Whole Being Awakening

From Control to Flow

Introduction

The purpose of this Whole Being Awakening map is to put you in touch with the soulful expression of life that is moving through you and the entire Universe.

The map is here to support you to reflect on the different aspects of experience that it is possible to be awake to. There are large parts of everyone that are blind spots or in shadow. Here, I am opening a door for you to get in touch with every aspect of being.

The Whole Being Awakening map comes from looking at experience through the lens of the soul, so it is very intuitive, immediate, explorative, and expressive. If you prefer a more logical and structured approach, you may want to check out my Elements of Experience model, which presents things from a more mind-first perspective.

On this page you will find:

An introduction to the ethos of whole being awakening
The underlying model
Details about the holistic nature of this approach

You can find the map itself here, which is designed to summarise the soulful approach and give some more details about different layers of experience.

The Ethos – Inclusion, Joy & Embodied Presence

By taking a soulful approach, the Whole Being Awakening map moves away from the idea of external fixed goals and towards the intention to allow the true nature of reality to flow in its full expression.

This approach can put you in touch with your innate capacity for well-being, truth, integrity, and mystical connection, amongst other things, while not excluding the more personal and challenging parts of experience.

The invitation is to find joy connecting with both the transpersonal and most deeply personal aspects of your experience. You are bringing yourself to life by being willing to embrace all experience, to welcome it into your experience wholeheartedly. In general, the more courage and generosity you can bring to your practice and life, the deeper it will take you.

Awakening an intimate connection with your intuitive world and connecting to the imaginal aspects of experience can support practicing in this soulful way. Here’s a guided meditation that introduces being in touch with this inner sense of resonance.

The Map

The map describes a rich ecosystem of practice around each of the aspects 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, wholeness in the heart, freshness 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 the vibe of what can be found in each aspect of experience and the practices and content that will help you get in touch with it more.

The map lays out how these different aspects look when related to awakening on an individual and collective level.

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 ecosystem. Due to its soulful approach, it avoids focusing on ticking specific boxes or achieving certain 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 wholehearted. Shifting experience towards different attractor points will affect your 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 recognising 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.

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.