Integrating spiritual awakening and emotions, relationships and the body.
Visionary poet, teacher, guide and musician. Harnessing the power of words to unveil the profound essence of life, while offering transformative experiences that awaken the deepest chambers of the heart.
Answering important questions for the spiritual seeker:
Are there techniques that can bring me nearer to inner freedom?
Do I need a teacher?
What happens to emotions after awakening?
How can I live my realization or glimpse of awakening?
Why do I keep being hooked back into the story, why do I become reactive again?
I realize that I’m nothing other than consciousness, but I haven’t had a radical, life-altering shift like the ones I read about. Does this matter?
I keep forgetting and being sucked back into the old patterns and stories. What can I do?
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Thank you Kavi. I have been blessed with energetic and crushing sense of contraction within; a claustrophobic protective shell against life that is here 24/7. So my path is crystal clear. Silently accept and lovingly open into the depths of these feelings. Feeling that before drove me to attempts of suicide. Perhaps the biggest trap is opening to them as a covert maneuver of trying to get rid of them. Which is not love. What is hidden slowly becomes apparent in the light.
@@jamesthomas1244 beautiful. Yes to all you say James.
Facing the shadows and darkness, I’ve learned to be comfortable in going outside my comfort zone. I remind myself daily to keep going…
I can really relate to your journey. Not having acheived anything in particular, in the conventional sense. Being a misfit and poet. The hardest part for me I think was treading water, so to speak, until i was either willing or able even, to enter my own forest. I spent many years hanging out largely in the witness state. Waiting but not knowing I was waiting; trying to convince myself that I had 'arrived' but really, I was afraid of entering into the darkness, but not quite knowing that either. Many times over the course of years since my intial awakening I staggered and stumbled around the fine line between the knife edge of now and a psychotic abyss. And whiile i have proufound compassion for myself in this regard now, I know too that this journey does not need to be that hard. Its is not like that now. And the reason for that is that, at long last i began to turn fully toward the pain. fully toward the darkness as you put it. And your right it is not easy. But it is damm sight better than waiting in a kind of strange no-man's land, constantly trying to hold back a fecking ocean of unmet fear and anxiety and sadness and grief. thanks for your message Kavi. Its a really good one. Keep at it.
"I know the terrible truth of darkness, and I say, bless the darkness, for in darkness I stumbled and fell upon the crystal road. After years of doubt, the dark mind turns again to light. In the black mountain of the heart, I found my way home again. I am that light in the darkness. I am a diamond, a bright secret veiled in black cloth. The light beyond heaven is the light within." --- Egyptian Book of the Dead
@@jamesthomas1244 wow. That’s it.
Forests of shadow ❤ I'm there to! No idea at all!
I know that forest well. Keep walking. x
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Love you man❤
It is indeed a wild ride. Thanks for all you share 🙌
❤ poetry in motion. Truly
I used to be so loving & openhearted. My heart closed because of trauma & heartbreak. But it opened a bit yesterday. I just feel exhausted unable to do anything today.
Opening what has been closed can be exhausting. The creaky doors, the tight muscles, the rigid survivalism all start to loosen up, even if it's just a little. That causes an energy movement which can feel exhausting. Be kind.
Rest, recover, heal...... But get back up and get after it!! The only way out....is through.
Well spoken.
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My narrow focus doesn't ever allow me to get into politics, but in my own journey, truth has definitely now come to forefront of my spiritual search. First, I always had a kind of shallow pride about being the honest one, since pride has always been a thing of sore lack in my life. Even this is a kind of humble brag. So honesty was a part of my ego. Which I think makes me lucky. And then, after a few years of strong spiritual interests, I started all of a sudden noticing how truth was a big buzzword in spirituality. And I didn't understand what the fuss was about, or what it was supposed to mean. It seemed very abstract, and everyone seemed to have something elaborate to say about it. But I didn't at all identify with it, or the concept of truth on my journey. Then, my personal identification with being honest with others and with myself, my long experience of really thick abusive deception from certain kinds of people, the spiritual breakthroughs that were happening during my total rock bottom year living homeless in a bush, and this buzzword in the spiritual community called truth, all aligned to reveal to me that this mysterious truth thing was something I already knew, and everyone already knows. And it's honesty. The experience of it was fairly impactful. I remember being convinced it was the experience of God. That I had encountered God and Gods all knowingness. But slowly I kind of settled to the maybe conclusion that it was just a really jarring psychological experience of temporarily not being able to lie to myself. So jarring it seemed mystical, and possibly omniscient. Since then, even though I still don't really have a thing for the "Truth" bandwagon, I somehow have steadily ventured closer and closer to it until it has now ironically become something I sort of commune with. Sort of like God. Yet, I don't know why I'm saying all this, other than it certainly is tainted with the motivations of fear and desire from this human system. So, it's not meant to represent truth. I'm just talking out of a kind of loneliness, and pride.
Thanks.
Regarding politicians -- they appear to have a type of 'integrity' or honesty in that they remain true to their pathological BS.
A kind of narcissistic integrity 😮
Bloody brilliant - champion video 🏆🏆🏆 thanks!
