For me personally this was one of the most helpful videos I've ever watched.

@siddharth9

3 ай бұрын

Perhaps the most helpful.

Not only is this amazingly helpful, but you as an apparent individual are just the most incredible conduit of this simplicity and communication

Helpful yes! Thankyou. At 4am I woke up after a set of unusually threatening dreams where fear and insecurity dominated. Once awake I watched the reactive thoughts and coping mechanisms spring up. I reached for my phone.. soothing music was the idea. Then I let go of that idea. I felt into the uncomfortable residue and it was kind of unbearable. The old patterns of fearful responses felt real. Doubting my overall ability to transcend the onslaught of difficult hellish scenarios living life can bring. Followed by thoughts like - "This non dual awareness is just a fad.. you are weak in the face of danger" "Letting go into the sense fields works well while awake, but hey, I'm a victim in my dreams and ultimately in big trouble, I will fall into despair" "You need help from somewhere, connecting with ascended masters or praying etc." " You haven't changed " "Woke? Yea right " It was the biggest wobble so far in this process of letting go of thought structures.. This video is reassuring and helpful. I will ride on, no turning back. Shadow material welcome. Oh boy

@martynbrown1347

3 ай бұрын

I’m right with you blue sky eyes slap a smile on ya face and let’s crack on peace and love to you

@Hergreenman

3 ай бұрын

@@martynbrown1347 that's really nice thankyou brother 🤗

@jeriborer8732

3 ай бұрын

I can absolutely relate to what you are saying here.

I realize more and more how much I suffer and how much that sufferance seems absolutely unavoidable

This was definitely helpful and also validating too. I just went through a really rough period that took me a little bit to figure out that I was heavily back into thoughts. Sometimes they are so subtle.

You asked to let you know if this is helpful.... This is helpful. 👌🏼👍🏻🙏🏻

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

This has been one of the most relevant aspects for me recently. Ive become very tired of my addiction to distraction. Sick of sickness, as the Tao Te Ching so eloquently puts it.

Thank you. I've been a mess this week, woke up again in the middle of the night, picked up my phone and saw this. I think it's exactly what I need right now. Commenting so this doesn't become just another video in a cascade of distraction.

Thank you Angelo. Reading the comments I see my experience reflected in them all - your timing is impeccable. Woke up today so triggered with shame and anger and my mind wants to project and protect and use my “secret weapon” (?!?) of shutting down. This reminder to redirect my attention away from all these false promises of salvation back to the senses is all I need today. Thank you for this lifeline of sanity 🙏🏻

Thinking that line from "Stairway to Heaven" And as we wind on down rhe road Our shadows taller than our souls"

@georgeshepherd3381

3 ай бұрын

And if you listen very hard The truth will come to you at last Where all is one and one is all

This is perfect! One thing I've noticed lately is the "trick" that the unpleasant body sense (shame mostly for me) that triggers the escape into mind, is exactly what I go back to when I break the thinking by ignoring it in favor of the senses. So first impulse is that "I'm doing something wrong...again," because I feel that unpleasant sensation more strongly than I did when thinking or distracting.

OMG Angelo , this just is spot on! Oh my goodness this description of what’s been happening is so clear and there’s so much gratitude for how you lay this out so simplistically! Thank you so very much. Seeing this mechanism is so much a part of being able to ride the wave of deconstructingthat 💜

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

Wonderful

This is SO clear and validating of what has been happening here. So much gratitude for your skillful pointings!!❤🙏🏻☯️

Are you kidding me?!💎💎💎 This is not pure gold, this is diamond. I already knew it somehow intuitively but somebody telling you straight to your face... is a game changer. thank you very much Angelo!❤ These kind of videos are my favourite and hit pretty hard🤩 Josh also points this out A LOT, multiple times, in his own style and I get it now even more why this is so important for "the process". Today you were the dharma reminder for me.🤗

@Stefan69whatever

3 ай бұрын

"Josh"?

all the best ingredients: milestone orientation & overview; processes in play & challenges; approach & strategy & attention

Very helpful to identify the distractions that I create as I go deeper into the mud. You pointed out how the mind jumps in and creates lots of noise to keep us mind identified and unable to stay present with very uncomfortable feelings. Shadow work is one of the most challenging and misunderstood areas of inquiry. Most if not all teachers haven't been able to share this dynamic as I get closer to ground zero. Thank you once again for your channel and the steady flow of content to "awaken".

