How Being Present Can Ease Tension

When I took the time to kind of go into me and to become silent. When I started talking, I first realized I'm talking slower, exactly as you said. But also what I realized that my face. So basically my face had been really before that it has been blocked, in a sense, the face muscles. So when I first talked, I must have done this under some kind of pressure or it was not natural. It was me talking to someone. But I realized the second time I said the same words basically that I could feel that my facial muscles were worse.

Relaxed.

Relaxed. And no, I realized that had been before. So much tense and they started relaxing when I became aware of the fact that my facial muscles were tense before.

Yes.

So kind of it made me really realize that if one is not conscious, we just run this mental thing, the way we talk to people, just without thinking about it and how artificial that is in a way. So. So it's just like a machine talking.

But not really conditioned self. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Very good. Very good. And that's a really good observation that you notice that your facial muscles were tense before compared to the second time. And when we act from the conditioned mind, so when we speak from the conditioned sense of self, from the mind we do contract, our whole body actually contracts. And it's this. Almost like this squeezing and this anxiousness speak from the conditioned sense of self, from the mind we do contract, our whole body actually contracts. And it's this almost like this squeezing and this anxiousness instead of just being you, just being yourself into that relaxed awareness. So Eckhart used the words intensity intensify your awareness. Another way to also look at it, in which I teach in the presence through movement is. And his is not wrong. It's just a different pointer. Okay. And mine is just a different pointer. I use the words relaxed awareness because when we come from that still place, there's something in us that just relaxes, unwinds. And we then communicate. We be with people, we be with ourselves. In this kind of relaxed awareness, something happens, something arises. The practice is just to relax that body and just become that relaxed awareness. So then we can make the right action from there. And that right action may be no action. Just as when somebody was doing this X. When I did this exercise with another group and they said we never even talked. There was no desire to talk. There was nothing drawing us out. We just wanted to sit silently together. So when we live from the conceptual mind habitually, and it's a habit to do this, just like it's a habit just. It's almost like a habit to keep thinking and thinking and thinking. Our bodies will just go. But in the moment of realizing yourself, there's this. Our bodies will just go. But in the moment of realizing yourself, there's this. Krishnamurti called it ease of being. It's this ease, I call it this relaxed awareness. Just to observe the world, observe your mind, Observe everything that arises in this relaxed awareness. It's acceptance when we Krishnamurti called it ease of being. It's this ease, I call it this relaxed awareness. Just to observe the world, observe your mind, observe everything that arises in this relaxed awareness. Awareness. It's acceptance when we accept there's no tension when we're grasping. There's tension when we're wanting something. When we are looking only for solutions through thought instead of going into stillness and allowing the solution to arise, we accept there's no tension when we're grasping. There's tension when we're wanting something. When we are, there's tension. So really good observation. Thank you for sharing that.