Praying from our Awakened, Divine Consciousness
In seeking to love one another in this way, we’re practicing a mystical way of knowing and being with one another. The way of divine love together, much like the early church practiced. When we participate in this spirit with the wholeness of our embodied consciousness, we can be present with one another with greater wisdom, healthier discernment, and holistic presence.
Here are some ways it can come forth in each of our centers:
We are most used to communicating and sharing from our heads, from our everyday mind. These thoughts, ideas, and information are helpful in general. But in this space, in our awakened consciousness, we seek to open our mind to new arisings. Bringing forth not what we already know, but what we are about to know. This is the present emergence of visionary knowing, often in the form of images, pictures, specific words, smells, sounds, and more.
When we tune into our heart for one another, we more often experience sensations and feelings. Sometimes it is a fullness of familiar feelings like love and care. And we also might experience unusual or uncommon sensations in our heart, such as a warmth, perhaps a “pull” in a certain direction, or sometimes even a sort of strain (don’t fear—that’s not a heart attack but just your heart consciousness expanding!). We can always share what we are feeling in our heart with the person we are focusing on. You may notice subtle changes in these sensations as the focus moves around to others in the group.
Sensing from our spiritual womb can often be more difficult, as awareness from this center does not come in thoughts or feelings. It also might be unfamiliar for many of us, so we can give ourselves a lot of grace as we are discovering our awareness and knowing from this space. One of the primary ways of knowing from our womb is through intuition. This can be confused with the head because it comes like a thought, but it arises from deep within and with a discernable force. “I’m not sure how I know this, but I just seem to know.” We can also experience subtle energies like generativity, nurturing, creativity, and more.
Our feet are the contact point for our whole body, for our somatic knowing. Firstly, our grounded rooting often intertwines and interconnects with others in the group, especially in the meditation time. As we cultivate our somatic, relational knowing, when we focus on others, we may notice an energetic sensation somewhere in our body. This can speak to physical conditions, but in the field of awakened knowing we also might sense energetic metaphors, such as a feeling of wings on someone’s back, or a crown on their head. Or maybe an intensification of energy in a particular center.