Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

but mostly through exercises, learning how to shift
awareness out of the “brain,” thinking and cognition,
into the heart. Experiencing the world through the
heart's senses reveals a very different ‘You’, your real
Self, and a very different world that is far more fluid,
far more alive, far more energetic than the relatively
flat world most of us live in.
This is a world where our bodies, our hearts, and
even our minds become drenched in bliss so
remarkable that all we can do is swoon and fall to our
knees, feeling the ecstatic grace of total self love and
love for another. There comes a peace so profound you
do not want to move so as to not disturb it.
Finally, there may be an inner explosion like an
erupting volcano of joy, energies, light and love that
reveal the deepest levels of the Self to the 'little self'
you had always thought yourself to be. I call this Self-
Realization in contrast to the multitude of other kinds
of awakenings or enlightenments so much talked about
in Eastern and Western spirituality, although these
other awakenings are thoroughly explored in this book.
Remarkably, you lose nothing in this realization, for
you are still much, but not all, of what you were
before. You still have a body and mind. You still have
relationships with family and other. But you have also
found the much larger world of flowing and healing
energies of the subtle body and world, as well as a