Awakening and Embodiment — Neelam answers a question from a student.
Q: Is Embodiment a path to Awakening?
A: This is an excellent inquiry and Neelam would not phrase it like this because:
Awakening is a movement away from identifying oneself as any thing. And this includes identifying oneself as this body.
In the process that leads to Awakening, our attention moves more and more and more inward away from the identification, away from the gross perceptions in which we perceive our world as solid objects which includes our body.
We are not any of the objects that arise Here including our body.
Who we are is beyond everything we think, we believe or experience.
Neelam explains her definition of Embodiment as a Congruence between what we know in moments of Silence — that Everything is Ok just the way it is — and what we know when patterns of the Past arise…when everything tells that nothing is ok. Inquiry into these Patterns of the Past, into these beliefs is a very powerful way to Embody what we know is true, to know again the Okayness of Everything as is and it is a powerful way to come back to Presence.
Embodied Presence shows up very differently in our interactions in relationships, at work and in general in the World.
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“Don’t build in the transit lounge” Papaji used to say, “we are all just passing through to our final destination.… ”
This means don’t look for Permanence in the passing events of this life🌹❤
Our focus on this life and on what we experience moment-by-moment can take away from the real and true vision.
The current events of our lives cannot give us the sense of permanence or stability and grounding that we are looking for.
Even though there is the relative importance (and very real in its own way 🙂) of our moment-by-moment experience and our ability to Be Here, Freedom is Our Final Destination!❤
This is true moment-by-moment in this life and beyond…this is also true before and after Awakening.
We also want to see, understand and remove the impediment of “seeker” and “search”. For many on the spiritual path unconsciously “seeking” and “search” become the focus and the effort that takes attention away from the Direct Experience of Presence.
This is true for many on the spiritual path which often results in the inability to sustain the effort of “seeking” and results in disappointment and dissatisfaction.
That is even true at times for those of us who know Presence Directly and even after Awakening.
Join me in this upcoming program where we can reaffirm and experience together that Freedom is our Final Destination!
I want to invite you to bring a variety of questions and some topics for sharing and for us to enjoy this opportunity to connect even more.
With Love,
Neelam
Areas of Interest:*
Direct experience of Presence versus the effort of search
Presence and what does Nervous System / brain need to Be Here
Capacity of our nervous System to Be Here
Don’t build in the transit lounge!
Freedom is our final destination!
Removing the impediment of “seeker”, “search” and “I”
What we really want is to Be Here❤
Direct experience of Presence and who am “I”
Your questions and sharing on a variety of topics….🥰🌹
*Topics that Neelam may address in this program. Topics are dependent on the flow of the program and interest from the students.
When does “seeking “and “seeker” arise in your experience …please describe the “how” and the circumstances of that.
Why are you here?….( right now, in this moment, in this life….) ask yourself and honestly see what arises.
AboutPricing: We have a variety of Price Points based on a Sliding Scale. Please contact the office if you have any financial considerations. We would love to have you join the program and are open to many financial arrangements.
Three-Week Program Sliding Scale: $285-$125 Special First Time Student Rate for 3 Week Program: Free for Week 1 and $85 for Weeks 2 and 3.
Two-Week Program Sliding Scale: $285-$125 Special First Time Student Rate for Two Week Program: $78
Benefits of Programs:
Developing a stronger reliance on Presence
Breaking the illusion of Separation
Ability to recognize the difference between past and Present
Learning practical information about the nervous system and brain and how to grow the Capacity of the Nervous System to Be Here
Understanding what Embodiment is and learning how to embody challenging and expanded states like fear anger and love
Learning practical information about being in the world and being relational
Students sitting with Neelam often experience:
A greater capacity in the nervous system to be here and experience the arising past (less fight-or-flight, or overwhelm-collapse)
Improved ability to notice tendencies shaped by past experiences and break free from habitual, self-defeating patterns
Awakening (i.e. permanent shift to knowing oneself as Presence)
Increased ability to navigate life’s ups and downs, feel more at peace and enjoy life more
Students receive support through:
Recordings of all sessions
Detailed notes of all sessions
Reminder emails
Contact for questions and support via email, with replies directly from Neelam
This 3-week program is an invitation to Freedom❤ and a continuation of our “For Freedom, Don’t Believe Anything” theme 🙂❤
I want us to both deepen our Inquiry into Presence, our True Nature, and to clarify more in depth the common misunderstanding between the Absolute knowing that all there is is Presence and the Relative knowing of what is Present and needed in our moment-by-moment experience.
In short, 🙂I want to clarify the meaning of Embodiment and of How to Be Here when we are acting / interacting in the World.