Thank you! x
Thank you, Kavi. “The amount of light you emit is not based on how positively you think, it’s about how much of your darkness you can accept.” - Kyle Cease
That's a great quote James.
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Appreciate your thoughts and words brother.
Thanks so much x
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On a somatic level, I notice that whenever I'm caught in one of these ways of running away from the discomfort, I'm sort of holding my breath. And then consciously breathing feels almost painful. So I've been learning to do uncomfortable things by remembering to breath.
In many ways breath is key. I remember this for myself. Deep emotion locked up in shallow breathing and restricted breath. And releasing the breathing inevitably releases discomfort and pain. x
You're sooooo right! I passed by a guy in the park a few months ago who had climbed a 5 foot chain link fence barefoot to retrieve a volley ball. He was perched on top and preparing to jump back down again, assessing and planning. Can't remember what I said as I passed, but he said, "It's ok. I just have to breathe." And then I watched him relax his body, breathe in and out a few times, and jump back down onto the sidewalk in a beautiful, seamless movement. No shock or pain. I've been carrying that moment with me to remember in times of psychological stress, and it does work as you say!! There are two benefits. It feels uncomforatable to relax and breathe. But then... breathing facilitates staying with whatever is causing discomfort.
I watched three videos so far and the resonance with your words is deep. The tenderness part moved a lump through my chest
Thanks for that. Glad there is some resonance x
Right-on. Many of us were poorly raised, developing an aversion to the RIGHT HAND via being spoiled and coddled at one end of the spectrum, to mercilessly abused / neglected at the other. The middle way = way of awareness. Good parenting = proper discipline along with sweet softness: The darkness and light of love. We need to parent ourselves into seeing the beauty and necessity of BOTH aspects as one
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Thanks! x
My awakening process started in 2020. Since then a lot of trauma that was previously suppressed came up. My left side of my chest is now often in great pain. Is this already the re-experiencing and I just have to welcome and embrace the pain or is the re-experiencing a second process where I have to go to a past event and re-experience that event. If so: What if I don‘t remember the event, can‘t visualise it and the event is from a time where I still was a baby?
The interesting thing is: Although the pain doesn’t seem to go away I‘m not pushing it away anymore, I react less emotionally from inside that pain and I can now be in great emotional pain for days or even weeks and still be happy. I‘ve grown a lot over the last year. In fact I’ve grown so much that I‘m beginning to wonder if the pain just will go away on it‘s own when I‘ve reached a certain strength level.
@@shekhinah5985 This is your answer. " I‘ve grown a lot over the last year. In fact I’ve grown so much that I‘m beginning to wonder if the pain just will go away on it‘s own when I‘ve reached a certain strength level." You don't have to remember everything that happened, it's impossible. What you are doing and the decrease in reactivity is the journey. It does its thing when you allow it. Don't look for the results, just pay attention and love the journey as best you can. x
A lovely simple message. How often I have refused to meet myself in the simple ordinariness of everyday life, out in the market place, as you put it. And I agree that is where true transformation happens. IT is so easy to get stuck in the comfort zone of the witness state. Landing into my human body with all its messiness and vulnerbility and absolute ordinariness is really where its all at. Thanks for sharing this.
Exactly. Embracing the grit of the everyday is the test of our spiritual depth and realization. Thanks for your comment.
Thank you, Kavi.
@@jamesthomas1244 thanks James 🙏
Rituals are superficial. Just go direct via mediation and breathing.
When rituals are a communion with life they are not superficial. When they are done without communion, without love, they may be superficial, but they cannot be simply dismissed. Did you watch the video?
@@kaviji Youre right. I was incorrect to say that theyre superficial. what i meant more was, are they necessary? Or is it really a matter of preference?
@@Corteum Got you. No maybe not necessary. But some want/need, long for, a daily return to grace. That might be meditation or contemplation. But necessary, probably not.
Beautiful!
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🙏❤️🔥Beautiful poem, beautiful soul
So warm, pure, vulnerable, genuine, authentic…
Thank you. x
This resonated deeply with me - as I've gone through this too. I'm a musician - I will put your poem to music 🎶 Thank you 🙏
Great, let me hear what you do if you want. Glad it resonated. 🙏
Thank you for continuing to share Kavi
Beautiful, thank you so much. I needed this.
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Dear Kavi, thank you.
Jorge x
Thank you so much. Thank you for continuing to offer words and poetry of truth and beauty
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Dear Kavi - Thankyou for this beautiful and loving drop. Think of the conversations we shared a few years years back, and how I felt meet and understood in the gentle guidance you provided, wish you the very best. Love Susanna
Susanna how nice to hear from you! Yes I remember our time together well. I wish you all the best now and always x
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I enjoy your ramblings. Thank you, Kavi.
James thank you x
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Beautiful man 🙏
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That's beautiful, Kavi.
Thanks James.
Yes. This is a key insight -- that the "troubles" that follow us are drawn to the light. Looking forward to your new book; The Ragged Way. ;-)
Embracing the mess of the past.
Başı yok mu bunun ortasından olmuş anlaşılamıyor 👀
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The Ego mind has enslaved us
Yes it really has.