Hakomi – Realization and Embodiment

I know it seems endless at times, how many layers of ‘stuff’ we need to move through to experience the freedom that we know is our birthright.

And I know how much resistance we encounter along the way.

Just waking up to Who You Are just doesn’t cut it. As long as it is not realized in all the areas of stuckness, suffering, fear and pain, we are still stuck, suffer, in fear and pain.

Honestly, I don’t know who or what I would have been, if it hadn’t been for Hakomi. I have sung my praises to the late Ron Kurtz, one of the first founders of Hakomi, for bringing this body centered therapy to the world, and often I wish that everyOne had an opportunity to experience its transformational power.

If I would try to explain to you what Hakomi is, you still wouldn’t know it in your own experience.

However: At its most basic level, Hakomi is the therapeutic expression of a specific set of Principles: Mindfulness, Nonviolence, Unity, Organicity and Mind-Body Integration; these principles inform every aspect of the work. It is an assisted Self study, where concepts, beliefs and feelings are met with mindfulness and non violence directly in the experience, which allows for lasting transformation in a way I have not experienced anywhere else.

When I started going to satsang with Adyashanti back in 1999, I was lucky because I started the Hakomi training simultaneously. I say lucky because that saved me from many years of spiritual bypassing, which so many people got lost in. Waking up is only one side of the coin. The other side is called embodiment.

Hakomi couldn’t allow me to bypass any of my stuff. Remarks like “Oh, it is not real” or “Why bother with that, it is not who you are” didn’t compute as long as I still felt it as real. So even though those remarks are true, unless and until they are realized from the inside out (and not from a distant spiritual stance) they simply are not true and could be called denial.

One of my teachers/teachings from the past, Joel S. Goldsmith said, “A Truth is only a Truth when it is realized.” To me realizing it means embodying it. Then you’ll feel something can let go and relax and you don’t need to deny it, resist it or grasp for it anymore. Once your ‘hands are off,’ the energy that was held in place by your grip dissolves. You cannot let go of your grip from a distance.

This coming Tuesday October 22nd on Evolutionary Women Radio, you will be able to hear about the experience from Jodi Christiansen, a recipient of Hakomi, who has offered to share her experience of this work.

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