Preach Kyle! I really came to the this approach recently too. I'm managing some good time periods of it now. Embodied presence. Welcoming. Really trying to have cultivate ease & joy in general whenever I feel constriction in my body. When my mind is grasping and craving. To breathe. But many sessions of this body awareness. I feel the most uncomfortable sensations in my gut. Thanks again for sharing this. It's so timely for me. I'm really glad it helped you. I'm curious to see how it can help me
I rewatched this Video, thanks again for your help Kyle. I retwatched it, because I recognise more and more how confused I am. Meditation or living life, pacing or trying stuff and face the symptoms. I dunno where to go anymore but maybe it’s part of the journey. I try more and more to meditate and see what’s there. But I realise, that there is a abstinence of feelings, I don’t get in contact with them. Maybe they „hide“ because I didn’t want to see them for years, but atm just see thoughts. I try to keep going an discover
Yeah thats a part of it as well. As we go deeper often confusion and disorientation comes up and we just need to feel that and explore it. Our natural reaction is that we must do something to get rid of the confusion but just taking the time to notice ah confusion is here, let me feel it. Obviously meditation and other practices help with this. Also just try trust your instinct/intuition, the mind and thoughts can say we don't know what to do, nothing makes senses, its so confusing etc. But deep down there is often a part of us that knows what we should be doing and often we dont want to face that. When in doubt just feel as deeply as possible :) Hope that's helpful
Yeah it tends to go like that, it's not linear. Often once we reach a period where it feels like things are good, the next layer of stuff we need to work through will come to the surface, and we need it to come up so we can do the work necessary for recovery. It's tough but remember that it's really not about getting to a place of only feeling good, the key is really teaching the mind and body to accept and be ok with whatever comes up, trust that it's exactly what you need to be seeing/ experiencing right now in order to recover
Hi Kyle, really enjoying your videos and they resonate with me a lot right now. I saw that you found the book on the LP useful in your recovery. How do you level the acceptance/dropping all resistance approach with the STOP thoughts mechanism that the LP teaches? This has been a sticking point with me for a while. I feel like it encourages you to fight experience rather than accept...
Yeah it definitely does that have that aspect to it. For me it was helpful at an early stage in really helping me to see how I was keeping my self stuck through only seeing the world through a negative hopeless perception, it really helped me to see how my negative beliefs were keeping me stuck However I do agree that the stop technique can lead to fighting experience so I really came to a point were it was kind of a 180 towards just allowing and exploring everything. So yeah I think it can be helpful at a certain stage but it can also become limiting and for me I did see the limitation in that approach and move beyond it
Kyle thanks for sharing everything you're sharing. The videos are so helpful. Can you help me with a topic I think you figured out? And I think I'm on the edge of figuring out! Kind of. I've been practicing embodied meditation, and no resistance a lot in the last weeks. Opening up to receiving. Lying for hours opening up to everything. I watched the non dual teacher video you shared. That was awesome. Can you accept your resist life. (I actually had an emotional awakening about the purpose of my life after a few days of doing it intensively which was wild - and has filled me with positivity!!) On the physical symptoms beyond the typical brain fog and fatigue and other symptoms I feel gut inflammation. It's a real focus when I'm lying 'allowing'. I feel it. You have this great point about (1) accepting and welcoming sensations & symptoms - ("what you resist persists") - and then (2) relaxing thoughts about sensations. Can you clarify the 2nd part a bit. Should one listen to or ignore the thoughts about the symptom in your experience? You mention the washing the dishes example in that initial video. When lying in awareness and feeling the gut inflammation I feel in to it and accept it and welcome it. Great. But I also feel like this is signalling that I should act on this discomfort. I'm picking up on a clear symptom to resolve. My intuition says I need to resolve this. Through food I must be able to help this situation etc. Perhaps rather than just trusting the body. This makes me vigilant. I try to think of solutions. e.g. eat less often during the day etc. Get weird about diet. Should I be fasting for long periods to rest the gut etc. During normal activities e.g. I watch videos - I can feel the symptom sensation become more acute and feel like OK I shouldn't stimulate myself like this watching videos. My body is in a low stress physiological state from the heart data I track. But I'm interpreting the specific gut inflammation symptom sensation as a major nervous system 'tell' I should listen to. A warning signal to do less. Is this a bit what you're talking about? Relaxing and accepting the sensations are key. I can feel that. The part I'm at is the thoughts and interpretations about the sensations and whether this belief I have about it being a tell is not actually helpful. I feel like my 'intuition' when practicing awareness is encouraging me to treat it is as key signal to listen to and to try and fix it some how. In your experience are these beliefs to be relaxed? What you're communicating is really resonating with me. Thanks again for putting out this message
