The presence process, written by Michael Brown, is one of my favorite self-help books of all time. It changed my entire life experience.
It is for the ones who are dissatisfied with the quality of their life experience. Before I lived in the effects of trauma that caused total havoc on my perception of reality. In this post I am not sharing a lot of physical details of the book, for example, the process is 10 weeks long, there are conscious responses for each week, but what I am sharing though is what the book feels like. We all know what getting triggered feels like. The intense emotional reaction at a seemingly small thing. The book puts all human behavior into two buckets. Response or reaction. The response being an authentic movement will lead us to a sense of increased presence and lightness. The reaction, on the other hand, will promise those things but will certainly drag us down into the state of drama, blame, increased suffering, and lack of presence. For me, the words are far too few to describe the experiential journey, the feeling after attuning to the process. We, normally after spiritual awakening or introduction to this type of work, tend to start a quest to heal ourselves. The healing journey. However, the book insists that, we trade healing for integration. With healing, we automatically assume something is broken in us that needs to be fixed, but the book insists that, nothing is ever broken in us. It just happened that there are unintegrated emotions (manifesting as fear, anger, and grief) that are coloring the life experience, that we didn't prefer. When we find those colors everywhere we go into a wild quest to heal ourselves in an attempt to get rid of the experience we did not prefer. To erase those colors. But we can never heal emotions. The more we try to heal them, the more it's telling them "You are broken" and the more broken they become. The author offers a different approach. Instead of attempting to heal or manipulate them, we integrate them by being with them and unconditionally feeling them. When a child kneels, joins his hands, and prays to God; he represents how the pathway of awareness travels. From, Physical - kneeling and joining hands, To mental - repeating the prayer, To emotional - the feeling he gets out of it. The feeling is almost as if direct communication with God is established. The presence process facilitates the growth and development of awareness at an emotional level. Not at the physical, or mental level; but that which impacts them; the cause behind our chaotic physical and mental states. We have achieved great heights in the physical, we have also become mental giants, but when it comes to the emotional we are still little boys and girls crying in desperation. It is the appropriate time for the emotional work. To give ourselves, what we'd been seeking from others.
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