Finding the inner sacred spiritual ground through all challenges

It's the coveted 'goal' of many a spiritual seeker. A transcendence of identification with the 3D world and it's temptations and triggers. Some have termed it 'bliss'. It's an all encompassing feeling of rightness. A knowing of yourself as both the actor and the witness of the acting.

When we touch this sacred ground within, it's as if we're the eye in the storm. Life swirls around us offering both challenge and joy.

I'm sure all of you reading this will have experienced this before. It feels like you are completely present, completely embodied and alive - yet you cannot be touched by the drama. Instead you experience the freedom to act as feels right for you in the situation.

However, we all know how easy it is to lose this connected state. One action, maybe even a word or micro-expression from someone can trigger deep seated karmic wounds from this or previous lives.

And just like that, we are reacting with automated coping strategies to avoid completely feeling the pain that arises.

Not dissociation but an active transcendence

So, the big question becomes, 'how can I actively engage in these challenging dynamics and heal karmic wounds without losing myself in automatic reaction?'

Have you noticed what happens to you when these automated coping mechanisms kick in?

For me, it could be like something else takes over. I'm no longer 'in control'. The quality of consciousness we can call 'the witness' retreats into the depths and I become the reaction. I become an automatic, pre-programmed set of behaviours.

The key is to bring the witness back into play. That way you don't dissociate from the experience, but rather actively turn into it. Allowing it and yet not identifying with it, neither throwing it out there onto others.

You let the pain express but remain grounded in the witness. It's like being the eye of the storm, watching and moving the pain on the periphery of your experience.

The next challenge is to bring that witness into the joyful experiences. Also, the mundane ones. Also those that require high mind activity (like writing this article!)

The witness is not the sacred ground. It's simply a bridge to it. We cannot force that consciousness. Yet, more and more as you become the observer of all you experience, that sacred ground simply becomes a part of who you are.

Transcending the witness

Then it becomes about actively feeling into what the highest expression of you is in that moment. Not from an idea of "it's more spiritual to act this way", but rather an amplification of the naturally arising movement of consciousness. You express what is already there, but in a way that doesn't need a particular outcome - it simply expresses for the sake of it. Then you watch for feedback loops and synchronicity to support it.

So, the witness then dissolves into the ever present flow of consciousness, acting from a feeling of rightness and knowing.

In this way, we're all coming home, becoming an aligned expression of the universe.