Hey Simon, thanks for sharing I would say that you're on the right track but still getting caught up in the thoughts a bit too much. Often we can let go into the direct experience of sensations and notice certain thoughts as thoughts but then there's often one thought that we just grab onto and believe as true. But what's important is that ALL thoughts are just thoughts, the content does not matter. So just keep noticing, oh that's a thought. "hmm this thought feels important and real I should do something about it" oh that's just another thought, "oh no there's that one symptom I don't like" another thought, what happens if I keep noticing that every thought is just a thought and then rather feel into the texture of the thought, what it's made of, where does the thought end and you begin etc. Angelo Dilullo has some great videos on this check out the thoughts playlist on his channel Often its fear that keeps us grabbing onto one thought and believing, so just keep feeling what happens if I don't grab onto a thought, it could bring up some fear of letting go completely Hope that helps :)
@@life.withkyle Ok awesome!! Thanks a lot for the insight. Thats super cool. I will practice this and check out those videos and I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks a lot for the detailed reply. That's really helpful
Hi@@MPStigs - yes I made a full recovery. I witnessed disease resolution in August last year and rehabilitated myself the end of last year and this year I am reintegrating back into life. How are you doing?
Thanks a lot Kyle, you are helping me a lot. I might book a session with you in the near future. What books have helped you the most during this journey? I’ve heard you mention: Awake and A mans search for meaning. Im curious which were most impactful!
Hey M, glad to hear that the videos are helping you! Yes the book Awake was definitely the most powerful book I read that helped the most Other helpful books were Adyashanti's Falling Into Grace, another very powerful book, highly recommend any of his stuff And then actually a book called the Introduction to the lighting process was quite helpful in directly addressing my beliefs about recovery, and others like How Your Mind can heal your body But definitely Awake and Adyashanti's books were the most powerful and transformative
You're welcome :) And yes it did and it would fluctuate, sometimes things would get better and then get worse again, sometimes worse and then better. So all the time just work with what comes up, what is here right now is what you need to face, and notice any reactions and thoughts, "I wish things were different than they are now" "I wish things were good again like they were at any other time" etc. If things suddenly feel a lot worse allow yourself to feel into whatever is coming up, the real key is not trying to make things feel good it's about turning towards the uncomfortable and scary and allowing and welcoming it and then things will naturally start to feel better
I would do a long sit in the morning and the evening, probably around 50mins of focused meditation, noticing the sensations of breath at the nose And then lots of short breaks throughout the day, maybe a few guided meditations and then just stop and feeling when I needed to Also spent lots of time just being in nature
Thanks for your reply. I’ve been doing about 30 minutes 2x a day with extra guided meditations throughout the day but I was wondering, while your sitting, do you just feel one sensation the whole time or do you go from sensation to sensation during your sit?
Hi Kyle. I have covid for two years now and make pneumonia each month... once or twice I literally don't know what to do anymore. CFS was installed since day one of COVID two years ago.
Hi FW, sorry to hear about your struggles with the pneumonia, unfortunately I'm not a doctor so I really don't know much about pneumonia and can't really advise you on that :( My videos are just about sharing the approaches I used to deal with symptoms and pointing out that what was keeping me stuck the whole time was actually my own beliefs and responses, so all I can really advise is that you try some of these approaches of looking into what beliefs you might be holding on to that could be keeping you stuck and trying some of the practices I've shared about working with symptoms and learning to not resist
That's what you call allowing - your body knows how to adjust itself ♥️
Preach Kyle! I really came to the this approach recently too. I'm managing some good time periods of it now. Embodied presence. Welcoming. Really trying to have cultivate ease & joy in general whenever I feel constriction in my body. When my mind is grasping and craving. To breathe. But many sessions of this body awareness. I feel the most uncomfortable sensations in my gut. Thanks again for sharing this. It's so timely for me. I'm really glad it helped you. I'm curious to see how it can help me
What symptoms are you expecting?
This video fills my heart. Deep bow to you, Kyle. Ancient wisdom meets neuroscience!
