
Healing into Life and Death

Just as some areas of the mind are found to be well developed and others deeply submerged, so in the body this same high and low terrain of sensitivity is discoverable. Exploring the field of sensations we label “body,” areas of pleasure or pain are instantly recognizable from within. And we discover it is not just the mind that hides but certain a
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Energy is the nature of the system. Effort is how we use it.
Stephen Levine • Healing into Life and Death
Each moment energy is directly perceived as change, as process; a spacious awareness results in which effort naturally comes into balance. Seeing the perfect unfolding, nothing is noticed to be absent, and nothing additional is required. Each moment of such inner harmony is a healing moment; it allows once again the mind/body to be received in the
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reality and effort is the expression of our outermost personality, to bring these two into balance is to merge who we really are with who we wish to be.
Stephen Levine • Healing into Life and Death
Once again it becomes clear that it is not the technique but how it is applied that heals. Because energy is the nature of our innermost
Stephen Levine • Healing into Life and Death
To understand energy is to enter into the process itself. To feel the vibration pulsing in our tissues, to watch the mind unfolding, to recognize the body as an opportunity to awaken to that which goes beyond the body, the pure energy of pure awareness, that which we call life and whose absence from the body we conceptualize as death.
Stephen Levine • Healing into Life and Death
To understand our effort is to investigate our intentions, to recognize our motivation for directing energy in the first place. One might ask, “Why do I want to heal?” Is it just to continue feeding old mind’s way of becoming the world? Or is it to discover life anew? To replace with love that which has so often been touched with fear? Is it to liv
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When our effort is goalless, when there is no attachment to results, to the fruits of our labors, then our only work is to be with the energies of the present.
Stephen Levine • Healing into Life and Death
Then effort does not reinforce resistance or become its collaborator, repelling healing.