THE ESSENCE OF HEALING

Consciousness, balance, happiness, peace, and flexibility are the elements

essentials of healing, as they are found among the foundations of a good life
vivid. The word healing, as we will use it, does not simply mean the elimination
of the disease; that is what we will call the cure. Healing has a meaning
más elevado que ese. La sanación ocurre cuando liberamos o corregimos las
conditions that have generated harmful trends or patterns whether these trends
whether or not we have been led to direct illness. Thus, healing can occur before
the disease occurs. When the disease arrives, it will be eliminated if these are released.
conditions with sufficient opportunity for the body to recover. Those who heal
has the ability to remain relaxed and at peace in the face of difficulties, and has the
flexibility to adapt to change and difficult conditions appropriately and
healthy.

We can always choose to defend ourselves against illness, but demanding even to wait
that there is no illness (nor failures in life, or any conflict) is to fly foolishly
facing the inevitable, trying to force our will when we are destined to
to fail, fighting against an opponent that cannot be defeated. In this circumstance not
there can be peace. A healthier and more sound approach is to learn to fight our
battles without losing our ability to accept what is. If at this moment I have
cancer, then it is something with which I must find a way to come to peace,
besides looking for a cure. But the healing of my illness and the healing of my life
and spirit can very well remain as two separate and distinct processes. With the
Time may heal me but I will not recover, or perhaps I will recover but will not heal.

Healing is the application of a certain energy in such a way that it encourages someone towards a
greater health agenda. The surgeon's scalpel, the herbalist's remedy, the adjustment of
chiropractor, the manipulation that the psychic makes of the energy field of a chakra;
they are all ways of healing. There is an external agent in each of them, and a
person in the role of a professional (Although it is possible that we give ourselves treatments to
ourselves). For the treatment to be effective, it must increase the tendency
natural and inherent to the patient to return to health. For example, an infection
it can be treated and cured with an antibiotic, but the medication only works until
where I supported and reinforced the processes of natural healing.

Healing is the process that occurs behind the scenes while the cure is given, the hero
silent that grants power to the remedy, the alteration of conditions that
they brought about the illness in the beginning. Without the cooperation of the body's impulses.
and the mind towards health, our methods of care and healing would actually be seen
pathetic. When the mysterious forces of healing cannot align, the patient
it does not recover. Chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation treatments can destroy
a tumor, but if a single cancer cell remains and the body is not able to
destroy it by himself with his own healing forces, cancer will return, the
the remission will end and the patient will die. Now is when you as a healer can
to influence. Perhaps you are already a healthcare professional, a provider of cures, or perhaps not,
but it can be a healer in any case, and through awareness it can
modify harmful trends in your patient.
Healing is mysterious and will surely remain so. Why does a person...
does one recover and another dies? What living desire causes a cell to reject a substance?
harmful chemistry? How can a long-standing depression finally
getting up? Science will give us partial answers to questions like these, but I doubt
that it is possible to fully unravel these enigmas. Frequently, the process
the healing environment is perfectly suitable for complete recovery, even
with the absence of attempts at healing. We are all familiar with our
self-healing powers, we have healed from some minor scratches and bruises
that did not require treatment. We routinely recover from colds and other ailments.
viral and bacterial infections without any type of external help. Even trauma.
and more serious illnesses heal without any treatment. Emotional healing
it is also possible without professional help. The loss of a spouse, one of the traumas
most difficult emotional experiences, you may need a long period of healing but for
We hope that this healing takes place. This is the miracle of healing;
miraculous in the same way that life is miraculous: in part, but never for
complete, understandable.

Obviously, healing is benefited by a supportive environment. If I cut myself a

arm, I get some stitches and constantly change the bandages, surely
healing will proceed without any eventuality. If I cannot wash and stitch the wound, and
There are no bandages to protect her, healing may not be so uniform and trouble-free.
If my arm gets infected, the infection could spread and my life would be at risk. Still
when I recover over time, my arm will have a scar and it could even
to be limited. In the case of someone who lost a loved one, they may never heal or return.
to happiness if it does not have the support of friends and family, or if it lacks a solid
mental health, to begin with. We all know people who have never recovered from
an emotional trauma.

Beyond this physical and emotional healing, there is also the healing of the spirit, the
healing of life itself, but of course there is no way to really separate these
different aspects of healing. Emotional health is vital for physical healing and the
spiritual peace; physical health leads to emotional health and spiritual balance, and so on
successively. However, the healing of a life must be considered separately for a
simple reason: we are all going to die. Sooner or later, our physical health will decline. It is
it can decline in an instant, as in the case of a serious accident, or that
decline over a certain period due to a slowly progressive illness, but
It will decline and we will die. When we pass away, it is not necessary to understand death.
Just like the final decay of the body. Death can also be a moment.
of triumph for the spirit. If there has been healing during life, the accumulation is
wisdom, patience, compassion, and self-confidence, the end of life can be the
time of permanent peace. Spiritual healing flourishes more in a conducive environment.
A strong spiritual practice or belonging to a brotherhood community is valuable.
invaluable if we have hope of achieving spiritual healing and inner peace.

Healing is an ongoing process. Its main purpose is not just to free us from
the illness or any problem, nor to make our path easier. Rather, the
Healing is the work of achieving balance in whatever our situation may be.
present. Disease or health, peace or war, love or fear; it does not matter what they may be.
condiciones internas o externas, la sanación es posible gracias a que no es la corrección
of our conditions but the return to equilibrium and peace. If our perspective is
that certain conditions of our life are wrong and must be corrected for
to be able to feel whole and at peace again, then we are condemning ourselves to a
a kind of victimhood, with life and all our vicissitudes considered as
followers, for only on rare occasions will all the conditions of life be such
and how we would have them. How often do we expect everything to turn out just as we
Do we want? The 'perfect' conditions are more of an exception than the rule, and being
waiting for perfection or working to achieve it can take up so much of our days
like our energy. Certainly, it is necessary to make an effort, to turn mistakes
in successes, and the diseases in treatment, but there is another 'task' that is needed
to do and what is the humble work of healing. This game of healing that does not
requires some effort (as it is probably not a job in reality)
it simply consists of allowing us, without fear, to experience everything that is
happening in the moment. When we are able to do it, a miracle occurs: the
miracle of healing.

It is not necessary for us to be physically or mentally ill, waiting for a cure, to

embark on a journey of healing. In reality, cures can be impossible and still
we can heal. Since healing is, above all things, a matter of
spirit. It is the way we handle the physical and mental traumas of life. It is a
internal process of remembering and recognizing our integrity at the same time as
we let go of the need to protect ourselves through rigid and inflexible responses against
to the challenges of life. Wounds heal when the body 'remembers' its natural state.
The mind heals when a victim of childhood sexual abuse regains their ability.
to laugh and play like when I laughed and played before the abuse; when I remember my being
joyful, without wounds and without fear. Lives heal as long as we return to capture our
capacity to guide us without fear towards fulfillment and the rewarding commitment towards the
and the spirit heals when we remember and approach an idea of our
its own divine nature, towards the fullest fusion between God and nature, towards the
happiness, flexibility, and inner peace.

When you are in front of someone calm, or someone angry, or someone with a lot
personal power, you feel it too. The presence of this person has an effect on
You. You have already experienced that and know it is true, but can you explain why? Yes
You fall and get hurt, can you explain it: you tripped and fell, you hit your knee, it stimulated.
The nerve endings somehow caused a bit of inflammation, among other things.
The result is pain and limited movement for a few days.

That is understandable.

But our experience of someone's presence is not easy to explain. We know that
It happens but we cannot say how.

The true understanding of the potential healing power of your presence will arise from
your firsthand experience, and that, as I mentioned, will only happen with the
practice. Stop any lack of faith you may have had and from now on assume that the
transcendence is possible. Assume that it is possible (even briefly) to step out of
material universe and experience a bit of what is already in its entirety outside of the
limits of human cognition. Assume then that consciousness is capable of provoking
the change and that intentions in consciousness can modify events. If you
If you can assume all this, then you are on the path to understanding. Simply the
state where the healer transcends everyday consciousness, where he becomes more aware
of consciousness at an event and that modifies that event in a way that allows the
healing. Start by adopting the concept that, in reality, you affect others.
with their presence. What you will learn is how to do it intentionally and with purpose.
of healing.

You are a healer. It is part of your nature to be able to develop your ability to
achieve a neutral, meditative state, and in that state have a deeply profound effect
positive in yourself, in others, and in your overall environment. We all have that
potential. You can facilitate the natural healing ability in others and
help them return to a state of balance and happiness.

Esto no es cualquier cosa. Hay tanto sufrimiento en el mundo. Cáncer, sida, y demás
terrible diseases that surround us. Economic uncertainty and the curse of
Poverty causes great stress and tension. Environmental disasters and anxiety
politics and social issues are enough to scare any thinking person. This is the
moment for people to restore their own balance and lead to their heart
the service of those who need it.

These foundations of healing, the ability to change or let go of a condition

that has caused and maintained a harmful trend, along with the qualities of the
intuition, compassion, awareness, and love, when united with the intention to heal,
They can achieve it without any other technique, as a fully healing art.
sustained. Thus, through your presence, you can act as an effective healer. Not
It doesn't matter what their background is, whether they are a highly qualified doctor or have none.
a particular healing experience. The essence of healing is for everyone. Everyone
we are a healer in potential.

Although we will use the 'sensory process' in order to know the state of presence, the
sensory process is merely a teaching tool, and ultimately it
it will be left behind like the small side wheels with which he learned to ride his bike.
first bicycle. This is because the sensory process is a state of consciousness,
more than a technique; it is more about his awareness and his presence rather than
any other issue. These aspects in you, the awareness and the presence, can
to cultivate and nourish oneself, but like transcendence, they cannot be forced. There is no
sequence of steps, nor instructions, regardless of the care with which they are
they continue, so that they can someday teach him the essence of presence. Only that can be
learn through their own direct experience, which they can obtain in return through
the practice.

BE NEUTRAL

Neutrality is the fundamental quality that allows us to be transcendent and thus be able to
to modify an event that occurs in consciousness. It allows him to release the
conditions that have kept you or a patient, with trends or patterns
harmful habits. If you meditate and your foot is uncomfortable, your 'tendency' will be
focus their attention on the painful foot, limiting the available awareness for other things
things. Or he can move his foot, but this would only serve to reinforce the preconceived notion
the "condition" in his consciousness that says a sore foot is not desirable and must
avoid it. You must remain stable in your meditation to be more neutral and release
the conditions. This stability is the state in which there is no concentration or focus of
attention to something, there are no reactions, and it is also a state where all sensations
experienced ones are allowed, just like all the other sensations. There is no
only feeling regardless of its intensity, that receives more attention than the others. If
you wish to heal with the sensory process, you will need to work neutrally with it
that appears in their consciousness, like discomfort and problems. We are
used to focusing on everything that bothers us, and we are always fighting
with our pains and fears. But we must start our healing practice
now, through a space where, in the face of annoyance and distraction, we do not make
nothing. This doesn't mean that you have to hold onto your mind tightly,
restricting it like a police officer holding a violent criminal, then it
the energy of your mind will turn towards you, and the struggle will simply continue differently
way. This also does not mean that it needs to be so loose that it abandons its mind for
complete, since if it were so it would become wild and chaotic. Rather, it needs to let go of
your mind but from a certain particular kind of discipline, and within a particular series
of the guidelines. The purpose is for you to soften your resistance and allow yourself to live the
sensations of the experience.

Tuning and Opening of the Sensory Space

For your first practice exercise, just sit down in a dignified position.
meditation. Find a position that allows you to relax and be comfortable, but straight and
alert. You can sit on the floor with your legs crossed, with or without a cushion to
to lean, or you could sit upright in a firm chair. The PRESENCE does not need
a particular seating position, but at this moment of your practice any of
The common meditation postures will help keep you alert and aware. No
neither needs to be asleep nor feel too bothered by the pain of the
knees or neck muscles.
Close your eyes and enter into 'tune'. The tune is an aspect of the practice.
spiritual whose use I especially wish to promote in you. Before starting your practice of
healing or meditation, stop and decree in your consciousness that this moment you
will dedicate to the sacred, to the divine, to the infinite. In a respectful position towards the
sacred, together implies that at this moment we are leaving our being
personal, manejado por el ego, a favor de la inteligencia universal ilimitada que puede
fluir a través de nosotros. Es una poderosa forma de empezar.
So having tuned in, gradually enter into your awareness of all the
sensations that you are experiencing in your body. Feel the air on your skin. Feel the
pressure of your legs against the cushion or chair. Feel how your breath moves through
their nostrils and the expansion and contraction of their lungs with each breath.
Feel the sensation of tension and relaxation and the feelings of discomfort and of
place. Feel the force of gravity pulling against every part of your body. Take
your time and continuously expand your awareness so that you can feel more and more.
Feel also the subtle, small, and quiet sensations that occur between the most
noteworthy. Feel those that do not have a specific name. Take your time and allow
even more sensations in their consciousness.
If you have thoughts, acknowledge the sensations related to them and allow them to
also take place, without any trace of judgment. Maybe you want to not be
thinking, or being more comfortable, but just take into account what it feels like with that desire
and how he feels the thoughts, without worrying about how well he is doing.
If you are aware of external stimuli, the noises, the smells, for example,
realize the sensations that arise in relation to them. Perhaps they do not result
obvious at first, but soon you will recognize that your experience with a sound or with a
Color is not the object that has created the sound or the smell, but the sensations in some
place of their body (generally it is not in their nose or ears) that arise like
response. Be aware of these sensations as we said before without judgment. In
function of our purpose, there are no good or bad feelings, and all must be
allowed equally.
Continue meditating in this way for fifteen minutes or more. There is no hurry. If you...
feel frustrated, simply open your eyes for a moment, close them, and return to
start the practice. When you finish, notice how you feel and how it has affected you
the practice.

By carrying out this practice, you will be relating to nothing more and nothing less than the
experience of this moment. From this practice, it is possible that it will come to light the
that you have been hiding in the corners and cracks of the depths of your mind. That
it is good, as it will allow you to witness the subtle effects of what you have been
evading. It is possible that at first the experience is intense, but if you only
intense feelings are allowed, without trying to resolve anything for now, you will see
that those feelings lose their power. Every time I help a student or a
client only by being present with their long-repressed feelings,
the intensity always alleviates. Emotions and thoughts and, more importantly, the
sensations that are experienced in relation to them should not be eliminated or
ignore them, but simply let them be. If you are sad, let the
feelings of sadness move you and feel their touch. If you are hurt, allow
Let that move you. If you feel pleasure, allow that sensation to move you.
Meditation in the PRESENCE is to completely stop being our own environment.
interior and the real experience of this moment. In doing so, we develop an openness
towards the outside environment from us. If we are not judging our experience
interior, then we will not judge the exterior experience that gives rise to the interior. Thus
we are capable of knowing things as they are, without worrying about how to cling to
our experience nor how we could improve it. This acceptance of the conditions
internal and external is the beginning of genuine love and compassion, and these are, in turn,
the essence of healing.

By doing your practice this way, for several months, you will notice not only a new
skill as a healer, but also a growing ability to manage the
tensiones de su propia vida. Empezará a reconocer que la dificultad y el dolor que
facing them is not so bad in itself, but they are only difficult to resist if there is a
strong urge to evade the feelings and sensations that arise in you as
response to those problems and pains. Meanwhile, learn to allow your sensations,
You will discover that suffering is reduced, and life takes on a new richness and softness.

We consume a large amount of energy with our desire to avoid pain or

increase pleasure. It is more common for our drive toward well-being to appear
like a very unconscious push over which we have little control.

We need to recognize when we are evading unpleasant sensations or when

we are looking for more pleasurable sensations to which we have become addicted. If
we do this, we develop our 'PRESENCE', our ability to remain
neutral in the face of the problem or temptation, without reacting blindly to any of the
Two. When faced with people, it seems difficult to be able to see them as in
The reality is: just people trying to relieve their own pain. By letting be to our
discomfort in their presence, we can by extension allow them to feel uncomfortable.
This is the beginning of the ability to "be there" for others and to attend to their
needs for affectionate care.

Often, these same phenomena occur with a different flavor. For example,
I know many men and women who learned to hide their feelings of
solitude with a gallant and flirtatious behavior. They strive to be attractive. Even
when some consider their behaviors as something pleasurable, it remains a
behavior of mold that hides its true feelings. Just like the anger of someone
A person in front of another's guideline is in itself a guideline, also the objective of
gallantry and flirting surely replicate a pattern of him or her, whether attraction or
repulsion. In any case, the reaction may be the concealment of feelings
deeper needs or fears of intimacy. Until we allow ourselves to
by approaching our own experience, without reacting, we can begin to be free from
such automatic responses.

It is then when we can be present for others, when we can take

clear decisions about what we do in a given situation, when we can start
to love and to serve with purity, not for selfish gratification but for a joyful
realization.

Before continuing to read, practice the meditation exercise 'tuning and

"opening of the sensory space" described earlier. There is no magical formula for
learn to heal, only this need to practice. Ask yourself what it is trying to
reach. Isn't it about reducing their fears and sufferings and helping others to do the same?
the same? Is it not to be happy and reduce the lack of satisfaction, separation, loneliness and
Insecurity in yourself and in those you know? The diligent practice of PRESENCE leads you
will help.

Let oneself go

The work we are doing is actually very simple, although it

We complicate things unnecessarily. We are burdened with a compulsion to serve and protect.
our ego, everything we call 'I', 'mine' or 'my' But that effort is extremely
innecesario. El verdadero ser está muy a salvo. Ese ser, el alma, nunca se ha visto
wounded, he has never needed healing. He has always remained pure and intact in front of
the problems of life. But we forget, we fall asleep, and dream of another reality, the
of suffering and desire.

In reality, what we seek to protect does not exist outside our mind. Since the
Since birth, we have been accumulating ideas about ourselves and the world.
We have endless concepts and prejudices about what is desirable, what should
avoiding, what kind of person is attractive, who we should fear, and so on.
We also have endless ideas about ourselves: how we are, for what
we are good, what seems threatening to us and what others think of us. Everything
this is just a belief, derived from how we have learned to interpret our
experience. If our experience or our interpretation had been different,
we would have a different sense of being. So there is nothing absolute about this being.
personal; it is our own creation and only has limited existence outside of our
mind. But the issues of attraction towards one thing and evasion towards the other seem so
important that we became completely enveloped in them. We forgot who we are.
we were before we accumulated our concepts of ourselves. We forgot about our
be original.

In this sense, our belief in the personal being as a different entity is a

illusion, a side effect that arises because our original being lies
temporarily hidden within a human form. Those who are vulnerable and need
protection of the elements is the human body and mind; and not the soul. In our
effort to protect our vulnerable self, we use practically all our
energy optimizing our experience. We fear one thing and desire another,
and we dedicate our lives to getting our way. Obviously, we would not have
we would not have survived as a species if we hadn't done it this way, but we have done it to a huge extent
cost.

The cost is that we have fallen asleep and we live in a world of dreams where
The mental and the physical are the only realities we perceive. In this dream, we see ourselves.
ourselves and others as different and separate beings in need of
be protected. The task now is to awaken to the other reality, that of God in everything.

A start of awakening, and the clarity and tranquility that awakening implies, occurs
when we engage in the practice of letting go of our point of view, that point of
a reference that would make us believe that we exist here. When this is achieved, we can let go.
the need to control our experience in order to start letting go of
our experience comes into direct contact with us. When we let go of our
egocentric point of view we developed a tremendous opportunity to allow that
let our experience occur without resistance. No matter what happens in the vast space of the
awareness free from the ego, be it pleasure or pain, sickness or health, birth or death,
we can now allow it and experience it in all its fullness.

Be very clear about this. It's not that the disease no longer matters, or that we can
simply allow us to die without seeking a cure. The body and the mind actually
they need care and protection, and there is a great reason for preferring pleasure and not
the pain, but if we feel pain and are not able to stay present with it, or if
we feel pleasure and we are unable to fully experience it, or we are
wishing for even more, then we are resisting our real experience. In that
case, we are closing a part of what is, a part of the reality that we call
God. When, on the other hand, we allow the experience of this moment, despite
our preferences, that experience can come into contact with our tender
heart and will illuminate us.

Unfortunately, we usually put up defenses against a good part of our experience.

and our heart remains encased in armor. We have been wounded,
physically and emotionally, and not all wounds received the attention they
they needed for a complete healing. That is inevitable. So we learned ways
to avoid similar wounds. A simple example: Richard, one of my
patients, grew up in a family where there were few demonstrations of love, and with some
parents who allowed Richard's older sister to annoy him mercilessly. The
the pain of that discomfort was greater than what he could bear, and he escaped from his sister
hiding, only in his room. There the pain of being alone was almost unbearable and
Richard would spend hours desperately wishing that his mother would come to him and
tranquilizara, pero ella nunca fue. De adulto, casado y con su propia familia, Richard
he continued to feel isolated from the affection he desired. He came to believe that he would always.
to be alone, and was extremely sensitive to any denial of affection.