Thank you Tracy! And thank you for the very important role you played in my journey 🙏🏼🤍
Acceptance and gratitude is my one two punch with long COVID. Thank you for your advice
Love it! 🙏🏼
You're welcome 🤗
100% spot on. This is my experience as well. Thank you for sharing ✨🙏🏻
You're welcome! Glad it resonates ✨️
I rewatched this Video, thanks again for your help Kyle. I retwatched it, because I recognise more and more how confused I am. Meditation or living life, pacing or trying stuff and face the symptoms. I dunno where to go anymore but maybe it’s part of the journey. I try more and more to meditate and see what’s there. But I realise, that there is a abstinence of feelings, I don’t get in contact with them. Maybe they „hide“ because I didn’t want to see them for years, but atm just see thoughts. I try to keep going an discover
Yeah thats a part of it as well. As we go deeper often confusion and disorientation comes up and we just need to feel that and explore it. Our natural reaction is that we must do something to get rid of the confusion but just taking the time to notice ah confusion is here, let me feel it. Obviously meditation and other practices help with this. Also just try trust your instinct/intuition, the mind and thoughts can say we don't know what to do, nothing makes senses, its so confusing etc. But deep down there is often a part of us that knows what we should be doing and often we dont want to face that. When in doubt just feel as deeply as possible :)
Hope that's helpful
I will let you know when I found my path and not that confused anymore, thank you 😘
Thank you for your positive words
You're welcome!
Not sleeping very well lately stressed out right now because it seems like it comes back I feel like I'm fully recovering but now it just comes back
Yeah it tends to go like that, it's not linear. Often once we reach a period where it feels like things are good, the next layer of stuff we need to work through will come to the surface, and we need it to come up so we can do the work necessary for recovery.
It's tough but remember that it's really not about getting to a place of only feeling good, the key is really teaching the mind and body to accept and be ok with whatever comes up, trust that it's exactly what you need to be seeing/ experiencing right now in order to recover
Just. Stop. Perfect
Hello any ideas on how you caught Covid and was your symptoms mild moderate or severe 🙏🏽
Hi Kyle, really enjoying your videos and they resonate with me a lot right now. I saw that you found the book on the LP useful in your recovery. How do you level the acceptance/dropping all resistance approach with the STOP thoughts mechanism that the LP teaches? This has been a sticking point with me for a while. I feel like it encourages you to fight experience rather than accept...
Yeah it definitely does that have that aspect to it. For me it was helpful at an early stage in really helping me to see how I was keeping my self stuck through only seeing the world through a negative hopeless perception, it really helped me to see how my negative beliefs were keeping me stuck
However I do agree that the stop technique can lead to fighting experience so I really came to a point were it was kind of a 180 towards just allowing and exploring everything. So yeah I think it can be helpful at a certain stage but it can also become limiting and for me I did see the limitation in that approach and move beyond it
Kyle thanks for sharing everything you're sharing. The videos are so helpful. Can you help me with a topic I think you figured out? And I think I'm on the edge of figuring out! Kind of.
I've been practicing embodied meditation, and no resistance a lot in the last weeks. Opening up to receiving. Lying for hours opening up to everything. I watched the non dual teacher video you shared. That was awesome. Can you accept your resist life. (I actually had an emotional awakening about the purpose of my life after a few days of doing it intensively which was wild - and has filled me with positivity!!)
On the physical symptoms beyond the typical brain fog and fatigue and other symptoms I feel gut inflammation. It's a real focus when I'm lying 'allowing'. I feel it. You have this great point about (1) accepting and welcoming sensations & symptoms - ("what you resist persists") - and then (2) relaxing thoughts about sensations.
Can you clarify the 2nd part a bit. Should one listen to or ignore the thoughts about the symptom in your experience? You mention the washing the dishes example in that initial video.
When lying in awareness and feeling the gut inflammation I feel in to it and accept it and welcome it. Great. But I also feel like this is signalling that I should act on this discomfort. I'm picking up on a clear symptom to resolve. My intuition says I need to resolve this. Through food I must be able to help this situation etc. Perhaps rather than just trusting the body. This makes me vigilant. I try to think of solutions. e.g. eat less often during the day etc. Get weird about diet. Should I be fasting for long periods to rest the gut etc.
During normal activities e.g. I watch videos - I can feel the symptom sensation become more acute and feel like OK I shouldn't stimulate myself like this watching videos. My body is in a low stress physiological state from the heart data I track. But I'm interpreting the specific gut inflammation symptom sensation as a major nervous system 'tell' I should listen to. A warning signal to do less.
