Maybe you just don’t quite know yet how to fully step into the New. I know how sticky that old stuff feels. Kind of like cement and we’ve been stuck there for a loooooong time.

Can Consciousness be stuck? Not really, but it sure feels like it at times, doesn’t it. Maybe embedded is a better word.

The metaphor of being stuck in cement is how it came through last week when I talked about raising Consciousness on Evolutionary Women Radio. Allow me to expand on it a little more.

Imagine your awareness circling around the same thought forms day in, day out. Well, you don’t really have to imagine it, do you? This is what most of our minds do, knowingly or unknowingly.

In my Meditation and Mindfulness Class at UCSC, the students learn to become aware of their unique thought pattern that they consciously or unconsciously engage in all day long. Becoming aware of this pattern can be a bit shocking at first, yet liberating when you know how to take the next step.

If you want to shed more light on your pattern, try consciously focusing on either your breath, a mantra or something other than your thoughts. Quickly you’ll find yourself twirling around in these same thought patterns, no matter how hard you try to not do it.

This is what I refer to as consciousness being stuck in cement. What is your flavor of cement that keeps these thought patterns in place?

So the first step is: Becoming aware of your unique flavor of cement. Where do you park your Consciousness by default? This little piece of awareness can be pretty revealing already. Doing the awareness practice I mentioned above will soon reveal it to you. You can also listen to the 2nd CD from my Meditation and Mindfulness course if you need support.

Once you have become aware of this ‘parking space’ and then try to park your consciousness elsewhere, lo and behold, 2 – 30  – or maybe 60 seconds later, you find yourself back in that same space. That is the cement that your Consciousness is embedded in. What is your flavor?

Becoming aware of it and realizing that you don’t want to park there anymore, is usually not enough. As long as the cement feels more real than your resolution to not park there anymore, you need to find something that can help dissolve this cement. How do you get out of the cement and stay out?

It may be different from person to person, from situation to situation and from moment to moment.

The mind can be tricky and sticky in keeping you there.

I could make a long list here because there are as many unique solvents as there are cement flavors.

Here are a few suggestions that have worked for me:

A soothing statement (or probe as we call it in Hakomi), kindness towards yourself, an kind inward listening ear, a caring look, a warm touch, a sharp sword, a kind attitude towards the cement/yourself, EFT tapping, an unwavering NO, a loving conversation with the cement, a non judging witness, support, being seen or heard, reassurance, etc.

The real question is: What do you need to help relax and soften the edges of the cement, so you can focus your awareness on something else?

In my own life I have learned to feel into the cement and deeply listen to it to find out what will help it dissolve to allow me to choose new ways to Be.

There have been times where I got my sharp sword out and let the energy of NO take the power out of the thought forms (which I myself had given them). Then next moment, when I feel more liberated from the old grip and feel a space around it, I can actually allow it to be there and just observe it. With this new found space of allowing around it, the cement is dissolving and I can freely choose to put my Consciousness back on Itself.

There are other times where I may have been ignoring my own Truth and by finally listening I realize that I need to make some changes in my life.

In the past I have used all the examples above, and found there was never one thing only that worked. I had to find which approach would help the cement soften moment to moment until I was not stuck anymore.

Learning to Listen is Key.

This whole process needs to become a regular practice until the cement is so weakened that Allowing becomes a natural state. In this new space of Allowing you get to choose where you want to ‘park your Consciousness.’

My preferred parking Space is back on my own Consciousness, the only place where I am a conscious outlet for Consciousness itself.

This practice will help build a new muscle where you will learn to listen deeply to what each moment calls for and follow it. The goal is to free up your Consciousness from ‘going through the same washing cycles without ever getting clean.’

In reality, Consciousness cannot be stuck. It just Is and Allows everything to be as it is. Once you reach that state of Allowing, you are definitely unstuck from the cement, and become the solvent needed to Be and raise Consciousness.

So it is not the thought forms themselves that are the problem. It is our reaction to them that fixate us in what feels like cement.

Many years ago when I started reading Joel Goldsmith’s books and teachings, I started practicing non-reacting to events in the world. Not as a passive bystander, not as a spiritual by-passer, but as a freed up active Consciousness, not identified with emotional reactions to life’s challenges. That way I learned (and am still learning) to be fully Present in the moment instead of being in emotional reactivity (which btw feeds the situation I want to change or get rid of.) And in this Presence I am also present with my emotions without resisting them or getting lost in them. Voila!

Over the years I have learned to not react from an emotional place and instead Be Present to Presence itself. This is bringing Consciousness to the unconscious. This is raising Consciousness.

It sure takes time to master this. It is still my daily practice.

If you want to explore this more, please join me tomorrow Tuesday Dec 10th at 11AM PST on Evolutionary Women Radio. You can tune in on Awakened Radio and share yourself, ask questions or just say Hello.
Of course you are welcome to call in at 334 649 7204.

ALL Love,
Pernilla