Thank You Darvesha*

Thank you Darvesha, A practice in Mind Management. We imagined a situation/person/topic that our reactive self rears up and we attach to those thoughts, those stories about the feeling of that reaction. She told us to let it flare up. Feel it. Sense it very much in the body — in the forehead or throat or sola plexus — then concentrate on that spot — the sensation of it. As thoughts about the reaction come just do not attach to them, don’t give them energy. We do not have to make a mental effort to let them go just really focus on the sensation, the feeling in the body that associated with that reaction — make it your hook upon which you can focus and magically, the more we focus on the sensation in the body the more the thoughts & stories that fuel it appear less and less. And then Blessings upon Blessings the reactive sensation in the body dissolves and then we celebrate in the freedom that is a satori — enjoy it — appreciate it and then move into the stage of ‘Action’ which comes naturally and not as a reaction — there we can find our peace within in that trusting emptiness. Much of the group really got it. Well done by us all.

The Mystical: The Everyday Sublime Stephen Batchelor