Palliatives to addiction

We are stardust enlightened by our soul. More and more a lot of people feel this inner S.O.S (Save Our Soul) appealing them to re-member through their body and their mind this natural and primordial Light.

Carl Sagan said so wisely “We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our self knows where we come from. We aspire to return. And we can do it because the cosmos is also within us. We are made of stardust.”

Apparently, we were the Oneness (the absolute) before incarnating

then we chose to experience the matter, the 3 dimensions, to embody the self, the segmentation to emphasize the difference in between “here and there”, “you and me”. However, the goal of this game (for which the first rule is to say it is not a game) seems to be to find back this feeling of Oneness: to gather the all pieces of the puzzle game to appreciate the beauty of the masterpiece. Once we find it we “master” the peace (the inner and the outer peace).

As an addicted what are we looking for? At different levels, humanity is somehow addicted to altered consciousness, a reconnection to a unity, to this singularity that we lost at birth.

The pursuit of pleasure is an endless lure and bulimia linked to the ego, while happiness, harmony this union is a form of transcendence linked to a superior connection between ourselves and others. Pleasure is like eating candy cotton and happiness some organic and energy vegetable bringing you consistency and long-term satiety. The substitutes, the fruits of addiction are most of the time a way to escape our reality to fulfill a lack, a lack of fullness and a lack of connection. Paradoxically one looks for a kind of disconnection of our segmented reality to aspire to a reconnection which beyond of that, a kind of quest of transcendence in order to enlarge our perspectives and our spheres of conscientiousness.

It is in human nature and even this search is subscribed within the DNA of mankind. However, the palliatives to that or the tools to reach these states of being can be natural.

We can list 7 practices allowing to reach these states of altered consciousness:

1-Meditation:

“Medium” in Latin means “channel” or “vehicle” as it represents a way to be connected to your inner self then your Higher self and thereby which stands for a springboard to reach the outer world with different technics: mindfulness, zazen, visualization…

2-Breathwork / Rebirth:

Hyperventilation bringing very deep inner journey allowing to clean up and discharge the psychological and physical toxins or burdens. It brings a transcendental experience extremely powerful.

3-Ecstatic Dance (that I rebaptized “trance & dance”):

a tool to release the animal inside us and release our guidance thanks to trance and music, it is also a way to release the taboos and the prohibitions of our society allowing to unwind

4-Sufi Dervish Dance:

For which the goal is to dilute the ego being as a drop into the ocean referring to Rumi who said “you are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean into a drop. The rotation and the fact to repeat some words (mantras or surah’s) allows losing the mind to achieve the Oneness

5-Floating: 

You have the feeling of floating in weightlessness. Why?  Because the notion of gravity disappears thanks to water which holds you. Literally, you fly because after a while you do not feel your body at all, being guided you can extend your consciousness beyond your body/your members.

6-Watsu: 

It frees up the body and the breath thanks to water contact which is an element of emotion (e-motion: the energy in movement): the stuck emotions are held in the body. Watsu is one of the keys to unlock. The movements are tied to memory to specific incidences which have been suppressed or repressed. It is a way to RE-MEMBER the prenatal level and fetal dimension: the safety of the womb, a feeling of trust the process of life and to dive deep inside your inner self with different layers of consciousness.

7-Astral Travel:

The most transcendental inner journey, allowing to go out of your body, yourself and space-time and thereby experiencing the oneness and this primary connection with the YOUnity.

These 7 disciplines which are taught at SHAMBALI, stand for ways to reach states of modified consciousness in a healthy and natural way as with drugs to achieve a plenitude and inner and outer harmony. And is it not this fullness the Holy Grail, this paradise that all religions have tried to explain, is not that what we all seek? Is it not the resurgence of our first state before incarnation to know when we are part of the Great All that we are Unity…? (Tao, Samadhi, Paradise, the Oneness)… whatever the name?

In SHAMBALI we propose these 7 natural techniques which represent palliatives to drugs (once the addictions are neat) or addiction: it means not to fall back because they naturally compensate for these needs of modified consciousness, these quests of absolute… and then the cerebral chemical scheme is more and more able to facilitate the recreation of endorphins and serotonin or even eventually the DMT secreted by the pineal gland to open up to the worlds of extraordinary possibilities.

Issa ~ AM