Alex Shailer, a non-duality informed coach and YouTube creator, shares insights on emotional healing and consciousness. He discusses the power of experiencing feelings fully to release them, emphasizing the importance of recognizing our true nature as open awareness. Shailer guides listeners through a meditation to connect with their raw sensory experiences. The conversation also touches on the role of deep questioning in coaching and the significance of accepting all emotions for genuine well-being. Join him on a journey toward inner peace and clarity.
Fully experiencing emotions rather than avoiding them allows for their release, leading to a more harmonious experience of one's true nature.
Shifting from identifying with the separate self to recognizing oneself as awareness facilitates the dissolution of limiting beliefs and reveals our inherent peace.
Deep dives
Nature of Awareness and Coaching
Coaching, as described by Alex Shaler, transcends traditional advice-giving by focusing on facilitating personal transformation through powerful questions. This method encourages clients to uncover their inherent qualities of peace, fulfillment, and wholeness. Rather than perpetuating a cycle of self-improvement based on the premise of being broken, the coaching framework emphasizes realizing that individuals already possess the qualities they seek. In this approach, the coaching relationship serves as a catalyst for awakening one's true nature and potential.
Emotional Healing and Awareness
Alex emphasizes the significance of fully experiencing emotions rather than avoiding them, which can often lead to suppression and negative patterns of thinking. He compares stuck emotions to clouds that obscure our inherent nature, and proposes that by creating an existential sense of safety, individuals can allow these feelings to flow and release. This process facilitates the manifestation of calm and peace that are part of our true nature, leading to more harmonious experiences in life. The recognition of oneself as awareness allows for emotional energy to be processed effectively.
Limiting Beliefs and Acceptance
The conversation highlights the challenge many face when entrenched in limiting beliefs that stem from identification with the separate self. Alex discusses the importance of guiding individuals through inquiries that challenge these beliefs, ultimately enabling clients to witness their true nature as consciousness, which remains undisturbed by emotional states. This shift from identifying with the self to recognizing the vastness of awareness allows for a natural unfolding where limiting beliefs dissolve in the light of truth. By gaining direct experience of awareness, individuals can transcend their previous limitations.
Resting as Awareness and Manifestation
The podcast introduces the idea of manifesting not through striving for positive feelings but by resting in the awareness of our true nature, which inherently embodies peace and gratitude. Alex critiques the traditional law of attraction perspective, suggesting it's counterproductive to focus solely on eliminating negative feelings. Instead, he advocates for allowing discomfort to process, revealing the natural harmony that resides within. By resting as open awareness and engaging with both light and dark emotional states, individuals find that their desired outcomes align more effortlessly with their authentic selves.
In this episode, we talk to Alex Shailer about fully experiencing feelings as a way to release them, identifying with our true nature as consciousness, and resting as open awareness, rather than trying to forcefully cultivate positive states.
• Includes a guided meditation helping us to turn our attention to direct sensory experience, inviting us to notice the “I” in thoughts while resting as open awareness itself.
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