140 - Helen Amery - The Synergy of Awakening and Enlightenment | Non-duality
Jan 12, 2024
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Helen Amery guides people in nondual awakening and enlightenment. The podcast explores concepts of self, self-discovery, and the role of love and compassion in the journey of enlightenment. It discusses the process of re-orienting oneself to truth and finding security and grounding in life.
Recognizing our essential nature and embracing all aspects of our human conditioning leads to a life lived in alignment with peace, love, and joy.
Awakening and enlightenment are interdependent processes that support each other, resulting in a more fulfilling and aligned life.
Deep dives
The importance of recognizing our essential nature
Recognizing our essential nature, the pure awareness that we already are, is crucial. Believing in a separate self causes suffering and leads to a whirlpool of negative narratives and beliefs. By recognizing who we truly are, we can find relief and relaxation, knowing that we are always okay, and that there is no separation. This recognition allows us to approach life with ease, effortlessness, and flow.
The relationship between awakening and enlightenment
Awakening, the recognition of our essential nature, and enlightenment, the process of clearing up our psychological conditioning, are interdependent. Both are part of the same journey. Awakening makes enlightenment easier, as it brings clarity and a sense of security. Enlightenment, on the other hand, supports the awakening process by bringing love, compassion, and a deeper understanding of our human experience. The two processes go hand in hand, leading to a more fulfilling and aligned life.
Grounding in the recognition of our true nature
Recognizing our true nature provides solid ground and security in life. Groundedness allows us to approach life with authenticity and integrity, feeling secure in ourselves. When we are grounded in our essential nature, everything becomes easier, without compromising who we are. This grounding brings a sense of security and stability, freeing us to fully engage in our human experience.
Addressing misperceptions about non-duality
The book challenges misperceptions about non-duality, such as the idea that it is solely an inward-facing path or that it denies the reality of the world. It emphasizes the inclusion of both the recognition of our essential nature and the integration of our human experience. The book offers a complete and practical approach, guiding readers toward a stable sense of contentment and ease within the context of their everyday lives, rather than rejecting or transcending it.
Nic Higham's (https://nisargayoga.org) guest is Helen Amery.
Helen guides people in nondual awakening and enlightenment so that they become unafraid of their experience, and live a life they love. Her passion is for all of this to be practical and inclusive of all of life. Recognising who we really are, and including all the human conditioning that we’ve feared, results in a life lived in alignment with the peace, love and joy of our nature. Helen arrived at the clarity of who we really are after 5 years of diving deep into nonduality, following an initial, dramatic awakening experience. Now, awake to our essential nature, her enlightenment process continues.
If you’d like to know more about “The Complete Book of Awakening”, its home is on Thoughtful Raven https://thoughtfulraven.co.uk/
It’s available to buy on Amazon worldwide, as well as direct https://thoughtfulraven.co.uk/shop
There are Free Resources that go with the book https://courses.thoughtfulraven.co.uk/courses/the-complete-book-of-awakening-free-resources
And Helen mentioned both the Community (for support with the nondual exploration) https://courses.thoughtfulraven.co.uk/bundles/community
And the new 5-day course, which is available here https://courses.thoughtfulraven.co.uk/courses/momentum-builder-for-awakening
If you’d like to know more about Helen’s enlightenment work, her website is at Wild Fig Solutions https://wildfigsolutions.co.uk/
Her Community is here https://the-wild-fig-community.circle.so/c/about-this-community/
And you can sign up to her newsletter here https://wildfigsolutions.activehosted.com/f/1. 'Wayfarer' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
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