Leading Up To My Embodied Awakening

By Author: Julius Givens
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Over the next few months I experienced deep emotions relating to challenging situations in my everyday life. I hadn’t been experiencing emotions like this in the years prior to getting into the Waking Down work. These were very difficult to experience, but I had Krishna and Michaela to help me through them. I am a mental type based on the Enneagram, not an emotional type. It was as if my emotions were exaggerated. I found that after these “oscillations” (a Waking Down term) were over I would have low energy for a few days.

Gradually, I began experiencing my thoughts in a more comfortable, less dissociated way. Having awakened to Consciousness before this work, I could see that there was some kind of process that was bringing me more into my body, like a prelude to an embodied awakening. More and more I was experiencing thoughts as being part of who I am as opposed to observing them as the Witness, like I did before Waking Down. There was less alienation and separation from my thoughts. It was more like I used to experience the thinking process before I was awake except that now I was awake.

In May, Lena ...
... and I attended the Transfiguration Retreat in Estes Park, Colorado. This is an annual event in Waking Down. During the first evening Saniel played one of his flutes. Listening, I was moved to tears. Its tone and music was very Native American sounding. Saniel announced that he planned to do individual shamanic healings during the course of the retreat. I signed up for a morning session. Even though I was relatively new to Waking Down, I wanted to experience as much as I could.

Lena and I arrived at the cabin where the healing sessions were being held that morning. About ten of us gathered around Saniel in a circle so the person he was working with could lie on the floor in the space in the middle. He told us that he wanted us to state what our intention would be at the beginning of our individual healing sessions. When my turn came, before Saniel even had a chance to raise his head up and look into my eyes, I blurted out, “I want my Second Birth!” He responded, “Easy enough.” I stretched out on the floor. He specifically stated, “This
is Conscious Embodiment,” in referring to the Second Birth. This was the embodied awakening that was my heart’s desire.

Saniel asked me about my arm and I told him about the accident. In addition to having my forearm crushed in the accident, I had four broken ribs and a collapsed lung. He asked if there was sensitivity on my right side and I told him that there was some numbness. With my permission he rubbed my chest area with his hands. He talked about the sorrow settling into the lower part of my heart. I gave permission to the people there to put their hands on me. Then Saniel asked which of his flutes I wanted him to play, and I asked him to play the one called The Wound. Soon after he began playing with the end of the flute aimed at my chest, I was flooded with profound grief and sorrow. I began wailing loudly, my chest heaving, the sound of the Indian music connecting me to a past Indian lifetime. I later realized that this experience was the catalyst leading up to my embodied awakening

About Author:-

I am Julius Givens. I have spent last 12 years on a journey to spiritual awakening, also known as waking down, as well as experiencing self realization. In this process I have come across all different forms of spiritual paths and forms. Writing is only one of the many ways through which I wish to share my knowledge and experience. I like to be a student and a devoted learner in all areas of my life. embodied awakening, is a beautiful way to listen to your inner self and create harmony in your life.