Judith Blackstone: Trauma and the Unbound Body

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Judith Blackstone is a pioneering teacher of contemporary spirituality best known for developing The Realization Process, a direct path toward nondual awakening. With Sounds True, she has most recently published the book Trauma and the Unbound Body. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Judith about applying The Realization Process to the healing process—whether it's physical, relational, or psychological. They discuss the Process's application to unprocessed trauma—especially how fully inhabiting the body can highlight long-term physical constrictions. Tami and Judith talk about the methods for releasing that constriction, as well as the difference between awareness of the body and inhabiting it. Finally, Judith leads listeners in a core breath practice for settling into the body and attuning to the fundamental consciousness that is always available to us. (57 minutes) Tami's Takeaway: As part of our conversation about "disentangling the constrictions" that are held in the body as a result of trauma, Judith Blackstone teaches one of the central practices of The Realization Process—the Core Breath Practice. This is a powerful technique for quickly entering the subtle core of the body (a vertical channel that is described in many spiritual traditions). Once we enter this subtle core, we have a powerful resource available to us for releasing traumatic experiences held in the body. The takeaway: do the Core Breath Practice regularly as a way to stay in deep inward contact and "unbind the body."

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
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0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Judith Blackstone.
0:41.6	Judith Blackstone is an innovative teacher in contemporary spirituality.
0:47.0	She developed the realization process, which is a direct path for realizing what Judith calls fundamental or non-dual consciousness,
0:58.3	as well as the application of non-dual realization for physiological, relational, and physical healing.
1:06.0	Here's my conversation with Judith Blackstone. Judith, you've written a beautiful new book with Sounds True, a very helpful book called Trauma and the Unbound Body. And in this book you really help
1:28.1	readers understand trauma from the perspective of the work you've been doing for the past several decades
1:36.2	in developing the realization process.
1:40.0	So to begin our conversation, can you help our listeners understand what the realization
1:46.5	process is and from the perspective of the realization process, how do you understand the healing of trauma?
1:55.0	Okay, sure. The realization process is a series of practices for helping us inhabit the body, not just be aware of our
2:08.3	body, but actually to live within it, to feel present within our body. And when we do that, we uncover very, very subtle dimension
2:19.0	we can say of consciousness, a very subtle ground of consciousness that we can experience pervading our whole
2:25.8	bodies if we were made of this consciousness and at the same time pervading our body
2:32.4	and environment.
2:34.4	And what that means is that as we do this initial practice of the realization process, we come to not only our internal sense of
2:45.6	wholeness, the deepest contact that we can experience with our own
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