SHAR JASON
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Realizations & Openings
This 54-minute teaching describes different realizations, transitions and awakening experiences and includes:
- Realization "I am not the mind"
- Realization "I am emptiness" but I'm still not there yet
- Learning about beliefs and identities - Is there a true belief?
- Different practices as the journey unfolds, self-inquiry, meditation, neti-neti
- Conceptual understanding vs experiencing directly
- Realization "There's no going back"
- Am I getting close to "the awakening?"
Using Relationships to Support Awakening
This 50-minute talk explores the ways we can use relationships to help heal the psyche and benefit awakening. It includes:
- Inquiry work to look for identification of roles and relationships
- Shadow work with examples
- How to do inner child work triggered by relationship
- Locating karmic imprints, triggers and core wounds/themes
- How to set boundaries
- Codependency, independence, rescuing and people-pleasing
- How heartbreak and loss is a portal to heart awakening
Self-Inquiry Practice (Step-by-Step Guide)
This detailed two hour teaching on how to do self-inquiry includes:
- trying to find the illusory separate self (the "me")
- technical pointers to improve self-inquiry
- how to choose an inquiry question that's most relevant
- what is identification and why it's so important
- Q & A with specific inquiry examples
- conceptual understanding of Truth vs direct experience
- why we experience fear and disorientation during self-inquiry
Awakening - Working With Fear
This 1-hour indepth teaching on fear related to spiritual awakening includes:
- existential fear - fear of death, fear of insanity, fear of not existing
- managing fear related trauma during awakening
- fear of your life changing during awakening, fear of coping after awakening
- inquiries, meditations and techniques for managing fear
- the gifts hiding in fear
- how to develop trust in the awakening process
- how to lean into fear in a safe way
How to Break Beliefs and Identities
This 2-hour teaching begins with how beliefs originate, how karma becomes conditioning, asking "Is it true?", and the difference between conscious and unconscious beliefs. Topics include:
- what are identities, are they different from beliefs?
- how beliefs make us suffer
- finding evidence and changing language to break beliefs
- emotional work to find the core of beliefs
- core wounds/beliefs - I am unworthy, I am unlovable
- techniques to break beliefs and identities
How the Mind Prevents Awakening
This 2-hour teaching talks about the tricks of the mind and why learning how our mind works, is crucial to the awakening process. Topics include:
- spiritual ego/identity - ego's greatest trick
- tricks of the mind with examples
- breaking coping and avoidance strategies for harmony and progress
- why we hide in the mind - judging thoughts creating disharmony and division
- liberation beyond the illusion of control
- cultivating humility amongst ego
Liberation from Emotional Turmoil
This 2-hour teaching discusses the importance of emotional work during a spiritual awakening and provides techniques on how to do it. Topics include:
- what blocks us from going deeper into emotional work
- when to seek help
- practices to deepen into emotional content
- existential emotions
- aloneness, fear of not existing, grief over loss of self
- using triggers to monitor progress on the path
- what is a healthy emotional reaction
- are we still emotional when we're awake
Resistance and Attachments
This two-hour teaching on resistance and attachments, highlights how we can identify egoic tendencies and relax back into our true nature.
Topics include:
- what is ego and how to recognise it
- how to support surrender
- why we fight and struggle
- resisting awakening, resisting life
- what attachments we lose during awakening
- fixations, addictions, obsession, clinging
- how to navigate acceptance
Surrender Beliefs About Awakening
This two-hour teaching on surrendering beliefs about spiritual awakening includes:
- What does an enlightened person look like? How do they behave?
- Belief - I don't deserve liberation, it's for others, not me
- Belief - Liberation is not possible, it's not real
- How to develop trust in the mystery - Angst of not being awake
- Belief - I don't have what it takes...
- Who wakes up?
- Surrendering seeking