Whole Being Awakening
From Control to Flow
Introduction
Welcome to my Whole Being Awakening Framework.
The purpose of this framework is to support you to deepen your practice, to reflect on the different aspects of your being and to open up possibilities for you to awaken new parts of you.
It will also help you discover the full spectrum of experience, free from dogma and fixed ideas about what awakening means, and allow you to navigate which aspects you want to cultivate and connect to in your experience.
There are large parts of you that are blind spots, shut down or in shadow. Here, I am opening a door for you to get in touch with every aspect of yourself.
The Whole Being Awakening Framework is presented in a way that is very immediate, explorative and expressive. It’s about getting in touch with the soulful expression of life that is moving through you and the entire Universe in each moment.
If you prefer a more logical and structured approach, you may want to check out the awakening course, which presents things from a more mind-first perspective.
On this page you will find:
- An introduction to the ethos of the framework
- The underlying framework and model
- Details about the holistic nature of this approach
- A self-review resource for engaging more deeply with the framework
There is also a map, which is designed to complement the soulful approach and give some more details about the different layers and elements of experience.
The Ethos – Inclusion, Joy & Embodied Presence
By taking a soulful approach this framework moves away from the idea of fixed goals and towards the intention to connect fully with your own and the Universe’s true nature in its full expression. This process of inclusion allows you to get in touch with your innate capacity for goodness, wellness, truth and mystical connection, amongst other things, while not excluding the more challenging parts of experience.
Rather than trying to bypass your experience into some transcendent perfection, I am inviting you to connect with the most deeply personal aspects of experience; to get intimately in touch with the true nature of what it is to be a being in this Universe.
One of the fastest, most direct and most honest ways to do this is to meet experience with a sense of courage, compassion and open-heartedness. In general, the more courage and generosity you can bring to your practice and life, the deeper it will take you.
With a whole being approach, you are becoming more present in your life and with the full depth of yourself and the cosmos. You are bringing yourself to life by being willing to embrace all experience and not turn away from it, to welcome it into your experience whole-heartedly.
To be able to work in this soulful way, you first need to be able to connect to the imaginal aspect of experience. In order to do this, you need to awaken an intimate connection with your inner world.
Here’s a guided meditation that introduces this way of being.
The Framework
The framework describes a rich eco-system of practice around each of the elements of the body, the heart, the mind and the soul.
The purpose of practice within this framework is to cultivate the meta-states of presence in the body, openness in the heart, emptiness in the mind and flow with the soul realm. Each of these meta-states is related to being present in a soulful way.
You can explore each of the elements here. There is also a map to help you orient your practice and experience around.
The Model
Below is one depiction of the model, shown in layers, which demonstrates how the different parts can build on each other to create a full spectrum experience of awakening.
Holistic Approach
This approach considers people and their practice to be an embodied, alive eco-system. Due to its soulful approach it avoids focusing on reified tick boxes or attainments. Rather than fixed goals, this framework focuses on encouraging people to shift towards different attractor points over time.
An example of an attractor point would be becoming more open-hearted. Shifting experience towards different attractor points will affect people’s behaviour, sense-making structures and ways of experiencing the world; ultimately opening up new paradigms and ways of being.
I encourage you to be ambitious with what can be achieved – the changes can be quite radical and life-changing – while also recognise that within this approach everything is a journey and you will never arrive anywhere final; you are cultivating change from the inside, rather than moving towards an external goal that you will arrive at.
The diagrams below depict how the present moment can be experienced. They show how the way of practicing that I am describing through the whole being awakening framework unlocks an experience of the present moment that is quite different compared to a lot of more traditional meditation approaches.
By practicing from a holistic and soulful place, you are connecting to the present moment and moving from the inside out. You start with the understanding that you will need to uncover and unpack your subconscious beliefs and emotions to uncover what experience lays beneath.
It is through connecting with all the different aspects of your experience that you are able to come into a healthier, more balanced, more alive and more aware version of your being.
Self-Review
Here is a resource for working with the Whole Being Awakening Framework. It’s an exploration into the different aspects of experience and how you incorporate them into your practice or teaching.
The review is very simple, but I’ve received feedback that filling it in helps people recognise:
- Why using a holistic approach is important
- The depth and breadth of wisdom that already exists in people’s practice and/or teaching
It also recognises the uniqueness of your soul’s path by bringing out the specific way that you as a being relate to these different parts of experience.
If you are interested in recognising the gaps in your knowledge or understanding how your practice fits into a wider eco-system, you may want to explore my awakening course.
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