The technique of Inquiry, as you said deconstructing beliefs, can be effective for some. I have a strong intellectual leaning, so my mind immediately wants to analyze and form ideas. In this case, what helped was the intention to rely only on direct experience, not on beliefs or concepts, not even spiritual concepts. Abiding in the sense of I AM is helpful to some in this case, but I can’t consistently find the sense of I AM; aware of awareness works better for me.

Emotional healing certainly smooths out the turmoil that can come up. For me, the Sedona Method is effective, as well as heart techniques like gratitude, acceptance, forgiveness, metta meditation and so on.

Of course this is my experience. Yours will be completely your own.

If you feel guided to heal yourself, do that. If you feel guided to awaken, ask yourself who is it that wants to awaken and who is it that needs to be healed in the first place, and do that.

But both are valuable experiences. When you become fully enlightened, there will be nothing left to heal in yourself, and no more negative emotion experienced in the first place.

Also, it can be helpful to bring awareness into the “past” now and help let it go from time to time, certainly. No need to ignore energies that arise in the moment. This doesn’t mean that you need to go in and fix every single thing wrong with you, because if you ask your mind what’s wrong, it can come up with an infinite number of responses, and you’ll be digging forever.

Your emotions are not separate from the now. Your mind is not separate from the now. It’s all happening in the now. It’s not like only the experiences happening outside your body are the Now. EVERYTHING exists in the now. If you feel energy arise within you, bring awareness to it and allow it to be, in the now. No need to segregate the past from the now, because it’s really all now anyways. The past is not the past, but an energy you’re bringing up in the now and calling past.

I had been following a bit different approach for so long. In every given moment, i used to track back any belief i had about anything or any subject, stay with the sensation corresponding to that belief and then sit with it until and unless it was released.Do you feel that in this approach i am taking my awareness to a past issue and thus resisting the now moment.I would have to say that though i take my awareness to a belief formed due to an unresolved past issue,i dont get entangled in the thinking process.I just remain with the feeling of it.

How different is witnessing the now moment as it is different from emotional healing since even emotional healing can take place only in the now moment.

Now would witnessing the now moment as it is give me the same results as emotional healing.Wont the trapped in emotions inside come out to the surface since now when the mind is atlast silent(which happened as an effect of witnessing the now moment as it is)there is nothing to stop these emotions from releasing out.
Isnt it true that many of the people who attain enlightment hardly know anything about emotional healing.They do this through meditation which is nothing else than witnessing the moment without resistance.

I often get confused on how to approach the current moment after knowing about these two wonderful ways.
Would be waiting patiently for your answer.
With Love ALWAYS
BINNOY

It’s interesting and fascinating to hear your articulation of it. How long will this last is the million dollar question.

I like when you end with “A big and critical difference that’s present this time is not trying to hold onto this experience, but allowing whatever is to be. Whether I’m enlightened or unenlightened is totally okay. All options are completely acceptable. There’s no clinging to any experience. There’s just stillness.”

“Not holding on to the experience but allowing whatever is to be” is probably going to extend the length of the experience.

What interest me is, if this is a prolonged experience of weeks or more etc. and you stay on this level of beingness, how does that change the way if at all, how you respond to the world or others etc. Do desires now take a back seat or front seat? Neither or both, or something else?

What do you do if anything different when you really hit what would be termed a very negative experience or high frustration that would put you in a place where you had to process your emotions to find your way back a certain equilibrium. Or does that simply not show uP? Or, if it does, the process work of the past is not needed as you accept and surrender to whatever is regardless? Including the need to change what might be subjectively termed a negative painful suffering experience?

I look forward to the uPdates of whether this experience keeps going on and spreading itself or you come back to a state of being you were in earlier. Will it be permanent and now all things are seen from this perspective or will it become a reference point of sorts to look back on?

Regardless blessings to you and all the others.

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