Richard established several lines of defense against the threat of having to go back.
feel the pain of loneliness. His first defense was his anger. If his wife did not
he comforted her when she felt upset, quickly getting angry (which tended to push her away.
and thus increase their feeling of isolation). By working against this pattern, it reached the
next line of defense, deeper inside. When I let go of the anger, then I felt the
the most basic desire to be comforted. But at this point, what I was essentially stating was:
I'm not angry but I'm alone and that's how it will always be. It's not worth trying to
achieve what I want. The best thing will be to leave and live alone.” That would have recreated the scene.
In his room, alone and desperate for someone to come look for him. With more effort...
deep down, Richard was able to lower his second line of defense. So, he no longer
he felt desperate, but something more important: the fear of isolation. An effort
the mayor took him beyond the fear of isolation to reach the very feeling itself. This one
it was the one he had tried to evade throughout his life with his fear, his desire, and his anger.
And then, something remarkable happened. When Richard finally allowed himself to feel what
with so much work I had tried to evade, the feeling turned out to be just a
sensation; a kind of pressure in the center of his chest. He discovered that he was capable of
tolerate that feeling quite well. Just by allowing oneself to be this way, without
no evasion or resistance, things began to change almost immediately. The
the feeling that it was a pain that should be avoided at all costs (even at the cost of anger)
before his wife and living alone) began to fade. The feeling in his chest
slowly evaporated and in its place a feeling of peace emerged. As a child, things were
very different. At that time, being isolated was something that literally threatened their
life, and although Richard was never physically neglected, his feeling of
being alone was truly terrifying. As an adult, I certainly knew that I was physically at
However, the guideline had been established and mere reasoning had little effect.

Only by experiencing what he feared could he begin the healing.

Everything changes naturally; nothing stays the same. For Richard, or for anyone.
Being stuck in a pattern for us means there is a lot of energy.
putting in maintaining things as they have always been. Letting down the defenses gives us
let's stop that difficult work of keeping things in the same condition. When
we release the defenses, the conditions change and our evolution can continue. The
the central element in everything Richard learned to do was awareness and allowing
that the experience moved him. In the PRESENCE, to that particular kind of
We call it 'to allow'. It is the consciousness that allows everything to be.
exactly as it is and what allows us to experience reality without
resistance. This is how we grow and it's also how we heal others.

It will be a challenge for you to learn to be aware in this particular way. It is

it is necessary to open the fears and desires of the ego, as well as its ambition to maintain its
propia existencia segura y separada. En la PRESENCIA, se le pide que libere algunos
of their most basic assumptions about what is safe and what is real. To in their
place, allow the real, like the sensations and the experience of this moment, to
happen. Try not to worry about the individual being you have always defended. In
change, let go of 'the point of view' and recognize that the awareness that you now call 'your'
in no way is it different from the universal consciousness that exists everywhere, in
all beings and in all people. The consciousness that manifests in you is
fundamentally the same consciousness that is manifested in the client who is
attending, regardless of their superficial differences and the illusion of
separation.

As you practice and refine your healing work, your practice will lead you to give yourself
it is clear that there is no need or benefit in clinging to one's beliefs or
concepts about experiences. This is very liberating. This is how you can let go of the
dependence on old habitual patterns, and instead approach without fear to the
new and unknown experience. Before achieving this, I might have preferred secure prison and
a salvo from their concepts that the freedom to let go. Perhaps he remained absorbed in his
belief systems because he felt safer in them than in the uncertainty that
they hid: the insistent fear of the ego (and of you) of ceasing to exist if nothing watches over it.

Don't expect this radical change to happen immediately, and that suddenly you are
perfectly stable in Space, without any conditions and free of ego. Nevertheless,
once you have explored space and feel at least a little comfortable in it, your
progress will accelerate. It will be quieter and more stable, and then everything will happen with
speed. There are some who enter similar spaces with the purpose of enlightening themselves and
It takes years to progress as much as you will in just a few months, if your purpose
It is healing. The link between spiritual practice and service is a great accelerator.
Of course, you will apply the lessons of PRESENCE outside of your environment.
healing and will illuminate your life. But that is not our primary purpose. The
The purpose is to heal, and the enlightenment that may come to you is purely delightful.
side effect.

When you are in the position of healer, remember that it is not you who heals. The
healer is consciousness, not his consciousness, but consciousness itself. There is no
healing without the Sacred Space, and it is the lineage that sustains the Space. The school of
the PRESENCE, the teachers of the PRESENCE and the ability they have to
sustain the Space, they have been combined with the practice you have in the process
sensory in order to induce it in their experience with the Sacred Space. This is what you
has taught you to leap from the normal to the Sacred. Do not think: 'I
I'm doing this," or "I learned only to heal," as it is a formula for pain and the
failure. Simply make a small space within yourself, a place that is full
of beliefs, concepts, and judgments of the ego, and then allow there to be freedom and
healing in that space. Recognize where this capability comes from that you
count, honor the lineage and the way it works through you. You will be more and more
more aware. With his consciousness, he will be serving someone else, and thus his progress will be
faster. The adorable irony is that at the moment you give up your desire
by having healing power, you acquire it. The power of PRESENCE only comes from
the intensity of his desire to renounce his power and be in a position of service.

Conditions for release

In the PRESENCE we do not provide prescriptions to treat this or that condition. I will not tell you that
certain feelings or sensations that you experience signify particular issues
about your client, nor do they need a particular response from you. If they did,
assuming you could do it, then you would have your head full of information and
perhaps the tendency to fit their poor client into their preconceived notions,
placing it inside a box that is not necessarily its size. So just
I will tell you that what you need to know is what you already know: your own experience. Simply
learn to recognize your sensations in the space of the relationship with your client or
partner. In doing so, you will gradually develop the ability to translate what you
it feels like intelligible information. It will be able to tell its clients what is wrong and
how it came to be what it is, and how they can help themselves. Long before having
that ability, you will be able to heal with your ability to release tension and anxiety, and
to provide a more natural and healthy balance to its clients. It will be related to a
client and will recognize the feeling of contradiction within yourself, and will release that
sensation in an act no more complex than scratching when it itches. Even when
You will never be able to explain this, no matter; you will continue healing.

A risky part of PRESENCE is trying to translate what we feel into a

everyday language. We may feel with great sensitivity and precision, but we translate
with deficiency, lacking precision misinterpreting the meaning of our experience.
So let the ability to translate come slowly, and at first do not put
too much attention on it. What interests us now is learning to release the
contractions or the conditions that contain the trends that make the client ill.

Allow the sensations

Once again, tune in and sit down to meditate. Close your eyes and repeat the process.
be aware of all your sensations, without discrimination. Allow it to enter
your consciousness everything that may appear. Include everything that appears but do not
Don't focus on any of that. Take your time. Don't concentrate on any sensation.
It will gradually lead to a balanced awareness of all sensations.

When you feel that you have the same awareness of all the sensations in your body,
choose one of them, the one that seems most unpleasant to you. Do not focus on that.
sensation, but remain aware of it along with everything else. Recognize the
resistance that I may have to this feeling and allow the sensations of joy
resistance, also without focusing on them.

Continue to allow all sensations, even the new ones that may arise, in
it also maintains the discomfort (and the feelings of resistance to that discomfort) in
your consciousness. Continue like this until the discomfort resolves.

In this exercise, you may have noticed that, for example, you have stiffness in your neck.
Normally it will have changed position, but here you will only notice the sensations of your
rigidity. It may also tend to resist the feeling of rigidity and will experience that
resistance as it feels a certain contraction in its stomach or a heaviness in its face.
Here, you are being asked to also recognize those feelings, but not
react to them. This exercise should lead you to reduce the feeling of discomfort.
All you need is to be aware, without judging.

We often approach pain by trying to block it or trying to escape from it.

or another way, as Richard did with his feelings of loneliness. But that process
in itself it is painful and can have many negative consequences. Sometimes,
we feel pain and sometimes we escape from pain, and alternating between both
States are also difficult. Here in our healing work, we are doing something
completely different. We are saying that pain is allowed, exactly
just as we would allow a neutral feeling, like the attraction of gravity
on the skin of our arm. Here there are no judgments, and that is a radical departure for almost
all of us. But it is the simple essence of healing others and healing our lives.
Without this neutral vision of our discomfort, we cannot feel any peace, and it is this peace,
this neutral and conscious presence, what we are cultivating with PRESENCE. No
It is being suggested that in life we should give up our preferences, nor choose the
pain avoidance when it is such a useful warning signal. The master of PRESENCE
doesn't accidentally touch a hot pan nor chooses to spend time with angry people
without any good reason. But the practice of PRESENCE does give us the ability to
remain neutral in the face of a difficult experience. Whether then we choose
stay in touch with the people or the conditions that led to the situation
difficult or not, that is a matter of personal decision. Sometimes, it is better to face
In these circumstances; sometimes it is better to leave. Only with a neutral mind can we
to have a truly free election.

It is clear that our healing work is very different from the work of other kinds of
health professionals. The practice of PRESENCE consists of creating and maintaining
a stable meditative presence and in that state enter into an intentional relationship with
a client, or with a particular aspect of a client, with the intention of healing through
from that sacred state of meditation. This is different from using a meditative state to
strengthen intuition and then use that intuitive understanding to design a plan for
treatment. It is different from treating a client with channeled energy.

Certainly, it is not the same as gathering facts and observations from a patient and
from them conclude that there is a particular disease and that certain is required
treatment. The PRESENCE is quite more direct and easier than any of
the previous ones.

The PRESENCE is almost as if there were no patient at all, only the healer,
completely present in your own experience. Imagine sitting in meditation,
alone, aware of all the sensations in his body. Imagine that he feels fatigue but
it only allows that fatigue until it goes away. Or, imagine you are sitting in a bad
posture and start to feel pain in the back. In that case, maybe adjust your quickly.
position and then allow your back to return to its normal state. That's how it is.
PRESENCE. Through a process of allowing all your sensations (just as you
it allows for itching or fatigue), or through suitable small adjustments (such as the
small change in your posture), you will treat the client. The only differences are that
in the PRESENCE there are two bodies and a meditative mind, and that adjustments can
purely non-physical adjustments in your consciousness. They may seem to you like things
extraordinary and, in a way, they are. But they are also as natural as the
sensation of the beats of her heart or of turning this page when she reached the end. In
At first, it may seem unlikely that your meditative mind can expand to live the
experience of consciousness in another or that can choose to modify an event, but soon
will have great experience in this regard. The sensory process has already begun, becoming
aware of the sensations in their body and allowing them to occur naturally
equitable. And just as allowing your fatigue will lead you to it passing, allowing the
feelings that arise in you when being in relation with a patient will lead you to finish
or to release the trends in the patient that produced those sensations.

Heal with his presence

Heal with your presence. It is very subtle and yet very simple. It is easy to learn.
how to heal with PRESENCE. In reality, it is the easiest thing you can imagine
because, as you can already see, there is nothing to do, there is nothing to fulfill.

In other forms of healing, there may be a great deal of things to learn. If

You want to learn to heal with acupuncture, there are hundreds of points, each one connected.
with its corresponding organ, and must know how to properly place the needle, and how to do
a diagnosis, how much of this or that needs to be done to generate the effect that
wants. It is a wonderful way to heal, and I admire those who have the intelligence and the
perseverance in mastering acupuncture. It is very effective and can bring about cures
surprising. But it is difficult to learn. Over time it can become very.
intuitive with acupuncture and transcend the rational mind in their healing work.

But that could take many years and many patients. Some forms of healing.
they rely heavily on learned facts and on intelligence and knowledge of the
healer. A well-trained doctor can bring to mind, in an instant, many
possible causes of a particular symptom and will know how a medication would interact
with dozens of others. At the very least, and very importantly, the doctor will know how to have
access to huge sources of information so that I can research in an orderly manner
smart anything of which he is not sure. A wise doctor will also be part
of a community of healers and will know which other member of the community could
better care for the patient when their own knowledge or experience is inadequate.

Other forms of healing are more intuitive. Psychotherapists and therapists of

Massage depends a little less on how familiar they are with a body of
knowledge and depend more on a skill of empathy with the patients or of the
feeling of their needs. These healers need a certain clarity of intuition,
perhaps more than their allopathic brothers, and their work depends more on wisdom
accumulated that of accumulated knowledge.

Some forms of healing are still more empathetic or more intuitive.

shamanic healing depends almost entirely on the healers ability to alter
his state of consciousness. The healer can 'know' a few facts but has a
intimate knowledge of a particular transcendent world where one has access to powers
and knowledge that is not normally available to you. Upon entering that other
world in favor of his patient, can return with the means to carry out the healing.

These different forms of healing are found along a continuum, a spectrum

going from methods with more knowledge bases to methods with more bases of
consciousness. Each one has its place, its special value, and a culture or subculture in the
that resides. But they all have something in common. They require a skill, something that only
Practice can give. If you are to be a good doctor, you must be very intelligent and very
diligent, as well as friendly and attentive. If you want to master acupuncture, you must both
acquire a large amount of knowledge on how to develop your intuition. As
shaman, will need a special gift as well as years of preparation. In summary, to
Each of these roles will need to be good at something. They will need to know their field.
You will need to know how to handle your instruments, whether they are medications, needles or
psychic powers. In all cases, one must commit to the client and patient as
someone who needs your help, like someone with a problem that you will help
resolver. In each case, you will exert a force to generate a change.

There is nothing wrong with any of them. They are all valid and valuable forms of healing.
Pero, la PRESENCIA es diferente. En la PRESENCIA somos capaces de sanar, no
because we apply a force on our clients, simply because we
we relate to them in a conscious and particular way. We relate to them,
with their problems, sensitively, with awareness. We relate to them and
then we feel the sensations of our own experience. We allow them to happen
those sensations just as they are, and we discover that those sensations change, and when
Change brings healing. It is not about, as in other methods, bringing the
we heal so that we even facilitate healing. It is about simply accessing a
space where healing occurs. We do not do it at all. Healing
It happens and we are witnesses. The wonderful thing is that in this method we free ourselves.
of the responsibility of being geniuses, clear or initiated. We just have to be
aware and hold the intention that healing will occur. We do not have to be
good nor spiritual, nor even to be in a good mood. We just need to be noble and
aware, and that can happen now.

In the PRESENCE, the healing process can begin almost immediately.

You only need to let go of certain ideas and concepts about what a
healer. If you can read these few words with an open mind and then put them in
practice, not in agreement with this simple method, will engage with the essence of the
healing. And if you are a doctor or a shaman, or you heal with herbs, you will be able to
do that work in a new way.

Sit down now to practice more. It's time to start working with someone else, so
recruit your partner or someone who wants to lie down and relax in
you act as a healer. Tune in and then start like any
fool would do it admitting that he knows nothing and let’s see where it goes. He only counts on
your sensations and nothing more to guide you: you have no beliefs, no knowledge, nor
desires, nor fears. It doesn't matter where their feelings arise from: from their perceptions,
of their emotions or from somewhere else. Just allow the feelings
They exist as they are, at this moment. That's all you need to work. Be
humble, recognizing that his consciousness may still be primitive. Have the
a willingness to practice only by feeling. Sit in silence and listen and feel and acknowledge
that doesn't know anything, that doesn't have any technique, that has never done this before,
that this moment and everything it brings is completely new.

Be an ordinary person and not an expert, let go of the attempt to be more pure or more
spiritual or clairvoyant. Just accept the way you feel, the way in which
He will have feelings that he will not feel comfortable with; he must allow those feelings.
Do not try to get rid of imperfections or they will become your enemies. No
try to focus on your breathing or on a mantra, using it to improve, otherwise
allow the breathing to be as it is, and if a mantra is present in your mind,
Let it be there and just feel what it is to be in its presence.
Allow all your sensations and then start to equalize your awareness of them.
Acknowledge that they are all happening at once. Don't focus on any of them. Don't fight.
to divide them into good and bad. Transcend good and evil at the same time.
Transcend hope and fear, pleasure and pain, and let your attitude be very
simple. This is a natural process; just be with the material that this moment gives you.
offers.

Once you feel stable in your equitable consciousness, aware of all your
sensations but without concentrating on any, I lightly touched the arm of her.
partner. Don't worry about the technique. The simplest is the best. Notice how when
touching his partner, there are new sensations, some arise in relation to him or
her, but do not focus on them either. Just let them be. If you try
understanding or classifying them will give them energy. Be aware of your
presence, allow them, and make your awareness equitable for all,
recognizing that they are also happening at this moment, along with others
sensations. Perceive yourself, in this time and place, just as you are. It's not that
you are feeling your partner, just that you feel everything that is in you. Allow.
Resist the temptation to try to understand your partner.

Allow everything that happens. Allow your racing mind, or your feeling of
fatigue. Allow your worry or your anger, or your discomfort. It doesn't matter what appears,
Allow it equally with all the other experiences of this moment.
Above all, don't concentrate on anything, no matter how intense it may be. Keep going.
so for a few more minutes, or until I have the feeling of integrity. Perhaps
he had some sensations that were very intense compared to others,
but after a moment, they became less intense. That could be a good moment
to complete the treatment, but do not strive for that particular experience. If
It's fine, that's great; if not, that's okay too. When this or any session finishes
Practice, take note of how you and your partner felt. Which
it seems to be the effect of your healing. You don't need to seek a particular effect, just only
objectively recognize what has happened.

What is being done with the PRESENCE is studying consciousness and applying it in a
healing act. With this exercise, he has already started his real healing practice. I suggest that
Don't worry about the effects of what you are doing. Just practice with it.
Sensory Process as much as possible. To summarize the sensory process until
now: First get in tune and open the sensory space allowing all of its
sensations. Then it balances, recognizing that all sensations occur in
this moment and releasing any concentration. Then he touches his partner and
it allows for all the new sensations, along with all those that had already appeared, and
balances again to stabilize in the sensory process.

Touch

You are not alone. At your work, there is always someone, a patient. Be a witness to yourself.
in their relationship with him, feeling everything that is felt in the moments they share.
That person is the 'event' and you are just experiencing the event in your
sensations, in you. This event is not something for which one could have prepared, it is not
nothing I could have waited for. Each client is the rarest of events, the most
singular, the most unique, different from all the events that it has experienced or will experience again. Not
there is no compass that can guide you through the landscape of this event; only your attempt to
healing can guide you this time.

He doesn't know anything about his client, their event, only about the effect it has on you. That's it.
everything it can truly know, and everything it will be able to work with, so that
knowledge, these sensations are the most precious. Each sensation, and it exists
apparently an infinite amount of sensations is equally appreciated. You are
full of endless waves of sensations, and sensations among sensations.
Relating to your event, this client is like diving into an endless ocean of
experiencia, un océano de un millón de olas de experiencia, mil millones de pequeñas
waves of reality, a trillion softly shining droplets of sensation, an infinity
from the ocean, wave after wave, breaking on the shore of his consciousness, a specter
interminable sensations, that keep him in his ecstasy.

Approach an event like this with caution, lest the perfection of the event be affected.
disturbed by the ideas that you have. Ask your client to lie down on a mat.
feel comfortable and sit next to him. Sit close, but without touching him, and take your time.
I need to prepare to enter the sensory space, this space of sensation.
endless and pure experience. Touch it lightly on their arm and the person
it will become your event, and now you will have the privilege of getting to know yourself in
relationship with the person. If they sit close, they won't have to lean in and will feel more
comfortable.

There is no meaning in this movement of touching his arm, but it is important

comprenderlo bien. Usted no está tratando de darle algo con este contacto, no está
trying to communicate feeling or attention, nor to obtain anything. Just wishes
to be in a relationship with that person, and this simple gesture indicates to the person and to you that
they are in a relationship. This could be established in other ways, they could hold your hand or
looking at her from the other side of the room, but touching her arm feels natural and it is not
too magical, not as if it were about to perform a miracle, healing the
distant person. It is a normal and neutral act. The person expects something like this and could
to be surprised by something more or less.

Al tocarlo, el paciente se convierte en su evento, la persona con quien usted elige

work this time. It needs to be the right contact, neutral, devoid of meaning,
something with which the person can relax. Their way of touching it is respectful towards the
sensations that you are about to experience, and for that reason it is nothing in itself. Take your
arm as if holding a little bird. Do not ask for anything with this touch. It is just a
fragment of a larger process that establishes your place in a field
of sensitivity. It is a small part of how you relate to this event.

This touch is a small, unimportant part of an entire process, but I acknowledge

that I love despite that. It is a beginning and I cherish it. Use this contact as
tool, the tool of a beginner. It is the way you individualize
to the customer as its event. Later on, perhaps it will no longer be needed; it will simply be able to
open the space, even if I continue using contact out of habit, or for the sake of the
appearance. The sensory process is a vehicle, a way to reach PRESENCE.
where healing occurs. This contact is a part of that, nothing more, nothing less, just
a touch.
To know

How do we know something? What process leads us to know that we enjoy being with a certain friend?
What makes it cold? There is actually only one way. Everything is known through the
senses. Surely you know the taste or sensation of a plate of pasta, through
in this sensory way. Or when someone calls him, the phone rings and he experiences a
particular sensation. His rational mind may tell him that he is hearing the doorbell with
your ears, but that is just part of the case, and it definitely is not what you experience
with the bell. If you were asleep when the phone rang, you will live some
experience. If you were waiting for any news about a sick relative of
gravity, will experience another experience. If he was surprised by the bell or was far from the
phone and barely heard it, different experiences will arise. But in any
In this case, the experience will not necessarily occur in their ears. It will be lived as a set.
of sensations in some part of their body.

These are the sensations, these feelings, what you know and no more.

