Referencepoint

To notice changes in your consciousness, you must be present. By being present, I mean being fully aware of your feelings, thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations. Your body serves as the ideal medium for this—a brilliant interface between spirit and matter.

When you experience tension within your system, you are not truly present. This is because, throughout the day, this tension is continuously triggered by life itself—particularly by the people you meet and the places you visit. When this old tension is activated within you, your attention is catapulted into the past or the future. In that moment, you are no longer here but instead lost in a narrative, with your body overwhelmed by the chemicals associated with the emotions and thoughts you take personally, try to understand, and seek to resolve. The greater the tension, the stronger the trigger, and the more lost you become. In such moments, there is often no other option but to endure the experience and wait until the chemical reaction within your body subsides. The problem, however, is that these unconscious reactions do not exist in isolation. If you carry tension in many areas of life, you will be continuously triggered throughout the day, resulting in a constant state of reaction. The mere thought of it is exhausting—let alone living in such a reality.

Yet, these often unconscious reactions to life’s events serve as gateways to liberation. They not only reveal what is happening within and around you but, more importantly, illuminate how you have been conditioned to respond. Learning to interpret your body’s feedback allows you to discover how you deal with this information, creating an opportunity for conscious change.

The first and most fundamental step in achieving this is to bring your attention back to the present moment, step out of the narrative in which you are lost, and observe with fresh eyes what is currently alive within you. Take a moment for yourself and register what is happening now. How does your body feel? Where do you notice tension? Where do you sense spaciousness? What thoughts are crossing your mind? What emotions are present, and how are you responding to them? Through this body scan, you establish a grounding point—this is how it is now. By doing so, you create a reference point within yourself, offering a foundation to move forward. Once you are aware of how you feel in the present moment, it becomes much clearer when changes occur in response to encounters with others or the places you visit.

In that single moment of change relative to your reference point, you find yourself at a metaphorical crossroads. Turning right leads to the path of the seeker, the mind’s path—what you perceive here is taken personally, hijacked by the mind, and transformed into a story that requires understanding and resolution. Turning left leads to the path of the finder, the path of the heart—what you perceive here is experienced without filters, seen for what it is in that moment, and given space to exist.

In this awakened embrace of your compassionate heart, old tension is released, and your system learns to engage with life in a way that allows you to experience it fully without being burdened. By practising this consistently, you develop a transparency within your system, enabling you to be fully ‘present,’ with nothing clinging to you any longer.

I encourage you to establish a reference point in your consciousness several times a day and to practise consciously experiencing and allowing. You will soon notice feeling lighter and more expansive as old tension releases from you, the triggers become less intense, and you no longer remain lost in old narratives for prolonged periods.

So, what is alive within you right now? Whatever it is—Let it Be!

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