like unethical behavior causes distortion of the way you see the world.
We all know the "reasons" to be ethical but when those are seen to part of "the dream" too, there seems to be a reason left having to do with love/compassion/relieving suffering.
What do you think?
sure
Amazing exercise! Question.. is it normal that when I think positive thoughts I feel the exact same resistances? My mind went to I am enough, I am appreciated, I am abundant.. and wham negative thoughts & sensations arise. What I got from this is not only are we resisting negative feeling states, we are also resisting the positive.. leaving us ‘stuck’ and ‘seeking’
The thought I'm avoiding is really vague and the physical uncomfortable feeling becomes very prominent immediately without really "knowing" the thought as clearly. I guess I just have to let my attention stay with the feeling? Maybe wanting to know the thought more clearly is just more resistance and I should allow my let my attention stay with the contraction.
That is ok to do yes, however at some point to get to the really sticky (unconscious) vasanas we often have to do sone detective work and really track down the underlying belief. The reason is that in direct experience there really is no polarity and so we aren’t necessarily addressing what it is that causes us to contract habitually. Often simple observations of life situations shows us what the contraction is about
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thanks for the reply! What do you mean with the sentence: "The reason is that in direct experience there really is no polarity and so we aren’t necessarily addressing what it is that causes us to contract habitually"? Also, If I look at my direct experience I can observe the uncomfortable sensation/contraction and then when I look for a thought it seems that it isn't something I can really put into words. It feels really intertwined with the sensation, but it feels like a doubting thought. And when looking for a thought, is it correct to say that it should be a simple kind of looking? With this whole process you really start to question what thoughts really actually are.
@@C43Z yes it can be as simple as “I don’t feel comfortable right now and I don’t know why?”
Or
“There is a feeling of discomfort here and I don’t want to feel it.”
Like that
What is strange, the thoughts that appear have nothing to do with the body feeling.....they are just labels....the body feeling is just pressure or tension, thoughts label it as impatience, excited, fear .... but it's just a body feeling and thoughts make something out of it that is untrue 🙃
Is there always a connection between thoughts and resistance? Or can there be resistance without thoughts. Sometimes it seems my mind is still(it can be that i am not aware of the thought at that moment) but there is resistance in the physical sense it seems.
Resistance is always structured in thought/consciousness but is tricky to identify in a direct way. It’s varied in habituated thought patterns :)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake sometimes it's difficult to become aware of the thought i am thinking, because the moment i become aware of my thoughts the thoughts will immediately go away.
I think, like my subconCPU is processing and presenting conclusions in the form of thoughts to the concCPU
The concCPU is like ok let's observe or ignore,identify,analyze, act on, reply to the thoughts.
@@markfuller "orient my self to myself" I like that.
Imagine the subco and Con , each having its own A.I with a 3/10 tenths of a sec delay in communication and one or both are sentient.
Or
The organism is alive and self aware.
It cannot perceive reality as it is.
It takes info through 5 senses processes and creates model of life , profile of itself and other organisms.
The model is used as a map, user interface and to run simulations.
The organism through conditioning takes the profile to be its identity (character)and the model to be reality.
Waking up, would be the organism recognizing through inquiry that the model is not reality and the profile(character) is not its identity.
The problem is the organism will create a new model and profile (I am enlightend) and repeat the disidentfiying cycle , which is equivalent to reincarnation ( thousand little deaths)
When I'm watching e.g a "non dual video", I'm basically seeing an organism sharing its model of reality and I'm trying to ascertain the degree to which the organism has identified with its profile.
In the biblical story of Adam & Eve, when God is inquiring about the nudity and forbidden fruit, what's interesting is not Adam's reply but the fact that he replied at all, in order for that conversation to take place , there has to be a artificial partion( separation) otherwise God is having a conversation with himself.
@@markfuller thank you for sharing, I wish you all the best in your mindfulness journey and courage when dipping into the unknown, definitely food for thought, great analogies and analysis.
@SimplyAlwaysAwake Do you think it's bad to do this with very dark thoughts such as "I want to die" or "I wish I was dead" and so on? Any advice for this kind of thing?
Thanks a bunch, very useful video!
No it works with any thought.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thanks 🙏
Does this work for ocd ?
Love your videos.
Quick question - if you keep instructing us where to move our attention ie on thoughts, into the body etc MUST mean it is the real ‘I’ that has the ability to move this attention otherwise these instructions wouldn’t be followable OR could it be the ego mind the ‘spiritual seeker’ that is moving the attention and are we just the consciousness observing all this?
the mind definitely puts it together that way. Let me say it this way, if you are walking and a bird squacks loudly your attention might immediately move to the bird, does it mean that bird has a sense of self and choice?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thanks for the quick reply. Sorry but I don’t really get it. If the bird squalls there’s a chance that this is instinctive behaviour also with a loud noise like that human’s attention may jump to that automatically but it feels different if you instruct your listeners on a video to do this or that?
@@dalegriffiths3628 first of all your name is awesome.
Also why does it feel different... I suggest (truly as a practice) look into what moves attention. The mind imputes will and doesrship in a way that is very very convincing, but why is it different if I yell, "Hey Dale, how about some shower curtain rings?" from across the street and your attention instantly moves to that or if a prerecorded loudspeaker says it which will just as naturally cause attention to move there. similarly an explosion would move attention. Is it possible that our attention is endlessly manipulated by causes and conditions most of which are too fast, small to see or perceive?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake cool, that’s a really great explanation. Yes, the mind is taking credit for being the doer and moving attention around. But then what’s also really freaky to me is that when you do a video there is no personal doer there either ? Right?
@@dalegriffiths3628 none at all, no idea why it happens 😁
Its been 24 years since a "kundalini nuclear explosion" brought me to 40 minutes of samhadi. Still trying to end this process. Wtf am i doing ? What am i missing ? Gosh its unbereable😂
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Problem is.... I don't feel any sensations in my body when I try to do this exercise. Paul
Start by pinching your skin. When you are reminded of the quality of sensation, See if you feel it right after and see how long you feel that sensation. Then with practice follow it in ward to deeper tissues
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thank you. Paul
Listen I’m sorry I was mean to you. But I’m better now. We should be friends. I’m arrest Buddhist and I have a traumatic brain injury and I use my phone way too much lol I don’t care what anybody says to use my phone more and more and more until it becomes a part of me