Perhaps a bit of study about your own experience is needed before you are.
agree with this. Imagine you are in each of these different situations.
How would it feel if I had been next to the phone or far from it when it rang, if
I would have been waiting for a call from a loved one, or some news from someone.
sick? In each case, the bell would have been a different experience, and if you put
Pay close attention, you will see that the experiences are different in that they are the result
of different sensations in their body.

Our entire universe, the universe we actually live in, is a universe of

feelings. What we know is what we feel. We live our feelings and
they alone are what we know. Everything else is based on that knowledge. The
conclusions of the rational mind, those of the intuitive mind, the assumptions of what
it could happen later, the emotional reactions to an event; all of this is not
It knows, but it derives from what is known: our sensations, our real experience. If
you would whisper in my ear that you love me, I would have feelings, and it's not easy to predict what
Those will be those sensations. I am talking about initial sensations that could encompass
vibrations behind my kneecap and a peculiar tension in the space between the shoulder blades.
These sensations are what I can know. So perhaps I will react to these.
sensations. Perhaps I will draw some conclusions about their mental state or have
thoughts about the future of our relationship. It could be that my thoughts lead me
they will lead to other sensations, like a warm feeling in the region of my heart, or
a contraction in the pit of the stomach. These last sensations are also
"known," in the sense we are using that word, but in terms of the state
mental, I can't know it directly, I can only infer it from my feelings.

This may or may not be an advantage in everyday life. If you are very neutral, the
the conclusions I drew may be well founded. Your intuition will be accurate. Your
actions, based on these conclusions, will be appropriate. But if you are within
a mental framework of emotions, whether positive or negative, your emotions will color
their conclusions and then their words or actions may generate undesirable effects.
The primary purpose of meditation is the development of a neutral mind, which is
open to experience as it is, a mind that does not shade the experience with tint
of the ego or of the preservation of the self.
In our healing practice, we aim to achieve absolute neutrality and the
stability in the healing space. That means it doesn't matter what our
experience, nor how pleasant or unpleasant our sensations are, not
we will focus our attention on no sensation nor on any set of
sensations. In other words, no matter how we feel, we will remain neutral and
we will only feel. This is what Richard had to do to heal, and this is the space
sensory one we've been talking about: the space where everything is allowed in form
equitable and where we will simply acknowledge what we feel. With time and practice
by using this sensory process, you may also feel a moment of transcendence,
a moment when I know something more than sensations. It is when we enter Space
Sacred, when it turns out that we know consciousness in the event with which we
we relate.

Of course, it can also be "known" that six plus eleven equals seventeen and that this
The device in front of me is a computer and it is 1:16 p.m. I know my name, where.
I am, and how to put a button. I know what I did yesterday and I think I know something about what I will do.
tomorrow. But, about the world around me, just as it is happening right now,
I can only directly know what I feel. Everything else is known in a way.
secondary, evoking memory, or predicting, but it is not known directly.

Through careful study, you will see that other forms of knowledge also...
based on the feeling. If you call yourself Alice and someone says Marta, you will experience certain
sensations. They will be different from those that the person would have if they knew their name. That is a
part of how you know one statement is true and another is false. You
He knows his feelings in relation to the 'event' of the false affirmation. But he does not know.
nothing about the person's intention or how they feel. Any conclusion I draw
it is based on emotion, previous experience, or logical inference; but, certainly
these are not based on direct experience with the internal state of the other.

Continue investigating this. What do you actually know at this moment? How do you know that
Are you sitting or traveling on the subway? Knowing your age is another kind of
knowledge? In the PRESENT we are not so concerned about whether you know your age or
the name of your client. Rather, we will make sure that you know their
sensations. It is on this direct knowledge that the sensory process is based.

In the sense in which we are using the word 'know,' it has a very specific meaning.
I need. In everyday speech we can use the word differently, but here
we use it only to refer to that of which we can be absolutely sure
in this fraction of a second. When the word is used this way, you will see that you
sólo puede saber lo que siente. Seremos muy dogmáticos a ese respecto. De hecho, el
The First Dogma of PRESENCE is...

to feel

Something more to understand, another precise concept that will help you open the sensory space.
from the PRESENCE and ultimately, it will help you live your life, is that you cannot
to feel his patient (his 'event'), one can only feel oneself in relation to the other.
This is very important. If you do not understand this, it will lead you to great confusion. Upon
at first a student would say that they feel "a problem in the patient's heart" or
that your patient "is tense in the lower part of the spine." But how can the
student to know that? Perhaps you think it is possible to know something about someone else,
but if you study this idea closely you will see that this is not the case. When a mother
she places her lips on her baby's forehead and says that he has a fever, what she really says is
which concludes that her baby has a fever because her lips felt warm to the touch.
in front of her baby. What she knows is the heat on her lips, not the baby's fever.

As I write all of this, I am sitting in front of a bay on a foggy morning. To the

Far away, on the other side of the small island where we camped, I hear the song of a bird.
In the east, a tempered sun barely begins to burn through the fog. A rises.
light breeze and I start thinking about a day to sail. Everything I see and
I listen to my surroundings, I experience it initially as sensations. I feel the breeze on my skin.
and then I think of my boat. I know the sun not as a ball of fire 93 million
from miles away, but as warmth on my face, a light and pleasant pain in my
sigh, and a deep and vague throbbing in the right side of my chest. When the
the bird sings, I know it first as a certain feeling of uplift all over my
left side. They are my experience. 'Sun' and 'bird' and 'breeze' are given names
in my experience, conceptions of it that do not come close at all to the richness of the
the same experience. Feelings are what I know; everything else is
interpretation, or reaction, or naming my experience. When I stay with my
feelings and I let go of interpretations, names, and reactions, my experience
it's much more intense. Just by being present I know this moment in my
sensations, and the silent happiness of being in the presence of the infinite is mine. This is the
the way I choose to live. The same is true for any relationship. A student
from the PRESENCE you may feel something that you interpret as the meaning of the client
he has a problem in his heart, but it is the feeling and not the interpretation that matters
important at this stage. If it is someone with a lot of experience, their interpretation could
ser la correcta, pero al principio es mejor no buscar ni depender de las interpretaciones
of sensations. For now, just feel what you feel, acknowledge it as your
feel it, and let it go.

Can you feel the fire? Can you feel the earth? No. What you feel is the heat, or the
gravity's attraction on its structure. It also cannot see this sheet. What
What you can feel in relation to this sheet is the way it is affected by the light that is reflected.
in it. When you understand this difference, on one hand, it will free you from the annoying
the task of trying to know what one does not know and, on the other hand, will return to him the joy of knowing what it is
what one can know: one's own experience.

It is true that over time you will develop the skill to diagnose if you continue.
working with PRESENCE. This is nothing surprising, nor does it contradict what
I just mentioned. In fact, you already make "diagnoses" in your daily life.
A mother, based on her feelings, accurately diagnoses her baby's fever. If
the face of her friend looks distressed and her posture is awkward, her feelings in
relationship with her, they will tell you, based on their experience, that she is sad. You have a lot of
experience because he has lived in the company of many people with different moods, and
without a doubt can make the diagnosis of sadness.

But for our purposes, it is important to recognize that you do not know that you are sad,
can only know how she feels in relation to her friend. It is only her experience that
he tells her that she is probably sad. In everyday life, that is enough, but it is not
suitable in the PRESENT, and it is not suitable if we expect to know peace and joy
at every moment. In our healing work, we are not collecting data, so
the moment never arrives when we can say that we have gathered enough
information and that we can thereby draw a conclusion. We are avoiding the trap
to think that we know, when in fact we are only conjecturing.

In almost all other forms of healing, the diagnosis is based on experience.

but the interpretation of the information. But in the PRESENCE we cannot do it
like this. If we diagnose like this, if we insist that we know what is happening to the client,
we will, at the moment of drawing our conclusion, be less aware and
less sensitive to additional feelings. Similarly, at the moment
in which I named that song "bird", I experienced the sound in a less
I completed and lost some of the ecstasy of the pure experience. This should continue as long as
let's be in a relationship.

Recognize that you do not know the event (your patient, or your problem). What you know
it's what he feels in relation to his event, and that's all. So we already have another rule,
When learning to work with the sensory space, the second Dogma of PRESENCE
You do not live the experience of an event, you feel its sensations in relation.
with him.

Inclusion

Since the consciousness that encompasses everything lies in the heart of the PRESENCE, thus
as in the heart of a joyful life, it is necessary to ask: What is it really
What do we include? Imagine in relation to your client, sensorily aware of
all the feelings in you, when suddenly the knee that recently
it starts to hurt or you think of your deceased mother and feel a
heaviness in his heart. What does he do with those feelings? Perhaps they seem like distractions
impertinent in the task being performed, something that must be ignored so that it can
to be fully aware of the sensations in relation to your client. But
consider the implications of a conclusion like that. If you consider
impertinent to the pain in her knee, she will have to set herself aside, in a way expelled
of his consciousness. How can he do that? How can he stop feeling? Will it be necessary
to erect a border line, a kind of wall right in the middle of consciousness with the
pertinent feelings on one side and impertinent ones on the other. Or it can also
try to suppress the feeling by swallowing it, putting it out of sight. Then
It will need to have a box, rather than a wall, a place to hide what you do not want.

The problem with these strategies is that they have no end. If the knee pain is not
relevant, what happens with the feeling of the air that moves across the skin of your hand?
Should it be included or not? What about the contraction of a muscle contracting between
his ribs, or the contraction of his stomach? How will he know, how will he make such a judgment?
How can one withdraw and witness their sensations, choosing to include some and exclude others?
others?

Even if you are able to make these distinctions, what would be the price? What
What should I do to exclude certain sensations and include others? It requires a lot of
amount of energy and powerful defenses to maintain those boxes and those borders, like this
we simply don't even try. In the PRESENCE we say that we cannot
do not discriminate anything that appears in the relationship. If a plane passes while you are in
relationship with someone, the airplane (or more precisely the feelings that arise in you)
in relation to the sound of the plane) is fully included. If you have pain of
head for three days before his client arrives for treatment, cannot
to say: 'the headache has nothing to do with the patient'. If it appears in the
relationship, is included. No sensation is segregated, nor is it favored. If
there is a thought, there are sensations of having had that thought and that
sensations are also included.

Isn't this also a way of living? When the sun rises through the fog.
The morning is refreshing with a breeze, my daughter starts to burst into our camp.
Are those sounds a disturbance? Should I ask him to be quiet so I can enjoy?
The morning? Or do I include its sounds in my experience? And what about the mosquitoes?
Perhaps I crush them preferring that they do not bite me, but I enter in peace only until
I allow the noise of my daughter and the buzzing of the mosquitoes in their designated place in me.
consciousness. Regarding fighting against its presence or trying to exclude it, I will live
the experience of something different from peace; perhaps frustration or even anger. Our habit
is about excluding the undesirable and seeking more of the pleasurable. In principle, this
It may seem quite reasonable in everyday matters, but in any case
it is limiting. By doing so, we close off a part of ourselves and know less about the
richness of life.

In the PRESENT as in the rest of life, our attitude can be inclusive.

We can approach our patient, our event, completely free of
trials, wishing to be present with everything that is placed before us. Thus the third
The dogma of PRESENCE is: Everything that appears in the relationship is included in the
relationship.

Intention

So far, these dogmas are quite logical. They can represent new ways of
to think about our experience, but in fact they make sense and must be
sufficiently easy to accept. The next element is a bit different. Now
necesitamos reconocer algo que está más ajeno a nuestra experiencia cotidiana, aunque
soon it will seem quite clear.

When you are stable in the Sacred Space or the sensory space of the
PRESENCE when, that is, you allow all your sensations and do not concentrate on
none, any intention that occurs in your consciousness will affect your event. In the
PRESENCE, we always have the intention to heal. That is basic and unchangeable.
We always hold that intention and, because we do so, an effect occurs.
healing in the client. There may be additional, secondary intentions, such as the
intention to strengthen the immune system or to release tension. If already, being
stable in your space, you introduce the intention that your patient will relax, there will be
a relaxing effect on the patient as a consequence of that intention. Having those
intentions in our consciousness affect our patients.

Why? Why can simple intention have an effect on your event? Remember
que no estamos haciendo alguna especie de trabajo de energía ni dirigiendo una fuerza
of a certain class. In reality, we are not using any tools at all. It is not
how to have the intention of driving a nail, which we perform through the action of
lift a hammer and hit the head of the nail. Other healing methods are
seem more like driving a nail, where intention translates into action. The
action can be as subtle as the movement of psychic energy or as physical as
the chiropractic adjustment. But in the PRESENCE we are working only with the
awareness, and you might well ask: How can awareness generate a
Effect? The answer lies in the nature of the particular consciousness of the
PRESENCE. When we enter the healing space, our consciousness escapes from its
usual prison. Our point of view collapses along with the false sense of having
a center around which everything revolves. Then we live existence without false barriers
accustomed between being and the other. Without borders, consciousness is where it wants to be.
Without borders, consciousness affects everything it relates to. Without borders, the
consciousness penetrates everything for which it individualizes.

In the PRESENCE there is no egocentric point of view, nor a sense that the healer
Here I worked with the patient over there. You can even take a step beyond the meaning of
a 'you' that has feelings. Feelings are important, but you recognize that
they have a place in the middle of nowhere, in space. It's as if all the
sensations that arise not within you, but in a space. As a healer, you
is developing its relationship with that space. In the space where it is one with the
sensations. There is no suspension of feeling, nor do you allow yourself to be carried away by your
feelings. The way we work with sensations is by allowing them,
relating to its basic quality, its mere 'being', without contaminating our
sensations with concepts about relationships. We achieve this only when the meaning
the "I" is out of the scene, and we can strip ourselves of our point of view
personal.

This point of view could have different qualities at each moment. At times it is
the sense of spatial distance; I am here and you are there. At other times, the
Point of view is more of a visualization of how the other looks through our eyes.
And other times it is even more subtle: the sense of a difference or a distinction between
you and your event. In our work, we do not try to 'deal' with sensations to
to solve them or process them in some way. Rather, we just want to know them as they are.
how they are, without any resistance to living them and without magnifying them. With this, we let go of the
point of view. When we manage to accomplish this very simple task, something wonderful happens;
the confusion of thoughts, emotions, and feelings about our sensations is
it transforms into a direct knowledge of our sensations. The consequence is
profound. Without a point of view, there is no separation, there is no distinction between the event and
the consciousness of the event. His consciousness and the consciousness of the event merge. Each one
affects the other. Without the point of view, there is no reason not to be able to modify its event
as easily as he would modify his own personal conscience.

If you were in a quiet and meditative space and introduced the intention of
to further release tension or to be more aware of the need that your partner has to
affection, their intention would affect them, manifesting in their body as relaxation or in their
awareness as sensitivity to the needs of your partner. The "movements" of
intention in their consciousness would lead them to specific effects. In the same way in
the PRESENCE the intention to heal leads to an effect in your event. Letting go of your point of
view, allows this to happen. Leads to the immersion of consciousness in the experience,
or the elimination of the difference or distance between the event and the healer, and this in turn
create the space where consciousness can modify existence. The Fourth Dogma
from the PRESENCE that requires taking a step outside the confines of our
The accustomed point of view of reality is: Any intention that you place within
the relationship will be affected in some way.

These thoughts are the foundation of our work in PRESENCE. The space
sensory, that these dogmas help define is our way of working at the beginning.
It is a process designed to give us a transcendental awareness where our
attempt can affect the other. It is the vehicle we use to proclaim that
any condition that occurs in our experience is subject to be worked on, that
nothing needs to be rejected. The same principles apply to living a life in peace. For
achieve our healing goal, we allow everything that happens in our mental state
the corporal, as we maintain our intention to heal.

Beyond dogmas.

Before proceeding, there is one more dogma that you need to know. Later it will be the most
The most important of all. The Fifth Dogma of PRESENCE is: There is no dogma.

As you can see, almost everything we've said so far, and much of what follows, is not
more than a method, a process, that we use to head towards a particular state
of consciousness known as Sacred Space. Once that space is known,
through the practice within the lineage of the PRESENCE, the way we have
arriving there will prove to be an obstacle; just another concept in the way
for an even deeper understanding. The process will have to be left behind, just as
a boat is left on the beach after using it to cross a river. The subsequent progress
surely it would be limited if the boat that was once useful were carried on shoulders
while we continue our journey. In time we will need to leave behind the
dogmas (including the fifth!) after they have taken us as far as possible
possible. Once on the next shore, once we have entered the Sacred Space,
nuestros conceptos dejarán de ayudarnos, y su uso posterior sólo será un obstáculo. En
the moment we begin to have a transcendent direct relationship with the patient,
this system of ours will make no sense. We are using the sensory process only to
that you learn to have that direct relationship. But this overwhelms us. For now,
we need to live certain experiences, and we will use our dogmas and the process
sensory in order to obtain them. Later on, part of what has been learned will be left behind,
it will be a vehicle that will no longer serve.

To be empty

Normally, in everyday consciousness, we have few opportunities to explore the

sacred space of the PRESENCE, or any other sacred space in that regard, and
therefore we have few opportunities to be transcendent. One reason is simply
that we are almost always focusing on one thing or another. When we
we concentrate, awareness decreases and we are aware of the object we are on
let's focus. A moment later we could be completely concentrated on
something more, but still being concentrated, aware of only one thing at a time, outside
of all the infinite possibilities. This is an inherently unstable condition, this
movement of the mind from one thing to another in a series of separated moments and
different concentrations. There is little flow and the concentration objects are hardly
they relate to each other. The mind is fragmented and its power dissipates.
Another reason why we rarely enter the Sacred Space is that our inner being
it is blocked. We are filled to the brim with all kinds of concept, notion, and name
imaginable for our experience, so much so that we are not aware that what in
We feel reality. We are so busy classifying and naming our experience.
that we really never know what we are experiencing. I could see a
a person entering their office and in the middle of a second you would be evaluating them and
classifying it according to their age, their sex, their race, their economic class, their
intention, the possible risk that it means for you, your health condition and a thousand things
more. What it does is put simple names or labels on complex experiences.
With this, you lose awareness of your sensations, of your real experience. Or perhaps, to
walk, perhaps stop to look at a display window. Inside, a beautiful sculpture catches his attention.
attention. In your mind, there is a moment of astonishment, but almost immediately you
starts to label their experience: 'I like it'. Or interprets their
experience: "That is the statue of a young dancer." Or her mind wanders elsewhere
address and visualize the statue in your house or imagine how much it will cost. In your consciousness
crowded there is hardly space for the feelings of wonder of your relationship with
the sculpture, and its experience, in which everything is labeled or judged or
compared to the past experience where almost nothing is fully lived, in the
present, it is not the way to live, nor is it the appropriate way to heal.

In contrast, if you release your concentration, judgments, and tendency to impose

names, their mind can be neutral and quiet: a state of delight in reality. It is not the
Silence is what matters; it is the experience we can have within that silence.
Where there is silence, there is the possibility to live the experience deeply and
to relate to our event in the Sacred Space. And it is in the Sacred Space
where can we modify our event. There are thousands with their minds and silence but
that does not make them healers. They are certainly happier without conditions or
judgments or any mental noise, but do not necessarily generate a consciousness.
transcendent. What is needed is to 'deconcentrate' the mind and erase at least
some of their conditions. That is the combination that will open the door to healing.

When you stay in the sensory space and do not move, the relationships with the
spaces intensify. The space itself becomes more intense. You will feel this
As you practice. It will stabilize your space and start to expand your space.
allowing more and more, and will feel as if the relationship with their client is deeper.
Reduce the sense of differentiation in the relationship and you and your client start to
to feel very integrated. This is the beginning of a sacred relationship.

Recently, I treated Carla, who was experiencing great emotional pain. She had started
telling me how idyllic her childhood had been, how much she had learned from her parents,
how wonderful it had been for his father to die while singing a hymn
religious. This was his myth. His voice was loud, too loud, and his gestures
they seemed forced as if they were trying to look energetic, but in reality
She was very tired. In the ten years following her father's death, she had lived the
as far away from his family as possible without actually leaving the country and had now returned to
try to take care of her mother, who was killing herself with alcohol.
When she was with her, her mother would pick and scratch her arms nervously.
until bleeding. Among other things, Carla began to remember her childhood memories,
when he had to wait in the car while his father met with his lover.
When I started to treat Carla with PRESENCE, the first moments were
smooth, as its superficial history had been. As soon as I identified in
particular aspects of your condition, everything became very intense. I felt my arm
drowsy and having a headache, as well as other sensations without a specific name. It was
as if I were feeling their pain. I kept the space stable and distributed
equally my awareness of sensations, without focusing on any of them
and releasing the ideas about my experience. I opened my space to more and more sensations, and
while I was doing it, there was a reduction in the pain I felt, even as if the sense of
the distance between us will decrease. I introduced intentions, to balance the
water element (so that their emotions would flow) and to balance the earth element
(so that he could feel the security of it), and as he did all of this, there was an intensity
renewed (see chapter "the elements"). The intention is a direction for a
relationship, a turn within space. It is nothing in reality, just a movement of the
a thought, a quiet word for oneself. The intention is nothing more than a gentle
current in a wide sea. But intention will intensify the relationship.

Allowing everything I felt and opening up even more produced a new flow of energy.
where there had previously been resistance. After some time, I was able to do
some movements (the feeling of this is like changing one's mind
same) and there was a feeling of wholeness.

