Pre Enlightenment Guidance
Connecting, Feeling, and Healing
Pre-Enlightenment Resources
Below are various resources to assist you on your journey towards inner peace. Within the natural stages of human development all human beings are subjected to mind training and conditioning from external sources, such as parents, teachers, religion, culture, etc., thus alienating our true self from authentically experiencing life. Pre Enlightenment can be termed 'reclaiming autonomy' of your attention, and physical and mental faculties; more specifically: becoming familiar with consciously directing your attention; noticing: bodily sensations, emotions, feelings, negative self talk, and inner voices of self hate. Pre Enlightenment can also be viewed as connecting, feeling, and healing - the conscious beginning of awakening. If you have not done so, please review the Guidance Overview for better understanding our 3 category/stage approach.
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Enlightenment, on the other hand, is about transcending mind and body in order to end your suffering altogether, for good, beyond psychological understanding; to realize their is actually nothing there (no one here) who suffers; knowing beyond mind that suffering is an illusion and who you really are is eternal loving presence.
Adyashanti*
We have including this video as a starting place in terms of Pre-Enlightenment because it addresses the fear of letting go and surrender from an enlightened perspective.
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Listen with an open heart knowing the life you seek is already here now, yet lovingly attending to and dissolving distorted layers of perception may require: forgiveness, surrender, dropping maladaptive habits like addictions, etc.
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Remember: There is nothing wrong with you. It is just that your beliefs are getting in the way of truth and authentic experience, feeling, and expression.
Cheri Huber*
Cheri is a highly self realized teacher and author of several wonderful books. Through personal experience, helping thousands, and meditation practices, her books beautifully address major issues daunting human; for example, how to become aware of your voices of self hate.
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Cheri Huber, author of 20 books, has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 35 years. In 1983, Cheri founded the Mountain View Zen Center, and in 1987 she founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center near Murphys, California. She and the monks at the Monastery conduct workshops and retreats at these centers, other places around the U.S., and internationally.
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In 1997, Cheri founded Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service. Living Compassion’s primary work is the Africa Vulnerable Children Project, based in Zambia, where for over a decade they have been working with the people of Kantolomba, beginning the process of turning a slum of 11,000 people into a self-sustaining community.
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Cheri also has a weekly Internet based radio show. Visit Cheri's website at: http://www.cherihuber.com/ AND purchase her books at: http://keepitsimple.org/product-category/books/
Article from: http://www.cherihuber.com/
Healing Trauma*
Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. has been the Medical Director of The Trauma Center in Boston for the past 30 years. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School and serves as the Co-Director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Complex Trauma Network. He is past President of International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Though he identifies himself primarily as a clinician, he has published well over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles on various aspects of trauma, including his current projects: 1) yoga for treating PTSD, funded by the National Institutes of Health2) the use of theater for violence prevention in the Boston public schools, funded by the CDC 3) the mechanisms of EMDR4) sensory integration 5) the use of neurofeedback in PTSD.
He participated in the first neuroimaging study of PTSD, in the first study to link Borderline Personality Disorder with childhood trauma; was co-principal investigator of the DSM IV Field Trial for PTSD and is chair of the NCTSN DSM V workgroup on Developmental Trauma Disorder. He has written extensively about using neuroscience research to identify appropriate treatments for PTSD and completed the first NIMH-funded study of EMDR. He has taught at universities and hospitals around the world.Visit Bessel's website at: http://besselvanderkolk.net/index.html and purchase this book at: barnesandnobelbessel
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Article from: http://besselvanderkolk.net/about.html
Inner Peace Now*
My name is Adam Oakley. I am someone who has struggled with a very turbulent mind, a daily sense of heaviness, unease, dissatisfaction and all the rest of it.
An over-trained intellect, a heavy reliance on conditioned thinking, a general sense that it was “me against life” left me feeling as if I was constantly dragging a big weight around inside my head.
This website www.innerpeacenow.com has come about through coming out of all of that, a breaking down of the old conditioned mind structures that so many of us are surrounded by, and a return to the root of ourself, who we really are, and allowing that to express itself fully through the human form.
So the website and all of its extras are all tools to relieve yourself from the burden of dysfunctional behaviors, mind patterns that no longer serve you, and to find and be what remains as the life within you, when we are no longer so ruled by what we have learned from those who were never really in alignment with themselves. This website is for your inner peace, and all the intelligence and creative power that comes along with it, as a by-product. Visit his blog at: https://www.innerpeacenow.com/inner-peace-blog/
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Article from: https://www.innerpeacenow.com/about-1
See disclaimer below
Byron Katie*
Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry she calls The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves—radically shift and their lives are changed forever. Based on Byron Katie's direct experience of how suffering is created and ended, The Work is an astonishingly simple process, accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, and requires nothing more than a pen, paper, and an open mind.
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Through this process, anyone can learn to trace unhappiness to its source and deal with it there. Katie (as everyone calls her) not only shows us that all the problems in the world originate in our thinking: she gives us the tool to open our minds and set ourselves free. Visit her website at: http://thework.com/en
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Article from: http://thework.com/en/about-byron-katie
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* Disclaimer: This individual is NOT affiliated with Modern Enlightenment Foundation/AwakenTruthNow.org in any way. We have included photos, names, videos, links and biography for information, reference, and non-commercial purposes ONLY.