ReAwaken To Express the Life That Is Naturally Desired
Rooted in Direct Path Non-Duality, Context Awakening, and the Universal Family
All apparent individuals—minds and bodies—are not truly separate entities, but fleeting modulations of a single, impersonal reality: pure being, or awareness. What is commonly referred to as “my life” or “my self” is, in truth, not authored by a separate agent. The sense of individuality arises only through identification with thought and sensation. In reality, there is only awareness—whole, unchanging, and without boundary—shining through every form.
This universal awareness, called here beingness, naturally seeks to express itself through the appearance of the individual—not through striving or effort, but through effortless resonance. The life that is most deeply desired is not a personal accomplishment but the free and spontaneous flowering of this impersonal being through form.
To live this life, we must first recognise what we are: not a separate entity, but the impersonal, infinite beingness in which all experiences appear. This recognition is not theoretical; it is direct, immediate, and always available. When clearly seen, a quiet realignment begins—one in which every dimension of our experience starts to harmonise with the silent intelligence of our true nature.
Context Awakening: Attuning to Being Through Form
While the formless nature of being is our primary context, the body and mind serve as relative contexts through which this being expresses itself. The workshop Context Awakening invites us to attend not only to the silence of beingness, but also to the subtle, intelligent signals arising within the body-mind system. These signals—emotions, sensations, intuitions, energies—are not personal obstacles, but instruments of attunement.
Seen clearly, these expressions function as a kind of internal compass, gently pointing toward alignment or misalignment with the wholeness, aliveness and truth of beingness. Pleasure, ease, resonance, and openness often indicate movement toward alignment; contraction, confusion, or discomfort often suggest movement away. This is not moral or psychological evaluation, but the natural rhythm of being making itself known.
The Universal Family: Meeting the Inner Landscape with Wisdom
To support this deep listening, we introduce the metaphor of the Universal Family. Just as a healthy external family includes diverse members—each with unique qualities, roles, and expressions—so too does our internal landscape contain aspects of being. These are not personal sub-personalities, but universal movements of consciousness manifesting through the body-mind. With beingness as the parental reality, never changing, always present and the source of aliveness and wholeness in which the children of the helpful but limited adolescent mind and child body can be safe. Context Awakening and the Universal Family are offered as entry points to this understanding and work together.
When we recognise the inner voices of our children the mind and body as impersonal aspects of the whole—not as personal dysfunctions—we begin to unhook from the mistaken identity that makes their expression feel threatening or shameful. Defensive patterns lose their charge when we meet them as impersonal echoes of unmet needs, misunderstood energies, or early conditioning.
Through this lens, even resistance becomes relational. We no longer “fix” ourselves; we listen, we attune, we include. Each inner experience has something to show us—not about our failure, but about the path back to coherence. In doing so, the body and mind are liberated to express not reaction, but authentic, embodied clarity. Needs are no longer distorted by fear or defended by habit; they are revealed, honoured, and allowed to move freely in the world.
Blocks and Breakthroughs
Despite early conditioning and external pressures, this intelligence never ceases its movement toward liberation. Even deeply embedded patterns—those formed in childhood, absorbed in the womb, or inherited culturally—are still made of being. They are not outside truth; they only appear as obstacles when viewed through the lens of separation.
As we deepen in simply being, our relationship to these patterns transforms. We do not try to eliminate them, but to illuminate them. Every contraction, every defensive gesture, becomes a doorway back to our true nature. Even unpleasant emotions become allies, revealing the precise places where truth has been resisted.
Effortless Fulfilment
The life that is naturally desired is not the result of personal effort. It is the natural expression of the truth we already are. It is not designed by ego, nor achieved by striving, but revealed through presence. As identification with the separate self dissolves, the flow of life begins to unfold in seamless coherence.
This life is not passive, but deeply vital—moved not by fear or seeking, but by the intelligence of love. Expression becomes clear, action becomes simple, and needs are met without manipulation or repression. From this place, relationship is authentic, creativity is spontaneous, and peace is no longer a goal—it is the ground.
The Living Integration: Beingness Speaking
While these teachings—Direct Path recognition, Context Awakening, and the Universal Family—can be described individually to support understanding initially, they are not truly separate. They are facets of a single, living reality. Their integration does not occur through academic study or intellectual mastery, but through the immediacy of lived experience—here, now, in this very moment.
This is the invitation of the Beingness Speaking Meetings: not to accumulate concepts, but to directly share in the living presence of being. In these gatherings, through silent sitting, experiential inquiry, shared reflection, and subtle attunement, these elements come alive—not as beliefs to hold, but as truth to be known. Together, we rest as what we are, and allow the natural unfolding of this being to express itself in clarity, connection, and freedom.
From here, expression arises without distortion.
From here, truth lives itself, freely.
This is expressing the life that is naturally desired.
Please note this work is of a educational, spiritual and philosophical nature and not a form of therapy or psychological treatment and not a substitute for psychological or medical treatment. If you are in any doubt please see a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist in your region.
The Heart of Naturally Being: The Direct Path Of Non Duality
What is shared at Naturally Being is based on the Direct Path approach to non-duality, drawing on several wisdom traditions—especially Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism—as well as neuroscientific insights into human needs, trauma, addiction, and mental health. These sources are interpreted and integrated through the direct realisation and lived experience of our guides, bringing together deep presence with psychological clarity. These teachings are summarised in the books Naturally Being and The Naturally Being Inquiries, as well as in ongoing writings on the Naturally Being Substack.