A minute later, when Carla sat down, she looked visibly changed. She was
calm, her face was relaxed and her voice was soft and full of peace. Her breathing was
slower and deeper, and she talked about the need to be closer to her
real feelings. I hadn't done anything to Carla. Everything I did, I did it inside and
with my own consciousness. I recognized my sensations and kept my awareness of them.
I maintained it and allowed everything that appeared, and I made some movements in the space of
relationship. Working this way from space reduced his pain.

To heal, we need to be empty of concentration and judgments, and we need to

remain stable in this state. This is what our sensory process does for
us. This process was created so that we can help others heal. Our
The purpose of using that space is that in it our ability to serve increases in a way
Incredible. The essence of our simple task is to reduce the urge to control our
experience.

Although consciousness is potentially limitless, in everyday life it is severely

limited by the confines of our own consciousness and the desire to control. I just
to see a woman walking in front of my house. She is exercising, walking fast.
But this woman carries the tension in her hips and her chest, and that leads her to walk in
funny way, with the toes pointing outward and his head towards
down. This limits your walk. Awareness is the same. The places where we contain
our conditions, beliefs, desires, and fears are like the physical containers of
tension in the hip and chest of this woman, and limit awareness just like the
the woman's tension limits her walk.
THE SACRED SPACE

The spaces of PRESENCE are not the same as the space in the drawer of my desk,
to the empty spaces on my computer screen. They are not spaces on the same
sense in which a space of two or three dimensions is an area. A gym is a
space where we can perhaps play basketball, the empty space of a blackboard is
where perhaps we write an equation. There may also be space in my schedule,
a place defined by the dimensions of time, perhaps lasting an hour, a
space where we can meet and go for a walk. Some spaces are defined so much
through space as through time; we will meet for an hour in my office or
I will kayak along the coast of Maine for a month.

But there are also spaces in consciousness; a counselor with great capacity will make a
side all her other concerns when her patient is with her. During the
time spent together, will focus on their client. An artist can lose, during a
time, all the awareness of everything else outside of his painting, or a lover can
to focus entirely on your loved one with nothing else in that particular space of
awareness. This kind of space is not defined by time or space, but by the
attention.

We exist in spaces with specific boundaries of consciousness and these boundaries change.
constantly. It doesn't matter if we are locked in a solitary place, or if we go
suspended planning high above a beautiful landscape without borders, the shape of
the space of our consciousness is determined by what we do with our
consciousness. The exciting part of this is that we always have the capacity to
choose all the dimensions of our space.

An example of how we can intentionally create a space in awareness is to consider

my writing space, that space where I am now. I have a good
idea of what the best space for writing is. It is a physical place (my office, this chair,
in front of this computer); it is a time when everything will be reasonably quiet
around the house; in a state of mental concentration that is somewhat moderate
for timely fantasy flights but essentially limited to the subject at hand. More
Significantly, I know how to create or open this space. I have learned through trial.
and error how to enter this space and how to remain stable in it, and I am good at
this. For example: I don't need to give in to all the impulses to call a friend, but in
Sometimes I get up to prepare a cup of tea. I have learned to maintain a space.
very particular, for a very particular purpose, and when I have done so, the writing is
Yes. It is not what I write but that I enter a space where writing occurs.

The same happens with the sensory space or the Sacred Space of the PRESENCE. No
they are in themselves healers but they are the spaces where healing takes place. To
just as my writing space creates the conditions in which writing occurs, the
The spaces of PRESENCE are a deliberate creation of favorable conditions.
for our attempt to heal.

While it is relatively simple to describe spaces that have physical dimensions and that
They exist in the past, present, or future; it is a more intimidating task to describe them.
dimensions of sacred spaces. They have certain dimensions of which we can
to talk, but we will discover that in many of its dimensions,
we can only talk about what spaces are not. When writing about sacred space
Regarding PRESENCE, the best I can do is point in the right direction.
like an archer focusing on his target hidden behind an opaque veil. I can shoot
the arrow in the right direction but the arrow must leave the bow, follow a trajectory
curve through the space between the goalkeeper and the target and penetrate the veil by itself.
You will never 'know' the white until you reach it. There is simply no way to
to improve in that sense, there is no way for the arrow of your consciousness to know the
blank without having lived the experience for itself. Continuing from here in this
an ultimately inaccessible attempt to define the Sacred Space of the PRESENCE,
we need to talk much more about what space is not, than about what it is.
this way, we will use our limited language to try to aim beyond the
language. We will direct our arrow towards a target that is hidden on the other side of a
eschatological veil, a white that will remain forever indescribable.

Fortunately, our goal is healing, not talking, so in this difficulty

Ultimately, language becomes trivial. Language is always symbolic,
always deals with concepts. A poet always uses language to point to a
concrete experience beyond words. We need to do the same. We seek
an experience beyond form, and we will use language and our senses to
go beyond language and sensation, towards a space where reality and the
experience is one. This sacred space will be discovered as a space of
transcendence, a place without any of the interpretations of reality that our
The rational mind often confuses itself with the experience of reality itself.

This Sacred Space of ours is always there and has always been. It has its own
existence. The ability to access the Sacred Space is preserved in the lineage that it
remains intact. Space is an emanation of God, a source of miracles of
healing, a space where all our rules are broken except for the rule of
the intention. In this magical space, intention creates the effect.

The Sacred Space is the particular way in which God manifests in those who practice.
the PRESENCE.

One of the few approaches that can be formulated about Sacred Space is
that one of its parameters is the attempt to heal. But immediately after doing
This approach is necessary to remember what healing is and what it is not.
Healing is not a change that occurs in a body as a result of the application of
an external force. This is what we have called healing or the attempt to heal. Perhaps the
more precise synonyms for healing, as we use the word, are 'peace' and
balance, and our aim is to help restore these states. In doing so we will be able to
see that the body and the mind are capable of freeing themselves from the
disease.

The balance experienced by someone who is physically deteriorating and is on the threshold of
death will be very different from the balance of one who has serious injuries but does not
they threaten your life, or of someone who is devastated by the loss of a loved one. In all
In some cases, the balance could encompass 'entering in peace', but this would have implications.
different for each person involved. The balance for the injured patient may
contain a proper will to counteract the effects of injuries and their
psychological implications, but the balance for the person who is dying must be
primarily a matter of confronting and finally letting go of fears. Whoever has
those who have suffered a loss will find balance in a different way, as they allow it to
let the pain flow in its natural course, unleashed by cultural demands and
relatives of recovering quickly from the process. However, in all cases the
Healing is the release of the conditions that kept the patient in patterns or
harmful trends.

The healing spaces of PRESENCE do not encompass the application of force. No

there is no scalpel, no chiropractic adjustment, no chemical energy from a plant
or some medication. There is also no energy control or an attempt to align the being.
del cliente con la voluntad de Dios. El Espacio Sagrado es un espacio sin esfuerzo, sin
will and without desires of any kind. It is a space to know what it is, as it is,
at this moment, with the attempt (not the desire, but the mere attempt) to heal. But this
attempt is extremely important and we need to maintain it constantly when
we practice PRESENCE.

The Sacred Space is characterized, or limited, by simultaneous awareness and

balanced of all the sensations that appear. The Sacred Space is not a space
limited by concentration. It may be the most important characteristic of
all those that define this space. No experience or feeling is contained in the
consciousness in function of the exclusion of other experiences or sensations. All the
sensations receive the same degree of attention and we are the same and fully
aware of every sensation, no matter how intense or weak it may be. Everything is
inclusive and everything is allowed equally.

And, sliding immediately towards what Space is not, it is not a space of

discrimination, judgment or preference for one feeling over another.

Another parameter of the Sacred Space is that it has no point of view. Again
we talk about what space is not. In normal consciousness, we maintain a point of
view. I have this experience. I look at that. That sound comes from over there. There is always
a belief that I am at the center of my experience and that all events with
Those I relate to are located peripherally. Even the sensation of the
itch on my forehead in some way is separated and apart from the one who feels it
itch. We live in a universe dominated by the subject and the object. I am here, you
you are over there, and they are in the next room. I exist within borders.
narrowly imagined, with the rest of the cosmos outside of them.

As humans, although we are a part of the whole that we call the universe, we
we perceive ourselves as separate from everything else by barriers of time and space.
We think of ourselves as individuals, in a way separate from others, and this
illusory separation tends to limit us to attending to our personal desires, seeking
our own preferences and avoiding what we fear or what we dislike. We
we limit ourselves to a few situations that please us and a few people with
Those of us who feel good. Our spiritual task is to free ourselves from these restrictions.
self-imposed and having the willingness to embrace the whole of our experience: to put an end to
the subject-object barrier, to penetrate the illusory divisions we impose on the universe, and
reorganize to see that the subject and the object are one. These boundaries of being
Individuals experience themselves essentially as a sense of distance between the observer and the
rest of reality. The itch on my forehead feels there, in opposition to here, where
It seems to be my consciousness. However, the fact is that it is the forehead that lives the
itching, no 'I', and there is no distance at all between the event and the experience. And if I throw
a glance at the night sky and I marvel at the billions of stars that
In it, we see the experience of those points of light supposedly millions of light years away.
of distance, it is not in the distant corners of the universe, but here in the heartbeat of
a feeling in my chest and in the acceleration of my breath.

Entering the Sacred Space of the PRESENCE requires letting go of our belief about
we as separate subjects from the objects of our experience. Our brain
it works to ensure our survival; that is its job, the imperative
transmitted during eras of evolution. To do its work, the brain receives, stores
and manipulates information in such a way that consciousness conforms as a sense
of being continuously occupied with their own survival. This happens in such a way that
inseparable that we never even suspected the possibility of transcending that consciousness.
But transcendence is precisely what the essence of healing requires.
Sacred Space has no room for separation, for point of view.

In everyday thought, the sense of being would lead us to believe that whoever is aware is
separated from the sensations of which it is aware. In PRESENCE, consciousness
and the feeling, the reality and the experience of it, are one. This leads to
breaking of the illusion of distance, of 'space' in the way that
Traditionally, the word is used. If I am here and the star I look at up high is
over there, then there is a feeling of space between the two. But if I am here and my
the sensation in relation to the star is also here, within this consciousness,
then space or distance seems to have disappeared. In the same way, the
sensation of itching on my forehead and the perception of that itch also occurs
in the same place.

If you hear a sound that is inside your body, you experience a sensation. It's more
easy to see if you can remember a moment when you were startled by a
loud noise. The real experience was a "shock" of feelings that went through
her body. She didn't think: "Oh, a door just slammed behind me." That was the
interpretation of the commotion, from his point of view, and that interpretation took a
fragment of a second after the shock itself. The real experience was the
commotion.

It's a little hard to recognize, but it is no less true that all sounds are experienced from
that way. To investigate this phenomenon, simply close your eyes now and calm down.
his mind. Wait for the sounds to arrive, watch carefully how he experiences them. You will notice
that are not "heard" in their ears or in their brain or in some imagined center of their
consciousness, or what is experienced in a certain way in the adjacent room or wherever it may be
that come; rather, they feel like sensations in your body. One more observation
careful will reveal that the same is true for the other senses, such as sight or
the sense of smell. Therefore, the star is known through the sensations in its body that
they occur when you are in relation to the star. There is no awareness of light photons
injuring your retina, nor is there any real experience of the star "out there".

None of these experiences occur in a consciousness that remains fixed in one place,
neither "out there" nor "in here". Consciousness has no location. It has no
point of view, nor a place to settle and observe the rest of the cosmos. It is everywhere.
parts. There is no distance between you and your experience. In the process of PRESENCE
we include all the sensations that may arise, always expanding our
awareness to include everything that may appear. Since everything is included, there is no
limit for the reach of consciousness. In the Sacred Space, consciousness grows to
include it all. There is no feeling of a separate being. There is only consciousness.

The following parameter or boundary of the Sacred Space is that it is a place without names.
Imagine a door slamming behind you. As we have established, not
know that event as a slamming door but rather as a commotion of
sensations in your body. The real experience is indescribable. There are no words that
you could use that they could transmit to me everything you lived through when it was hit
door. If you say there was a commotion I might think I know what you want
to say, but that is only because I have memory of the events in my own
experiences that were also referred to as shocks. There is no language that I
communicate your exact experience. The names we give to our experience do not
is our very experience. In the Sacred Space, no sensation has a name;
it simply is.

The Sacred Space is also a place without judgments. This may be the border of
most difficult space to preserve. When I feel a series of sensations in my foot at the
what I call 'pain', my experience of it leads me to a nearly simultaneous conclusion of
What is an experience I wish to avoid? When you have a warm feeling in your
skin sitting under the sun, perhaps in the same way and quickly is attracted to
this feeling. But when examining any of these understandable reactions but
liable, we will notice that they tend to take us away from the Sacred Space. Judgment leads us
to the rejection of a part of ourselves or wishing there were more of another aspect of
our being. There can be no peace with attitudes like that. The love for being and the peace that
it implies that they can only be based on the appreciation and complete acceptance of those who
we are, at this moment, even if there is also an intention for evolution
Personal continues. In the Sacred Space there are no preferences, nor judgments.
that lead to these. In the sensory space, if the judgment and the indeed occur
preference then we can only allow any sensation that may appear in
relationship with them. On the other hand, if we do not judge our experience, if we are able
to remain neutral in relation to the reality of which we have discovered we are a part,
we free ourselves from the great cause of suffering in life: the demand that the
the conditions of our existence are different from how they actually are. If there is no
Judgment leads to a tendency not to exert effort. Allow all sensations equally.
it is the antithesis of trying to improve everything. Please understand that I do not mean to imply with
this is that you must accept everything as it is and you should never strive to improve it
conditions of the world. It is quite the opposite. If you are able to feel the effects of
With your experience, you will know exactly what needs to be done and will not hesitate to do it.
Allowing your feelings and working to improve the conditions are not mutually exclusive.
exclusive.

In the Sacred Space, there are no distractions. Normally, when we are meditating
by concentrating on something we have the concept that on one hand is the goal of
our meditation or concentration and on the other hand, the distractions: everything that affects us
may move away from the happy completion of the task. We find ourselves 'trying to meditate' or
"trying to concentrate." If we prepare to continuously repeat a mantra, in
silence with each breath, and then we realize that our mind wanders
towards thoughts on what else we need to do, or about the discussion we had
with our companion, we will conceive these thoughts as distractions, the
we will reject for not being relevant to our meditation, and then we will try
let's focus again. If a car alarm could be heard while we meditate,
The trend would be for us to focus on her for at least a moment.
We would experience it as another distraction, another interruption of our process of
meditation. But in the Sacred Space of the PRESENCE there are no distractions. Everything
what appears is included in the same way, whether it's a sensation shock in
relationship with a car alarm, a pain in the foot or a pleasurable feeling of
opening in the heart region.

Perhaps at this moment you have already seen the imperfections in everything I have written about the
nature of the Sacred Space. No matter how well I have done my job, still
I continue trying to define something that is beyond definition. The Sacred Space is a
transcendental space. Everything I have called its borders or parameters are
conditions to help you aim at the target, all those conditions must
discard if you ever expect the arrow of your conscience to penetrate the veil
from the unknown and hit the mark of transcendence. But for now, keep going and
Use these clues and the sensory process to open and 'expand' your internal space. Allow
that the conditions that could limit their space, conditions like judging or
strive, simply be discarded. Allow your sensory space to be more and more
more unlimited. Practicing like this, becoming increasingly skilled at opening up or being stable in the
sensory space, is a way to connect with the lineage of the
PRESENCE. As a side effect of your efforts, you will learn more about how
live in wisdom.

One final question: when the Sacred Space is recognized for the first time, perhaps it
find entering the Sacred Space and passing by and into deep meditation,
but that is not PRESENCE. This Space is for healing, not for improving your
meditations. This is a seva, a service for others, and in this way this
Indefinable space is strictly defined.

Expand your internal space.

Take a break to practice. Set aside all those ideas about nature.
of the Sacred Space. Sit up straight and close your eyes. Allow all sensations
let them appear in your consciousness. Take your time and continuously expand your
awareness allowing more and more. Observe any tendency to discriminate between
your feelings, to feel that some are more appropriate, more desirable or more
important than the others. Note any tendency to narrow your space. Free up
any condition like that and simply allow.

Observe any tendency to observe your sensations, to see them from a point of
separated view. Free that tendency by reducing the sense of distance between you and
your sensations. If there is a noise, allow the sensations related to that noise.
If there is a thought, allow the sensations related to that thought.
Release any sense of self that separates you from your experience. There is no distance;
You and your experience are one. Reduce feelings of differentiation.
Compensate even more. Acknowledge that all your feelings are happening at the same time.
time. Release the concentration on one sensation after another, and feel them as
if they were happening at this moment. Release any sense of
sequence.
Accept that there is nothing to do in this space. There is no need to strive. No
it has will, only the mere intention of being stable in its space. If it discovers that
has begun to concentrate, to make an effort, or to feel separate from your
experience, acknowledge the feelings of that and expand to also allow those
feelings.

If you are with a partner, touch them now, and once again allow
all the sensations that appear in your awareness. Expand to allow each time
more. Include everything that appears, without discrimination.

Rebalance. Again release any concentration. Acknowledge the concepts

about your partner: what he is like, where he seems to be in relation to you, the sense of
the distance between you. Acknowledge any feeling of differentiation in your
relationship with the partner. Slowly go through all these trends
until it is finished, until the sensations dissolve.

Continue treating your partner for five or ten more minutes. Do not
just keep steady.

Compensate.

Compensation is a powerful part of our work of PRESENCE. By opening

and stabilize your sensory space, you are already using compensation. You must
to compensate whenever it recognizes the need to sustain its consciousness in a certain way
stable. Remember that concentration creates instability. When you feel that you are
focusing on something or on a series of things, you can come out of that making everything be
equitable. If you lose compensation for your space, your stability will decrease and you
it will reduce the effectiveness of your treatments.

Has a fly ever landed on your face while you were meditating, or has it made a noise?
phone while meditating? There are three ways one can become 'immune' to
these "disturbances". The first is through concentration. If your meditation is
based on the focus of a mantra, its breathing, or any other object of
concentration, could develop your concentration power to the point of noticing a
distraction but in a moment of concentration it would recover. A distraction can
register in a fraction of a second but no more. A small percentage of your
attention could focus on identifying the disturbance ('fly on my face') but its
she would immediately recognize the disturbance as something insignificant and that it does not
it's worth continuing to attend. You would know that you wish the fly wasn't there or
Scaring her with the hand would only increase her disturbance. Those who do not have great
experience in concentrating can create a situation where there is only one
persistent thought, like a mantra, or a single object of attention like the
breathing. Without losing focus on the core of meditation, the person can
quickly evaluate any new stimulus and discard it before it can even
seriously disturb the meditative process.

Another way to remain undisturbed in the face of distraction is through trance.

If you were not aware of the fly on your cheek, you would continue meditating on
Another reason why we rarely enter the Sacred Space is that our inner being
it is blocked. We are filled to the brim with all kinds of concept, notion, and name
imaginable for our experience, so much so that we are not aware that what in
We feel reality. We are so busy classifying and naming our experience.
that we really never know what we are experiencing. I could see a
a person entering their office and in the middle of a second you would be evaluating them and
classifying it according to their age, their sex, their race, their economic class, their
intention, the possible risk that it means for you, your health condition and a thousand things
more. What it does is put simple names or labels on complex experiences.
With this, you lose awareness of your sensations, of your real experience. Or perhaps, to
walk, perhaps stop to look at a display window. Inside, a beautiful sculpture catches his attention.
attention. In your mind, there is a moment of astonishment, but almost immediately you
starts to label their experience: 'I like it'. Or interprets their
experience: "That is the statue of a young dancer." Or her mind wanders elsewhere
address and visualize the statue in your house or imagine how much it will cost. In your consciousness
crowded there is hardly space for the feelings of wonder of your relationship with
the sculpture, and its experience, in which everything is labeled or judged or
compared to the past experience where almost nothing is fully lived, in the
present, it is not the way to live, nor is it the appropriate way to heal.

In contrast, if you release your concentration, judgments, and tendency to impose

names, their mind can be neutral and quiet: a state of delight in reality. It is not the
Silence is what matters; it is the experience we can have within that silence.
Where there is silence, there is the possibility to live the experience deeply and
to relate to our event in the Sacred Space. And it is in the Sacred Space
where can we modify our event. There are thousands with their minds and silence but
that does not make them healers. They are certainly happier without conditions or
judgments or any mental noise, but do not necessarily generate a consciousness.
transcendent. What is needed is to 'deconcentrate' the mind and erase at least
some of their conditions. That is the combination that will open the door to healing.

When you stay in the sensory space and do not move, the relationships with the
spaces intensify. The space itself becomes more intense. You will feel this
As you practice. It will stabilize your space and start to expand your space.
allowing more and more, and will feel as if the relationship with their client is deeper.
Reduce the sense of differentiation in the relationship and you and your client start to
to feel very integrated. This is the beginning of a sacred relationship.

