Sensation and Awareness
Today, I want to consider the nature of sensation as it relates to internal states of awareness and how we integrate this into the world.
Sensation can be thought of as the internal world of arising object-based experience. This object-based experience can be thought of as a kind of reality that can have shape, size, mass, texture, and color as emerging qualities of awareness within the sensational experience. Exploring each sensation as a unique potential that not only may contain one, some, or all of these qualities is also a living reality that moves, grows, and shrinks, as well as dissipates or intensifies. One, all, or some of this may be experienced as the inner world of sensation unfolds within the body.
Exploring these primal happenings in the body can give rise to much knowledge.
This knowledge may be an occurrence of a pattern, a kind of constellational expression that is expressing itself as a kind of puzzle to understand memory or unexplored emotions. Further, these sensations, as already mentioned, can evolve outward toward emotional expressions or image-based projections of the mind, which may contain explicit memory details or symbolic means to understand themselves (sensations) from within.
All of this framing is part of the progression from primitive communication to higher levels of consciousness. This may be thought of as physical representation to emotional meaning to cognitive mapping. Hence, the process of making sense of ourselves begins from a basic elemental experience from within: sensation.
It is then this experience that is the unconscious landscape of awareness. This primal consciousness or awareness gives rise to further illuminations of experience that move through the nervous system, the limbic regions of emotional expression, and ultimately the rational language center that makes sense of these primitive happenings.
To make time for sensation is to begin to become aware—aware of the language of our nervous system as it begins to tell a deeper story of meaning. It is this meaning-making process that takes time to express itself, albeit slowly, into conscious perception, through which we then move toward expansion as we integrate this knowledge of the inner with the outer.
Awareness is a multifaceted experience that begins in the subterranean fields of the body and moves outward toward affectional moments, which can bloom into cognitive and verbal representations. To begin to understand yourself as awareness and to grow as a being in awareness, begin simply: become a student and learn from that which speaks continuously from within.