Thank you for this video. Shadow work can be very confusing and this is very helpful.

I was just dealing with strong repressed emotions a few hours before you posted this video and I have a sense that watching it probably did just save me a ton of time and unnecessary struggle in the long run 😅 Thank you for describing everything so clearly!

i made a condensed version, helps me recognize more clearly what's going on in my experience, hope this is helpful: using thought to pacify/soothe oneself, through fantasy, distraction, screen use, arguing etc. is a coping mechanism: we feel uncomfortable for some reason, we move into the mind. we can’t notice we’re doing this before mind-identification starts to dissolve, then it becomes clear how deep the habit is. the brain’s default mode network always lays conceptual overlay over reality, so there’s always this onramp for mental activity to take over. it’s very tightly woven and seems like a lot of work to take down. after awakening it starts to feel wrong to give in to this habit, but mind will defend against this realization with doubt and threats. when you notice that happening you need to move out of thought into the sense fields, body, sound, sight. it can be an intense experience, discomfort about a strong emotion was the trigger and that’s still there, but staying out of mind will make it easier to feel it and let it be. you can go right to the intensity and stay there. the habit to follow thought and stay in it dissolves, and instead when you notice this kind of thought you take it as a signal to come back to sensing and presence. the struggle of mind with itself is experienced as different parts pushing and pulling on each other, as if these parts have their own will, this is the basis of the tendency to feel separate, like a doer. in the sensation fields there is no struggle, the more you orient on them the less isolated and helpless you feel.

Yes, thank you, most helpful, bringing more clarity to how quick I am ready to use the mind, when a repressed emotion or reactivity arise, I at times, though not always soothe it with thoughts, utube videos or food, I am to a certain degree aware of what I am doing to calm the emotion or reactivity, yet don't always choose to go to the sense field into body awareness and feel what is arising in my direct experience without mind noise distracting me, I'm kind of in the middle of the stream, half 'n half, since I can ride the reactivity out through the senses or still use the mind or food to placate the stirring of discomfort. Not quite polished yet.

This is immensely helpful. I almost asked on your last video for help with exactly this, but didn't know how to articulate it.

@ninaharlankohl9569

3 ай бұрын

Yes!

Thank you so so much for all you that you share. I'm in a deeper process since 2 months of feeling deeper layers and recognizing survival thinking patterns. It sounds as the most complex and simple thing at the same time, but very helpful 🙏

This is SO on point for me at this time. I am amazed that you can describe, so clearly and precisely, my inner experience. Thank you! This is very helpful.

Just listened to this video…perfect time. Just what I needed encouragement on…mind is working overtime to deal out distractions. Thank you.

Very helpful, thank you for making videos shaddow work related, it seems the most important and harder part so far in this process. Practising this already, and it is a really nice reminder to keep going. At times it feels easier to keep attention in the body in the sences, times mind just becomes so intense, like no matter how good intentions i have to keep attention in the body, mind pulls it in back into thought space, and in these moments no agency actually clearly noticed, no personal will, just happening

Thank you Angelo, this video is a powerful pointer and a reminder to keep it simple, just the bodily sentations and everything will be revealed to you.

So just orient toward the senses at all times?

@Spagett998

3 ай бұрын

I’m also curious about this. I had a few days last week at work where I tried to stay aware of bodily sensations all day, and those days ended up feeling extremely unnatural and weird. I wonder how we practically do this.

@renko9067

3 ай бұрын

Orienting toward the body’s sensations was extremely powerful for me. It opened me right up. I did one guided body dissolving meditation and then carried that with me. Try focussing on the bodily sensations of your feet hitting the ground, your knees bending and your arms swinging etc. when you’re walking. You can keep open the apeture to everything else while doing this: sounds, sights etc. You might be amazed what can happen. Also, focussing on the bodily sensations in bed before sleeping or just after waking up can also be extremely powerful. Over the last two days I was struggling to deal with a family crisis and came to the conclusion Angelo talks about here. So timely.