Recently, I treated Carla, who was experiencing great emotional pain. She had started
telling me how idyllic her childhood had been, how much she had learned from her parents,
how wonderful it had been for his father to die while singing a hymn
religious. This was his myth. His voice was loud, too loud, and his gestures
they seemed forced as if they were trying to look energetic, but in reality
She was very tired. In the ten years following her father's death, she had lived the
as far away from his family as possible without actually leaving the country and had now returned to
try to take care of her mother, who was killing herself with alcohol.
contraction when entering into a relationship with someone for the first time. It is the impact of that
relationship. Perhaps you also live the experience of feeling nothing, the sensation of nothing
sensation, and it can also recognize that experience.
This sense of shock will be more obvious if, while meditating, a door slams. You will feel
a commotion of sensations and even before her mind rushes to
understand the sound and its meaning. Then their mind will desire to know if this sound is
a signal of danger and what action should be evoked. Then, you will try to interpret
correctly the sound. Is it a door that slammed or perhaps it was a gunshot, or the
Did the wind close it, or did someone enter my room? If you can't explain it, then...
fast enough, then the next second, he might turn around and open the
eyes. The lower or more abrupt the sound is, the more familiar you will be.
with him. The more developed his ability to compensate is, the lesser the
shock and the attention that will be placed on the experience of sound.

In the same way, everything that comes into contact, whether it's a sound, a patient, the
heart or the patient's stomach, or an intention on their part (perhaps to heal the heart
or the patient's stomach), it will produce a shock of sensations in their body. If
bien esto puede quedar bien claro con el ejemplo de la puerta azotándose a la mitad de
a meditation, perhaps it is not so obvious in more routine moments. It requires a bit
From study to know that this is true. By letting my eyes slowly scan the objects.
from my desk, I randomly connect with some of them. In doing so,
In each case, there is a feeling or a series of slightly different feelings.
When I see a photograph where I am with my teacher, I feel a warm fullness in
the right side of my chest; when I see my water bottle, the "shock" is a
small pull in the muscles of my left forearm. To an unanswered letter
It is accompanied by a feeling in my chest and a tension near my throat.

When I bring to mind distant objects or people, I have other sensations. When I think
In the truck I traveled in, I have a strange feeling of movement in my
pelvis. Perhaps the next time I think about the truck I will notice a certain
numbness in my arm. I'm not saying that the truck makes me feel the
movement in my pelvis or that the water bottle causes me to contract the muscles. Just
I can say that at the moment I let my attention become focused on the
water bottle, there is a "commotion", even if it is light, of sensations of which
I am aware in my body. I also do not try to interpret these feelings. No
I want to say that since the movement in my pelvis resembles the movement that
participates in the act of walking, I must be thinking about traveling when I think of the
pickup truck. More than interpreting or having any idea of cause and effect, simply
I am aware of the sensations.

Compensating is being aware of these sensations while being

aware of the other sensations present in her body, giving each one, without
import its intensity or weakness, the same degree of attention. Thus, when I am
working with the sensory process of PRESENCE I will notice my hand and my foot because of
still, even when my foot feels pain and my hand feels as neutral as possible.

Compensate your feelings

Now sit down once more, with calmness and dignity, and with your eyes closed. Breathe in
tune in and start to feel all the sensations in your body. Acknowledge all your
sensations, be aware of them and allow them to happen. Be aware of the
discomfort, from the attraction of gravity, from the sound that passed through it. Be aware of
all those sensations equally, regardless of their intensity or weakness. Put a lot of
attention and let yourself experience the increasingly refined details of the
sensation. Continue to expand to include more. Feel the blood circulating, the
waves of energy in your nerves, and the force of life in every cell. Continue
compensating for their feelings, allowing everything that appears in their
awareness, always without concentrating.

This is compensation, a process of inclusion that allows every sensation without discrimination,
without judging, without analyzing, not even naming the feeling or its source. Practice it once and
again. It is a vital ingredient of the sensory process of PRESENCE. Simply
include in your awareness all the sensations that arise. The opposite of this would be
to assert the discomfort in his leg or the fly on his face as something outside the realm of his
meditation, a distraction from what concerns him at that moment. If he did, he would put
some sensations the label of "good" and others of "bad." This would be like
draw a circle in the middle of your experience and try to exclude everything from your consciousness
whatever is outside the circle. If you have ever meditated with that attitude, you know that it does not
there is an end to that. It doesn't matter how often I repeat the mantra, it will always have a
"impertinent" thought. No matter how many times he adjusts his body position,
you will feel discomfort somewhere, even if it is slight. At some point
I could change from trying to be empty of thoughts, or more comfortably, to trying
ignore unwanted thoughts or sensations. This often leads us to a
small period of peace before a more fascinating thought appears or that a
From the sensations, it begins to feel too intense to ignore it.
So, it will require more effort or adjustment to try to reject or get out of the new
disturbance. The process continues indefinitely and the meditation is never completely what
it could be.

Compensating is the alternative to this frustrating way of 'trying to meditate'. It doesn't matter.
As well as it is compensating, it can probably go further. There are always new ones.
sensations that arise in your consciousness. There are the seemingly empty spaces between
your feelings that contain less prominent sensations. By opening your consciousness
you will discover an elusive quality of experience that is so underestimated, so refined, that
you had not distinguished her before. Allow and feel all this with the same
consideration that the door slams or the fly in your face, no more no less.

There is another related meaning to the word 'compensate'. We also compensate for the
to recognize that all our experiences at this moment are happening at the same
time. This is sufficiently logical, but it is not the conventional way of observing
our own experience. What is most common is that our minds focus
a moment in a little experience after another. Still sitting in
meditation, I could notice the itch in my eyelid, then notice my breathing, then
the eyelid again, then my breath and the mantra at the same time, then a
thought about the workshop I scheduled, then I return to the breathing for a
moment, first noticing the sensation of my rib cage expanding, then how
I lift my shoulders, then my belly changing rhythmically. Then I return from
new to the mantra, and I notice a sound in the adjacent room. In all of this, there is a great
sense of sequence, one event followed by another.
But that is not the case. It is more accurate to acknowledge that breathing, the itch and the
sound is happening at the same moment and that the sensations you experience in
relationship with each one is there at the same time, whether they have recognized them or not
your conscious mind. Compensation occurs when we allow all the
sensations that occur now, at this moment. It is the ability to allow that to
recognize all sensations once and for all. If all the sensations of this
moments happen now, and in fact this is how it happens, then the only way to allow
All sensations are about not concentrating on any. Normally we live the
sensations as if they occurred sequentially, because at any moment
specifically we focus on one excluding the others. At any moment only
we know a feeling. In the next one, we focus on another feeling and then another.
more. This creates the illusion of time or sequence and makes it impossible for us to experience vastness
of reality at this moment.

Compensation can be better understood in terms of space. When I am attracted to a

small part of my reality, when I focus on a sensation excluding the
besides, it's like I were watching her. It's like watching a tennis match from a seat
close to the net. I have to turn to one player and another to see how they hit the ball.
ball. When I look at a player, all my experience is on that side of the court.
When I see the other player, I experience their side of the court. My memory gives coherence to the
experience I lived in the game, but anyway I am first in a
space and then in the other.

In meditation, if I allow myself to focus on a series of sensations, as if

it were in a tennis match with countless players, each playing in their
side of the court. Each object of my consciousness remains separate and seemingly in
a separated space. Study this. By focusing your mind on one object at a time, see how
his experience is fragmented in separate spaces. The experience is of distance. This
that is here and that is there, and I am at some point between them, observing them.
lejos. La compensación supera esta desintegración espacial de la conciencia, esta idea
of distance, as well as eliminating the artificial feeling of sequence or time.
It helps us integrate our experience. If taken to its full expression, the
compensation allows us to transcend time and space.

Stay aware of the discomfort

Now close your eyes, get in tune, and open the sensory space. Compensate your
sensations and then choose a sensation that causes you moderate discomfort.
Continue allowing and balancing your feelings while remaining aware of
the feeling of discomfort. After a while, the feeling will begin to fade away
will have lower intensity. The contraction will resolve itself, while you
simply allowing the contraction to occur like its others
sensations. Continue treating yourself until you have the feeling of having finished.

In healing situations, your sensations or contractions will be related to the

patient. When you relate to another person and allow the sensations of the
relationship, these will gnaw or change. This is the true center of PRESENCE.
Please understand the elegance of this, its simple beauty. This is the way to affect
to the other, his event, just within his consciousness. There is no karma in this, nor
responsibility for making it happen. It is only necessary to know it and allow everything
that is present, and observe how it comes to an end. There is no activity, simply
it is neutral and aware. The consequence of this is healing, but you are not the one
healing happens. In reality, healing occurs in your presence. It is the most wonderful thing.
The culmination of compensation is the disappearance of its point of view, the notion
artificial that your consciousness has a center. In everyday consciousness you
imagine that you are "here", somewhere in your body or mind. Another person, another
sensation or any other object of your perception is "there" at a point located at
a certain distance. You perceive the separation and imagine that you are living the reality
from a perspective located somewhere inside you. You may feel pain in your
toe and think of it as 'my toe' and have the idea that it knows pain.
"down there" from a higher point or a point of view "from up here". You have
the same idea of distance in relation to everything that he is aware of.
sea otra persona o incluso uno de sus propios pensamientos. De hecho, la ubicación de
this supposed center of consciousness turns out to be quite elusive if you try to
find it. We believe we have a center but have no idea where it might be.
to be

Of course, the center is a fantasy. In the PRESENT we do what is

disappear the center. We are able to graduate beyond the notion that our
consciousness cannot affect the other, because we release all ideas of separation from the
Another. By compensating, we reduce the pressure of having a center by recognizing that the
sensations occur at the same time and in the same space. We recognize that only
the mind is the creator of differentiation, distance, and it is what divides
artificially our universe into subject and object.

Without resistance

Outside the window of my room, it is snowing. Small white flakes are moving.
quickly in all directions due to the impetuous wind. Perhaps I react to that.
scene and I say that I feel the cold day, which makes me feel melancholic and that I wish
I were in a warmer climate. On a different day, there might be a different reaction.
a foretaste of the joy of skiing, of an outing with my wife and my daughter, of what
invigorating outdoor exercise in the cold.

If I see the weather with negative feelings, I limit myself. I cling to certain conditions and
these lead me to constriction, tension, and bad mood. I have meanings that I give
to the snow and to the low gray clouds. I resist my experience in complex ways.
This resistance is a condition that applies to my experience. In the relationship that
I watch the scene outside my window, there are conditions, and my experience is
fairly realistically predetermined. My conditions do not allow me to have a
totally new experience. The experience of this moment. I am living my
past instead of the present set before me, and there can be nothing new in it,
no revelation, no delight, and ultimately no healing. The past
is dead, frozen in time and consciousness, and cannot be a source of
transcendence.

If my reactions are more positive, if I see the snow and begin to anticipate
excited the fun and joy of playing in that beautiful white dust, my state of
the spirit will be different, perhaps more desirable. But in terms of resilience to this moment
the problem is the same, I am still limited. Again there is a condition in me
awareness, a pattern of thought and a series of positive feelings that limit
my relationship with what exists here and now, precisely in the same way that
I was limited by negative feelings.

At first, when I see the snow, there are prerequisites and concentration, a
the way my consciousness recognizes the snow and my relationship with it, and focuses on
That. It is about something very important to learn to manage if we want to facilitate the
healing, If we concentrate on something, if we limit our awareness, even for a
in the moment, there is no other experience, no other knowledge, during that moment of
concentration, and everything except the object of our concentration is expelled from our
consciousness. When our consciousness is limited in this way to a single object, the
the flow of consciousness stops. In this circumstance, transcendence is not possible.
There can be no elevation because our consciousness is now conditioned and limited.
for desire or evasion.

Between the snow and me, there is a relationship. If I feel no resistance to any of my
sensations, if I have no conditions in relation to them, then my consciousness and my
the perception of the relationship with the snow will be clear and will intensify. As my issues are resolved
conditions, there is a possibility of being transcendent. So I live to the snow as if
I would never have seen her or heard of her. If I have no conditions or
preconceptions about snow, then perhaps I will truly be able to know my
propia experiencia. Y si, vivo la experiencia y la conozco, entonces, y sólo entonces,
I will simply be.

In the moment of relating to the snow, I may notice my resistance. If I can release it,
the relationship becomes more complete. Then I can enter into an intense relationship with the
snow itself; I can have a direct experience of snow without conditions. It is even
I release those ordinary conditions and resistances that I can find.
extraordinary.

Compensate your conscience

Sit next to your partner. Close your eyes and do nothing, just
be aware of all your sensations. Don't worry about anything else, just be
aware. Compensate your consciousness by allowing there to be no concentration. When you are
establish, enter the relationship space with your partner and touch
slightly his arm. Now observe his resistances, the areas where his mind tends
to concentrate. Some sensations may feel very normal, others
extraordinary, but let them all receive the same attention. Why let
Should a sensation be your focus of attention? Why choose one over the others?
Why is one of them more interesting than the others? The fascinating one and the normal one.
they happen at the same time, why choose one? Do not try to find any
specific feeling, or to understand or interpret everything. Simply allow the
life is exactly as it is. Remember, do not focus. Continue like this for ten
minutes or more.

In this exercise of the sensory process, you are first aware of everything that
It happens inside you. Then open the space of relationship with the client and enter into
awareness of everything that happens in this relationship. Some things appear as
resistance. They are those in which their consciousness tries to concentrate. And this is how
resistance occurs in you. Your mind tries to cling to something. At that moment, you
must maintain awareness of everything else, but recognize that this point is
generating resistance. So, let that happen to you. When you allow it, the
resistance tends to disappear or weaken. The result is that in their consciousness they will have
a greater and more intense perception of the relationship. It will know the relationship of the same
an intense way in which I could know the breathing of her lungs. A resolution
how this of all conditions and resistances allows to intensify the relationship and the
consciousness becomes transcendent.

Releasing the conditions that arise is not part of the PRESENCE. It is only part of the
process that we use to prepare ourselves to enter the state of PRESENCE. It is simple. If
If you do not release your resistance, your conditions in the relationship, then there will not be enough.
space for you to have a deeper experience: the intense experience and
transcendent of consciousness in the event. His consciousness will remain within the
confines of its own separated being; and there will be no transcendence, nor a pure state and
simple of being.

All of this requires practice. It's not something you can just listen to and calmly...
incorporate into your life. The recipe is simple but perhaps you don't bake the cookies in the
first attempt. Continue and you will soon find that it is more stable. It will focus each
see less, will allow more and more, and will begin to be able to modify what is
present. Start with the hardest resistances: to your physical discomfort, or to a sound that
"distracts" (remember, there are no distractions in the PRESENCE). Release the tendency of
focus on them, and then continue with more subtle resistances, until the
The same guideline of having resistances breaks and finally, simply, there isn't any.
concentration. The effect will be the intensification of your relationship with your patient or with the
that you are personalizing. Just remember not to focus. Very softly and gently
let the feelings of resistance occur, and the resistance will disappear.

Resistance can take various forms. It's not just about when we don't want to.
that something happens. It's not always a matter of 'I don't like this feeling (or that
sound, or that disease) and I don't want it to invade my space." Only the smallest part of
the resistances will be like this. Most are more subtle. The most insignificant judgment is given, the
momentary concentration or fleeting fascination with some sensation. Some of its
resistances will appear as a distraction. This is how something calls your attention.
attention outside the event. But understand that "distraction" is the way in which
You react to this moment in the relationship. When you notice this, you need to allow it.
Do not try to get rid of the distraction or it will continue to be a distraction. Include and
allow the sensations of distraction just as you would any other resistance
to the relationship.

It has started to snow harder and I go out to experience the snowfall more directly. Before
in my eyes there are millions and millions of snowflakes, each one different from the other, but the
sufficiently similar for none to catch my attention anymore. At this moment,
my conscience is balanced. Suddenly I fall into an ambush. My daughter me
I throw a snowball and I focus on that small part of the snow, bigger and
denser, and on a trajectory different from the others. Amid all the snow, that part stands out.
my attention for a moment. The snowball startles me and because of that I feel the
effects of adrenaline as part of my experience. The jolt takes me to a
greater concentration. By allowing these sensations and once again being aware of everything
the little pieces of snow, I release the resistance.

When we are healing with PRESENCE, the sensations are like snowflakes.
snow: countless little pieces of sensation. We focus on some of the
most difficult sensations, sensations of discomfort or delight, like in the ball of
snow. This is what we call resistance. Resistance is not so much about wishing that
the feelings of joy or discomfort fade away; it is more about resisting the flow of the
experience, the awareness of each moment equally, each sensation. It is not
necessarily a resistance that arises from negativity, anger, or fear; it can be
much more subtle than that. This resistance can arise from distraction or interest or
fascination. A certain sensation stands out among the thousands of sensations and captures
our attention; or perhaps our mind extends and reaches a tiny part of the
experience. In any case, our mind clings to that feeling, and that means
that we only live that sensation or that small group of related sensations
during the moment of attachment. We ignore everything else. If you do not reduce your
resistance, its conditions in the relationship, there will not be enough space for it to live a
deeper experience.

It takes time to master the practice of non-resistance. At first, everyone ...

sensation cups may receive the same attention as long as they are of size
uniform and fall at the same speed and in the same direction. With practice, you can
learn to keep your internal state stable in relation to the flakes of sensation
even when some are bigger or fall right on the tip of your nose. More
Go ahead, with even more practice you will be able to maintain balanced attention.
even when the snowflakes start to fly and the men and women appear
snow. With more practice, he will still be able to remain stable even when facing the
enormous snowflakes in green and electric blue, if they are to appear.

With an even more refined awareness, you will be able to notice sensations in response to the
infinitely varied crystalline structure of each snowflake. As one gains more and more awareness,
will recognize more of the exquisite beauty of all reality, more of the exhibition
spectrum of the energies of the universe, more than what has remained hidden by its
resistance. And the most important thing for your purposes as a healer will be aware of
the entire wealth of the space of the relationship between you and your patient.

Specify

When we practice PRESENCE or any healing method in this regard,

we must choose with whom and with what we are going to work. Our term for that is
“particularize”. This means that we are choosing the event with which we will enter.
in relation. At first, the whole person of the patient is the event. We say that
we focus on the patient. A little further along, they will begin to choose an organ
specific, a system, a chakra or any other aspect like its event: everything that
I need your healing awareness. If you choose to focus on the digestive system.
of the patient, so all the sensations they have will be related to that.
Imagine yourself in that situation. You have opened a sensory space, allowing an endless
stream of sensations, compensated his conscience and specialized in his patient. When making
all this, lightly touching the arm, feels a surge of new sensations
that you allow and balance along with all the other sensations. Then it returns to
to specify, this time in the digestive system. Perhaps there is some digestive problem that
desea trabajar, así que decide particularizar en él.

Upon specifying (simply affirming in his consciousness that he is doing so) he will feel
once again new sensations. We say that these relate to the system
digestive. There is no need to worry about the cause of the sensations. Will they come
from my patient's stomach? Will they come out of the part of his body where they are
living? Do they come from any other source? Do they have any meaning that needs
interpret themselves? There is no need to concern themselves with these matters, they just need to allow these
sensations and include everything that appears. If while being in relation to the device
digestive, a car passes by your house and the sound of the car evokes a sensation,
also include it. If you feel personal affection for this patient, also include this
sensation. In the PRESENCE there are no distractions, and everything that arises must
to include oneself.

When we personalize, we simply choose. Perhaps being in relation to my

patient; perhaps I choose to be in relation with my patient; perhaps I choose later
to particularize in his liver. But I do not visualize my patient or his liver. It is not
necessary and would create limitations in my consciousness, a certain conceptual framework where my
sensations would have to fit. What would happen if I wanted to focus on fears?
of your patient? How would you visualize that? If you try it, you would surely end up
imposing their concepts. The same happens with the physical aspects of our
patients. If any image appears, it is important to recognize it and allow the
sensations that arise in you in relation to that image. Until whatever you do, the
image is a resistance against the flow of your consciousness and your experience. Of the same
In this way, do not cultivate sounds or smells, nor any other sensation. Always avoid imposing.
their own beliefs or preconceptions about the event above reality
true of the event.

You can specify something that you do not know at all. If you have never seen a liver, and
He doesn't even know what part of the body it's in. It will be much better. Just say it.
"I focus on the liver" and allow everything that manifests. If on the other hand, it is
well informed about the liver, the images and the concepts will be practically
inevitables. If they appear when specifying, allow the sensations that will arise in
relationship with those images and resolve them as the first step in your process of
treatment.

When you particularize, new sensations can appear everywhere. The

the specification of the heart of his patient can lead him to feelings in his
knee, lower back or any other part. It is possible that several areas experience
sensations at the same time. There is no way to predict it, nor would it have any advantage.
some know it. Every time you personalize in a heart, it will be different. Heal with
his innocence, his ignorance, with a completely fresh perspective. Otherwise, he is
putting conditions on the situation, on the patient, and on the healing process itself,
and the conditions can only limit their awareness and effectiveness.

Particularizing in the sensory space is as simple as it is easy. If you wish to address

patients, touch them and connect with them. You have 'particularized' in them and now
It's your event. If you want to be more specific or effective, you will need to specify in a...
patient's appearance. In your awareness, you will affirm: "I focus on the chakra of your.
"heart" putting this intention in the sensory space. That's all. From there in
go ahead, your sensations will be related to the heart chakra and you
will allow the heart chakra to affect you. Acknowledge your sensations, allow them and
continue with the treatment, but now you will be treating the heart chakra more
than any other part or aspect of the patient.
When you individualize in the Sacred Space, you are allowing something to affect you.
you, just as when you specify in the sensory space. But in Space
Sacred, there is no direct perception of the event in which he chose to particularize. If
you want to treat a patient's colon, you will focus on that, and when it affects him/her
you will release the contraction or resistance to its effect until there is none
distinction, no idea of distance between you and your event.

