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- More About the Work of Integrative Awakening -
Stress, anxiety, confusion and emotional pain do not just magically appear out of nowhere. There are exact ways we create these conditions for ourselves, and there are exact ways we bring a welcome end to these conditions! To
end our stress and pain, to awaken the heart and body, there is a precision psychological and spiritual map that needs to be navigated with correct cognitive and emotional perception. If we are ready and willing to feel, understand and engage in the cultivation of correct perception, this inner work will always yield the precious riches of awakening.
The Feeling Self or Emotional Body
The work and art of Psychospiritual Integrative Awakening takes place through a mutual and shared Heart Presence, awareness and verbal dialog. Facilitation and support are always offered with love, kindness, respect and complete noninvasiveness (harmlessness). This work is offered with the understanding that our emotional body feels, learns and opens at its own pace, just like a flower blooms. In this work, we never push, invade or violate the body's natural pace and rhythm of opening, feeling, learning and unfolding.
The conditioned mind has a strong tendency to be pushy and impatient. The impatient, goal-oriented mind thinks human evolution, emotional development and awakening should happen quickly, in a specific way, according to one's preconceived ideals and expectations. However, this is not the true way, rhythm or timing of our feeling self (the emotional body).
Our feeling self, the emotional body, does not learn by being impatiently pushed or violated with mental expectations or preconceived ideas of what reality should look and feel like. This is violence. This is the war between thought and feeling, the conscious and unconscious, head and heart, masculine and feminine. This behavior simply perpetuates the struggle and violence that is so rampant upon this planet and within our own psyche.
In the work of Integrative Awakening, one is educated in kindness. One becomes aware of the natural timing, learning rhythms and innocence of the emotional body. Facilitation is offered for bringing the mind, heart and emotional body into harmonious confluence with one another. In this way, the heart, mind and body unfold and transform in an integrated manner rather than existing in a fragmented, separative conflict with one another.
The Way of Heart-Centered 'Feeling' Navigation
In this work, we explore and navigate those areas of the body/mind that are most in need of love, nourishment, awareness and integration. The heart-centered exploration and navigation of Integrative Awakening is never done through invasive mental analysis, diagnosis, psychic invasion, or by busting anyone on their so-called issues. Nor is this work accomplish by offering useless spiritual platitudes that do not truly speak to one's deep psychological and spiritual needs!
The exploration/navigation of this work is shared through intimate mutual awareness, presence of heart, precision facilitation and direct feeling experience. One is supported in the process of allowing feeling-awareness to descend deep into the body and heart. This means allowing awareness and feeling to naturally settle and deepen into the body and core of one's being.
In this way of working together, deep and direct experiential insight into personal life challenges is accomplished. By slowing down the impatient mind and gently softening one's bodily resistance and contraction, the unresolved issues and deep misperceptions of reality that were creating confusion and pain can finally be met, felt, embraced and transformed.
This profound work can only be accomplished as we learn to feel our way into the body with gentle, compassionate, meditative awareness (heart presence). True transformation and awakening will never be accomplished through objective mental analysis or diagnosis based upon faulty and idealistic views of human development.
Supporting One's Empowerment and Fearless Heart
I have almost 30 years of experience working professionally with individuals and groups. I have developed highly accurate empathic and intuitive skills for assisting the evolution of those I work with. However, I always do my best to stay out of the way and simply guide one into their own feeling-insights and realizations. If a person is feeling stuck or there is deep confusion or pain, I will offer navigational insights that point the way into possible choices for ending that confusion and pain, and for the further opening of the heart and body. This is how I have learned to support a person in exercising and developing their own feeling skills, will, self-empowerment and fearless heart!
The Center of the Heart
A part of the Integrative Awakening work is navigating feeling awareness directly and literally into the heart area through the center of the chest. This is the area that I firmly believe is the bodily location of awakening. Here in the center of the chest is where the radiant treasures of the Heart and Soul are anchored into the human physiology (surrounded by the denser psycho-emotional layers of the personality, which can veil and obscure this natural heart radiance).
Through my facilitation, I guide one in a gentle, yet extremely precise exploration. One learns to feel, embrace and transform the unconscious cognitive and emotional misperceptions of reality which actually surround and obscure the True Soul Radiance in the Heart. One is gently guided into and through the unconscious layers of personality (ego) that surround the Heart and into a direct feeling experience of the peace, well-being, wisdom and spaciousness of their True Nature (also referred to in various teachings as: Source, Self, Heart, Soul, the Christ Self, Buddha Nature, and Emptiness).
In the unique style of this work, we weave together the human personality and the Soul or Heart. Esoterically, this is known as the science of Soul Integration. As one opens into a deeper experience of Heart, into intimacy with Source, I offer full support for stabilizing and assimilating this direct experience. In this way, one's personal experience of Awakening and Soul Radiance is brought down from the realms of the conceptual and mystical, into an integrated and practical bodily experience. This is the integrative art and psychology of awakening.
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• More About Integrative Awakening
• The SourcePoint Experience
• Direct Experience, Not More Conceptual Information!
• The Bodily Location of
Awakening
• Secrets of Somatic, Body-Centered Navigation
• The Esoteric Significance of
This Work
• The Voice of Heart
• The Treading of the Way: Guidance and Inspiration for
Those Who Serve
• Biodynamic Cranial Touch
• Quotes from the Heart
• Solar Light Project
• Links / Resources
"It is a rare blessing to
discover a professional
who can skillfully support
us in our awakening as we
encounter our fears,
defenses, and needs; yet
these are the very areas
that require support and
liberation in order to become
fully awake. Neil is a master
at navigating the process of
'embodying' enlightenment."
- Charles Ridley
Founder of Dynamic
Stillness, a biodynamic
craniosacral school for
health professionals.
Author of Stillness:
Biodynamic Cranial
Practice and the Evolution
of Consciousness.
"I have done personal sessions
with Neil and have attended
his training group for
professionals. I highly
recommend his Integrative
Awakening work; it is deep
and authentic. I learned
profound skills for integrating
the body and mind that I was
never taught in traditional
graduate school. In addition,
this work has helped me
awaken to the deeper truth of
my being in a much more
fearless way. This wonderful
gentle work has affected my
my life, my relationships, and
my professional work with
others in such profound ways.
Neil gives us a ‘map' for
navigating the psychological
and spiritual paradigm shift
that we are collectively
experiencing at this time."
- Pat Gurnick CLC, CAC
Psychotherapist
"Neil is a dear friend and
an extraordinarily intuitive
and compassionate teacher.
He has a very deep
understanding of the mapping
of our personal and collective
human conditioning and the
loving essence of the One
Heart that beats beneath.
Neil is masterful at gently
uncovering repetitive issues
and supporting you in
clarifying your understanding
so that embodying the deepest
Truth of Being becomes a
natural way of living."
- Shantam Lanz
Watsu, Water Dance
Teacher. Founder of Liquid
Body Works and
Presence of Being.
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