Projection is a critical element to understand in awareness practice. All perception is 100% projection as everything is seen through the filter of our conditioning. In this same way, everyone is a mirror of ourselves, revealing our own blindspots. Therefore, we continually bring everything back to ourselves as we realize nothing is external – the world is in us. We are not in the world! This gives further clarification to the idea that that which is perceived by the 5 senses as the world of form is ephemeral – illusion. Additionally, it provides further understanding into the realization that the “content” (world of form) of our lives (thoughts, body, emotions, relationships, careers, homes, appearances, possessions, social status, age, sex, race, awards, vacations, thoughts etc) does not hold that which is only available “within” (aka via the formless, realization of higher Self).
Would it make sense to build a house upon a slippery, faulty foundation of sand? No, it would collapse and cause a slew of additional issues. Instead we choose a solid, trustworthy foundation. (In this case the formless, infinite higher Self.) Projection can be likened to re-arranging the particles of sand believing we might somehow make strengthen the foundation. Nope. Sand will never be stable. Likewise, if we mistake shifting the external content of our lives as the key to our wellbeing we will suffer the consequences of samsara, continually re-arranging the content of life in a futile attempt to find what is only (and always) available in what Jesus referred to as the Kingdom of God within. Ultimately there is no within and without – there is transcendence of ego, aka duality, to the nondual realm of the formless, infinite Higher Self.
We cannot find Presence – or healing, peace or anything else for that matter, externally.
Similarly, engaging in past/future conversations (all thought is past/future) in the head to the theme of “something is wrong” is a guarantee for suffering. We must not be fooled into the misconception that our wellbeing is dependent upon figuring something out in the head. That’s ego's #1 technique to engage/re-engage us. No matter what we NEVER want to engage the stories in the head, try to solve them etc. – we always LET THEM GO! No matter how “sticky” the content. All we need to know will drop in via Presence and Presence only – no conversation in the head necessary. Period.
If we find we've gone unconscious, entangled in a conversation in the head (aka thinking)… that’s ok too! Eventually we wake up and realize we’ve been lost in a story. Poof, we let it go. It is called practice for a reason. We remember that thinking is always in the past and future – the definition for suffering – it is only in the NOW that find Presence. Liberation. All that we need to know will drop in from Life/God/Divinity/Soure without our needing to "think" about it. It's the same magic that pumps our heart, that digests our food, that operates the thousands of tasks going on in our body in every single second WITHOUT our thinking about any of it!
Side note: While the mind is a horrible master it is an excellent tool. So we may use it to schedule our day, remember to pay our bills, etc.. We just don’t want it running our lives unconsciously in the background.
Those on the path to Awakening/Self Realization have recognized the suffering of living unconsciously. The choice is made, therefore, to live Consciously. Thus we see anything and everything as an opportunity, a gift, to wake up and end suffering. No longer do we live in Fear for what may come our way. Life is a gift. NO. Matter. What. We are 100% adequate to our life experience. Our first few tastes of freedom illustrate how all questions drop away, all "problems" disappear… how nothing is personal when we’re awake. And we know Ego is our most formidable opponent, it is relentless – albeit completely lacking in any creativity or life force. Therefore, we’re starting with the upper hand! If we keep at it, as the power of the life force that we are, we quickly catch on to it’s tune. We use each and every trigger as an alarm bell to step out of the “Conversation”, RELAX and RELEASE, thereby bringing our samskaras into the healing light of conscious awareness.
Each time we take this opportunity to step out of the conversation in the head, into the conscious awareness we are, we reinforce alignment with our Higher Self. Thus, our energy ceases to be siphoned off by ego! Meditation, yogasana and sattvic diet are a crucial part of the process, bringing all aspects of the self into the highest vibration, into alignment with source. It is the most beautiful, magical experience there is… to no longer be separate from that which we are.
Love.
And now for one of my fall/winter favorites to help you drift off to a beautiful sleep…
Recipe for Warming Spiced Ayurvedic Sleepytime Mylk
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of almond, coconut or your fav non-dairy mylk
- pinch of cardamom
- pinch of cinnamon
- pinch of ginger
- pinch of turmeric
- pinch of black pepper
- raw honey
Method
- Pour your favorite mylk into a small pot.
- Add spices to taste and whisk to combine. Start with less and experiment with more later. I actually use 1/2 tsp of each spice which makes my mylk bright yellow and I LOVE it! However, a pinch is all you need.
- Bring mylk to baby bottle temperature to keep it raw. If you don't care about it staying raw, bring it to a light steam.
- Add a raw honey to taste & give mylk another whisking.
- Pour into your favorite mug and enjoy heavenly sleepytime yummminess! Sweet Dreams 🙂
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(Jayashrii is my Sanskrit name given by my teacher during Diksha in India)
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