You can reach this point by letting go of the distinction between the colon and its consciousness.
This is also simple, but at first it is not necessarily easy. It requires some
diligent practice so that you are ready to maintain an object in your perception
without feeling what he is observing. Still, this is what he needs to do. Once he
you chose the event 'you will be one' with the event. That phrase has lost its strength due to the
exaggerated use but it is very precise. It will reduce differentiation or the feeling of
distance between you and your event. The subject and the object will merge and perception will be
at the event and you will experience it instead of observing it. Your consciousness and the consciousness of
the patient's colon will be the same. Both appear at the same time and in the same
preconceptual space. It's as if their consciousness were in the colon.

When you particularize in this way at an event, it appears in your perception.

The perception is not in your head, but in the event. When you recognize that the
awareness of the event and its awareness are the same, then perception and the
reality appears as a single one. You feel the event in the event. It is exactly
as if you had ears and eyes at the event. This state is that of non-duality.

When this state of awareness is applied in your healing, you will be very precise and your
the event experience will be very deep and intense. It will recognize the trends of
event and will know how to modify them. You will have a perception of the event, whether it is an organ or the
the patient's whole being. Or even their own being. In a moment like that, there is no
duality. He does not see a stomach nor think of a spleen. There is no witness watching the patient.
Rather, the event appears in their perception as their experience. Perhaps there is still
judgments about the event, but they appear just like their own stomach, spleen or
estado de ánimo. Es como si usted tuviese otro estómago pero que sabe que no es suyo.

Your rational mind will be questioning all of this, rebelling against the possibility of
to know what cannot be seen, tasted, touched, smelled, or heard. But for you it is
easy to live it. It should not be overly eager either. If you try too hard
effort, in some way trying to force the experience, pressuring oneself towards a
the concept of what the experience should be, will feel frustrated. Instead, make sure
after practicing the basics. Spend time daily on the exercises that
they appear in this work. Learn to allow and to compensate, learn to specify and to
introduce the intention, and then, little by little, release your proposals, your concepts and
your prejudices. This will not pose any problem either. Everything you need to do
It is to continue. Over time, you will begin to catch glimpses of transcendent consciousness.
of the Sacred Space. Although it is a slippery place and it is difficult to remain stable in it.
When you personalize, you will tend to imagine the event as something separate from you.
It will take some time to remain stable in the space between you and your patient.
You will be in yourself, the next moment you will be in your propositions about the
patient, and then will be passing from one to the other. But the Sacred Space is not
none of them. Once you find the Space (and this is where it will be
particularly useful to work directly with a teacher of PRESENCE) your progress
will accelerate. Knowing what it is looking for, instead of just having words and concepts that it
guides will be what accelerates your progress. When it has focused on something, this will appear.
in their perception. Instead of feeling how they feel in relation to the stomach or the
the neck, the stomach or the neck will appear as part of your perception.

Gradually, this will become part of your everyday experience. The Space
The sacred will become such a part that perceiving it will be something automatic.
It will be like acquiring a new sense, the sense of transcendence. At first, it will be a
a bit clumsy with this new sense, but with time it will become a natural part of their
skills. You will use it like any other sense and this will strengthen your life. It is very
pleasant, interesting, and useful to have this new sense, which will increase
immensely its service capacity.

When you repeatedly react to certain stimuli in a relatively

established, it is a trend. The disease can often be understood as
the result of a trend. The disease can often be understood as the
result of a trend, a patterned response that repeats until it causes harm. The
the conditions of our life lead us to develop those patterns, both physical and
psychologically. When we do healing work, we are modifying the
trends in the patient. The more aware you are, the more precise and
powerful will be in their ability to change the trends of someone who has gotten stuck
in a guideline.

My patient Anne is a twin. Apparently, her mother resented all the work that
it involved caring for two newborn babies and was not very fond of Anne and her
twin brother. As an adult, Anne still has a limited relationship with her mother and is
feels guilty for her mother's chronic complaints, as if her mother's unhappiness
it should be due to Anne. The behavioral guidelines that resulted have been harmful.
for Anne. She has not felt free to fully pursue her own happiness and
For the same reason, she has suffered. It's stressful for her to try to schedule vacations and even
go shopping. He doesn't feel that he deserves to be happy since his very existence seems to have
denied the happiness of her mother. The internal struggles she goes through are experienced as
tension in his body, and at first he came to me suffering from a great number of symptoms that
They are usually related to stress.

Anne has another interesting pattern. As a child, the lack of loving care from her
mother somehow balanced it with the occasional visits from her sister
greater than her mother, whom Anne remembers as a noble and loving aunt. The
Anne's attraction to this woman became widespread and now she has many relationships.
deep and lasting with older women. This also represents a trend, the
the way a behavior (to form a loving relationship) occurs in response
to a stimulus (the presence of a caring older woman). Anne's attraction has
remained very strong for four decades. It is clear that not all patterns or
trends are harmful.
Anne shows how guidelines and trends work. Almost everyone has trends like this.
ways in which patterned behaviors are repeated, even when sometimes they are not
sean funcionales o sean dañinos. Muchas pautas son sutiles. Por ejemplo: por alguna
reason, my right foot points slightly when I walk. It's not something noticeable to the
the majority of people. But this has been my tendency for fifty years or more, and
As a consequence, I have had some irritation on the right side of my hip. My foot
responded to what had happened to him; his tendency was a way of trying to
to protect oneself, or to avoid some discomfort, just like almost all trends. And now,
Years later, I have a slight problem in my hip.

Certainly these examples are not unique. They all have trends: Usual ways
to respond to specific stimuli. Not all trends are harmful or
limiting, but they can become so, especially if the trend has as
consequence the tension in the body or in the mind. Every time it happens, every time that
the difficult sensation is not addressed or released, every time pain, fear, sadness,
guilt or any other difficult feeling is contained in the body or in the mind, there is
tension and potential damage, due to a limitation of awareness and spontaneity, or due to
disease.

Recognize and choose a trend

Practice it now. Tune in. Choose a trend in your partner or

partner (maybe just by asking her where she feels the tension) and start studying
How could I release the resistance generated by the trend? Do it by compensating your
space and being aware of feelings related to the trend. Allow
those feelings. Be fully aware of them. If you do not have a sense of
completion or wholeness, a feeling of completion or wholeness, a feeling that
the trend has decreased or been eliminated, so now recognize what
movement could modify the awareness of the event. The movement surely
it will be in your conscience: perhaps an attempt to reduce the tendency by increasing the
self-esteem, or by reducing tension. By introducing intention, it will have new
feelings. Allow them to happen as well, until you feel like you have
finished. If you do not have that feeling, and you are a health professional, the
additional movements could be something more physical: a precise adjustment, a needle
placed in a certain spot, just the right grass or the right medicine. If it is
ready to combine the PRESENCE with your other experiences, you will simply know
what to do. If you do not have that background, or do not feel that you intuitively know what to do,
So I completed the treatment continuing as it is always done: expanding,
allowing and compensating. Even if you do not completely eliminate the trend with the
First treatment, continue until there is a certain feeling of completion, certain
silencing of your sensations in relation to the event. If you continue practicing
he will know more about how to work with the patient's problems, a little more each time.

This practice session has introduced several new elements with which you
He will work. I asked him to recognize and choose a trend, and to make a move.
of specific healing. I suggested that the movement be physical and that perhaps she would want to include
other healing methods. Certainly, it is quite a lot of new material to digest from a
only once, so you can only do one or two things. However, go ahead.
returning to this specific practice, as it represents complex and highly
effective to work with that over time will master. Don't let this intimidate you. Carry
a cabo la práctica de estas destrezas cuando se sienta listo para ello.

Any client who arrives seeking healing will show a block of trends. Their
the task is to maintain an open space for these trends, to allow them and 'digest' them, yes
You have to do it. In each session, you will digest more and more, slowly releasing the client from
for his trends. Not everything should be concluded in a single visit. Just leave
that each treatment is complete in itself.

Your patient may have a tendency to worry. The tension from that worry
it could have led him to furrow his brow and clench his jaw. This will be part of
how the patient physically manifests their pattern. Their job is to help them
release the worry. Enter the sacred space. Let your awareness be
transcendent. Everything that happens in the relationship between you and the patient will manifest.
in some way. If you want to relieve the tension in your forehead, you will move your awareness through
from the complex of sensations that come from this event called the glabella, and you
it will release the resistance it encounters. This may need to be repeated over and over again, but
Over time, the tendency to contract will disappear. After that, perhaps it will work with the
jaw, and finally with the most basic tendency to worry. In some cases,
clearly, the disease does not disappear; it is too advanced or the patient is not
still capable of changing to that extent. But, in any case, a good part of the
tension around the trend and the disease can be released and the sessions of
individual healing will feel completed.

What we do in PRESENCE is modify trends. The more it develops

in this system, the more ability one will have to modify the tendencies of the one who is
stuck in a pattern. It will change the flow of consciousness enough so that the
patient release the tendencies. This happens when you can release the resistance,
because the trend appears in the form of contraction, a resistance to the flow of the
experience, and when that resistance is released, the contraction also and the tendency
change.

A common trend among healers is that they become empathetic. The healer tends to
to live the sensation of the patient by being a mirror of them. It is easy to do, but it is not
desirable. Often a beginner healer will treat a patient with a pain of
head and he will end that pain himself. It is simple to avoid this kind of issues.
Instead of trying to live what the patient experiences, let your attempt be to reduce the
differentiation or the distance between you and your patient. By doing so, you will be releasing the
conditions and the tendency to feel empathy.

Due to our trends, we will hardly relate to each other in

our daily affairs. Even in the midst of a very intimate conversation,
we repeat old patterns based on previous experience with that person or with others
that reminds us. Or, we can relate to the way we want
that this conversation ends, or with what we fear from it. It is rare to have the mind
totally fresh without prejudices in a relationship, as we are just learning to
do it in our system. Instead of being aware, we react, and with that
we lose an infinity of opportunities, taking only that small part for which
we have made space. But, when we release these trends, conditions and
resistances, the relationship can suddenly become very intense, when it is so,
We are stable, consciousness can be transcendent, even in everyday circumstances.

When we personalize or accept someone or something in relation to ourselves,

we feel that reaction that we have been calling shock. These reactions arise
about our trends and the conditions we set in that relationship. "I need to know
the name of this person, their intention, whether they wish to greet me or not, their opinion about me. And
your willingness to help.” All kinds of conditions. “She is pretty; she looks like my
sister; it is so boring; I wish she would stop calling me.” All of this is felt somewhere.
of our body. It is what we call the commotion. Sometimes it is almost violent; to
menudo es muy sutil. En cualquier caso, cuando vivimos la conmoción en nuestra
everyday awareness, it tends to govern us. Instead of being in direct relation to
the object of our experience, we deviate in relation to the shock produced
for our conditions and trends.

As a healer, some conditions arise when we see a patient and feel

that we can help you. Maybe it looks sturdy, maybe we don't like the style of clothing, or
Perhaps their illness seems too serious for us to help in any way.
We framed a position regarding this person, which almost has no solution.
That framework, those trends, limit us. Sometimes a patient tells us after
having dealt with it, that an illness, which was never mentioned, is dissipating. If
if we had known in advance that he was ill with that, perhaps we would have
unable to help. We thought they were only interested in their headaches and that
Well, for me, the migraines are not a problem. But the migraine was just the tip.
of the glacier. The client's whole life was a disaster, it was falling apart, but it did not
we knew and could avoid our own tendency and we did not label it as 'without
able to help you.

Please acknowledge that many of these trends and conditions are inevitable. Be
whatever her spiritual or emotional state may be, she will end up creating them. No matter what she does,
it will have some resistances in its own experience. But we can turn them into a
advantage. We can work with them, and then they stop being a problem, and become part of
our process. We allow them. We recognize that they are happening, that they are the
shock and we play with the shock as the method to enter the state without
differentiation, without trends. This will allow us to see without filters,
transcending everyday consciousness, and healing with our presence. The
the consequences are enormous.

to know

One of our objectives in the PRESENCE is the direct knowledge of the event.
So far we have mainly been occupied with the recognition of our
sensations in relation to an event and working with those sensations. But we can
go beyond. We can know an event in itself, directly, in the same way
clarity that we know our sensations. It's not that the observer knows the
subject, but knowledge without distinction between subject and object, between the knower and the
known. The knowledge of this kind is sacred and is necessary if we want to
consider our system complete. This is the experience of the Sacred Space.
In the realm of intuition, the first experience is knowledge. Intuition is not
a matter of gathering information and bringing it together to draw a conclusion. It is
just the opposite. With intuition you start with the conclusion and then, if
needs to communicate, even within its own mind, the conclusion receives a
message from the intellect to form a model, so that the statement can refer to
to your experience. You have experience in the intuition space and, if you need
translate themselves, if for example a diagnosis is required, we rely on the 'process
"intelligent" to put the conclusion into words.

In the beginning, we didn't worry too much about this with the PRESENCE. We can
function without diagnostics, which would not be possible in many forms of healing. In the
allopathic medicine would be completely unacceptable. In medicine, a diagnosis
It should always be extended before starting the treatment. Sometimes it is not possible.
to know what disease it is and the patient is treated according to their symptoms, especially if
there is a need for emergency measures; but in general, a diagnosis is given. With the
PRESENCE is different because we are simply relating to our
sensations, and if the sensations are resolved, we know that the trends have been
modified appropriately and the treatment ended.

Many of those who come to learn about the state of PRESENCE as students,
they have a very analytical intelligence. People from the West tend to think in a
form of linear sequences of cause and effect when trying to understand the
disease and bring healing. Certainly, that is the case with allopathic medicine and
also a good part of psychological healing, even psychic and energetic. The way
thought is something like the following: since (A) has occurred in this person, the
the result has been (B). If we want to get rid of problem (B) we need to alter the
condition through the application of a force (C). But in the PRESENCE our
thought is very different. We work with synthetic intelligence, more than with
analysis. This kind of intelligence works more with relationships than with cause and the
effect. Yes, when using a synthetic intelligence, if you wish to talk about a heron on the riverbank,
I should talk not about an isolated creature, but about the river and the forest, the relationships.
among all the other animals, plants, bacteria, and molds in the heron ecosystem,
and so on. The synthesis of all relationships is the most authentic image of the
heron. Without synthesis and relationships, it would actually be impossible to describe the bird. Without the
It is impossible for the heron to exist in the network of relationships.

In the PRESENCE, and in an increasing number of other areas of thought and

consciousness, we are working more with synthesis and relationships than with cause and
el efecto. Nuestros pacientes no se estudian como objetos, ni siquiera como se estudiaría
and a patient would be treated by a doctor. The doctor is looking for
certain signs and symptoms that the patient has, looking for a disease that may
name oneself, and also seeks its cause and treatment: due to (A) the patient has the
condition (B), so it is time to establish a therapy (C). In our system, not
we say that the patient has a certain condition, but rather that a certain quality exists in
relationship with the patient. The allopathic doctor diagnoses and defines the disease (and for what...
so, it also defines the patient to some extent) through signs and symptoms.
He has a fever, is losing weight, feels unwell, and urinates with pain and frequency, so
he is probably a urinary tract patient, so certain tests are required.
treatments. But in the PRESENCE we need to do it in a synthetic way. Not
It would work for us if we said: "This patient has this or that particular disease."
so I will give her a treatment.” The scientific, analytical mind desires this, but for us
it doesn't work for us. We need to have an experience of the object.

In the PRESENCE, whether you know it or not, in which case the 'diagnosis' is made and
The treatment can be finished, or there is a resistance. You know that it is not.
know why a condition appears in your sensory space. At that moment, you
You know that you are reading a book. But if you were to tell someone that you are reading, if
quisiera lo pensara, sería una condición o concepto, un momento de resistencia contra el
flow of experience and therefore a moment of unknowing. When you
says that he is reading, the statement appears in consciousness as a concept and a
resistance. When we experience something, we tend to overlay our concepts onto it, and
those concepts are felt in the sensory space as resistance. When you experience the
resistance, then knows what it does not know; you know that, instead of knowing, in the
place of a pure and direct experience of reality, you live a concept. When
live something, tends to place its assumptions on what it is experiencing, and that is what
you feel in the sensory space.

Recognize and release concepts

With your partner, tune in, open your space, compensate and
so I focused on the stomach. I immediately noticed how I would think about the
stomach: where do you see it, how far does it seem to be from you, what is it like, and so on
successively. These are all of their concepts. Their job is to recognize what
feel to have these concepts, recognize the concepts themselves, and free them. Feel your
sensations in relation to each concept. Allow these sensations as long as
remain aware of all the others. By allowing them, the effects of having a
the concept will diminish and soon the concept itself will disappear along with its
sensaciones, y usted repetirá el proceso. Tome su tiempo ahora para hacerlo con cada
one of its concepts. After a while the same pattern of having concepts about the
your stomach will have broken and you will be much closer to a direct experience with
the awareness of the stomach.

If you want to learn to diagnose, if you want to exercise your intuition, you need to try not to
translate the thoughts of your stomach into conclusions about your stomach. Even more
Relevant, you even need to stop having thoughts about the stomach. What
What happens if there are no thoughts about the stomach? The answer is: the stomach.
mismo. Entonces no habrá distancia ni separación ni frontera entre usted y el estómago.
Your experience will be direct and you will simply know the awareness of the stomach.
For your analytical mind, it would seem that something is missing in all of this. How did we go from 'without
"concepts" to "direct experience"? How does that happen? What is the bridge? There isn't one.
bridge. You are here and then you are there. And, for better or for worse, nothing else can
to say to oneself.

Diagnosis

So far I have used the word 'resistance' to refer to all the resistance that
I can experience during the healing, and I have not differentiated the possible sources of
resistance. If you were working with your sister as a patient, and she
If you were to experience tension in the neck, you would live the resistance to the particularization about your
cuello. En nuestro trabajo, hasta ahora, el proceso lo llevaría a solamente liberar la
resistance that lived, without thinking of its source. But in that case there would be no way to
to know if the resistance was in you or in your sister's neck. It would have reached this
session with many preconceptions about her sister. You have shared a good part
From her personal history, he has clear images of her in his mind, he knows her well.
It is also possible that you have positive and negative feelings about your
sister, and opinions regarding the source of her tension. All these preconceptions or
concepts about her, and many more as well, will produce resistance. Again
"resistance" does not refer to his personal opinions about his sister, but to the
more subtle blockages to her full experience of reality at this moment.
Some of those blockages, or resistances, may come from their opinions, but others
they come from nothing more insidious than the idea of their physical position in relation to you
according to the treaty.

The resistance that appears in your sensory space could also come from the neck of your
sister. If you have managed to reduce the resistances that are due to your own
preconceptions, what I would then experience as resistance would be the result of its
awareness of the experience of the awareness of your neck. This would represent a
important cornerstone in your evolution as a healer. If you can differentiate between the
resistance that comes from its concepts and the resistance in the event is approaching
diagnosis. Please understand that this does not mean that you will be able to say: 'This
the patient has pneumonia caused by staphylococci," or "The cause of his hepatitis is a
immune deficiency due to...". That kind of diagnosis requires knowledge
doctor that you may not have. That diagnosis that essentially names the disease,
an important step for good medical treatment, but it is not a vital element in the
PRESENCE.

Our diagnosis is different. We are striving to have an experience

directly from the event, to reduce all distance between the event and the healer. The
diagnosis can be made through that transcendental knowledge of the event. In
reality, if the disease were named, it would jeopardize the restoration of the
distance or differentiation. It would tend to recreate the healer's point of view. This does not
It is not necessarily the case, but it is very likely, especially in the early stages of
development in the PRESENCE.

On the other hand, if you are a healer of the PRESENCE and you are also a doctor or have
any other medical preparation, perhaps it will recognize, for example, through the
particularization of a patient's liver, a disturbance in the metabolism of the
bilirubin. If you do not have a background like that, your experience in the liver will be more
like a 'congestion'. So much depends on your background, on what else you know.
The problem arises when we reach the liver with our intact conceptions.
So we will be examining it from the outside, from a point of view. After that
we will try to interpret what we live, to give it a name. If a doctor
experienced in the PRESENCE will work in the liver, would have none.
interpretation of your experience in that. Perhaps you feel the congestion and 'know' that it
needs more water. You will be able to introduce an intention to increase the water element in the
liver and finish its treatment, without even considering the name of what it was
trying. On the other hand, one could intuitively or rationally recognize the disorder
metabolic, address it with PRESENCE, and then conduct tests and apply
standardized medical treatments already established. Similarly, an herbalist
who is treating the same patient could "know" that the patient needs an infusion.
of dandelion to strengthen the functioning of your liver. But the knowledge
In the PRESENCE, the diagnosis as we use the term, is simply there.
It does not need to be deduced from the evidence. While your analytical or rational mind might
to toy with a proposition like this is perfectly legitimate for the intuitive mind,
that synthesizes.

Consider your real experience with this. If you are a parent, you know if your child or
The daughter is sad. There is an instant recognition of that. She doesn't need to reflect on
the meaning of the signs and symptoms of sadness, nor analyze them psychologically
causes of sadness. He won't even think about being sad, but immediately, without
thinking about it, he will take his son or daughter and give them a kiss. In other words, he has been in the
sensory space in relation to your child; has experienced resistance in him or her, has
diagnosed, and in this case, he has treated it without any internal dialogue.

