Whenever you look at the images of the Buddha's with hands up and big smile on the face and the big Buddha belly, that's actually the posture and a metaphor for what we are doing: allowing the Buddha belly just to be there and totally let go and let all those feelings hang out, while you spend your time connected to what's really here now.

If you check what's here now, there is NEVER a problem.  It's always when we are holding something in the belly and we get going with our mind and suddenly we are seeing things clouding our vision, and life is full of problems. Our reality is created from the chaos and yet you could be completely here, smiling at the beauty and the simplicity of now and the big Buddha belly could be just hanging out and letting all that STUFF come and go!

It’s really that simple. 

Love, Karyn

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I was reminded of something today that I want to share with you - this feeling of disempowerment.  It doesn't really matter what caused it - some old memories of things that we do and we somehow judge them as wrong, and we really hold in that guilt and shame and are really punishing ourselves terribly and really judging it and we can't really seem to let it go, we can't forgive it.

We can't let it go, it just keeps whirling around, and every time we actually see anything in our lives that reminds us of those feelings, or as if those feelings would be exposed, or we are really going to look bad, we get terrified and we start moving away from those situations - maybe even distancing ourselves from perfectly good relationships or jobs!  We are really struggling with the imprisonment inside of those feelings.  And then we often have behaviours to try and be good to compensate for it and also bring this polarity of destructiveness in the energy.  We so believe that that's actually who we are when it is really just thoughts, feelings, ideas and energies floating around.  When you really step back for a moment and when you actually allow those things just to be there and you are not all focused and cringed and totally intense within them no matter how horrible they were, when you step back to be present with them, you realize you are in the room again with everybody else and nobody sees this stuff that's rotating around. So think about that. You are your own person in here with these feelings, only you make them important. Only you fight with them and call them a 'you'.  Only you expect punishment for them.  But none of that is true and none of it is real.  You can let it all go; you can be right here in this moment, free and allow that energy that's right here in this beautiful balanced moment to actually interpenetrate all of these tight, twisted emotions because it will do the job for you - dissolving them.  That's why it is called a miracle. It just happens when you decide to step back and just be here with what you've always called 'you'. 

Remember, they are not really ‘here’ – no one else sees them – and you can let them go.

Love, Karyn

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I've mentioned about the symbolism of the Buddha and how that can be such a metaphor for our posturing in being more present.  Are you smiling, are your hands open to all that is around you in such a joyful way.  It kind of represents that sense of presence and noticing what's really here right now.  The kinds of things you can experience when you do a direct experience meditation (see YouTube video), where you can get really in touch with the sounds and stillness and just what's here in this moment.  And yet that big belly that Buddha has is such a metaphor for really allowing all of these things that seem to come up as tightness, contraction, and overwhelming feelings.  It is as though the mind makes these unconscious associations, notices the threat and BOOM it seems to come up from deep in the belly and at our deepest core beliefs about who we 'think' we are. 

This vision of a  Buddha belly is always open and expanded and it is always allowing these things to come in go back out again without it coming all the way up into the mind and getting rattled about even a deeper sense of who I am and who I think I am. 

So one way of really looking at this too is the way we look at the yin and the yang symbol; they are both happening that the same time. There is the yin happening at the deeper level where the core insecurities can fly in and be triggered and then there is the yang level where it seems to be more expansive, open and free. Both experiences are equal, creating yourself as the ego and thinking that is who you are and then seeing the truth that you are much more than that - it's all here at the same time. 

It is just interesting to see these various symbols that have been with us for a long time and to look at how that relates to our presence and what we are doing in this moment! 

Love,

Karyn

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Our ultimate fear, which locks us in to feeling like a very struggling 'me' individual, is actually our fear of separation. That is something we learn when we are very, very small; we come into the world as one, everything is one. And we learn about being separate and then we really worry that we could lose that connection to our parents and we have mini-abandonment experiences; we suddenly become aware that something isn't there - your mother isn't right there and we get fearful that separation does occur.

So if you take some really deep breaths, right through the whole body, through the head and circulating around, soothing your energy field totally, and you allow yourself to just open deeply to that energy circulating through you and around you and everywhere and check to see if you can even find a boundary. If you really close your eyes and feel this experience check to see if you can even find a boundary between where you think you are and everything else.  If you simply allow that sensation in this experience of awareness and there is no labelling, there is nothing required and yet life occurs, sounds occur, movements occurring in the world around you and in the experience around you. You simply allow all of that without any sense of labelling it or looking at it or anything - just having the experience of being present. More and more you recognize that it's all happening as one. Sensations appear as something but then they dissolve. Sounds come and then they go.  Activities seem to be happening, but if you don't picture them, it just comes and goes, whatever that is.  There is always everything moving and shifting and it's all in the backdrop of this oneness awareness and there is really no boundary between these sensations and the actual awareness of them all - it's all the same. So when suddenly we have a fear of separation, where we are at risk of losing things, of being out of control and we suddenly think we have to do something to grasp onto life and to survive, isn't that just another sensation? It gets all of our focus and takes us out of the appreciation that it is all happening by itself - it is all one. The very fear that I am separate and I have something to lose and I have to do something, the fear of separation, brings us to that focus of this whole world and life that actually is an experience of separation!

And that's fine.

Again, just breathe and notice, it is really just another sensation? Just like a dog barking, the phone ringing, a voice, a footstep; we don’t' need to label any of it - we do - but we don't need to label and make it into anything to have the direct experience that life is all one.  Whether we are focused on those sensations or whether we are focused on the awareness of the sensations, and if we really focus on sensations and we tighten up and label and have a whole mental experience of pictures and memories - that's ok, it's just an experience, it is not really separate.  It hasn't really separated anything from the one energy. It is still all one.

Notice you can come right back down to breathing and noticing the very core sensations that have given rise to that experience. So could you let go of wanting to be so attached to that as an identity where you struggle and try to make something of these sensations to try to "fix" the separation "ideas", actually gives you separation - you are having the experience of being separate and needing to do something?

Of course it's just an experience, its fine!  You are NEVER separate!  Could you just welcome that there are no boundaries and that everything is all being taken care of all by itself, and you could rest in the background, in the awareness that you are just watching to see what that body is going to do today?

Love, Karyn

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What is Releasing or Letting Go?

The approach to releasing is relatively simple and includes mental tools and techniques for the following steps:

1. Identifying areas that require attention

2. Recognizing feelings associated with the issue

3. Accepting, allowing or welcoming the feelings

4. Experiencing the emotions directly, separate from thinking or analysis of the problem

5. Letting go (or releasing)

6. Re-assessing the issues, including insights, understandings, new perspectives

The simplicity and natural process of releasing or letting go allows the user to incorporate and integrate the approach after the initial training, providing an on-going template for continued self-improvement. This is the primary goal.

In the process, you may identify issues that you want to address more deeply, for brief periods with the assistance of coaching or psychotherapy.   Visit our upcoming events page for more information on our courses. 

“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” - Albert Einstein