The illusory separate self, characterised by the emotional urge to seek happiness in what it believes to be objective experiences, gives its locus of control to what it perceives as a separate environment. The emotional distraction that arises from this is a block to the otherwise natural functioning of the body to nourish, heal and protect itself.
This same tendency may also seek the superficial trappings of non-duality, adopting behaviours, practices and endless searching through YouTube in the hope of having an experience, or through reading non-dual writings, mistaking mental clarity for the peace of simple being. In this way too, the natural functioning of the body is bypassed, as if the only thing is to seek the peak of the mountain and without taking into account the practical aspects of climbing.
Seeking, which is the activity of the illusory separate self, is therefore bypassing on every level. It is either the pursuit of worldly experiences, or the search for inner spiritual experiences used as a means of overriding psycho-somatic discomfort.
Once free of this, there is a natural return to the body’s easeful state, where it nourishes, protects and heals itself without interference in the safe context of universal love.
With love,
Freyja
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