Most of all I want to invite you more profoundly into the realization that there truly is no separation and to let that realization penetrate even more deeply your moment-by-moment experience and the wholeness of your life.
I am very much looking forward to our time together.
With Love,
Neelam
Areas of Interest:*
What we really want is to Be Here
Everything arises in Presence & what is “Love of Truth” in the moment?
There is no Separation
Is anybody here? 🙂😂
Is anybody doing it?
Tenderness as a gateway to Freedom
Limitless Presence and the Boundaries of Embodiment ❤
Presence and what does Nervous System / brain need to Be Here?
Tendencies that are “near and dear” to us that we mistake for Truth or for our True Nature
What we really want is to Be Here — how to use this to counteract the tendencies we believe we are ❤
*Topics that Neelam may address in this program. Topics are dependent on the flow of the program and interest from the students.
Homework
Please answer these questions before the program starts (1 page maximum) and send confidentially to info@neelam.org
In various situations in life, what response do you choose most often instead of relying on “What I really want is to Be Here”?
What is “Love of Truth” for you and how does it manifest practically in your life?
AboutPricing: We have a variety of Price Points based on a Sliding Scale. Please contact the office if you have any financial considerations. We would love to have you join the program and are open to many financial arrangements.
Three-Week Program Sliding Scale: $285-$125 Special First Time Student Rate for 3 Week Program: Free for Week 1 and $85 for Weeks 2 and 3.
Two-Week Program Sliding Scale: $285-$125 Special First Time Student Rate for Two Week Program: $78
Benefits of Programs:
Developing a stronger reliance on Presence
Breaking the illusion of Separation
Ability to recognize the difference between past and Present
Learning practical information about the nervous system and brain and how to grow the Capacity of the Nervous System to Be Here
Understanding what Embodiment is and learning how to embody challenging and expanded states like fear anger and love
Learning practical information about being in the world and being relational
Students sitting with Neelam often experience:
A greater capacity in the nervous system to be here and experience the arising past (less fight-or-flight, or overwhelm-collapse)
Improved ability to notice tendencies shaped by past experiences and break free from habitual, self-defeating patterns
Awakening (i.e. permanent shift to knowing oneself as Presence)
Increased ability to navigate life’s ups and downs, feel more at peace and enjoy life more
Students receive support through:
Recordings of all sessions
Detailed notes of all sessions
Reminder emails
Contact for questions and support via email, with replies directly from Neelam
As our Love for Truth and our Desire for Awakening and Freedom keeps growing I want to invite you into a new and deepening focus for our programs this Summer and Fall.
This series of programs will focus on addressing you more individually as we grow in our desire for Truth and Awakening and in our reliance on Presence.
In particular, I would like to bring awareness to and make more visible the tendencies that we believe are “us”, and highlight and explore the true and believed “reasons” behind our reliance on those tendencies/ patterns rather than on Presence.
This brings us both into a deeper reliance on Presence and significantly strengthens our Discrimination. It would also show us the elements necessary for Awakening that need strengthening in your experience!
Areas of Interest for this Series of Programs:*
Presence & Awakening
Love of Truth & what is Freedom
Where YOU are with regards to your Trust of Truth and your Embodiment of Truth (two key elements necessary for Awakening)
What stops YOU from Trust
What stops YOU from Awakening
What areas of YOUR experience/practice need more care and attention right now
Tendencies that are “near and dear” to us that we mistake for Truth or for our True Nature
What fuels the “reasons” that stop you from Awakening and from following what you know is True
Movement from Presence versus movement from the Past
*Topics that Neelam may address in this program. Topics are dependent on the flow of the program and interest from the students.
Homework
Please answer these questions before the program starts (1 page maximum) and send confidentially to info@neelam.org
1. What would it mean for you to Awaken?
2. When challenges arise, what are your favorite judgments/ stories that you go into? Describe your top 1-2 judgments /stories.
3. How do you think / describe yourself as a person: “I am … (good, helpful, difficult, positive, etc.) You can use more than one adjective and please include the positive and negative as well.
AboutPricing: We have a variety of Price Points based on a Sliding Scale. Please contact the office if you have any financial considerations. We would love to have you join the program and are open to many financial arrangements.
Three-Week Program Sliding Scale: $285-$125 Special First Time Student Rate for 3 Week Program: Free for Week 1 and $85 for Weeks 2 and 3.
