The most powerful and challenging meditation practice for Well-Being I have ever encountered is based on this concept: All the World - every person, place, thing, event, idea and All there is, ever was, or ever will be - is Divine and enlightened except for me. (The idea is similar to my previous post of being Alone in an eternal garden.) This meditation practice involves my ego at the center of consciousness while my sensations consciously and unconsciously Perceive the World. It's my ego, then, that does most of the interpreting of internal and external Potentialities, Relationships, Experiences and Perceptions. This meditation practice, if effective, results in humbly Perceiving the World as trying to awaken my ego to deeper realities of the numinous Self! This practice promises to create spiritually compassionate Relationships based on gratitude for All the World's images, symbols, energies and emotions - positive and negative. In effect, this meditation practice turns the created meaning of my Life into a deliberate reunification of ego-consciousness with the a priori elements of the Self. And this meaningful ego-Self unity then becomes a genuine path toward discoveries, expressions and connections of and with Well-Being.
Practicing this meditation and achieving ego-Self unity means I have to be emotionally aware enough to take total responsibility for "How I Am: Being Human." Most of us, however, have forgotten the Potential of emotional awareness; and most of us actively resist being totally responsible for how we are. It seems that somewhere along the way we've been taught to believe that responsibility and freedom are opposites when in fact they are identical twins. After all, learning the World's lessons demands full responsibility for how our projections and introjections affect the personal and interpersonal Experiences of being free. Instead, we are more likely to learn and "believe" that our Experiences are uncontrollable reactions to erratic Otherness, a belief which then allows most of our Relationships to violently carry-on unimpeded by emotional awareness or personal responsibility. Practicing this meditation also means Perceiving how feelings and values are conditioned by the presence, or absence, of safety within the context of Relationships. But too often safety itself is conditional, created on the inequitable premise that, "As long as I am made happy, everyone else will be safe." Of course, such a premise is completely antithetical to emotional awareness and personal responsibility. Additionally, this meditation practice forces one to critically evaluate the beliefs and thinking patterns that justify behavior. And this critical evaluation typically reveals dissociations from repressed and unsafe emotional Experiences. (Freud nailed this idea when he wrote, "That which is repressed goes through no alterations with time.") Fundamentally, this meditation practice creates freedom by demanding emotional awareness of, and personal responsibility for, the unity of ego and Self - Internity.
Imagine how freeing it must be to emotionally and responsibly move about Life with a unified ego-Self Internity! Jesus of Nazareth did so and ultimately asked this question - Who are you to judge? The Buddha acknowledged the attachments and sorrows of ego but then walked the path of the deeper Self, imploring us all to examine the thoughts, hopes, efforts, choices, words, awareness, livelihood and knowledge that create Internity. Throughout the human story countless others have given us mythical clues to the unification of ego and Self. It all seems to come down to this idea from Anais Nin, "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Therefore, I must become fully conscious of "How I Am: Being Human." By embracing the challenges of these concepts I can choose gratitude for All the World as it attempts to guide me toward enlightenment. In the final analysis, practicing this meditation means to examine the ego, see beyond ego to the deeper Self, and always participate in Life with the freedom of emotional awareness and personal responsibility. The genuine result is the Well-Being of Internity.
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