SITUATIONAL AWARENESS Meditation calms down your racing mind, but not is not meant to close yourself off so that you can notice what happens in yourself or depart for a dream in paradise. Meditation is meant to open yourself up and observe everything that happens, with all your senses and energy frequencies. In that way, moments of meditation substitute the life that was permanently lived by our ancestors. They were constantly alert, always aware of details in their natural environment, with all their senses and energy frequencies relating to nature. For them, like for animals and plants, it was a matter of life or death to stay in contact with the environment. That state can be called situational awareness. We have largely lost that capacity, at the cost of our health and natural recovery processes. While our urge to survive increasingly lost the need of situational awareness, this loss made us increasingly vulnerable for new diseases. But nowadays attempts come up, such as the film Origins by Pedram Shojai, to relearn situational awareness are coming up and prevent those new diseases. Now, to be certain, meditation was not only borne out of observational or relational impoverishment, or as a substitute for situational awareness. It came to add a second type of awareness, the awareness of awareness, the noticing that we notice. Perhaps the road that we are heading for is to both recreate the old situational awareness for physical health purposes and further develop the consciousness of ourselves for spiritual health purposes, while we may not forget that both processes may have lots of inter-linkages. https://youtube/watch?v=LwPY1KSG0T4
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:32:00 +0000
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