@aresrabe3315

3 ай бұрын

@@renko9067 that's awesome. Thanks it definitely helps!

You always exactly confirm my experience and you hold the lantern leading the way🌟

Angelo, so so helpful, the space you speak of is so minuscule, sneaky, tiny and nearly undetectable. I’ve been ‘watching’ this… uncomfortable feeling/event>mental image >emotion/reaction…. Working on this over the last 2 weeks!!! It happens so fast!! I then return to the senses and THIS…. Poof 💨 🙏🏽💖 Trusting the process

Extremely helpful and the only way to go as far as I can see! 🙏🏻❤️

Yes, very very helpful, Angelo. Thank you❤

It's literally the last week or so I've actually realised I have the capacity to just feel into these emotions fully, instead of resisting them and going into the mind to distract myself. What's weird is I didn't even know what an emotion was until I googled it a couple of weeks back lol. I'd read Angelos book twice but both times I struggled so bad to take in the emotion chapter I just skimmed through it without taking anything in. Realise now that the mind didn't want to go there at all. Now I can read the emotion chapter no problem and have read it properly 3 times and will continue to read over it. Also I'm currently half way through a book Angelo recommended in one of his older videos called The Power Of Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell, this has been so helpful also, so might be worth checking out for anyone in similar place. Much love ❤

Movement away from WHAT IS seems to be the whole damned game. There is discomfort in what is, thought resists this discomfort, and forms an identity around the resistance. The whole movement is rather absurd, but that doesn't stop it from being damned convincing.

Thank you for putting this out… very practical and simple.

This couldn’t be more timely. And validating for me! I just decided that the simplicity of it is when emotion arises, put your attention on the physical sensation, the strongest physical sensation you can find, and when thoughts arise note them, as in meditation, labeling them “thought “ When you don’t let yourself think you really really do see exactly what it is you are avoiding. And it is simply “this feeling right here! “ It’s quite challenging to do. But it truly is utterly simple!

It does get much easier..Been at it for a while but nothing else but keeping at it brings any lasting results.And the admission of that fact is maturity, sobriety..Unless you prefer to have another go on the not so merry go round.

@renko9067

3 ай бұрын

“The not so merry go round.” That’s a good one. 😂

Beyond helpful...a game changer thank you!🙏

You have help me so much in my journey

Wow !! Exactly what I need to hear! very encouraging ! I’m really getting some horrendous thoughts coming up atm ! thanks so much 💯❤️🥰🧚🏽

This is beautiful ❤ and very helpful ❤Thank you ❤

12:46 ❤

Brilliant and super helpful

Beautiful sharing ❤ right on time 🤛🏻

Very powerful. Very clear. Even going to non-dual video can be a form of pacification. Darn, so sneaky!!!

Extremely helpful, thank you!

I think I'm in this space. I can see the truth on the tip of my awareness, but a part is contracting back and telling me all kinds of very compelling stories. "I'm just not ready. It will be too much. My husband and kids won't understand. I'll start acting bizarre, and I won't know if it's just another ego trip, because how does anyone really know anything? I'm not really part of the universe. My will is all I have. My attempt to understand shouldn't be dismissed as futile. Our genius lies in our ability to learn from the past, from science. Losing that means an evolutionary step backwards. Without it, we're just helpless playthings of an unknowable and impersonal universe with our eyes forced open like that guy in A Clockwork Orange, compelled to watch something we don't even exist in. It's just a meaningless light show for all we know. And anyway, I have three books to write. How am I going to do that if I have no aims, no goals? What if it pulls me away to something else and the books never get written? I get that control doesn't work, but total surrender? Like, yeah, it makes sense, and things are heading toward accepting that. But... So I'm just stuck like a fly in amber in some multi-dimensional object of no time and no space with no purpose? And I'm not allowed to ask who came up with the whole thing or why? And so what if I do surrender? It doesn't seem to matter anyway, since everything is already written..." Chatter chatter chatter... It knows how to get under my skin. I am abiding. Letting it play itself out. No idea what will happen or when. This is just what's happening now.

