24 Nov Getting to know the patterns underneath
Getting to know your patterns
There’s a freedom that comes when we can “sit” back from the drama of life and watch it. The ancient wisdom traditions refer to this as “witness consciousness.”
From this inner perch we can see the rising, cresting and falling of experience.
We see a thought form, shape itself, and begin to fall away, then subsiding.
It happens as well with feelings.
And with the sensations that move and shift and change.
When we don’t get caught by them is when we glimpse the freedom that’s possible.
We can notice the inner percolating.
How we get reactive….
….and choose if we want to spiral into the activation
Or learn what that activation is pointing to.
Not just in this day and time. Or what I call this “time zone.”
Instead we begin to see how the pattern was formed at some early time, often before we have a narrative understanding about that pattern forming.
It’s hard, though, because the here and now activation of the pattern feels so “real” – and it is. It’s not that what’s happening is made up.
It’s that we can begin to see how the activation is clotted with the charge of an early time.
In the Becoming Safely Embodied Skills we talk about this time traveling we take where the here and now gets impacted by these early patterns, forming a Parallel Life.
Practice: Can you track back when you’re activated and sense how the pattern was initially laid down?