Re-Awaken To Express
What Is Loved
Naturally Being
Naturally Being is an exploration of the impersonal, ever-present awareness that underlies all experience. This work is an invitation to move from intellectual understanding to direct experience, uncovering a deeper way of living aligned with your true nature — a boundless, loving, and ever-present being.
All apparent individuals — minds and bodies — are not truly separate entities, but fleeting modulations of a single, impersonal conscious or aware reality: pure being. What is commonly referred to as “my life” or “my self” is, in truth, not authored by a separate agent. There is only the beingness of this — whole, unchanging, and without boundary — shining through every form. The sense of separation from this beingness arises only through identification with thought and sensation.
Beingness is not passive; it is deeply alive, driven not by fear or desire but by an impersonal, intelligent love. Sometimes referred to as “loving beingness,” it embraces all things with unconditional, non-attached inclusion. 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. Expression becomes effortless, actions feel natural, and needs are met without manipulation or suppression. From this place, relationship is authentic, creativity is spontaneous, and peace is no longer a goal — it is the ground. This is the natural state of all human beings.
Layers Of Experience
To aid understanding of this, Naturally Being considers three layers of experience. These layers show how each level of our being can embody the belief to be separate — from the subtlest identification to the body’s reactions, to thought and behavior. As we see through this belief and remain in the conviction that we cannot know it to be true, the presence of our very beingness dissolves this illusion at every level. This does not come through conceptual analysis or abstract reasoning. It arises through the simple, honest inquiry into our own embodied conscious nature — a movement from thinking about experience to directly knowing ourselves as aware beingness itself.
🔵 Inner Layer: Core Context of Beingness
Identification
The belief in a separate self — “I” as thinker, doer, or experiencer. This foundational assumption gives rise to the perception of time and space as objective reality, forming the basis for all personalization and reactive interpretation. When this belief is absent or seen through, experience unfolds without ownership, narrative, or the typical chain of reactivity, leaving the innate life-affirming qualities of beingness to flow free of such reactive conditioning.
🟢 Middle Layer: Context of Bodily Perceptual Processing
Sensing
Raw, pre-conceptual experience arising within awareness:
– Exteroception: sensing the outer world (sights, sounds, textures, movements)
– Interoception: sensing the inner body (heartbeat, breath, tension, internal shifts)
This is the direct, neutral arising of life before mental interpretation. Something sensed becomes salient. Attention locks onto it. This is the moment when neutral sensing is narrowed into a focus of concern, interest, or alertness. The body automatically responds to input to protect itself through the autonomic nervous system. This includes changes in heart rate, breath, muscle tone, and hormonal shifts — producing the groundwork for emotional tone and readiness for action. This response is fast, unconscious, and shaped by both recognition and evolutionary conditioning. This response is determined by an instinctual template of needs the body-mind has that ensure its survival:
Physical needs (safety, pain avoidance, freedom of movement, rest, and rejuvenation)
Social needs (belonging, intimacy, trust, status, acceptance)
Contextual/meaning needs (coherence, identity stability)
🟠 Outer Layer: Context of Mental Interpretive and Expressive Output
Pattern Recognition
The salient sensory input is compared, unconsciously and rapidly, to stored memory and conditioning (This stage often involves the Default Mode Network (DMN), associated with self-referencing and autobiographical memory), initiating a potential reactive sequence where the core context of being is believed to be separate and what is sensed is perceived to be separate from that, or, welcoming it as a movement of beingness where everything is appercieved as one.
Emotion (lower-order states)
Where the core identification context is not the natural state of beingness and instead conceptualized as a separate personal object, a learned emotional label is applied to the body’s state, giving it narrative and personal charge (e.g., “fear,” “anger,” “shame”). Therefore, emotions organize internal states and reinforce continuity of self reactively, unless seen clearly as passing constructs of impersonal beingness in response to the body’s survival needs and an embodied expression of the core aliveness of beingness.
Cognition (higher-order states)
Thoughts, beliefs, stories, judgments, and mental interpretations arise — typically to explain or justify what is being felt. These may reinforce the sense of self, or not, if the belief in a separate self is no longer present. When unclaimed by identification, cognition loses its compulsive power and becomes a functional appearance within beingness.