At Naturally Being, we support a way of life grounded in the deep experiential understanding of non-duality—an awakening to our true impersonal nature beyond the illusion of the limitation of the mind. The reality that is aware of these words, we discover is an impersonal reality, that has no form the mind can see, but we can nevertheless be aware of directly. As we are aware of our essential nature, here simply called impersonal beingness, we discover quite naturally, it is complete, whole and never affected by what it is aware of. Moreover it is the source of the very life-affirming aliveness at the foundation of our life. For this reason sometimes referred to as “loving beingness”, for it embraces everything with loving non-attached indifference. Living aware of this we find our lives are bathed in the peace of our essential nature with is ever-present and never-changing, and from here we can see life as an expression in this eternal moment of this and not fall prey to viewing life through the limiting narratives of the mind. For most, this awakening is not a sudden event but a natural and often gradual unfolding.
This does not lead to amoral individualism or nihilism. Rather, it reconnects us with the original spirit behind moral values: a deep, natural care for others, for ourselves, and for life itself. These qualities do not arise from imposed rules but from the inner clarity that comes with awakening. They are the natural outflow of living in alignment with our essential nature.
Therefore, non-duality is not an escape from life, but an invitation to engage more deeply with it. It is both a waking up—to the unchanging presence that we truly are—and a waking down—integrating that peace and wholeness into our daily living. It is naturally supported by, and in return supports, a life rooted in sound mental and physical health, and a sincere respect for both the living and non-living environment.
In this work, we sometimes refer to the mind as the “adolescent mind”—not to diminish it, but to reflect its relative immaturity compared to the deeper intelligence we discover of its source the impersonal beingness. It can be brilliant and creative, but also reactive and self-centred and limiting when left unguided by the peace of its source. When we recognise the impersonal reality that the mind arises from and no longer mistake limiting thinking for our identity, the adolescent mind becomes a useful servant rather than a confused master. The body, too, is honoured not as a separate or personal object, but as a transparent expression of the same impersonal beingness that gives rise to all things, including the world and universe.
We experience, we are a “no-thing” beingness or reality or simply this, that is everything, appearing as something. Returning to this recognition we still function through the vehicle of the mind and body, and we still make decisions. These decisions are most beneficial when guided by the understanding that life is not separate, but intimately one. This way of life is an effortless conscious evolution: a commitment not to be swept away by the mind’s habitual egoic patterns, but to naturally be rooted as loving beingness, guided by discernment.
It is a way of living that is compassionate and realistic about the limits and challenges of the human experience. Importantly, this understanding does not aim to create a utopia as it recognised happiness lies not in the world, but in beingness itself. It acknowledges that we may act from a profound disconnection from empathy, sometimes becoming intolerant or even destructive. This, too, is part of human life, and can be understood and resolved with the immutable loving of our essential nature. It accepts the imperfections of life while offering the possibility of building a world based not on fear, but on love, understanding, and mutual respect. It embraces diversity rather than demanding conformity. It invites each individual to live with integrity and unique authenticity, rooted in the presence of beingness.
In today’s world—marked by high levels of anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and disconnection from basic psychoeducation about needs, trauma, addiction, other emotional problems and neurodiversity—many of us naturally may require additional support in restoring balance and resilience as part of engaging with these teachings. Understanding the emotional systems that drive human behaviour is a vital foundation. Learning how to recognise and respond to these needs is not separate from this understanding—it is a part of it. While the non-dual perspective can be profoundly healing, it is not a replacement for psychotherapy or mental health support where chronic issues persist.
Please note this work is a educational program and not a form of therapy or psychological treatment and not a substitute for psychological or medical treatment. If you are in any doubt please see a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist in your region.
Are You Ready to Explore?
The following questions are designed to help you reflect on whether you're ready to engage with the direct path of non-duality—a radical but profoundly compassionate approach to truth, freedom, and inner peace. You don’t need to answer “yes” to all of them; rather, see if they resonate or spark curiosity within you.
Are you seeking a lasting source of peace, safety, and fulfilment beyond the fleeting highs of achievements, relationships, material success, or self-help techniques?
Do you feel drawn to understand and transform psychological suffering—not just manage it—through a deeper insight into the nature of mind, emotion, and identity?
Are you open to the possibility that who you believe yourself to be—and the reality you perceive—might not be the full truth, and that a more profound way of seeing is possible?
Have you begun to notice that joy, love, and meaning are not tied to circumstances, but seem to arise naturally when you’re deeply present or at ease?
Do you long to live from a place of inner freedom, where qualities like compassion, clarity, intelligence and gratitude flow effortlessly, regardless of external outcomes?
Are you willing to question deeply held beliefs, face inner resistance, and explore what lies beyond thought, identity, and egoic patterns such as fear, shame, or guilt?
Have you ever sensed—or glimpsed—a quiet, unchanging awareness behind all experience, and felt a mysterious pull to return to that stillness or truth?
Do you find yourself drawn to spiritual teachings that go beyond doctrines, rituals, or belief systems?
Are you ready to explore not by adding more knowledge, but by unlearning and letting go of what no longer serves your inner peace?
You are invited to rediscover your essential innate nature that is the source of a sense of indestructible wholeness and aliveness no matter what the circumstances; learn to shed self-limiting beliefs, heal mental wounds, and live free of fear with joyful enthusiasm.
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