A central attribute of how we experience unified consciousness in the body is a sense of wholeness-of-being. Wholeness can be experienced in a variety of ways. These are collectively called “nondual-qualities” of our unchanging-self. Uncovering and awakening a body experience of the nondual- qualities can be felt as: stillness, balance, emptiness (of psychological content), unity, and universality, each of the layers of self -physical, emotional, mental, wisdom, bliss- and each of the chakra qualities of self, including unconditional love.
Each embodied nondual-quality of our unchanging-self also offers our relationship-injury an alternative sensory (subtle), motor (stillness), temporal (timeless), and spatial (unified) reality. Wholeness is governed by the holographic principle that all of the parts, or expressions of them, contain all of the other parts. Each nondual-quality is much like the transpersonal psychologist Ken Wilber’s understanding of “holons.” Each nondual-quality is fractal. It is both a unity on its own, as an expression of wholeness, that is also a part of a larger unity. In this sense, they are able to maintain their "wholeness" and also their "part-ness." The paradox that each nondual-quality is a subdivision of unity, is best understood through experience rather than logic.
In embodied nondual meditation, the nondual-qualities become apparent as an unchanging presence in the space that pervades our body. We can feel how this conscious space lies deeper than anything solid in the body. When we attune to the space pervading our body, we can feel the space is not an empty void, but rather, has a fully awake presence or luminous stillness. These ineffable qualities of our existence are an inborn wholeness-of-being and unity. We can also recognize how the nondual-qualities of our nature, support us in feeling whole within our self and unified with our surroundings.
The alternative perspective each expression of wholeness has on our injured self, can be transformative emotionally and spiritually. Having access to many different expressions of wholeness greatly expands the options we have in supporting our self-other relationship injuries. Depending on the stage in our life we were injured and the nature of the relationship injury, a particular nondual-quality of wholeness may support us more than another expression of wholeness.
The experience of wholeness that accompanies unified consciousness expresses itself clearly in each of the seven primary chakra qualities of self. The seven chakras are the subtle energy centers along the vertical core of the body. Each chakra quality is a wholeness that pervades everywhere and exists as a spectrum rather than clearly divided aspects of our self. We can attune to each part of the spectrum as having a particular quality that can be most clearly felt in a particular part of our body. Yet all the qualities pervade everywhere in the body and environment as a unified blend of our wholeness.
When a chakra is balanced it becomes unified consciousness; and when a chakra is unbalanced it expresses itself in as unresolved emotions and conflicted thoughts at different times in our life. Each of the nondual chakras relates to the psychological stages of development we go through as children. The stages that we had the most difficulty dealing with as a child, tend to be repeated most dramatically in all our adult relationships (with other people and the relationship we have with our self). Each stage of our development as a child is a time in life when we have specific vulnerabilities and potential for trauma. This is when we first establish our emotional attitudes and beliefs about our self and the world, which become fixed in the body and mind.
In order to recover from the injuries that happen as a child, it is important to reexamine each of these critical times in life. Awakening the nondual chakra qualities of self as a body experience that correlates with the stage in which we experienced injury, can have a transformative effect. It becomes integrated into the fabric of our sense of self and how we relate to others.
My book “Nondual Chakra Awakening: A Hero’s Journey to Healing Relationship Injury in Seven Holographic Stages. Yoga Meets Attachment Psychology,” offers a detailed description of each stage of development, and how the chakra can help heal the specific relationship injuries we still harbor. While each injury is supported most by a particular expression of wholeness, often the most influential nondual-quality of wholeness is unconditional love.
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