Somatic Imaginings
A journey beyond the body, into the essence of being.
I have been exploring, experimenting and evolving what I’m calling Somatic Imaginings.
During these sessions I guide a group or individual beyond the seven layers of skin, and beyond ‘physical density’ into the microcosm of our fundamental biology.
In a way the physical density provides a bridge into the fluidity of our cellular foundations.
And once awareness rests in the lapping, billowing of the amorphous wave-like motion of trillions of cells spongeing into each other, as cellular respiration takes place, an unexpected portal opens—as if at light speed—into a vast expanse; all of a sudden I am the Cosmos—the Great Beyond—is Me. I am no longer bobbing within my fluid seas, the atmosphere is light, bright with no end in sight.
An endless opening; the Great collective-Knowing-Consciousness is suddenly Me.
We gradually travel from one end of the spectrum of frequency/density to the other.
From the vibration present in physical density, towards the increased freedom and aliveness of fluid movement, to finally what seems to resemble an ever-open, emergent buoyancy that is simultaneously still and silent.
The invisible, formless substance of who we really are is innately abundant, peaceful, loving, joyful, and buoyant.
As we venture into our body’s microcosm first, using the images our conditioned mind conjures, our imagination is stimulated and soon soars beyond…
When we let go of the images and rest into our present moment experience of our embodied reality, a kind of feeling-sensing of the subtleties of the body arises. The images help us re:member the feeling/Knowing of these subtler aspects of our embodied reality. The cellular breathing of our trillions of cells—our microcosm—something we are rarely attuned to, or even aware of consciously in everyday life—suddenly becomes everything; an all encompassing rhythm cradling us and we are it.
As we go further into the microcosm of the body, the more we are aware of the expansiveness, the no-thingness—which is simultaneously, paradoxically, an endless aliveness. As our body density dissolves, we remember the truly abundant essence that we are: consciousness.
So when I reflect on this process; what we are actually doing is using our imagination as a bridge from our terrestrial form to re:member our formless true essence.
In response to the anatomical descriptions, metaphors and sensory stories I provide, the mind reaches into what is ‘known’, based on past experience. The anatomical descriptions, metaphors and sensory stories I provide encourage the imagination to gather, to re:member images learned, seen and then merge them with any lived experience to create anatomical biology that has never been touched or inspected.
The imagination creates the bridge from what is somewhat known, and reaches into unknown space—
After being guided to let go of thinking and instead allow the Knowing of the body to arise… we somehow reach Knowing which has no structure, no form.
We find ourselves in the midst of consciousness, as if delivered by an effortless, invisible, hyper-driven light speed.
We are using our imagination to re:member our true essence, which in reality has no form.
In this process we are using our conditioned mind to go beyond the conditioned mind into Greater mind/Knowing. Knowing experientially ‘feels’ like a completely different experience to thinking or even sensing. Why? Perhaps because the frequency of Knowing—being awareness’ awareness of itself—is so much lighter than the denser conditioned mind, which has of course developed in the material realm.
So the imagination creates a porousness within the finite mind allowing entry into infinite mind.
Our imagination is almost as powerful as the real thing. Scientific research affirms this. So when we use this powerful pathway, the form, or the patterns that our brain has known are expanded…
This is why creative play, creative thinking, creative anything is so powerful because it's creating a mash-up of associations, creating beyond that which we have known, beyond the actual experiences and the past knowledge. It’s bouncing off what is ‘known’ out into the ether. Even though it’s creating based on associations of what it's known and experienced, it's still creating another version, if you like a parallel dimension, and this parallel dimension is something that we can lean into.
Imagination is a bridge to infinite possibilities. Infinite parallel dimensions.
It is said that our mind creates our own reality. If that is true then when we are imagining we are literally creating our reality with images—which is powerful in and of itself. However if we allow this imagining to be more embodied, felt-sensed, a more wholistic, expansive and less cognitive awakening occurs. So as we imagine and we embody our imagination, our brain then our whole body becomes porous to Greater Intuitive Mind—Consciousness—Knowing.
As our experience of ourselves becomes more porous, we sift into a lighter, brighter, endless expanse. We could call this Greater Intuitive Mind—Consciousness—Knowing. When we do so we move beyond the experience of feeling or sensing.
A different kind of experience is present. It's no longer an experience, or a feeling it's awareness aware of itself.
