Do You Need Inquiry To Awaken?
Channel: Simply Always Awake
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[0:00] Okay, time for some viewer questions.
[0:03] Viewer comments, viewer questions. I do
[0:05] read the comments under my videos. I
[0:07] read most or all of them. I answer some
[0:09] of them. I answer some of them in
[0:10] videos. Occasionally, I'll make a whole
[0:12] video about your comment if it's a
[0:14] an an original one or I just have the
[0:16] inclination to do so.
[0:18] So, this comment is from
[0:22] Sarah Nickter. It says,
[0:24] "When I stay with sensation, my body
[0:26] just kind of naturally trembles, but not
[0:28] in a perceptible way to release it.
[0:32] But it seems like when working with
[0:34] shadow material, there's some benefit to
[0:36] going into it versus allowing the body
[0:38] to release.
[0:40] Does that make sense? 100%. What you're
[0:42] describing is one of the major
[0:45] mechanistic
[0:47] um
[0:47] pathways in PSIP, PSIP, which is a
[0:52] specific modality to get at sort of deep
[0:53] shadow material. I won't go into a bunch
[0:56] of detail, but it can actually be
[0:57] helpful to
[0:59] suppress voluntary
[1:02] distractions, thoughts,
[1:05] phone distractions, whatever.
[1:08] Just kind of see what happens, see what
[1:09] comes up. Sometimes the next stage is
[1:13] sort of involuntary di