HEART PRESENCE
Fullness of awareness
Presence. We are all in it, all of the time, because there is nowhere else we could ever be. Yet being in presence and experiencing being present are distinct. What I mean is that while being in presence we can have the experience of being present or we can have the experience of not being present. However presence itself remains regardless because it can never be touched, altered or removed. Presence is the same as existence. You can’t stop presence just like you can’t stop existence. You can at times feel like you don’t exist, just like you can feel not present, but you can’t not exist just like you can’t not be present in this moment.
So what makes the difference in our experience of being present or not? It boils down to awareness or consciousness. I use these terms interchangeably here. You can think of consciousness or the ultimate fullness of awareness like a gigantic infinite sphere. For this moment imagine you are that infinite sphere. Everything is known to you. Nothing is blocked, hidden or obstructed from your view. You are fully aware of full awareness. Some people might refer to this as the God state or Source intelligence. Words like omniscient or all knowing would describe this as well. In this state of being fully aware of all awareness you experience complete presence. Now take your perspective down from being this gigantic infinite sphere into being a dot on the sphere. This dot is one perspective of the sphere. You no longer have awareness of the full sphere, but rather only awareness of the dot and whatever is included inside of the dot. You could call this dot your human focal perspective. From this here dot perspective you might have an intuition or hunch about the larger sphere, but you aren’t fully aware of it even though it still exists. An analogy to this would be like an infant not being aware of the sky over its head. It still exists even though the infant is not consciously aware of it existing.
The smaller our dot the less we are aware of. This is not a good or bad value judgment, it is simply a fact. We can develop acute, refined and intimate detail of what it is we are aware of, thus expanding our awareness into and eventually beyond what we are aware of. Where what we once saw or knew morphs into something beyond what we once saw or knew it as. The kind of strange paradox in all of this is that in order to increase our awareness and expand our consciousness into a larger awareness of what’s here we need to know less. We have to stop seeing what we think we see so that we can see more of what is here. This is because the mind will only see what it has defined is here and can’t see beyond its definitions. To not see what we think is here we have to stop pasting onto it what we think it is. This requires an emptying out of labels and definitions. It is in those seconds where there is a momentary suspension of what we think we know, that something clicks in our mind and we make a connection or awareness that we previously did not see.
BRINGING IT TO THE HEART
Inclusivity & infinity
I think of that large sphere of infinite awareness as the heart. You could call it the cosmic heart or the one heart. I would also call it unconditional love as that is the flavor or quality of the whole sphere. As our perspective expands outwards from our dot and into more of the infinite sphere we experience greater presence of heart. Even with a little expansion from our perspective we begin to experience more presence. This means we also experience more of the quality of unconditional love. At first when we begin to expand our awareness, heart presence may be experienced as feeling our emotions more deeply or feeling more connected to others in our life. With greater expansion of our awareness, heart presence extends beyond our personal selves and beyond the personal selves of others that we perceive.
As you might already imagine as we increase our perspective and expand our awareness we become increasingly and increasingly more inclusive. We include more and more and more inside of our awareness. While some peoples minds, I could also say their individual dot perspectives, might fear that increasing their awareness means departing from things or leaving people behind, the opposite happens. You actually include them more. Whether or not it continues to be relevant for the both of you to relate with one another gets to be explored for the relevance and significance for each being involved, but the love between amplifies because there is less between. Here heart presence gets brighter and brighter. Some might refer to this as increased coherence of light or love. You could also refer to this as heightened energy states. This is where the experience of presence is more enlivening, flowing in flows and synchronism, where you feel lighter and less like the doer of your life.
Awareness or heart presence is infinite. Our capacity as humans to experience this fullness is whatever it is. I am not sure how one would measure the fullness of their focal point of awareness. Can infinity even be measured or is it just simply known now and now and now? What does seem apparent is that we can become more aware. We can reveal to ourselves that which is already here. We can self-realize. Perhaps there is an endpoint to infinity, though that would be a a contradiction in terms, but the universe does seem to be a waking paradox, so who knows. What seems more relevant on the human front is waking ourselves up to more of what is already here. The signposts that indicate to me that we are doing this appear to be as follows. 1 – Are we more aware of our selves, our patterns, seeing spots where we were once blind to ourselves? 2 – Are we feeling more self-love, self-compassion and self-kindness & is this extending out to include others that we perceive to be in our reality? At first perhaps it’s our friends and family, and then beyond that to include all human, plant and animal being on this planet. 3 – Are we experiencing greater synchronicity, magic, telepathy and awake to a subtler energetic body beyond our physical body that is self-organizing? Are we aware of self-healing? 4 – Are we communicating with life beyond our planet, into our universe, with non-physical beings and beyond? I am certain there are more signposts yet here are some to notice.
Awakening our awareness, becoming more conscious of consciousness, opening into the present of presence. This seems to be it. The way into experiencing more heart presence and more of the unconditional love that is the universe. This is how we arrive where we want to be. Inside of a life and body that feels so freaking good that we don’t want to be anywhere else except right where we are in this moment.
Dr. Amanda Lalita Love, Network Spinal Chiropractic, Soul Luminaries Mentor, Boulder, Colorado
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