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Sweetbriar's avatar

As a yoga teacher I find this article extremely fascinating. I am constantly trying to educate students the whole purpose of yoga practice is to meditate and gain mastery of a calm mind. In all the poses we use the body and breath to begin to help our scattered minds begin to focus. The most difficult classes and least attended are the ones where poses are long held like in yin and all the chatter of the mind begins to appear. Likewise the martial arts bring attention to cultivating mindfulness. This is a valuable article and in some places over my head and I need to reread it slowly again. So grateful to see it with much thanks to Dauntless Dialogue for sharing it.

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Derek C's avatar

It gives me a tremendous amount of hope to read this. People need to know this.

I feel like one the most powerful things we can do on an individual basis is simply sit with the feelings and sensations in our body. This simple practice will bring us to the tension of cognitive dissonance that needs to be seen and integrated. It will bring us to our buried pain and trauma that can be released and alchemized, so that the psy-ops are no longer capable of hooking into those energies and stories. It will help us to develop higher and higher capacity for discomfort and cognitive and dissonance. It will develop sensitivity and create space within us, bringing us deeper levels of awareness of (and connection with) our hearts, our minds, our guts. It will give us the capacity to pause... to possess the ability to respond (responsibility) and not be reactive pawns in the information war.

This inner exploration is all the more powerful when we do it with the intention to be curious, to ask questions, to accept and allow what arises, and to hold space for not knowing.

Yuri Bezmenov spoke about how the KGB taught meditation to Western diplomats, as a way of inculcating them with a false sense of security. And I suppose that, depending on what is being taught while the student is in that receptive alpha/theta state, it can be used to accomplish that objective. And it can be used for the opposite objective... to empower people to be invulnerable to the information war, by bringing them to a balanced and embodied awareness of Self that is rooted in truth.

The simple fact that we are becoming aware of how this works, to me, indicates that we are winning.

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