In the case of a treatment, imagine that you have already specified your patient's liver.
Do you have any idea or image of where the liver is or what it looks like? These are its concepts and
they will generate resistance to a deeper experience. When you personalize in a
Event like the liver, note all the assumptions it has regarding it. Where does it
imagine that it is, what shape do you see it, what color or size is it? Acknowledge that it has all
those concepts and what each one produces in them sensations. Allow these sensations,
continue compensating your space, and each resistance will be resolved. What will remain is
the experience of the liver. What remains, after having resolved its own
resistance due to its concerns, it is the experience of the awareness of the event.
It's as if I were looking at a boat anchored far from the shore in a dense fog.
The boat is there but the vision he has of it is dark.

The process to resolve your own resistances in order to have a clear

the experience of consciousness in the event is important for it to be efficient as
healer. By typing these words on my computer, I am able to go directly to
each of the letters I want to use. What would happen if instead of a keyboard, I had a
device that would ask me to start from the beginning of the alphabet in search of the letter that
Do I want to use? If I want to write the G, I would have to go through the A, the B, the C, the D, the E and the
F. Finally, it would reach G, but the process would not be efficient. In the PRESENCE like this
It is the stage we are describing. You need to recognize and address your resistance A,
resistance B, resistance C, and so on until finally reaching its
resistance G, the one that is at the event itself. It works but it is not as effective.
However, with practice, you will be able to go more directly to the awareness of the event.
to resolve the resistance there, and its healing will be much more efficient.

Let's practice going through your resistances, as previously described, and learn to stay in control.
completely stable, not to make any movement in its consciousness. This is a step
towards greater effectiveness. By maintaining stability in one's consciousness and knowing the
event awareness, you will know exactly where it is possible to modify or release
the conditions at the event. He/She will know what is needed and will make the specific move.
that causes the appropriate change. For example: if I were working on the jaw
of your client, would open the space, would quickly release their own resistances (which may
they come from their visualization of the jaw) and would live the awareness of the jaw.
It would remain stable and study the jaw. Perhaps it would find a line of
contraction that goes from the right masseter muscle downwards in the direction of the
left sternocleidomastoid muscle in his neck (although he may not know the
names of those structures). Then I would study more and discover that a release
In the area of the fourth vertebra, it would help. This way, I would release it and study a little more, a
stimulation, that is required under the tongue. That movement, that stimulation, could
complete the treatment. The entire process could take just a minute.

What has happened? Perhaps an analogy will help us. If I am meditating, I will know, without
think about it, the experience on my shoulder. If I notice a feeling of discomfort there, I can
allow the feeling or I can recognize that a slight change in my posture will release the
pressure. Once this change has been made, my conscience shows a greater tendency in my
back, and another movement, maybe a relaxation that will modify it. All of that could
happen in just a few seconds. There is nothing more mysterious about it. We do it
all the time, although we are not usually aware of what we do for it perhaps
let's be ineffective in our movements.

This is a good analogy for the healing process when in the Space.
Sacred. You "know" the necessary movement and "know" when the process is finished.
But the movements in the PRESENCE do not need to be physical and are generally,
In fact, movements in consciousness. What is known may perhaps not be explainable.
in words; and, most interestingly, the event is not our own shoulder but that of another
persona. Pero la analogía es correcta a pesar de estas diferencias. Cuando usted está en
the Sacred Space, consciousness in its event is as real as consciousness in its
own shoulder.

In the process of diagnosis and treatment, you seek the vital point in the relationship, that
part that can move with the result that everything can be balanced. Your
experience produces in you a type of image of the event, not a visual image,
but a synthetic impression, not analytical, of their experience. In that image or impression
you will know what the vital point is and how the event can be modified in the best way
efficient.

To achieve that, study, identify and release your propositions or concepts, so that
that can learn the difference between its own resistances and the resistances that
generate the same event. Do it and you will reach a state of knowledge. Then,
find the vital point and make the appropriate movements to release the conditions
at the event. I recognize that this might be getting a little dark and beyond
your current capacity. If you find it difficult to follow the text, it may imply that it is already time,
again, to stop reading and practice more. These teachings need to be absorbed
slowly over time.

THE ELEMENTS

We have talked about healing as a balance, but one might ask: 'Balance?'
About what? You can think in terms of psychological balance and imagine someone.
who healed by freeing himself from neurosis or irrational fear or desire. Or perhaps
recognize the need for physical balance, a state of vibrant good health that is
based on exercise, flexibility, a healthy diet, and restorative sleep. Or such
do you understand healing as a spiritual balance in which you are able to
recognize and serve the divinity in everything, while maintaining a neutral mental state. And
There is another way to conceive of balance, in terms of the first-order system of
the "elements": earth, fire, air, and ether.

These elements represent five qualities of the body and mind, which need
to be in balance if we wish to know peace in living and dying. You can work
with these elements in their practice of PRESENCE. The process in its most
simple consists of opening the sensory space, focusing on an event, and then
maintain the intention that one or the other element comes into balance in the event. To
doing it will feel new sensations in relation to that intention. Allow these
sensations until the resistances that were generated have been resolved. This is so
just an extension of what has been practiced so far and should not represent a large
challenge.

Later on, you will know more about which element to balance and whether it needs to be increased or
reduce, but at first just choose one element and hold the mere intention that
the element is in equilibrium with the event. This will prevent any side effects
negative. For example: if a patient were very angry (an irritable quality)
you would only need to have the intention for the fire element to be balanced, without having
What to consider whether to increase or decrease it. With experience, you may know.
maintain an intention to reduce the fire element or the value of increasing it
water element as an antidote against so much fire; but, in the beginning, stay only
with balancing the elements and there is no way to make a mistake. It can also have the
the intention that one of the elements, in turn, balances itself. This will be very effective in
comparison with only balancing the elements that require it. Nonetheless, to
start practicing with the elements, perhaps this is what feels most secure for
you.

But, he is starting to work with the elements, so make sure to study the
depth the effect of your intention. Note how your movements in consciousness
are affecting the event. This way, you will feel more confident in your practice and will be
more efficient.

Earth

The earth is the element of our roots, our support: solid, strong, still and
fundamental. This is the principle, the foundation, of all that is material. As an element of
support, the earth relates to our bones and joints, our feet, our
legs and the sciatic nerve. The earth element is the element of the first Chakra, or the
energy center, located in the perineum and the coccyx at the base of the spinal column.
Red, the color of the slowest vibration, is the color of the earth element. The earth is
solid and condensed, and the way we live the earth is through its support and
through gravity.

The earth element, like all elements, must be in balance if we wish

also being in balance. When this happens, we feel safe. And we feel
capable of covering our survival needs and ensuring our prosperity
material. When this element is strong in us, we know what we need and
we can do everything necessary to meet our needs.
When the earth element is weak, we feel insecure; a feeling that
we find it in the form of a lack of moderation and excess, depression, affliction not
resolved, or selfishness. Physically, when we are unstable or unbalanced in the
earth element, we may suffer from obesity, hemorrhoids, constipation, or arthritis.

Relate to the earth element.

Take the time now to be aware of your sensations when relating to the
earth. Sit firm and solidly. Close your eyes, attune yourself, and open the space
sensory. Begin to become aware of the various sensations in your body. Without
do not comment, notice all your sensations. Be aware of the sensations more
evident: the points where there is discomfort, the pressure of their legs against their seat,
the effects of the sounds that pass through you. Note with the same awareness
the subtlest sensations: the feeling of air passing through your nostrils
and by its skin, and the palpitation of a muscle as it relaxes or tenses. Note similarly
way the sensations even more delicate, like the energies that cannot
to be called and that are hidden in each fabric. Go to the spaces between these
sensations and distinguish even more. But balance your attention so that each
sensation receives the same attention as all the others, regardless of its
intensity. Acknowledge that all the sensations of this moment are happening at
same time and that there is no sequence of one sensation and then another, and then
another. Do all this without doing anything, releasing all effort and all concentration. Not
let no feeling spread and seize its interest. In this way, position yourself
in the sensory space of PRESENCE.

After, without losing his awareness of these sensations, also choose to be

aware of the sensations in you that seem to arise from your relationship with the
gravity of the earth. Sitting as it is, recognize that you do not feel the earth in
reality, but feels the effects of gravity. It does not know the earth; it knows its
effects on you. Tune in to those effects. Feel the sensations of feeling
attracted by gravity. Notice it everywhere, in your legs, in the skin of your face,
in your internal organs. Simply allow those sensations to be there, just
how they are, without judgments or concentration. I also noticed where they do not feel the attraction
of gravity, and likewise allow that feeling. Everywhere, continue
allowing all other sensations and including all the new sensations that
they may arise. Allow all and compensate your conscience.

Spend time practicing this. Study for yourself the experience of your relationship with
the earth. Later it will be able to modify the space of the relationship between you and your
patient by modifying the earth element in that relationship. For now, only
experience the ever-changing kaleidoscope of sensations in relation to the earth.

I have given some indications about what the feelings might be in relation to the
land, but I don't want him to explore this or any other element with notions
preconceived. When working with a client, for the entire process of PRESENCE
The main thing is to be objective. If you are looking for a particular feeling and, for example
try to distinguish the heaviness of the earth, it will be resisting the flow of its experience
real. So, even when I take some time to stabilize myself to the effects of the
gravity of the earth or to reach an awareness of the nature of another element, the
The purpose of all this is solely to help you understand the place of these.
elements in its constitution. Put them into practice, read about them, and think about them,
but then let go of all the ideas you have about them. Perhaps the feelings that
have when you introduce an intention to balance the earth element in a patient,
whether they are of lightness or warmth. It will be necessary for you to recognize these sensations and that
it allows with such ease as a deep feeling of attraction allows
gravity.

Enter an intention

When you have finished meditating on the earth, notice how you feel. Observe the
effect of having been aware of the element earth. Perhaps hoping to have a
a feeling of having foundations, of relaxation and security, an intensified sense of being
and identity. But let your study be objective, without even having these
expectations. As a deeper exercise, this time with a partner, open up
new the sensory space. As always, tune in and then stabilize your
space through the compensation of their sensations. After touching the arm of their
partner, allow all the sensations of the new relationship and compensate again.
Do not concentrate; allow everything equally and continue treating your partner during
a few more minutes. Afterwards, release within the space of the relationship the
intention that the earth element will balance in its counterpart.

The insertion of an intention into the relational space is a delicate process. With a
calm internal voice, affirm your intention in simple terms. Real words do not
they are needed, but they are not an obstacle for the process. The intention is a
thought, a purpose, a goal; but it is neither an effort nor an action of any kind
type. It is an exquisite, refined matter, never energetic or laborious. To put a
intention in a relationship is as soft as if a piece of soft eraser were in the
palm of her hand and you will blow on it and let it float in the space around it. A
once the intention is there, it needs to be maintained, but that is equally a matter
smooth.

Gently cast that kind of intention. Have the intention that the earth element
it will balance itself and then withdraw its own will from the image and live all the
sensations that arise. As always, allow the new sensations, compensate them and
continue being aware of all other sensations equally. Treat your
partner or companion for a few more minutes, or until I have the impression of
have finished.

Water

Water is the element related to flow: the flow of emotions, of pleasure, of

sexuality. Water is the non-doer, the force that seems to yield to everyone.
obstacles, but over time I was able to wear down and pierce the densest rock or steel
harder. Water is the element of the second chakra, located in the middle of the pubis and the
belly button, the center of creativity, sexuality, and stored energy. This is the
region of the uterus, of the genitals, of the kidneys and of the bladder; the organs
closely linked to water, When the water element is out of balance,
whether too strong or too weak, it can result in disturbances
like impotence, frigidity, or urinary tract problems. Emotionally, a
imbalance in water can appear as the inability to feel or express the
emotions, such as fear or anxiety, or like an attachment, excessive sexual desire or
diminished, or a feeling of frustration.

Water in balance means that we can be fluid and flexible both in the
movements of our body like in the manifestations of our desires. The
desire motivates movement, whether the desire is rooted in pleasure,
What is a vital motivator? Without our drive for pleasure, we would have little motivation.
to heal, to elevate our spirit, to develop deeper relationships, or
to increase material wealth. The fluid nature of our impulses means
which can easily lead to excess on one side or to the evasion of pleasure on the other
another, depending on our internal trends. Sexuality can be a
balanced expression of love, affection, and reproductive impulses, or perhaps it will become
represión, explotación o perversión, nuevamente dependiendo de nuestras tendencias
internal. The element water, like water itself, takes the necessary shape to fit.
in the container where we take it.

To begin to intensify your awareness of the nature of the element water and its
feelings related to this, play with the water. Let the tap water run.
through your hands, swim and immerse yourself, take a lot of water and feel it in your stomach, stop
drink water to know its effect, or fill a balloon with water and feel its
fluid nature. In all cases, live your sensations, not to memorize them,
simply being aware of them. Just like with the earth element, the intention
is to elevate your awareness of the existence and workings of the water element.

Relate to the water element

Just as you did with the element of earth, now meditate on water.
Tune in and open the sensory space. Be aware and allow all your
sensations. Compensate and stabilize yourself. After a while, feel the presence of water.
in you. Let this happen by doing nothing more than having the simple intention to
be aware of the element water. You do not need to imagine the water or remember
when playing with her, nor in any way forming an image or memory of the
water. Instead, just feel the presence of the water element in you, in this
moment.

Feel your own flow, the experience of being mostly made of water.
Feel the least fluid: your bones and teeth; as well as the most fluid: your saliva and the
circulation of the blood. It also feels the way in which impressions and the
Emotions "flow" through your mind. Be aware of all your sensations and
Allow them. Compensate for their space. Then let your intention be that the element
water balances in you. Immediately, upon releasing this intention in your space
sensory, note all the new sensations that may arise. Allow them as well.
Once again, compensate in your consciousness. Continue like this for a few minutes.
more.

Now practice it with a partner. Open the space, allow all your sensations,
compensate and then touched his companion's arm. Feel the shock of new
sensations and allow them, compensating once again. Stabilize yourself. Refrain from
concentrate. Try with your partner for a few minutes, continuing with the
stabilization of the space of your relationship. Now introduce the intent that you
it will balance the water element. Recognize and allow all feelings that arise in
relationship with its intention. Perhaps we especially want to balance the water element if
the emotions of a patient are not flowing, if there are emotional blockages that
to free.

Fire

Combustion. Heat. Hell. The brilliant gem of the third chakra located in the plexus.
the pancreas, the adrenals, the liver, the spleen, and the digestive system.
Metabolism, movement, and transformation. Matter transformed into energy, the
inertia in action. Personal power, will, and motivation. Anger, guilt, ambition
and doubt. Fire. The word is full of implications of meaning: enthusiasm,
passion, intensity, fervor, fever, to ignite, the burning emotion of anger, the words
passionate ones who incite or inspire others. There are those who have too much fire, and
those who do not have enough. There are aspects of us that fire must dominate, and
there are other aspects where it is not very useful. Like any quality, there is a balance.
that serve and the imbalances can be detrimental.

The element of fire gives us the ability to rise above judgment and our attachment to
personal wishes. Fire is the midwife of will, and the offspring of the mind and
the action. When it is in balance, fire does not provide the raw power with which it
it dominates and controls, but rather the power to integrate and create integrity. A dose
The appropriate use of fire brings things to an end. It is vital for developing a sense.
of identity in the world. It allows us to use our will to control
consciously the change. This is the power with responsibility, the power to forge
our own circumstances, the power to build a better world. Too much or
very little fire can lead to depression, doubt, anger, ambition, guilt, a feeling of
being a victim, or a thirst for power.

A balance of the fire element manifests as the ability to set goals and
reach them. It will appear as personal energy and motivation levels that are strong but
no maniacs. The balance of fire is expressed in self-confidence, the ability to
make decisions, the ability to inspire others, and the capacity to learn from
everyday life. Physically, imbalances in the fire element can
manifest as ulcers, gallstones, jaundice, hepatitis, diabetes or hypoglycemia,
and other disturbances of the organs of the third chakra of digestion, metabolism
and the debugging.

Relating to the fire element

Learning to work with the element of fire is no different from working with any other.
element. Think of the people you know who are vehement or those who seem to be.
lack of fire. Meditate on the feeling of fire while living it within oneself,
whether it seems strong, weak, or in proper balance. Feel the warmth of your own
metabolism. Then, with a partner, tune in and open the space
sensory. When it stabilizes, introduce the intention of balancing the fire element.
Recognize the shock of new sensations in relation to your intention and continue.
the treatment until there is a feeling of having finished.

Air

The air is the element related to the fourth chakra, that of the heart. The quality
The dominant feature of air is its ability to disperse, to expand, and fill any.
space I occupy. The air is related to breath and spirit, energy,
love and the life force. It does not have a fixed form. It moves freely. Love is
A true love knows no boundaries.

When this element is in balance, we can be compassionate and have the ability to
give where necessary; relationships are rewarding; and there is health in the area of
heart and the lungs. Without a balance in the element air we can have
difficulties in knowing or expressing our emotions or being sensitive to them
feelings of others. Perhaps we are afraid to give or we foolishly give to those who we
They explode. Balancing the air element is also a way to treat pain.

Relating to the air element

Feel the air moving in and through you. Feel it moving above your
skin. Feel the power of a strong wind and the soothing quality of a gentle breeze.
Know your breath and the energy that comes to you with the air you breathe. Make yourself
intimate breath. Spend time breathing slowly, deeply and in a
very deliberate, feeling the expanding air inside you as you inhale, and
feeling the relaxation and release as you exhale. Imagine that you can feel the breath
spreading within every cell of your body and filling it with energy, and that you
You can feel the exhalation taking away all unwanted tension from you.

Feel how the breath connects you with all other life, how the air that moves through
through you also moves through plants and animals, and circulates through
All our planet, connecting it with all living beings.

With a partner, get in tune, open and stabilize your space in the form.
used to it. Then, introduce the intention for the air element to be balanced.
Live the experience and allow all the sensations that arise, and give treatment until
reach the conclusion. If you want to increase the air element in your client, find a
of the qualities of the air that I can recognize, such as the sensation of the air moving
por su piel, y esté consciente de eso. Encuéntrelo en usted y sostenga esa sensación.
This will increase the air element in the relationship.

Ether

This is the element of purification that is related to the fifth chakra, located
in the throat. Ether is the element of communication, the void, dreams and the
transcendence, and going beyond the physical form. It is in the ether where we actually
we communicate, we express ourselves, we connect and we inspire. Ether is the element
of ecstasy. Ether is the medium through which consciousness can expand and through which
everything is connected to everything. The ether is the way we go beyond borders
that apply to the denser elements. This is the realm of pure idea and the
direct knowledge. The ether is related to a much more refined energy than
the one of any of the other elements and it is the element of amorphousness.

The mastery of ether involves self-mastery. With the balance of this

element distractions of the world never pose a problem, and the mind
meditative can dominate emotions. When the ether element is in balance
we will seek a higher truth, beyond the limitations of time and the
space, beyond cultural conditions and circumstances.

Relate to the element ether

With a partner as a patient, tune in, open the sensory space, and meditate.
in the feeling of emptiness. Acknowledge the feeling of emptiness of the space in which you
sit and allow that feeling to occur in you. Do not visualize the emptiness, but
just recognize it in your feelings. Feel your feelings and then feel
the sensations between the sensations and the sensations among them. Finally, feel the
empty space between sensations. Do the same with your thoughts: be
aware of the spaces between his thoughts. This space is like the void of
outer space: it is vast compared to the relatively small planets and
stars that occupy it. When it stabilizes, lightly touch the arm of your
partner feels the shock of new sensations and compensates again. Then
introduce the intention of balancing the ether element in it. Just like with all the
intentions, study the sensations in relation to it and allow them until you feel
that the treatment is complete.

In general, if you increase the ether element in a patient, they will fall asleep. If they feel
empty when focusing on the point of the navel of his patient (the third chakra), will relax
deeply to your patient and will unleash anger. If you introduce a little ether into the
the first chakra will help people feel less restricted, but too etheric
It can provoke a feeling of insecurity.

Balancing the elements may already be part of your repertoire as a healer. Little by little
I studied the effects of the intentions to balance one or more elements in your
companion. At the beginning of their work with the elements, it is very acceptable that only the
balance, one by one, observing the effects of this on their sensory space. More
forward, with more experience, will only work with the elements that are needed
to balance oneself. In the end, it will be able to intentionally increase or decrease the force
and the influence of each element as necessary.

LOVE

Once I had such a great belief that filled all my consciousness, and I couldn't see it.
as a belief, but I thought of my belief as the only reality. It was as if
I would have lived my whole life in a deep cave, never seeing the light of day. With
A dim artificial light, I studied my lessons and mastered many things, but I did not know.
nothing, absolutely nothing, of the greater world, not even its existence. This cave was
my world, my universe. I was finally led out, into the daylight, and
Until today, I am still amazed by everything there is to see and know in the wide.
world. I will never lose sight of the beauty of this world of ours; I will never forget
appreciate its wealth. I just wonder, will this be another cave? Will there be another one?
emerging to come, or thousands of them?