Is this a bit what you're talking about? Relaxing and accepting the sensations are key. I can feel that. The part I'm at is the thoughts and interpretations about the sensations and whether this belief I have about it being a tell is not actually helpful. I feel like my 'intuition' when practicing awareness is encouraging me to treat it is as key signal to listen to and to try and fix it some how. In your experience are these beliefs to be relaxed?
What you're communicating is really resonating with me. Thanks again for putting out this message
Hey Simon, thanks for sharing
I would say that you're on the right track but still getting caught up in the thoughts a bit too much. Often we can let go into the direct experience of sensations and notice certain thoughts as thoughts but then there's often one thought that we just grab onto and believe as true. But what's important is that ALL thoughts are just thoughts, the content does not matter. So just keep noticing, oh that's a thought. "hmm this thought feels important and real I should do something about it" oh that's just another thought, "oh no there's that one symptom I don't like" another thought, what happens if I keep noticing that every thought is just a thought and then rather feel into the texture of the thought, what it's made of, where does the thought end and you begin etc. Angelo Dilullo has some great videos on this check out the thoughts playlist on his channel
Often its fear that keeps us grabbing onto one thought and believing, so just keep feeling what happens if I don't grab onto a thought, it could bring up some fear of letting go completely
Hope that helps :)
@@life.withkyle Ok awesome!! Thanks a lot for the insight. Thats super cool. I will practice this and check out those videos and I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks a lot for the detailed reply. That's really helpful
@@simon--kDid you recover?
Hi@@MPStigs - yes I made a full recovery. I witnessed disease resolution in August last year and rehabilitated myself the end of last year and this year I am reintegrating back into life. How are you doing?
@@simon--k housebound unfortunately😕
Thanks a lot Kyle, you are helping me a lot. I might book a session with you in the near future.
What books have helped you the most during this journey? I’ve heard you mention: Awake and A mans search for meaning. Im curious which were most impactful!
Hey M, glad to hear that the videos are helping you!
Yes the book Awake was definitely the most powerful book I read that helped the most
Other helpful books were Adyashanti's Falling Into Grace, another very powerful book, highly recommend any of his stuff
And then actually a book called the Introduction to the lighting process was quite helpful in directly addressing my beliefs about recovery, and others like How Your Mind can heal your body
But definitely Awake and Adyashanti's books were the most powerful and transformative
Did it get worse before it got better? Thank you so much for your videos
You're welcome :)
And yes it did and it would fluctuate, sometimes things would get better and then get worse again, sometimes worse and then better. So all the time just work with what comes up, what is here right now is what you need to face, and notice any reactions and thoughts, "I wish things were different than they are now" "I wish things were good again like they were at any other time" etc. If things suddenly feel a lot worse allow yourself to feel into whatever is coming up, the real key is not trying to make things feel good it's about turning towards the uncomfortable and scary and allowing and welcoming it and then things will naturally start to feel better
Thanks Kyle 😁👍
Thank you Kyle. Love your videos. When sitting with our “symptoms”, should we apply this to PEM as well? That’s really the hardest days for me
You're welcome Ryriffs :)
Yes absolutely would definitely recommend working with PEM like this
How long do you sit with sensations or resistance? Do you do multiple or single during a meditation?
I would do a long sit in the morning and the evening, probably around 50mins of focused meditation, noticing the sensations of breath at the nose
And then lots of short breaks throughout the day, maybe a few guided meditations and then just stop and feeling when I needed to
Also spent lots of time just being in nature
Thanks for your reply. I’ve been doing about 30 minutes 2x a day with extra guided meditations throughout the day but I was wondering, while your sitting, do you just feel one sensation the whole time or do you go from sensation to sensation during your sit?
Have u take remdesivir injection during covid treatment bro
Nope
Hi Kyle.
I have covid for two years now and make pneumonia each month... once or twice I literally don't know what to do anymore.
CFS was installed since day one of COVID two years ago.
Hi FW, sorry to hear about your struggles with the pneumonia, unfortunately I'm not a doctor so I really don't know much about pneumonia and can't really advise you on that :(
My videos are just about sharing the approaches I used to deal with symptoms and pointing out that what was keeping me stuck the whole time was actually my own beliefs and responses, so all I can really advise is that you try some of these approaches of looking into what beliefs you might be holding on to that could be keeping you stuck and trying some of the practices I've shared about working with symptoms and learning to not resist
After 3 years I got better but Now I got Tinnitus and Numbness On my Left side of buddy and afull brain fog and nothing helping me
Kyle ?