Speaker 1 0:54

I'm curious about the experience of pressure. Is the experience of pressure something that dissolves the more we do the work? Because I'm feeling more than ever like I'm starting to move into the dark, but the feeling of pressure has just gotten greater and greater. I don't know if that's because of the state of it. Describe pressure to me. What do you mean by pressure? It feels like. It feels like it feels like something like a, a weight, like a weight on my back, but it also feels like I know if I can move through, I think it will crack open, but it doesn't. It's not a nice feeling.

Breaking Through Layers of Consciousness

Nature's Inevitable Expansion Process

Speaker 1 1:50

Yeah, everything in our process of awakening is cyclical, but in every cycle or every phase it becomes deeper, richer, more complex and more encompassing. So the sensation you're describing is the pressure of the container of your consciousness, specifically the container of your mind that withholds or suppresses the full expression of your being. So imagine yourself at the moment. With all the work that you've done. You've broken through layers of containment. What you see yourself as now, compared to how you did prior to learning to meditate, but as a milestone, would have been much smaller than how you see and feel yourself now. I know you personally. You've worked through many layers of things and you've felt this pressure before it's built, and then you've broken through and you've moved into a more expansive state. But as you move into a more expansive state you hit yet another layer, another container. This is all that I can perceive for myself. This is the largest model that I can perceive for myself and that's usually governed by trauma and ideas and beliefs about what you're worthy of or not, what your value is or not and what you're allowing yourself to accept from life. But the great inevitable is we are expanding outward, outward, outward, outward, outward, and we are going to burst through every single container, whether we are on board with it or not. Nature will drag us through it If we don't observe the patterns, the cycles and learn how to become artful in meeting the boundary or the threshold or the surface of the container, the inner wall of the container, this pressure you're feeling right now, is the inner wall of a container.

Leaning Into Your Evolutionary Move

Speaker 1 4:24

It means that you're about to break through into a much bigger space with inside of yourself. So some pointers there are some things that you're desiring to do that you are not allowing yourself to do, for whatever reason. There's a bunch of little reasons. No, I can't do it now because of this, this, this or this or this. I want you to make it your priority of focus to move in the direction of the scariest thing, and what this will do is form a delicate little instrument that will start drilling through this membrane, if you like of mind stuff. It'll drill through it and then it'll create an opening and that energy is going to start seeping in and the second you can peer through it. You're going to see it and then bang, you'll break through and you'll do this deliberately and prospectively.

Speaker 1 5:38

Generally we wait for nature and its blunt instrumentality of karma to crack that thing open and it's generally quite shocking to us and takes a moment to integrate because we weren't picking up what nature was putting down. But the pressure that you're feeling is just a beautiful sensation of anticipation for moving into a more expanded state and the best way to deal with that is to be prospective in moving into the inevitable Go where you know you're going, and if we're on the front foot, what we feel is a beautiful wave of support. Nature just gets behind and funds it because that's where it's going. There is a natural force. The reason why you're feeling pressure it's not because you're small and life's really tough and all of these things are happening. That's a mistake of interpretation, pragya Prad, the mistake of the intellect. You're detecting the next move for you, evolutionary move, and all that's required is that you lean into it.