In the cave of my daily consciousness, I had always believed that I was 'here' in
this point and that everything else was "over there," more or less separated from me. My point of
the view was just that, a point, the self right in the center of everything else. From my point
I could see the events. The satisfaction in my stomach after the meal was not
I was at that viewpoint more than the sun or the moon. My consciousness and the events of the
those who were aware were different and always separated. Some immutable law made it so that
outside like that. My belief in that law was so deep that I couldn't see it as a
belief. It confined me like a cave, and I lived my whole life within those confines.
Upon leaving the cave, I learned for the first time that it was possible to reduce differentiation.
between an event and awareness, to completely reduce it. When I did it, I
I was dazzled by the experience of event consciousness. "I" dissolved and this
consciousness became an ocean of consciousness that continuously received, without
filtering, millions and millions of new drops of reality. This experience is a spectrum
interminable of pure love.

This love I feel is found in being in an absolute relationship with an event, in

place of being in a limited relationship. How would you feel if you were invited to chat?
at his friend's house, and when their conversation began, his friend turned on the device
from television and then will talk to another friend on the phone? This is the state of almost
all our relationships: divided with attention here and there and everywhere. It is
as if we were victims of our subconscious, which first leads us to one thing and
then to another, reacting to this and that, totally unstable and hardly ever in one
sustained and intense relationship with nothing.

Learn to be more and more aware and how to stabilize yourself in your neutral mind, your
meditative mind. Learn to hold the balance of consciousness for a long time
time. It can only happen with practice. One must empty oneself, and this will not happen just by
Think about it. Practice opening the sensory space, just as I have described, and maintain it.
Compensated. Our problem is that this form of healing is based on the mind.
neutral, and words do not adequately describe a state like that: it is lived better through
the practice.

Specify and compensate

Now practice again. Tune in, open the space and compensate. After that
particularize in an event, any event, and compensate again. Repeat it over and over.
times, particularizing and compensating, particularizing and compensating. Keep it
opened the possibility that your point of view, your sense of distance between you and your
event, will decrease and finally you will free yourself from this limitation at the same time.
It is not only the way to heal; it is also the way to live in ecstasy and in peace.
you will feel as if your consciousness is expanding. If you can do this without generating
trends, it's like living without fear or attachments; you will feel very elevated and it will be a great
healer.

When it becomes particular, it is easy to redevelop that old feeling of having a point.
from the perspective of your preferences and views. This exercise will help you to not do it; but
Remember, it is difficult to reject the pattern of having a point of view. You will surely discover
that is actually attached to their self-idea. It's like being deeply
in love and then being asked to let him go. He has already developed this strong tendency to
cling to a point of view, but the task for now is to free the reference point to
way of being more neutral. At least learn when it is neutral and when it is not. When
who can recognize their own instability will be able to deal with it. Until this
moment in his practice probably already recognized that at the moment when
starts to concentrate, becomes destabilized, and tends to leave Space. It also must
to recognize when a trend begins to emerge. It needs to know this because
these trends will modify your event, your patient, as well as surely also it
I would make an intention. It needs the ability to stop its tendencies whenever it
decide. If it is not stable, it must be able to recognize and manage it. This will bring a
great peace to your life and will help you heal yourself and others.

We are looking for a state of neutrality: a state that has been emptied of all the
conditions, and for some this can be frightening. But neutrality is neither the
forgiveness is not the insipid detachment; rather, it is the path towards intense involvement,
and this is very pleasant and most important for our healing purposes.
In addition, it is from that unconditional state of consciousness that they can
birth compassion and true love. If your conscience is not empty, if it has in it
a sense of self, from that point of view that we have been mentioning, then only
there will be the trials that accompany it, and in the trial there is no love. Consider this state
without ego that we call love. In it, everything that is present is fully allowed, without
evaluation and without any judgment. Love is not a large amount of affection; it is a state
beyond affection. In the state of love, if there is anything, if it exists, then it is permitted.
Everything that appears in consciousness is included without discrimination, and none is created.
separation. Without borders, there is no place where I should put my defenses and where
I must choose what is allowed to enter and what should be excluded from the consciousness.
Compassion and real love begin with allowing everything that appears in the being. If
somos capaces de conocer y permitir nuestra propia experiencia, entonces, por
extension, we are able to allow anyone or anything that has generated that
experience. That is love. That is absolute compassion. And that is the essence of a
healing presence.

This love is not blind; it is far from it. When it is real we are sensitive, we are
very aware of how a relationship with someone else is affecting our
experience and it is unlikely that we will have to tolerate the unhealthy and the harmful. Someone
sensible will not tolerate its own negative behavior either. Allowing is not synonymous
of consenting. When we allow it, we fully live the experience, without fear or
the desire to filter it. That full experience is precisely what makes us intolerant of
everything that harms us. Our first choice is to heal what is harmful. If that is not
we can choose, with a clear conscience, to distance ourselves from what harms us, or else,
if necessary, defend ourselves or defend others from harm, by whatever means necessary. To be
Being aware, allowing, and loving does not imply being a victim.

LET GO OF PREJUDICES

By now it should be fully balanced, with your mind empty.

At first, there is no movement, but later certain trends emerge. Develop it.
ability to dismiss the trend, to not allow it to happen, so that you
remain stable in your space. In the previous exercise, notice how you might
will have ideas about each of the parts that it specifies, some conception of how
it is the knee, or some visualization of it, perhaps even an idea of its location.
You will need to practice the reduction of these concepts by recognizing
sensations that arise in relation to them and allowing those sensations until
have the feeling of having finished, and the trends that have been discarded
they arose from their conceptions.

When you relate to something, you will have concepts of that something. We all do.
prejudices, not only regarding race or gender, but also regarding knees
and the heart, time and space. Recognize these concepts within yourself and
reduce them. If you have certain ideas about your event, you will act differently than if you do not.
having them. If you conceive of your patient as a man who is reclining in front of
you, who have a certain age and a certain height, and whose problem is difficult, will carry those
concepts in the relationship will influence the relationship and define part of what you
will live. We all have tendencies like that, and some are so subtle that we may never
discover in everyday issues. But they influence those issues and affect each
aspect of our life. When they are present in the healing relationship, they bring
I achieve significant consequences. In essence, in healing or in any other
place, our trends and preconditions are the obstacles to achieving the
transcendence.

It's like being inside the cave, in the dark, unable to perceive everything. Even when
let's come out of the cave and have lived a certain experience of an expanded consciousness,
we still feel the urge to run back, to suffer in the same way, with
the same old concepts, and of organizing our perception of reality
agreement with old prejudices. But there is a way out of all this. You have prejudices
and subtle budgets: that your client is there lying in front of you, that he is at
a certain distance from you, of what you assume I should be thinking about now, or of that
you are the instrument of that. These assumptions are actually subtle and perhaps
have difficulties understanding them as prejudices.

Study this. Try to understand how these beliefs act to limit our
possibilities, how they make you feel a certain way and how those
the sensations are those of resistance. It's as if the part of your consciousness that encompasses the
the concept was still in the dark and there was a blockage in the free flow of the
experience. The concept holds a trend in the relationship and this is a limitation.
You get trapped in the trend and the trend starts to direct the flow of your
awareness. So, to move forward in this work, dedicate yourself to recognizing these
tendencias y los conceptos o presupuestos que subyacen detrás de ellas. La única
The condition we can allow in our system is that there can be no conditions.

An ironic example of this lies in the fact that we have made use of space
sensorial as a way to reach the Sacred Space, but if we feel that this
sensory space is decisive for healing, so it has become a
condition and in a limiting belief. The sensory process is an excellent
tool and, however, if you have stuck to the process, if your concept of it is
necessary, then it turns out to be nothing useful. The same happens with all concepts like this.
There is a fear of emptiness, understandable but unfounded: that fear that without our
concepts, definitions or points of view would simply disappear. But no.
we need to avoid the void; we just have to discard our fear and our attachment to
the forms we are familiar with. The void is just the lack of budgets,
and there is nothing insecure about it. The state without concepts is merely a state of
Innocence. Without concepts, you will continue to respond to everyone and everything that happens.
in its space: only that it will not respond according to a predefined model. Letting go of the
form is not a problem, but the attachment to form is. Your task now is to
abandon the forms and establish your healing presence by entering the state
transcendent of amorphia.

Reduce the resistance

Now tune in and open your space. Touch your partner and personalize in your
leg. When working with the leg you will see that you may perceive some distance between
you and the leg, or perhaps you have other preconceptions about the leg. Feel
how do you experience these preconceptions, how do they express themselves through your
sensations, and recognize that these feelings are a resistance. Allow that
these sensations occur just like any other sensation would. For example:
note how the distance between you and your leg feels, and accept those sensations as
resistance. Study how the leg feels: the distance, the separation, etc., and try everything
this is like a resistance. Work on it, observe how there is an image of that
separation that occurs in your brain, a feeling of it. Then let it go.
Reduce resistance, reduce the image, and reduce the preconceived notions that limit the
awareness.

Continue doing this in all your practice sessions. Keep trying to recognize
everything that appears in the way to your direct experience of the event. Deal with it
as if it were a resistance, until the relationship is pure and there is no distance at all,
no distinction between you and the experience. Learn to recognize some of your
preconceptions and trends outside of exercises in everyday situations. Set them free
as if I were in a healing session. This will turn out to be quite liberating; a
a place where your service as a healer will be healing for you.

When you release all the conditions regarding your event, the awareness and the
experience can be made one. Note that when you introduce an intention, by
example balance the functioning of the liver, there will be conceptions of 'liver' and
"balance". Acknowledge that resistance and reduce it without fighting against it. Only
reduce it. If you intend to heal, as we always do in the PRESENCE,
recognize your preconceived notions of healing and address them as well. If your aim is to reduce the
tenderness, or increasing the effectiveness of the immune system, those intentions also
they will bring images with them. You will discover the preconceptions in almost everything. Some
these preconceptions are useful in everyday life. Without them, we would have to
examine each small part of the intervention to know what would be important, what
it would be dangerous, what would be interesting, etc. We would probably be crazy from stress and
we would be completely unable to function. But in healing, it is something very
different.

To establish a healing presence, we need to have no prejudice of any kind.

Recently, I treated a woman with breast cancer. Upon opening the space and
to particularize in your tumor, I became aware of my tendency to locate it in some
part of your body and connect it mentally with the lymphatic system. In relation to
I recognized certain sensations in the upper part of my chest regarding those preconceived notions.
from one shoulder to another, who had an "acid" feeling related to them. To
allowing these sensations I stabilized myself, but other images, other concepts,
they continued to emerge for a while. I saw the image of a breast; I felt a darkness that
I interpreted it as an illness. I felt as if I were detached from all of this.
watching it. After a moment, these images became slower, and finally
They all stopped at the same time. Then, I began to get to know the chest, to know
the tumor. This was peace; I could pause, rest, remain silent. Not
there was nothing to understand, nothing to believe, and nothing to do. This was a place of
intensity, a place to know something that has never existed in this way before and that
It would never exist again in this way. "I knew" that this event needed my intention.
that the heart chakra would open and balance. By introducing this intention there was
a feeling of fire. I felt as if a flame of white heat had been ignited.
pure. I couldn't allow this intensity; it wasn't something I was resisting. It took a while,
but slowly there was a feeling of cooling and then it was over.

CHAKRAS

A good way to deepen your practice is to work with the chakras. You can
start to understand what the chakras are from one to five based on what
we talk about the elements. Each of the five chakras corresponds to one of the
elements. The first chakra, at the base of the spine in the perineum region,
is related to the earth element. The second chakra, in the region of the organs
sexual, is related to water. The third chakra, at the navel and solar plexus, is
Where the element of fire resides. The fourth chakra, in the heart, is the chakra of air. And
the fifth chakra, in the throat, is the chakra of ether.

The sixth chakra is also known as the third eye or ajna, which means 'to perceive'.
It is at the center of the forehead and is related to the brain and the pituitary gland. An ajna.
a well-developed chakra manifests in intellectual and psychological ability, imagination,
daydreaming and perceptive faculty. An unbalanced functioning of the sixth chakra
it relates to mental inactivity, the difficulty of concentrating mental energy, the s
headaches, difficulties with eyesight, and nightmares. Whoever operates from their sixth chakra
It is intuitive, this person can be a planner, thinker, visionary, in touch with
the divine. The sixth chakra is the center of light and imagination. This is the realm that we
it can go beyond the physical. With the power of this chakra we can enter the past
or the future, and we can travel to the distant corners of the universe. When it operates more
Beyond the ajna chakra, the mind can reach a state of pure and profound consciousness.
intuition.

The Seventh chakra is at the top of the head and is the chakra of ecstasy.
unity with God. It is also the center of thought. Thought is the
first, primordial, perceptible manifestation, but still immeasurable, of the
universal consciousness. The seventh chakra is where we connect with that force, where
we opened to her, and we felt her presence penetrating everything. The activity of this
chakra is meditation, the process through which consciousness knows itself.
Meditation is also the way in which the seventh chakra is developed. When it is
in balance and functioning well, this is the place of knowledge and
understanding at higher levels. When it is unbalanced we could be
close-minded, worried, depressed, and confused. In a malfunction
At the extreme of the seventh chakra, we can experience dementia and psychosis.

My teacher also introduced the idea of an eighth chakra, unrelated to the

physical body but in the aura, the subtle energy field that surrounds the body. This is
our projection and our protection, the sum of energies of all the others
Chakras. A strong aura or eighth chakra is related to health and success, and it
develop through spiritual practice. When the aura is weak we can be very
vulnerable to negative external forces and unable to protect ourselves from them.
diseases. You probably know people who have very weak projections,
who always seem fragile, and knows other people who, without ego or boastfulness, are a
strong presence in every situation. These two classes represent those who have auras.
weak and strong auras.

I do not make this brief presentation of the chakras for you to visualize them or to make you...
fixed ideas about them, as that would only foster preconceptions in their work as
healer. In the PRESENCE, it is not necessary to have a body of knowledge, whether
about chakras or anatomy and physiology. You can work very well without it. From
Indeed, at first this knowledge could easily lead you right to the
mismas preconcepciones que ha tratado de rechazar. No obstante, más adelante esto le
will help communicate with patients and other healers, and will allow you to personalize
more effectively, focusing their treatments where they are most useful. The knowledge
about chakras can provide great precision to your intention. The same happens with
knowledge about psychological conditions or anatomy, physiology, states
pathological, or any other information that it may have about the body or about
the mind. The more you know about them, the more you will be able to communicate and more capable
it will focus on its treatment. With a more advanced knowledge, plus a great
amount of practice with PRESENCE, you will discover that you can diagnose and suggest
treatments and self-care different from the treatments themselves of the PRESENCE.
essence, knowledge will simply appear in their treatments.
Unfortunately, your concepts, whichever you think or believe, also
They can appear, and you will have to discern between knowledge and belief. It is very
it's easy to relate to the sensations that come from their conceptions and
to mistakenly believe that they are pure experience. This is one of the biggest challenges.
great when one learns to establish their healing presence and to deal with the
PRESENCE. Please be careful. Knowledge - of chakras, physiology, or of the
the history of your patient can lead to confusion.

If you have to work with the chakras, you will need to study the preconceptions you have.
In this regard, as if I should understand other preconceptions. It needs to reorganize them.
as their resistance to a direct relationship with the chakras. Reduce these resistances, and
then, reduce them even more. Maybe it's easier to practice this with the chakras because
they do not have a real physical presence, like the heart and the brain. The organs are very
easy to imagine, but with the chakras we can recognize more easily than
our images are symbolic. The image of a chakra in the shape of a sphere with rays
of colored light emanating from it, it could be easier to recognize as
preconception that an image of the heart as a red organ full of blood. If
you have already worked a lot with chakras, you may have a certain attachment to their images or to
your feelings towards them. We carry such a large amount of meaningless things in
our mind that we keep trying to apply them to reality.
Study your preconceptions. In relation to the third chakra, for example, what is it
What do you think? Perhaps you think: 'subtle energy that occurs in the solar plexus,' or 'the source
of personal power.” So those concepts are a strong resistance in their relationship.
with the chakra, when you focus on your patient's third chakra, they will be part
of the resistance that must be reduced.

To handle this resistance, first become aware of the sensations that arise.
of their preconceptions. Be aware of the trends of your consciousness and then
allow them to happen until you stabilize. Specify the chakra and renounce
all his preconceptions about it. For example: acknowledge your idea of distance
from the chakra and recognize all the information about the chakra that has led to the
relationship. When it is no longer different from the chakra it is working with, it will begin to
experience consciousness in the chakra, and this will allow you to finish the
treatment. Also when you have an understanding of what else you can do, what
other intentions or movements could be introduced.

Beyond the sensory space

Once you have had the opportunity to experience the Sacred Space by
yourself, through direct work with Guru Dev or one of the disciples-
masters of PRESENCE begin to practice the direct entry into the Sacred Space.
I no longer use the sensory space. Now I ask you to consider discarding the use of space.
sensory as its method. It is not that it has no sensations, for it always
they will be there, it’s just that the sensory space may have already become a pattern, and not
There may be guidelines. This is the fifth dogma: there are no dogmas. So try to enter into
the Sacred Space without this dogma of sensory space. And you see, if you are
trying to feel the other through their sensory space, it can be difficult to reduce the
differentiation between you and your event.

This may be confusing for you. We previously mentioned that the only thing we know is
our feelings. But what we affirm now is that you can live
directly the event, the third chakra or the tumor of their patient. They can do it by living
the consciousness in the chakra itself or in the tumor itself. It does not live in you, if 'you'
it is defined as an arbitrarily circumscribed region of sensations limited by
on their skin. In reality, the event is experienced in awareness. Their awareness and the awareness that
are happening at the event are the same, and are experienced in the same way. You will be
working and will not know where he is in relation to the event. He won't even know with
accuracy who is sitting or lying down. He will ask his conscience how it is
patient and will live the patient just as he lives himself, or will live the chakra of
heart or the tumor as it lives itself. So its awareness of what
what is happening at the event is a sensory experience, but it comes from the
awareness that the event has of itself. Let's put it another way, by being in the
Sacred Space you are not limited to the awareness of your own sensations, but
What can, when particularizing, become aware of the experience that its event is
living. Their awareness and the awareness of what is happening at their event are
closely intertwined, and you live them in the same way: sensorially, in the
space of the relationship.
Obviously, this is a radical departure from everyday consciousness. It is a consciousness
transcendental, without the known boundaries. The sensory process has brought him to the brink of
experience, but how to jump from that shore is a mystery. I can suggest that you do not
try to jump, for trying will not help. No effort is needed. It's more a matter
from zero effort, more intention, more alert consciousness, more complete ease, more
link with the lineage of the PRESENCE through a master. This is a state of non
duality, a state of emptiness, without identification of being. The problem is that you may
he clung to the joy of the sensory space and still does not wish to renounce it. He has filtered his
experience through the sensory process and now it can be a limitation, as if
it was a requirement. However, beyond this limitation, there is the ability to live the
awareness at the event. So try to identify and release all your concepts: it is
necessary if you wish to transcend.

If you were treating a patient with a headache, you would live the distance between
you and the client's head. You would say that the head is 'over there'. This is a
opportunity because here you can recognize the concept of distance as a resistance,
and can reduce its resistance just like it reduces any other resistance.
You recognize it and allow it until it is resolved. Thus, the head will appear without
distance condition. So, you will see the next resistance, perhaps that you
Consider the head as congested. Consider it a resistance and also release it.
Continue going from one direction to another. You will discover that you actually don't need to let go.
each condition because after a few, the same trend of having these
conditions will break. At that moment, it will live the head in the same way as
live your own conscience, without distinction. It's not about you no longer being able to
distinguish between your head and that of your patient; rather it is more similar to how you
he lives his own head and his own foot at the same time. You know which is which but
consciousness can live in both.

The only way to be able to do this is by remaining stable. If your consciousness is in

movement, it will not happen. That is why it is important to have practiced first with the
sensory process, so that it can stabilize. Even when I have practiced a lot
tiempo con el espacio sensorial, cuando intente entrar a este espacio que carece de
differentiation, you will need to do it slowly. First, break the conditions or
preconceptions of differentiation between you and your event. Then, start to discard.
the condition of the sensory space. It would be too much to try to do both at once
same time.

While working on all this you will see that you continue to have feelings and sensations. But
you will also notice that feelings are not the way to know what one knows. They are
there but the knowledge is yours simply because it is in the Sacred Space,
because you exist unconditionally. Before the PRESENCE, all
the experiences he had were compared against his conceptions. If an event affected him
in a particular way, bringing particular sensations, then you interpreted that
event with a certain meaning. Then, at the beginning of his preparation as a healer,
you recognized that all events were expressed in you in a sensitive way. Your
the reaction was likely one of joy and pleasure at the richness of their experience, for
I could feel everything in a new and more sensitive way. Now is the time to move on,
to go even further. It is the time to be even more stable and thus reduce any
differentiation through the method I just described, that of reducing resistance
provoked by preconceptions. If you go through this, you will find knowledge.
He will escape the limitations of his own sensations, he will not be trapped by his
old landmarks, and it will heal because it will know the consciousness in the event and will know
how to modify it.

The task now is just to keep practicing and managing resistance. Managing space.
sensorial como resistencia, manejar sus conceptos como resistencia, manejar su punto
from sight and the idea of distance as resistance. Keep going, freeing all the
concepts, until it is directly related to the event. To be able to affirm
that has already learned PRESENCE, will need to be able to leave behind its space
sensory, let it dissolve. The sensory space is very pleasurable, too much.
Perhaps it is difficult to abandon it. Nonetheless, it is a resistance and needs to be set free.