I can’t say thank you enough. This video is one of the most helpful pieces of advice I have ever received. Your guidance is like a lighthouse in stormy seas.

Perfect timing and message. Thank you so much for the clarity that comes from the depth of your being. Very helpful. 🙏♥

Yes, very helpful. It is also helpful to get reminded ;-)

It's amazing how well you describe how this feels like, so spot on. Thanks a lot for your videos, Angelo.

And what about focusing on "I am sense"at those moments? Tnx ❤

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

If that resonates with you :))))

Oh yes, oh my god so helpful! I’ve started to notice that disassociation and distraction has become sort of uncomfortable, but actually not knowing why. This video explains a lot! Everything in topic 🙏❤

Thank you so much for making these videos. I am so grateful. I just bought your book. My mind has been so loud and emotions so strong. For me, what sets you apart from other teachers is that you seem so genuinely kind. Thank you.

I like this because observing the mind can sometimes feel like im playing into it’s game and giving it more power than i should. I often question if that’s making the mind play up more. Great video. It’s funny how you put people asleep during the Day and wake them up when u get home 😂

🙏🏻 learning to say yes and this

I can relate and have been through this. The lies that can come up.. "You are goimg to go blind if you contniue this process..." etc. And the senses. The focus on the senses as a remedy for present centered awareness. But eventually the focusing on the senses still can feel like someone doing something. Awakening through the senses is the essence of Vipassana. It too, cam be helpful over here, in this body still. But there have been times that that too can fall away. As the root of the "I" thought behind every thoiught has been seen. And thought its;ef can begin to collapse.

Hi Angelo, yet another amazing and incredibly helpful video. I'm reminded of a message that would pop up on my smart phone: ' Power intensive app. operating in the background and draining the battery'! I always think this is a useful metaphor for the ego, or the subtle sense of separation and identification which can still operate in the shadows. All your pointings and guidance shines a light on these places and creates an opportunity to bring it in to awareness. Even just knowing about these attachments and processes, without the need to get rid of them, can create such a shift. Profound gratitude to you for all that you do, it's an invaluable and supportive companion on our journey of self enquiry and realisation. ❤🙏 X

This came at the exactly right time. So helpful, as the mind intensifies to such intense degrees after having its worldview seriously challenged.

Thank you for this! I am starting to dive into shadow work and am worried about navigating and integrating.

Thank you so much Angelo. This is definitely helpful!!

Question: How often do you engage in classic thought? I believe I heard Eckhart Tolle, refer to himself as only thinking approximately 20% of the time relative to the common person. Thank you

Extremely helpful!

Yes, thank you 🙌

This is very helpful. I am noticing this more and more especially when inquiring. As soon as the contraction in my solar plexus increases, which it seems is always there, the mind pulls me away. My attention shifts. It’s like a back and forth movement- sensation, attention goes to a thought like I can’t handle this, then back to attention on sensation. I also notice (usually after) getting pulled into thought when trying to focus on watching one of your videos. Out nowhere- wonder what’s on Facebook? So subtle. Anyway, great video. Very helpful.

Truly helpful 🙏🏻

Great stuff Angelo, very descriptive and somewhat familiar as to what I've been increasingly experiencing recently, as if the mind is having less of a gravitational pull, so only the more severely, extreme emotionally charged forms of thought can can really get through to break up the that peace of presence. I've read in the Course of Miracles that as the soul goes through deeper stages of realisation it becomes increasingly more sensitive to discomfort and suffering, thus less tolerant of negativity or heaviness, that gravity of struggle with oneself. Thank you as always, you're one of the teachers I most resonate with and always come back to, and you never disappoint to bring something new to the table on this subject, just listening to you talk alone almost always instantly brings me to this space 😉

Very helpful!🙏🏾💪🏽✌🏽🤙🏽👍🏽

Thank you!! VERY helpful!❤

A great explanation of the habit of disassociating

Love this, good and strait, thanks Angelo.

