Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: Gentleness with the Blahs

04/10/2025 1h 37min
Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: Gentleness with the Blahs

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In this exploration, we'll discover how to work with the "blahs"—those all-over, nebulous feelings of fatigue, malaise, or systemic unwellness that can be harder to locate than specific pain. I'll guide you through a gentler approach that starts with the space and sounds around your body before gradually including the whole-body sensations. Through this practice, you might discover how even through pervasive discomfort, there is underlying comfort that can be found.Some possible takeaways from today's practice:Learning to work with whole-body, diffuse sensationsDiscovering how to modify practice when you don't want to feel inside your bodyUnderstanding how to approach the "blahs" with extra gentlenessFinding how outer awareness can gradually include inner sensationsDissolving Pain in Nature’s Flow Series:What can transform our relationship with pain and suffering? Perhaps most simply: recognizing our nature as part of Nature's flow. Resisting pain and hurt can make it persist, but what if we could experience these unpleasant messages in our body as sharing the same qualities as all of Nature's flow—as finely free and fully in the flow of this moment. In the first half of each session, we connect to these foundational qualities through guided practice. Then we'll go on an adventure into the underlying experience of pain of all kinds—from physical booboos to heartaches to blahs and fatigue. Over 15 years ago, Dr. Les Fehmi's book "Dissolving Pain in Open Focus" saved me and opened up a world of possibilities I'd never imagined. Over the last 10 years, it has been the teachings of Master Wonchull Park on the 3 qualities of nowflow that helped this make sense to me—giving me a simple way to embrace as ever-present what can sometimes seem magical. It's with a full heart that I share what has been so meaningful to me in this hour of self-discovery, knowing that these resources we might find in books can become real when we discover them for ourselves. I look forward to our discoveries together.Thank you for Being with Being.Subscribe to freely offered substack Unfolding Together: https://mackenziehawkins.substack.com/ Join freely offered live events in our community inr adventures and Insight Timer: https://inr-adventures.circle.so/c/live-sessions