ROBERT BRUMET IS A TEACHER, A WRITER AND A SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR.
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April 29, 2024
When you Feel Stuck
If your car is stuck it might be well to call upon AAA. If your dharma practice is stuck, it also might be well to call upon AAA—but not the same AAA! This second AAA stands for Awareness, Acceptance, and Allowance.
First bring awareness to the experience of “stuckness.” Notice the related physical sensations, thoughts, emotions, and desires.
After you bring awareness to your experience. see if you can bring a gentle acceptance to it as well. Acceptance does not necessarily mean that you like what you feel, it simply means that you can make it okay in this moment. Acceptance means nonresistance; it means letting go of the belief that “this should not be happening.”
Allowance means letting the experience stay, leave, change, or not change as it wishes—not necessarily as I would like it. It means to let it be and to let it become what it will. Allowance means having no agenda as to what arises in the next moment.
When you feel stuck explore that experience using the process of awareness, acceptance, and allowance. Don’t stop at the labels but explore the experience itself.
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