The Realization Process

Inhabiting versus Being Aware Of

There’s a great difference between being aware of our bodies and inhabiting them.

Try this experience to see for yourself:

First, become aware of your hands - notice if they are warm or cold, and if your palms are dry or sweaty.

Now enter into your hands, inhabit them. Feel that you are the internal

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of your hands. Feel that you are living and present within your hands. Feel the space within each one of your fingers. Feel the space between each one of your fingers, from within your hands. Feel the space surrounding your hands, from within your hands.

“As fundamental consciousness, we let go of our grip on ourselves and our environment. We allow ourselves to experience the clarity of our thoughts and the full impact of our emotions, physical sensations, and perceptions.

This is freedom: freedom from our own constricting grasp on our body and being.”

Judith Blackston, p. 39, The Fullness of the Ground

THE REALIZATION PROCESS

  • The Realization Process was developed by Judith Blackstone to foster Nondual Realization, or what is also commonly known as spiritual awakening.

  • It is a series of attunements to fundamental consciousness.

  • Nondual realization is the uncovering of this fundamental, undivided dimension of consciousness.

“We open to Fundamental Consciousness by first inhabiting the internal space of the body.”
— Judith Blackstone

Fundamental Consciousness

when embodied in a human life,

can be experienced as

Sheer Emptiness & Presence.

It can also be experienced

as a blend of both emptiness and presence.

QUALITIES OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Some nondual teachings explain that awareness is the sum and substance of consciousness.

  • Through the lens of consciousness as experienced in our human form - and in the Realization Process - fundamental consciousness can be experienced as having three qualities: awareness, emotion and physical sensation.

  • In these qualities, we are speaking of the contentless nature of these three, meaning awareness itself - without an object of awareness, emotional tone or ground without a specific emotion, and the general experience of physicality without reference to a specific sensation.

  • As a human being, tuning into each of these dimensions of fundamental consiousness deepens our aliveness.

Qualities

in the Body

  • We have the capacity to experience the quality of understanding (in other words - understanding as a capacity, a function of our humanness, without an object to be understood). Most people experience this in the area of their head.

  • We have the capacity to experience the quality of voice within the space of our bodies, without actually expressing specific sounds. In other words, we tune into the capacity of our voice. Most people experience this quality in their neck and larynx.

  • Inhabit your chest and feel the quality of love present there. If you struggle to feel love, you might simply sense tenderness or kindness or warmth.

  • Inhabit the mid-section of your body. Sense the quality of power, as in the power of a waterfall (not power over another person).

  • Inhabit your pelvis and sense your gender. If you don’t identify with a gender, experience whatever feels alive to you in your pelvis.

  • - Judith Blackstone, Ph.D, p. 44