She is clear that she “cannot make any definitive metaphysical claim about fundamental consciousness,” because she doesn’t know what it actually is. She teaches people how to attune to their fundamental consciousness to heal. This process includes “practices that cultivate the ability to contact ourselves and open ourselves within the whole internal space of the body so the actual realization of fundamental consciousness can occur” (pg. Thus, Blackstone’s Realization Process, which provides the means to get there. To be in this place we must let go deep within, which isn’t easy. To be clear, fundamental consciousness is not simply a relaxed state. We are still responsible to other people, but we are not entangled with them or with old patterns of relating with them” (pg. Even in challenging situations with other people, or in personal crises, we can remain in this centered position. We know ourselves as the unchanging center within all of the constantly changing movement of life. As we cultivate awareness and connect with the core of our body, we have the potential to “feel that we are living at the very center of all our experience. 5)Īccording to Blackstone, when we become whole within ourselves there’s an openness and we are one with everything around us. None of us grow up living within our body.” According to Blackstone, “psychological healing and spiritual awakening are considered intertwined and inevitable aspects of our progression toward personal maturity” (pg. It takes personal maturity and spiritual awakeness. To inhabit our body and be in contact with our body is an advanced experience. These seem like innate qualities of being, but they come to life as we contact our self via fundamental consciousness.” It’s not talked about ( for that reason) yet it brings us to life it is the basis of contact (in relationship with ourselves and others), and the basis of everything we feel: love, intelligence, expression ( voice, gender sexuality), pleasure, our sense of power. (Retrieved from ) “Fundamental consciousness is considered a spiritual experience. “It’s hardly ever talked about,” she explained during a recent Utube interview with Bliss + Grit regarding Trauma and the Unbound Body. She teaches people how to release trauma-based patterns by inhabiting the internal space of their body, specifically at the juncture between pure awareness and our physical and emotional being, what she calls our fundamental consciousness. She defines healing as becoming whole and notes that “trauma fragments and limits our wholeness” (pg. Judith Blackstone’s newest and sixth book on the Realization Process is her first to focus specifically on using this process to understand and heal trauma. When we inhabit our body, we experience ourselves as an undivided consciousness, a subtle, unified ground of consciousness, pervading our whole body and our environments, at the same time” (pg. To be whole is to be conscious and in contact with ourselves everywhere in our body, to live within our body. It is a potential, inherent in our human nature. “ Wholeness is not a vague ideal, but a lived experience.
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