Exceedingly helpful.

Extremely helpful.

This is great! Thank you for all you do ❤

When In doubt come back to the senses and just feel then just stay there. Don’t believe thoughts about why you feel the way you do, just feel. Presence will reveal itself inevitably.

Very helpful. Really explains things.. 🎉 Tnx!

Yeah "the flip". Super helpful man!

Very helpful, clear, and relevant to what I'm going through right now. It is kind of amazing how relentless my mind is at trying to (and many time succeeding) at co-opting me. It feels daunting sometimes, but luckily I have been able to see progress.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

Good to hear. It’s rather non-linear. It can feel rather disorienting and stagnant for a while. But the work is being done. ✔️

Thank you

Thank god for reminding me of this.

OK, Put the attention into the body senses, sensations. Keep Feeling!!

You are always doing such a great job in putting things in a way that is really easy to understand for me, thank you so much! Greets from Holland💛

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

This is huge

In answer to your question, yes, very helpful.

Yes really helpful. As ever you seem to know just what needs tweaked.

Soooooo helpful!! I’ve been experiencing this to a tea for several days. Thank you!!!

Can't figure out if you're getting better and better describing the nuance of this deep process, or if I'm getting better and better grasping the profound colors of your . Rather, it seems like it's simultaneously happening... neither from one nor the other, but simply by this mysterious silent profundity of all, whispering through your empty canvas. 💙🙏

I’m usually avoid confrontation. Even with family . But today I was forced to put myself in between my pregnant sister and her narcissistic bf . I was in fight or flight I noticed , but I try to remain responsive and as the space for the situation cuz everyone was reacting and talking over each other .. I cud have easily just picked my sisters side and lashed out on the kid they are in their late teens , so I was able to hear both sides and de escalate the situation but say what needed to be said and showed them how to confront each other without throwing temper tantrums . In the end they found it was a miscommunication and and pretty much , without fighting the kid I made him express the right way and let my sister have an opinion even tho he didn’t want to but I was kinda putting him in corners in his own psychological game. The cool part is that I stabbing his shadow with truths and he seems like he was getting rattled up but he knew he couldn’t resort to any type of verbal or physical violence cuz there’s was a selfless energy I was tryng to maintain . I really was just thinking about the baby in my lil sister stomach she got 2 months left .. I was in survival mode it just made me think of the future of the baby . And just staying non judgmental and compassionate for everyone cuz if I hurt anyone it’s like hurting my baby. Meaning if I continue allowing the cycle of unresolved trauma to win it’s gonna rub off on our future generations. So I think the pain of seeing that my niece will have to grow up with these unemotionally intelligent kids as parents , made me stay grounded in the midst of conflict I would usually ignore cuz it’s “low vibe “ I say so I must stay away from that cuz I’m spiritual lol what a clown 🤡 right ?

Superb description if what's been happening here. I'd take it a step further and say those sensations, those contracted energies which need to be felt are that which directly produces the thoughts. Based around fear , anger and desire. Desire thought is a powerful 1 to distract away from feeling the fear. The desire is another contracted energy that needs to be felt and purged just like fear

Thank you, Angelo ❤

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

Welcome!

Thank you Angelo

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

welcome

Thank you!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

You bet!

Thank you Angelo.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

You bet

I appreciate you very much Angelo. I am still struggling on how an artistic path could be pursued without a sense of will. That’s the only area I’m stumped on to a degree for a lack of better words. Any advice would be nice.

It’s very helpful, 🙏 Thank you ❤

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

Thanks!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

😍😍😍 🙏🙏🙏 👁👁👁

„Think me, think me, I‘m real!“

❤

It's funny just before you said "oh I'm interested in something else now" is exactly what started happening with my mind. 😂 Thank you for the video!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

3 ай бұрын

Love that!

yes and thank you xoxooxoxoxooxoxooxoooxoxoxo

Thanks Angelo. This has been very helpful. Now if I can only notice this while it is in the act of defaulting to the mind!🙄