Written by Desmond Olubunmi · Founder of Sunya
This is the most powerful practice in the entire document for rapid inner transformation.
Shining the light of awareness on the entire layers of being at once — physical, emotional, mental, and energetic simultaneously. More holistic and grounding than Energy Body Awareness alone, and more stabilising. It is the most powerful practice for inner transformation in this lever — and also the most demanding.
It requires considerable awareness and skill as a prerequisite; the practices that precede it here are not merely preparation but the foundation that makes this one possible.
In Energy Body Awareness, attention is narrowed to one specific layer. Here, awareness is expanded to hold the entire inner structure at once — body, emotions, mind, and energy body in one unified field of observation. The effect is total rather than targeted.
Mental impressions, emotional patterns, and energetic blockages are all exposed to the same undivided light of awareness simultaneously. Rather than dissolving layer by layer, the accumulated inner material — the conditioning, the held tension, the karmic impressions — begins to release all at once.
Sit with the spine erect. Close the eyes and take a few breaths to settle. Step back from all four bodies — the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the energetic. Disidentify completely. Rest as pure awareness beyond all of them. Now bring the entire layers of being into your field of awareness at once — not part by part, but the whole.
Hold the physical body, the emotions, the mind, and the energy body simultaneously in a single, expansive field of attention. Hold steady presence. Do nothing.
Simply maintain this broad, all-encompassing awareness and allow mental impressions to dissolve, emotions to resolve and release, and energy pathways to unblock — all at once, in the light of undivided awareness.
Note: This practice combines four things simultaneously — releasing physical tension, witnessing thoughts without reactivity, feeling the emotional body and allowing it to open, and holding awareness of the entire energy body. Practise each individually before attempting to hold all four at once.
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