The awareness of awareness/consciousness is really different to the feeling sense of our physical density. This is a super important subtlety, because we are so inclined to relate to the denser energetic waves of experience that we can get kind of stuck focusing on dense form, or electrifying feelings and prioritise or seek those.
I think this is a really important distinction bc it is useful for us to lean into the lighter, brighter frequencies which open out into Greater Mind/Limitless Knowing.
Many people say that energy is everything and in many ways it is our experience. However, our true essence is the core within the wave-like experience. Our true essence is actually still and silent, and while it’s like a shining, that’s really just a pointer to the Knowing of it, bc it's actually still and silent.
Source; Our Infinite True Essence isn't vibrating.
All movement is the expression; the manifestation of Source.
And while this might sound unnecessarily complex, it's an important distinction because it affects the way that we conceive of and re:member our true essence. So instead of seeking the moving, pleasurable, or painful, energetic feeling-sensing. We can Know Source is actually far simpler than that.
It's actually far more effortless, because the One true essence that we are, the abundant, infinite nature of ourselves, is like this fine, invisible veil; awareness itself. It appears to ‘do’ nothing and yet is powerfully creating everything.
Is it simply imagination?
Is vibration the imagination of our true essence?
And so, when we imagine do we mirror the core of our eternal nature? Do we step into the void, as some people describe it, that no-thing, that miracle of miracles that is the fountain, the Source of all?
And when we rest in that no-thing—Knowing, in that overarching inner-standing that's around and as if bubbling within everything and yet not moving, the multiplicity of that reality—while it's paradoxical and almost impossible to understand—it’s important to define as best we can, no matter how incompletely. Because when we realise that our true essence is actually effortless and so not doing, so not moving, so not trying, when we rest in that, we are truly our abundant selves; we are truly who we are; We Re:member:
There is nothing for me to do, or Force.
I already am, effortlessly, so I don't need to bust my ass to make anything happen, I am naturally occurring; in flow.
I am naturally breathing; expanding and condensing. I am intrinsically loving, peaceful, abundant, joyful and when I rest in the Knowing of my true essence, I can get a sense of the stillness and silence—I use the word sense, but it's not sensing exactly. That's our language, it's a little like that, but it's different.
The distinction between sensing and Knowing is experiential, not cognitive. This is why a somatic pathway can be so useful.
And really what I'm doing is gradually moving through the spectrum of experience, from density to fluid, to space, to no-thingness in order to Know the nature of the greatest soft power. And Know that it is simultaneously me. Through that progressive Knowing can I realise that I no longer need to try or force.
I can simply relax into the nature of my being. The most relaxed, porous vessel that I can be enables effortless flow and Knowing; for any kind of direction, intelligence or collective guidance to infuse me.
It is the most efficient way for me to Be, because I am no longer doing I am Being.
I am a human being rather than a human doing. And this I believe is the true nature that our Great collective Source wants for us in this now, and those of you who resonate with this want this and are on this path.
Our imagination can be our pathway to the nature of our being; to the most restful, effortless, blissful, non-judgmental expansive reality. The only reason we don't experience life like that all the time is because we've been conditioned, and the learnings and experiences we have create a density, or a limit around what we believe is possible.
However, when we imagine into our the wonder of our Beingness, we remember who we truly are and this is the most abundant that we can be.
It's not about things because things just give us a feeling of success, of pleasure, of wealth, of security, however, those objects will only ever temporarily satisfy us.
In actual fact, we are looking for the feeling of love in every thing—we're looking for an abundant everlasting feeling of love in everything—and that the reason we're seeking Love is because that is who we Know we really are. It’s just that our conditioning has created a distortion that we are not that.
So what if our imagination is our pathway to who we really are?
And embodying that, or taking a somatic pathway into our greater consciousness, using our imagination first in order to dissolve, to re:member our Greater Self is how we can Know rather than feel-sense.
Because the Knowingness is our true nature, it gives us a trust, a solidity that cannot be broken when we rest there again and again and again. The reality of who we really are is strengthened through Knowing it experientially. We are no longer victim to the conditioning and the limited beliefs that have been embedded in us, we can begin to free ourselves from that and we can begin to live AS Love—who we really are.
If you would like to join like-minded others, who would also like to live this New Way please get in touch so we can become porous to Infinite Mind together.