Become a friend with edge

This is the second stage of edge work. About the first stage, see “Edge work” of Practice Guide.

When we enter subbody world and continue to travel various states, we often encounter edges which we are bound by an unpleasant body feeling or strange emotion.
We fall into confusion and we feel that we cannot proceed anymore.
If we meet these edges or blocked feeling, we have several behaviors ; as the following.

1.    Recognition

Just recognize it.  “Oh, you are there.”  

2.    Keep a safe distance

Until when you are ready to face it, keep a proper distance which you are not attacked by it. When you are going to be bound by it, release your self by brerahting, swaying, walking, moving, and change your condition from bound mode to released mode. Be carefull of the sudden attack! Find the safe distance. But don’t forget it.

3.    Listening

Continue to listen to the edge.  Ask the edge, “Who are you?”, “Where are you from?”, “What do you want to tell me?”

4.    Becoming

When you feel that you are ready to face it, become the edge. For this process, you need a partner. Give the edge feeling which you feel to your partners body. If you feel that you are pressed with specific feeling, give the same pressure to your partner.  Try to feel the edge, “What is this?”  You may notice what is the edge, with becoming the edge. And ask to your partner, “Please press me with the same pressure which you received.”  Taste the feeling which you are pressed from your partner. You can experience the edge from the both side. Through the experience, slowly you may notice what the edge wants to tell you.   After this is the second stage of edge work.

5.    Dance the edge

If you want to try to know more about the edge, dance the edge from both sides. At first dance the process that you are attacked by the edge. And next, dance the edge with becoming the edge which is attacking you. You will be aware of what the edge is going to tell you. It must be a wonderful awareness, because finally you can contact the important message from your life.  

6.    Become a friend

If you want to be a midwife of subbody, try to become a friend with your edges. I know that the feeling of the edge is so terrible, your first response must be the escape from it, it is natural. But when you continue to contact with the edges many times, you find that the message from the life is always bitter. When we endure the painful unpleasant feeling, we can receive the important message from the life.  I recommend you to become a friend strongly.

7.    Become a universal resonator

Because when we become a friend with the edges, we can notice that the edges are resonating with the others edge feeling. When we are familiar with the barrier for a weakest subbody within the darkness of our body. We can resonate with every kinds of edges as the handicapped people feel, weakened people feel, the dead people feel, and all kinds of unhappiness in the world. Only through the resonance by edge feeling, we can become a resonator in the world. It is one of the noblest ways of life in the world, don’t you feel so?            

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