The Warrior Path of Self AcceptanceThe most difficult part of the personal journey into remembering, or
spiritual Enlightenment, is self-acceptance. Self-acceptance is something that I
personally have difficulty with, and it is something that many others in my groups are
expressing as a difficulty for them. As the thrust of this work is making self realisation
"real" in the physical body, I'm finding that the deeper I go into the
acceptance of myself (the more real I make it... Or rather the more I am prepared to admit
to myself) the more kinaesthetic reactions I find coming from my body. As I talk to
myself, as I dictated to this computer answers to questions I have been asked, I find that
I am experience tingling, shivering, shaking, aches and pains in the sacral area, blurred
vision, goodly headaches ... Etc. etc. When I stand up stretch, there are explosive cracks from my back as
control starts to let go and my spine finds a new stability in a different position within
the pelvic girdle. As the spine moves, so nerves that have been pinched are suddenly freed
and the organs served by those nerves function in a manner different to what I have
previously experienced. And yet I know these physical body experiences are appropriate for
the path. My physical body that sits here in this chair is the manifestation
of thoughts, feelings and emotions ... Holding patterns taken on as patterns of shock, and
denied for 50 odd years of this lifetime in this body. During the course of the work I have not been making any notes and
I've been letting go of everything that I've learned on the basis that what I needed to
remember, I already knew and it would come back to me whenever I needed it. The downside of this of course is that somehow I have to find a way
of putting in writing the past seven years of experiences with several hundred people. The other thing is happening for me as I do this is that I am having
to face the reality of what has been going on here with me and the group here in Tasmania.
The symptoms that I'm experiencing I know are the release of various
patterns of shock from the past, and the pain that I'm experiencing is actually the
release of the pain of holding on. With this philosophy I am able to welcome with joy the
episodes of physical discomfort, at the same time recognising that the thoughts feelings
and emotions that I am experiencing are, in fact, the release of previous patterns. When I feel the need to cry and find that I hesitate to do so, I
know that these are the hesitations of the child who used to be disciplined for expressing
his tears. The fear I experience in this moment is the fear that I will be disciplined...
And the hesitation stems from that fear. There are still times that I have to remind myself that it is ok to
experience what am experiencing. It's a little like learning to walk... First you have to
learn to crawl, then you start to stand up, then, very carefully holding onto someone or
something you explore the possibility of putting one foot very gingerly in front of the
other. As confidence grows, you're able to let go of the support of start to walk,
falteringly, for yourself. Very soon, you find out that you can run. In this work we are taking a journey back into the realms of the
child who was learning to crawl. Most of the "patterns of shock" that are in our
bodies stem from the events subsequent to that time. The only difference for us (me) is
that now I have the knowledge and understanding of my life so far. What I have to do is to
tell my body that its OK to run with this new knowledge. To do that I have to learn to
crawl, to stand up, to take those few first faltering steps, and very soon, maybe, I will
be able to run. Then, and only then, will I have made Enlightenment fully real in
this physical body. In the meantime I return to the consciousness, the essence, the trust,
a knowing of the Innocent child that if I just persist with that knowing walking and
running will come. These are new processes, a new understanding and outlook on life,
which my body has to understand. It's got to understand that it is safe to be at one with
my head, for in the past, for its survival, the head has had to make rules of behaviour
which have been unsafe or uncomfortable for the body. So I will allow that what I am feeling at this moment is ok, that I
will not make it wrong. I will give my body permission to feel what is feeling, I will
allow it to let go of the holding patterns, the denial, the pain that it has been holding
onto for so long. My knowing, my wisdom knows the validity and the truth in what I am
doing. There is a resonance within my being. This resonance is what is triggering for me,
the letting go. The essence of the spiritual warrior is to maintain, through use of
will, an unshakeable conviction in the truth of whom he really is. | 
