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.
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.
I was a meditation teacher for years. All the practices you describe are deeply relevant. I have found meditation to be closely related to strengthening the right hemisphere, now that I understand it’s function more clearly.
I feel the same way. In watching the unfolding of the last few years and even in teaching , it is more apparent to me than ever what you are writing about is of utmost importance and a very big reason why people are mentally being jerked around. They are living in chaos and their minds are in chaos all by design. You are probably familiar with that analogy that Max Strom wrote about in his book A Life Worth Breathing. “Imagine a carriage in terrible disrepair, while thte horses that pull it are half wild. The driver is distracted and unfocused, and the passenger and owner is a king or queen, who is asleep, dreaming he/she is a peasant. The broken carriage represents our body, the wild horses represent the mind, and the sleeping passenger represents our soul. Nearly all our problems stem from chaos in one or more parts of ourselves. ……So we need to repair the coach (the body), train the horses (the emotions), sober and focus the driver (the mind). The result is to reawaken the soul, represented by the sleeping passenger.”. There are far too many people asleep. Thanks for letting me share with you.
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.
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.
I was a meditation teacher for years. All the practices you describe are deeply relevant. I have found meditation to be closely related to strengthening the right hemisphere, now that I understand it’s function more clearly.
I feel the same way. In watching the unfolding of the last few years and even in teaching , it is more apparent to me than ever what you are writing about is of utmost importance and a very big reason why people are mentally being jerked around. They are living in chaos and their minds are in chaos all by design. You are probably familiar with that analogy that Max Strom wrote about in his book A Life Worth Breathing. “Imagine a carriage in terrible disrepair, while thte horses that pull it are half wild. The driver is distracted and unfocused, and the passenger and owner is a king or queen, who is asleep, dreaming he/she is a peasant. The broken carriage represents our body, the wild horses represent the mind, and the sleeping passenger represents our soul. Nearly all our problems stem from chaos in one or more parts of ourselves. ……So we need to repair the coach (the body), train the horses (the emotions), sober and focus the driver (the mind). The result is to reawaken the soul, represented by the sleeping passenger.”. There are far too many people asleep. Thanks for letting me share with you.