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A New Approach to Integral Spirituality
The Aliving Process is designed to support human awakening in two distinct and complementary ways:
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| Walking Free – The Rediscovery of natual Movement
Walking Free is the fundamental practice of the Aliving Process. It is based in the discovery of Native American scouts, who realized that wild animals flee from human beings mostly because of the inordinate degree of stress in the human brain. They further discovered that the type of walking almost all people engage in causes severe stress patterns in the brain. In the 1950’s, Dr. Hans Selye coined the term stress response to describe the fact that almost all human brains operate from a level of chronic stress that would only be useful in a survival situation. Walking is a major cause for these stress patterns and one that can be very easily eliminated. Walking Free is the way of walking that matches the design of the human body. It leads to a natural alignement of the spine, release of stress from the knees, hips, shoulders and expecially the cranial bones and brain. The effects are not subtle, there is an instant recognition of the naturalness and ease that Walking Free induces. Many participants of the Aliving workshop have had beautiful experiences with wild animals who were no longer afraid of them after they transitioned to Walking Free. The release in the shoulders and chest area that is experienced through Walking Free opens the door to a new way of breathing. As Dr. Bouteyko discovered in Moscow in the late 1940’s chronic overbreathing is a common and overlooked pattern. Many systems of breathing development, such as yogic pranayama and taoist embryonic breathing aim at slowing down breathing to conserve life force and rejuvenate the body. Aliving directly releases the trauma associated with breath that lead to overbreathing in the first place. The principle of being breathed leads to a discovery of natural breathing and movement that enhances the effects of Walking Free. Finally an Approach to Diet that makes Sense When it comes to nutrition, Aliving teaches people how to eat so that food is really absorbed by the body. Even most healthy, natural foods would be a severe irritant if injected directly into the bloodstream. The word assimilation means “to turn something foreign into something similar”. Without true assimilation, it is very likely that food is never truly nourishing at a cellular level which manifests in the psyche as an ongoing contemplation of diet, searching for the miracle food supplement etc. Once assimilation is mastered, the Aliving concept of nutrition is recommends three food groups that reflect the dietary habits of all healthy indigenous people from all over the world. Interestigly, healthy tribal people never ate a diet resmembling any of the popualar diet systems. Based on the research of Dr. Weston Price, who studied healthy people first before making statements about the natural diet for human, we can apply a modern version of principles that have been applied by human beings who lived in great health. The result of the Aliving – approach to nutrition is a deep sense of cellular nourishment and an awakening of natural pleasure instincts. Sugar and other junk foods lose all their appeal without effort. Within a short time, thinking about diet relaxes and largely disappears, because the body now directly recognizes that it is being nourished completely. Awakening as Essential Being While the physical practices of Aliving bring harmony into our embodied lief, our true essential being is always present in fullness. Harmonizing life is a wonderful pursuit but there is never a need to postpone being awaken as one’s true Self. Aliving is deeply rooted in the ancient tradition of Aspasra Yoga as it was taught by Gaudapada and later Shankara. Asparsa means “without support” and refers to the truth that essential being is real and complete in itself without support from any other reality. The awakening processes of Aliving relieve the mind of its tendency to support different views of ultimate reality. Without an active veiling of the mind, essential being is naturally realized. Awakening is therefore not an activity to attain an assumed spiritual goal, it is graceful relaxation of the activitiy of ignoring essential being. One unique feature of the Aliving process is that it actively uses the forces of ignorance, attachments, infantile desires and all the stuff that is usually considered an obstacle as the very means for awakening. There is a tremendous power in the tendencies of the ego/mind to seek solace in temporary experiences. Rather than only observing these tendencies, as is the standard practice in spiritual teachings, Aliving fully embraces the power in them and puts them to use for the rediscovery of essential Being. This relieves the spiritual path of struggle and reveals that at its core, the ego really wants liberation too.
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