When I first got into Consciousness work it was a lot of work and I was more interested in doing martial arts and training my body. However, once I started to have insights and make breakthroughs it became more real for me and made a huge difference in my quality of life. I want you to be able to experience this for yourself. Toward that End one of our Increasing Consciousness Group Leaders out of Oslo Norway, (@Jakub Holý) is hosting a weekend Empowering Consciousness Workshop. It will be facilitated by @Rob van Ham, a long time student of Peter Ralston. I want to personally invite you to either come and experience this work for your first time or if you have studied with us before to come back and continue to increase your consciousness. There is plenty of work for everybody. Please see the information and click the link to learn more and sign up. Dates: October 10-11 Location: Oslo, Norway Learn More - https://holyjak.cz/ecw26/ All the best and do good work! Warmly, Brendan Lea

In this session we consider and explore the difference between concept and experience.

I find it really hard to contemplate, sometimes I manage it well but I need to be really focused. When I try I find my mind wandering into every day issues yet i don’t seem to have a problem meditating.

I notice when I judge someone or something (and by judging I mean assigning a moral value to my assessment of something, as opposed to discerning where I am not making a moral attribution) I am avoiding an emotion or feeling. The judgement of the the "thing" acts to replace the emotion that preceded it. I cannot be judging someone and be simultaneously genuinely feeling the truth of my emotions. As an example I was busy harshly judging someone at work for sabotaging a project I was working on. I was fuelled with so much anger and injustice. Narratives spinning away about how I could get revenge. Make it right again. I realised the anger and indignation I felt arising from judging was masking what I was really feeling. Hurt. Sadness. Pain. Even some shame I didn't help the person when they needed it. Judging this person blocked the truth of my experience. I fell out of authenticity. This process also generated a lot of suffering. Does anyone else recognise this within them as an insight? Judgement blocks our truth. Suffering is generated in how we relate (avoiding in this case) to our feelings and emotions. Not as much from the feelings themselves. The feelings dissolved immediately and suffering stopped as soon as I let myself feel them ☺️