DB- GUBLOC- BTS BCK TO SLP

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For some people this happens when walking in nature—your sense of “you” diminishes, the volume of your thoughts is turned down, and it’s almost as if you’re melting into the forest. For some people, this can happen on a dance floor, or when marching with your fellow troops, or during really absorbing conversation, or sex. It’s a big part of what a “flow state” is. For many religious people, it’s a feeling that arrives during prayer.

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Anecdotally, though, people experienced in non-dual states tend to report:

• Less emotional activation
• A greater sense of sacredness
• More absorption in surroundings
• A heightened sense of interconnectedness
• Less preoccupation with neurotic thoughts
• More available feelings of meaning and purpose

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But a non-dualistic view can help you cut through overly simplistic views of your experience—black-and-white narratives that flatten the beauty and texture of your life, like “I’m a failure,” or “I regret that relationship,” or “I am definitely this variety of person.” Maybe such statements can be both true and not true: perhaps there is freedom in allowing that tension to exist.

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“Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea##

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BK- DISSOCIATION MODEL 

DH- CONSCIOUS AGENT MODEL 

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