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Originally posted by danceroflife:
Alex,
Thanks for your reply, I just need a little tweaking. So, are you saying to "notice" the sensations in our bodies at any moment that we tune in..when we are having a feeling, emotion or just being? Just to bring awareness to whatever is there without even labeling it as a feeling...kind of like riding awareness?

Yes, like riding the awareness. It's one time we don't want a verbal asnwer so much as noticing ourselves 'turn around and check' what is there. Perhaps it's easier for us to grasp when we think of it like this.

Someone with us says wow check that out, what do you see? Before we say anything we observe we look around and see nothing out of the ordinary we observe sky, buildings, plants, people and trees nothing out of the ordinary.

Without labeling it, it's all just there, has been and always will be. But the difference is because someone said wow check that out, what do you see? You'll observe for a while before you offer anything. We naturally want to observe and offer something interesting before we open our mouth. Now for the catch... just as you're about to say something of what you see, your friend says 'no don't say anything' just see what you see.

It becomes like watching a sunset and feeling at one with the world just because it's there.

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OK, a related question to this process is when Paul asks through out the sessions, what are you feeling now with some sort of inference that everything is fine in the present moment,(that may be my interpretation that everything is supposed to be fine in the moment not what Paul is implying, but that's the way I hear it) what if it's not or you think it's not. What if you are feeling frustrated, angry, whatever? Then do we just be with that and go with sensation again?

Thanks for your input.

Again go with the feeling, notice it as is... just because it is there notice the feeling. When you're listening to the CDs chances are it is easier to accept that everything is Okay right now. But do the feeling exercise when you're angry or frustrated or any of the negative feelings (our trance label for feeling we don't like or consider bad) and well you're here you're feeling.... I'll let you experience it for yourself.

Do it often enough when you come to feeling anger and when are able to be with the feeling, without labeling it... you can move to the next step and decide how you want to feel and feel that.

Heed the warning... don't rush to change your feeling, notice them for what they are for they are there. For doing so will keep you in the trance. In our maddening rush to change the trance to a better trance we forget we don't have to change the trance.

Alex