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The Physics of Love - Part 9: Who is driving the system?
- Admin
- 2 days ago
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Awakening is often framed as a moment of arrival. In practice, it is something far quieter and more exacting: a gradual reorientation of who is driving the system.
Most people do not lack awareness or intention. What they lack is choice at the level where choice actually matters. The human body arrives carrying an inheritance that predates the individual—genetic memory, unfinished grief, survival strategies shaped by fear and necessity. The body is not malfunctioning when it reacts. It is remembering.
For much of life, consciousness rides atop this inheritance rather than leading it. Not because the soul is absent, but because the body has been tasked with survival for generations. It scans, braces, narrows perception, and prioritizes urgency. When it leads, time compresses. Breath shortens. Relationship becomes defensive or avoidant. Nothing has gone wrong. The body is doing its job.
Many who enter spiritual work move out of survival and into meaning. Insight expands. Narrative deepens. Purpose emerges. This shift is real, and it matters. Yet meaning often becomes a subtle form of regulation.
Insight overrides sensation. Understanding substitutes for safety. The body complies, but it does not settle.
Coherence stabilizes only when a third orientation becomes primary.
There is a form of consciousness that does not manage the body or narrate it. It holds. In this orientation, the body softens without instruction.
Breath deepens without effort. Sensation is allowed to complete without urgency to fix or resolve it. Boundaries arise cleanly, without charge. Paradox does not fracture the field.
This orientation does not seize control. It includes the system so completely that control becomes unnecessary.
Discernment at this level requires honesty about story. Survival consciousness lives inside threat based narratives. Meaning consciousness lives inside purpose based narratives. Story itself is not the problem. But loving presence requires none. It does not explain experience. It holds it.
When story loosens, something biological occurs. The body receives a new signal: danger is not imminent now.
This work reveals itself not through theory, but through sensation. A quiet belief surfaces in the body. An ancestral grief completes itself. Breath changes. The nervous system reorganizes. Nothing dramatic. Nothing performative. Just completion.
The traditional metaphor suggests the body is the horse and the soul the rider. It is not an argument for tighter reins or greater control. Nor is it a call to abandon the horse and retreat into abstraction.
A more accurate framing is this: The body is ancient, adaptive intelligence shaped by survival. The soul is capable of reflection, meaning, and choice. The Source Self is the field in which both are reorganized.
The resolution does not lie in the rider becoming more skilled or enlightened. It does not lie in mastering the horse, managing it, or figuring it out. It lies in changing the field in which both exist.
The body does not relearn safety through command. It relearns safety through environment. Loving Presence & Compassionate Listening is that environment.
This is why the shift is slow.
Human beings have not practiced this orientation for thousands of years. Our nervous systems are carrying a civilizational backlog of unresolved experience.
What is required is trust, sustained and repeated, until the body relinquishes its role as guardian and remembers it belongs inside love, not in charge of preventing loss.
This is where coherence becomes embodied. This is where Love ceases to be an effort and becomes a field.
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