Phase 4: Blissful Awareness
Phase 4: Blissfull Awareness
Welcome to the fourth and final phase of my Phases of Awareness musings. As a recap we have explored the first three phases:
Phase 1 - Blissful Unawareness
Phase 2 - Uncomfortable Awareness
Phase 3 - Comfortable Awareness
Each of these phases is a part of the process to our final phase of Blissful Awareness. You cannot skip them, you cannot pass GO and collect $200 dollars. Our nervous systems require us to move through each of these phases in order to find what we might call completion, resolution or healing.
The duration of how long it takes to get to Blissful Awareness is dependent on so many factors; additional acute or chronic impacts and experiences (or what others might call LIFE), the structures and larger organizations that might be suppressing our communities or selves, and our access to resources (again, more on these to come in a later newsletter). Some people might move through these phases extremely quickly, and others might need more time within each phase.
So what is Blissful Awareness anyway and why is this such an important part of all this?
Blissful Awareness can be described as flow; flow through life, flow of emotions, flow of energy, flow of thoughts. Blissful Awareness is the place where we find flow in our nervous system, where it is operating again in a natural state of balance and when we don’t have to work so hard to calm, sooth, resource, or get back to center. In this phase all of this happens automatically more often than not and we can experience these moments more holistically.
Blissful Awareness is also the pathway back to joy, contentness, and connection. As humans we are meant to be in reciprocity, attunement and alignment with other humans and the world around us. We are not solitary creatures and have evolved in groups for both safety and health. This is ingrained in each of us. This might also be why COVID has had such a lasting effect on some of us; we were forcibly kept apart and separate which goes against our very essence as humans.
When we find ourselves back in Blissful Awareness, we are not always happy, or never angry or upset. It provides a more fluid flow from that state of activation to the state of calm and ease. We cannot get rid of the hard moments in life, but we can find a more clear and immediate pathway back to a feeling of balance after the event. Blissful Awareness is literally a state of being that is present, capable, and, well, aware of possibility, options, choice, where to set boundaries, what changes needs to be made and can be made, the actions that are available for that shift, when to rest, when to step back, and when to lean in.
Blissful Awareness is not something you do, it is something you feel. And all of us will describe this phase differently. Maybe it feels easeful, familiar, like you are getting back to being your self and SELF. Ultimately this is the place where our nervous systems like to begin from in order to be ready for the next challenge or threat. Blissful Awareness is not something we learn, it is a place we find ourselves again once we have unlearned all the other phases. It is a re-membering.
I hope that this exploration has offered some insights for you. Keep an eye out for December’s posts. I look forward to hearing from you and continuing to be of service and support.