Two-Week Program Sliding Scale: $285-$125 Special First Time Student Rate for Two Week Program: $78
Benefits of Programs:
Developing a stronger reliance on Presence
Breaking the illusion of Separation
Ability to recognize the difference between past and Present
Learning practical information about the nervous system and brain and how to grow the Capacity of the Nervous System to Be Here
Understanding what Embodiment is and learning how to embody challenging and expanded states like fear anger and love
Learning practical information about being in the world and being relational
Students sitting with Neelam often experience:
A greater capacity in the nervous system to be here and experience the arising past (less fight-or-flight, or overwhelm-collapse)
Improved ability to notice tendencies shaped by past experiences and break free from habitual, self-defeating patterns
Awakening (i.e. permanent shift to knowing oneself as Presence)
Increased ability to navigate life’s ups and downs, feel more at peace and enjoy life more
Students receive support through:
Recordings of all sessions
Detailed notes of all sessions
Reminder emails
Contact for questions and support via email, with replies directly from Neelam
Video recorded May 30, 2023 🌟 For Freedom Don’t Believe Anything! 🌟
June 11, 2023 begins a new 3-Week Program | For Freedom — Don’t Believe Anything!
A Special Series…beginning in June, continuing through Fall, of programs focused on addressing the most familiar tendencies that we mistake for who we are!
Register Today! We’d Love to Have You Join Us!
https://neelam.org/june-2023-three-week-program/ Sundays, June 11, 18 and 25
A Variety of Sliding Scale Prices Available | New Student Discount: Free for Week 1 or all 3 Weeks for only $85
From Video: If Freedom is what we really want, we have to be willing to give up everything so that we can be Here in this moment, moment-by-moment. This is the True Meaning of Surrender: the mind merging in the heart.
When we hear this, giving up everything, the mind may get a hold of this thought and we start to imagine what giving up everything means. Misunderstanding happens when we grasp it with our limited understanding and by doing so we create more suffering.
The beauty is that when we renounce the mind/give up reliance on the mind which is a True Renunciation.
In the June 3-week program — For Freedom, Don’t Believe Anything! — we will directly and specifically identify and address these tendencies that we believe are who we really are.
As our Love for Truth and our Desire for Awakening and Freedom keeps growing I want to invite you into a new and deepening focus for our programs this Summer and Fall.
This series of programs will focus on addressing you more individually as we grow in our desire for Truth and Awakening and in our reliance on Presence.
In particular I would like to bring awareness to and make more visible the tendencies that we believe are “us”, and highlight and explore the true and believed “reasons” behind our reliance on those tendencies/ patterns rather than on Presence.
This brings us both into a deeper reliance on Presence and significantly strengthens our Discrimination. It would also show us the elements necessary for Awakening that need strengthening in your experience!
Areas of Interest for this Series of Programs:*
Presence & Awakening
Love of Truth & what is Freedom
Where YOU are with regards to your Trust of Truth and your Embodiment of Truth (two key elements necessary for Awakening)
What stops YOU from Trust
What stops YOU from Awakening
What areas of YOUR experience/practice need more care and attention right now
Tendencies that are “near and dear” to us that we mistake for Truth or for our True Nature
What fuels the “reasons” that stop you from Awakening and from following what you know is True
Movement from Presence versus movement from the Past
*Topics that Neelam may address in this program. Topics are dependent on the flow of the program and interest from the students.
Homework
Please answer these questions before the program starts (1 page maximum) and send confidentially to info@neelam.org
How do you experience the difference between movement from Presence and movement from the Past?
What fuels the “reasons” that stop you from Trust and from following what is True?
AboutPricing: We have a variety of Price Points based on a Sliding Scale. Please contact the office if you have any financial considerations. We would love to have you join the program and are open to many financial arrangements.
Three-Week Program Sliding Scale: $285-$125
Special First Time Student Rate: Free for Week 1 and $85 for Weeks 2 and 3
Benefits of Programs:
Developing a stronger reliance on Presence
Breaking the illusion of Separation
Ability to recognize the difference between past and Present
Learning practical information about the nervous system and brain and how to grow the Capacity of the Nervous System to Be Here
Understanding what Embodiment is and learning how to embody challenging and expanded states like fear anger and love
Learning practical information about being in the world and being relational
Students sitting with Neelam often experience:
A greater capacity in the nervous system to be here and experience the arising past (less fight-or-flight, or overwhelm-collapse)
Improved ability to notice tendencies shaped by past experiences and break free from habitual, self-defeating patterns
Awakening (i.e. permanent shift to knowing oneself as Presence)
Increased ability to navigate life’s ups and downs, feel more at peace and enjoy life more
Students receive support through:
Recordings of all sessions
Detailed notes of all sessions
Reminder emails
Contact for questions and support via email, with replies directly from Neelam
