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The Realization Process is a series of embodied attunement practices designed to open individuals to the unity and transparency of nondual realization by inhabiting the internal space of the body. Through these practices, we can experience fundamental consciousness—the ground of being—as an undivided stillness that pervades all of the changing contents of our experience. In this practice, you attune directly to fundamental consciousness, which pervades both your body and environment. The Realization Process was developed by Judith Blackstone, PhD, a psychotherapist and innovative teacher in contemporary spirituality.

Attunement To Fundamental Consciousness

How can we experience wholeness? When we inhabit the whole body, we can uncover an experience of a fundamental, undivided dimension of consciousness pervading our own body and our surroundings as a whole. In the realization process, this dimension is called fundamental consciousness. We can experience fundamental consciousness as stillness because it is the dimension of perfect balance. The more we know ourselves as this pervasive stillness, the more freely, deeply, and fluidly all of the movements of life, our emotions, thoughts, sensations, and perceptions flow through us. What follows is an exercise from the realization process called attunement to fundamental consciousness. Sit with your back straight and close your eyes. Bring your breath smoothly and evenly in and out through your nose. Silently count three counts to inhale and three counts to exhale, or whatever number is comfortable for you. Feel that you are inside your feet, that you inhabit your feet. You are not just aware of your feet. Feel that you are the internal space of your feet. Make sure you can stay in your feet as you breathe, that your inhale does not lift you away from your feet. Attune to the quality of self, a particular quality that feels like self, not an idea, but a feeling inside your feet. Feel that you are inside your ankles and your lower legs. Attune to the quality of self inside your ankles and lower legs. Feel that you are inside your knees. Settle into your knees so that they feel soft. Balance your awareness of the space inside your knees. Find both those internal areas at the same time. Experience the absolute stillness of the balanced consciousness. Feel that you are inside your thighs. Attune to the quality of self inside your thighs. Feel that you are inside your hip sockets with a very subtle mind. From the inside of your hip sockets, you can feel the internal space of your upper thighs and the internal space of your lower torso at the same time. Balance your awareness of the space inside your hip sockets. Find the inside of both hip sockets at the same time. Experience the absolute stillness of your balanced consciousness at the same time. Feel that you are inside your pelvis. Attune to the quality of your gender within your pelvis, however that feels to you. Not as an idea, but a feeling what your gender feels like to you. If you do not have a gender, then attune to the quality of your sexuality. Bring your breath down into your pelvis and let it pass through the quality of gender or sexuality inside your pelvis. Now come down to the bottom of your torso. Inhabit your whole pelvic floor, including your sitz bones. Let your breath adjust to you being that far down in your body so that your inhale does not lift you up away from there. Feel that you are inside your midsection between your ribs and your pelvis. And your pelvis, including the solar plexus area under the ribs. Attune to the quality of your power, your personal strength inside your midsection. This is pure power, like the power of a waterfall. Bring your breath down into your midsection and let it pass through the quality of power inside your midsection. Feel that you are inside your chest all the way through to the back of yourself. Attune to the quality of your love inside your chest. Bring your breath down into your chest and let it pass through the quality of love inside your chest. Let your love rest in your chest so that you feel that you are sitting in your heart. Feel that you are inside your shoulders. Attune to the quality of self inside your shoulders. Feel that you are inside your shoulder sockets with a very subtle mind. From the inside of your shoulder sockets, you can feel the internal space of your upper arms and the internal space of your upper torso. Balance your awareness of the space inside your shoulder sockets. Find the inside of both shoulder sockets at the same time. Experience the space of your shoulder sockets and the space of your upper torso at the same time. Experience the stillness of your balance consciousness and your breath moving through this stillness without disturbing it. Feel that you are inside your arms, wrists, and hands all the way to your fingertips so that they feel like your arms, your hands. Attune to the quality of self inside your arms, wrists, and hands. Feel that you are inside your neck. Let yourself settle within your neck. Experience yourself living within your larynx. Attune to the quality of your voice inside your neck. Bring your breath down into your neck and let it pass through the quality of your voice inside your neck. Feel that you are inside your head and inside your whole forehead all the way around to the temples of your forehead. Let your forehead soften. Find a point in the center of your forehead. Find a point in the center of your forehead, not between the brows, but in the center of your forehead. Keep this point steady as you breathe. It may move around with your inhale and exhale. See what you need to let go of for the point to be steady as you breathe. Feel that you are inside your eyes. Let your eyes soften so that they feel continuous with the rest of your face. Feel that you are behind your cheekbones. And inside your nose all the way to the tip of your nose from the inside. Feel that you are inside your jaw, your mouth, your lips, and your chin. Feel that you are inside your ears. Now, feel that you are inside your whole brain. Attune to the quality of your understanding inside your whole brain. Bring your breath straight back through your head on your inhale and let it release on the exhale. Experience the breath moving through the quality of understanding inside your brain. Feel that you are inside your whole body at the same time. If we say that the body is the temple, you are sitting inside the temple with nothing left out. Attune to the quality of self inside your whole body. Feel that you are made of this quality of self. Keeping your eyes closed, find the space outside your body, the space of being. Keeping your eyes closed, find the space outside your body, the space in the room. Experience that the space inside your body and the space outside your body is the same continuous space. It pervades you. You are still inside your body, but your body is pervaded by space. You are permeable, transparent. I call this space because it is experienced as spacious, but it is fundamental consciousness. Feel that you are the space of fundamental consciousness. It is not something separate from you. Slowly open your eyes. Feel that you are inside your whole body at once. You are inside your whole body at once. Attune to the quality of self inside your whole body. Even though the world appears, you still have the same internal depth as you felt with your eyes closed, the same temple to sit inside. Find the space outside your body. Feel that the space inside and outside your body is the same continuous space. It pervades you. As the space of fundamental consciousness, you can let go of your grip on your experience. Everything will still be there, but you have let go of your grip on it. Experience that you are the space of fundamental consciousness. It feels like who you are. Experience that the space pervading your body also pervades your whole environment, even the walls of the room. Remain inside your whole body while you experience the space of fundamental consciousness pervading you and your environment. You are not finding the environment. You are finding the space that seems to already be there, pervading you and the environment. Okay, and relax.