One of the most confusing things about awakening or any kind of shift is realizing how much

doesn't change. And this doesn't get talked about a lot. So it can be easy to think that there's

something wrong. So I want to talk about what does change after awakening and what doesn't change. And I'm going

to start with really the key insight right at the top, which is that after awakening, the content of

experience doesn't change, but our relationship to experience does.

Your nervous system does not change.

My daughter has been going through this habit of waking up at 3 a.m. recently, which means that I have to go downstairs and sleep on the couch,

which is frankly knackerying for me and for my wife.

And last night, our younger daughter at 3 a.m started whimpering. And this surge of adrenaline

came up. Now, she settled down and went back to sleep, so we all got to stay

on our own beds, which was good. But it was interesting to observe the fight or flight response

is still there in exactly the same way it was before, only now it's not a problem. It's not something

to be fixed. It is interesting. And one woman that I've been

working with who has had a significant shift during our time working together, she raised this with

me and she had a strong bodily reaction to something that happened that really surprised her and she wanted to know if

that was an issue and I said identification with the mind absolutely drops away.

You know the sense of this is wrong or this needs to be fixed but the body still has conditioning

and patterns and particular wiring and triggers and all sorts of

stuff and those things in the body still get fired so the nervous system still can carry on as before

triggers still get fired as well.

So if I talk about an experience for me, I sometimes call organisations, businesses, and I'll

speak to someone either on front desk or when you get trapped in the,

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