Being with Being

In this opening exploration, we'll discover how feeling space can fundamentally shift our mode of perception from narrow focus to open awareness. I'll guide you through Dr. Les Fehmi's revolutionary approach of feeling the space between things—starting with your fingers—to access a more inclusive way of being with pain and difficulty. Through this practice, you might find how shifting into spacious awareness naturally allows sensations to dissolve and flow rather than feeling stuck or fixed.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Learning the difference between narrow and open focus awareness
• Discovering how feeling space between your fingers shifts perception
• Experiencing pain within the larger context of spacious awareness
• The possibility that sensations can move, flow, and change when met with space

Dissolving Pain in Nature’s Flow Series:
What can transform our relationship with pain and suffering? Perhaps most simply: recognizing our nature as part of Nature's flow. Resisting pain and hurt can make it persist, but what if we could experience these unpleasant messages in our body as sharing the same qualities as all of Nature's flow—as finely free and fully in the flow of this moment. In the first half of each session, we connect to these foundational qualities through guided practice. Then we'll go on an adventure into the underlying experience of pain of all kinds—from physical booboos to heartaches to blahs and fatigue. Over 15 years ago, Dr. Les Fehmi's book "Dissolving Pain in Open Focus" saved me and opened up a world of possibilities I'd never imagined. Over the last 10 years, it has been the teachings of Master Wonchull Park on the 3 qualities of nowflow that helped this make sense to me—giving me a simple way to embrace as ever-present what can sometimes seem magical. It's with a full heart that I share what has been so meaningful to me in this hour of self-discovery, knowing that these resources we might find in books can become real when we discover them for ourselves. I look forward to our discoveries together.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this integration session, we'll weave together all three qualities of nature's flow into a complete 30-minute foundation practice. I'll guide you through 5-minute intervals that stack together—mutual flow through body and earth, free flow through breath awareness, and whole flow through hands and space. Through this foundational practice, you might discover how these qualities create a springboard for feeling resourced by your inner nature retreat and ready for further adventures into presence.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• An accessible practice you can return to daily
• Feeling how the three qualities support and build on each other
• The sense of being resourced by your inner nature retreat
• A foundation for further adventures and explorations of presence

Nature’s Flow Series:

Discover how your inner landscape naturally contains the same qualities that flow through all of nature. Whether you feel frustrated by rigid meditation "shoulds," curious about ancient wisdom, or seeking a bridge between spiritual teachings and lived experience, this Nature's Flow introductory series meets you in the immediacy of your direct experience—your breath, your contact with the ground, the space your body occupies.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll discover nature's quality of whole flow through the sensitive awareness of your fingers and hands. I'll guide you through feeling the length, volume, and space that your fingers occupy, exploring how our hands can feel right there -- right here -- filling and radiating through your hands all at once. Through this practice, you might discover how the all-at-once-ness and wholeness that we see in nature is also alive in the integrity of how your immediate experience unfolds.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• The sense of presence filling your hands completely
• Experiencing the all-at-once-ness of whole flow
• Feeling the integrity of wholeness in this moment
• Recognizing the vibrancy and tangibility of presence in space

Nature’s Flow Series:

Discover how your inner landscape naturally contains the same qualities that flow through all of nature. Whether you feel frustrated by rigid meditation "shoulds," curious about ancient wisdom, or seeking a bridge between spiritual teachings and lived experience, this Nature's Flow introductory series meets you in the immediacy of your direct experience—your breath, your contact with the ground, the space your body occupies.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll discover how the first two qualities of nature's flow arise together rather than separately. I'll guide you through feeling the free flow of breath coming down into your body and the wave-like motion of your breathing body, exploring how both freedom and connection are how nature flows together. Through this practice, you might find how the breath and body reveal themselves as flows of nature happening in space, mutually connected yet practically infinitely fine and free.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Sensing how freedom and connection arise together naturally
• Feeling the wave-like quality of your breathing body
• Recognizing breath and body as flows of nature in space
• The experience that nothing in your body is physically stuck

Nature's Flow Series:

Discover how your inner landscape naturally contains the same qualities that flow through all of nature. Whether you feel frustrated by rigid meditation "shoulds," curious about ancient wisdom, or seeking a bridge between spiritual teachings and lived experience, this Nature's Flow introductory series meets you in the immediacy of your direct experience—your breath, your contact with the ground, the space your body occupies.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll discover nature's quality of free flow through the practically infinite fineness of breath at your nose. Together we'll use gentle attention to the sensations in your nostrils, exploring how nature arises as ever finer flows within flows—never stuck, always free. I'll guide you through an open inquiry into the finest sensations you can feel, and you might discover how the free flow that we experience in the flow of air is also alive in the immediacy of your own experience.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• The practically infinite fineness within any flow
• Recognizing that nothing in nature is ever stuck
• Finding freedom accessible in simple breath awareness
• The sense that every experience has irresolvable richness

Nature's Flow Series:

Discover how your inner landscape naturally contains the same qualities that flow through all of nature. Whether you feel frustrated by rigid meditation "shoulds," curious about ancient wisdom, or seeking a bridge between spiritual teachings and lived experience, this Nature's Flow introductory series meets you in the immediacy of your direct experience—your breath, your contact with the ground, the space your body occupies.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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 In today's exploration, we'll discover nature's quality of mutual flow by settling together into direct contact with your body and the earth. I'll guide you through gentle attention to your shoulders, hands, and seat as we explore how giving your weight to the ground and receiving its support can reveal the mutual connection that's already streaming through your experience. Through this practice, you might find yourself feeling how the wisdom of interconnection is tangibly happening in your direct experience right now.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• The sense of laying down and being held by support
• Learning to relax held tension and settle into your body
• Recognizing the immediacy of contactful connection
• Feeling the overall sense that you're not alone

Nature's Flow Series: Discover how your inner landscape naturally contains the same qualities that flow through all of nature. Whether you feel frustrated by rigid meditation "shoulds," curious about ancient wisdom, or seeking a bridge between spiritual teachings and lived experience, this Nature's Flow introductory series meets you in the immediacy of your direct experience—your breath, your contact with the ground, the space your body occupies.

Thank you for Being with Being.

beingwithbeing.org
mackenziehawkins.substack.com