Action
The behavioral expression — what is said, done, avoided, suppressed, or expressed. Action reflects the accumulated influence of the preceding stages, either becoming psychologically reactive and inwardly defensive, or outwardly proactive where the motivation is the natural life-affirming nature of beingness informing practical and creative activity.
The Determining Factor - Awakening To The Context of Being
The key to how these layers respond is when beingness becomes aware of itself, free from limited identification. It recognizes itself not as a separate entity but as the infinite, impersonal awareness in which all experience arises. 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 harmonize with the silent intelligence of our true nature. In practice, this framework draws on deep contemplative inquiry and lived experience. The essence of this inquiry is about dropping the conceptual mind and experiencing your own true nature directly as this aware beingness. It’s a case of looking within and being aware of aware beingness itself, rather than attempting to understand or conceptualize it. It is about understanding that the mind cannot say anything about this beingness other than it exists, and in this openness of not knowing, it cannot claim ownership over this beingness as if it were dependent on the mind.
True freedom is found in “waking up” to the ever-present, undefinable beingness that is prior to all experience and in “waking down”—bringing this awareness into our everyday lives, aligning our actions and needs with the natural wholeness of beingness. This way of life does not lead to nihilism or amoral detachment. Rather, it reconnects us with the original spirit behind moral values: a natural care for life that arises not from imposed rules, but from clarity and love. It is not an escape from the world, but a call to engage with it from wholeness. It honors emotional realism, psychological depth, and the complexity of being human. It acknowledges that while our essential nature is free, the human experience is layered, imperfect, and often in need of healing support.
For most, this awakening is not a sudden event but a gradual unfolding. In that unfolding, we begin to relate differently to mind and body. The “adolescent mind,” while brilliant and creative, becomes a wise servant rather than a reactive controlling master. The body, too, is no longer seen as a personal object but as a transparent expression of the same impersonal beingness. Even while functioning through these forms, we discover that the peace of our essential nature is ever-present and untouched, and decisions made from this space tend to reflect compassion, authenticity, and wise discernment.
In today’s world — marked by anxiety, emotional overload, and a widespread disconnection from basic psychoeducation — many of us require additional grounding and healing support as we open to this perspective. Understanding how unmet needs, trauma, or neurodiversity shape our responses is not separate from awakening; it is part of the process. Non-duality and psychological insight are not competing paradigms — they are two complementary aspects of a life lived in awareness.
The Gatherings of Naturally Being
The gatherings in Naturally Being are based on this framework for living in alignment with our natural beingness, free from mental definitions. They are designed to be short, accessible and affordable. The approach taken in these gatherings respects the starting point of all minds present, with the underlying premise that our essential identity is beingness and not a personal agent. Though guided by Freyja, these meetings are not presented in the typical teacher-student format, which can often subtly reinforce a sense of separateness. These meetings are highly experiential and a space for shared exploration of experience, respecting the wisdom being expressed by each mind as it is recognised as an expression of beingness. Questions may arise, insights shared, understanding achieved. Each meeting type represents a particular entry point theme to be explored.
In Universal Family gatherings, we use the metaphor of parental beingness, adolescent mind, and child body to quickly orient ourselves to beingness and provide tools for addressing emotional reactivity with compassion.
In Context Awakening gatherings, the map clarifies how the mind’s drive for contextual meaning can impose limitation on beingness, reducing it to a fragmented personal identity, and how this is released by becoming aware of the context of aware beingness directly.
In Beingness Speaking gatherings, by taking our stand and speaking as impersonal beingness, we inquire as a group into our experience of these layers to gently dissolve the remaining residues of identification.
In Natural Wealth gatherings, we inquire as a group into our experience of money and material wealth to clarify how we may overcome fears surrounding this and build lives of balance and health.
In all of these approaches, awakening is supported not by belief or idealism, but by a sincere inquiry into our embodied conscious nature, restoring integrity, peace, and grounded freedom to every layer of life. The meetings are offered on a sliding scale to accommodate financial circumstances. Where required Freyja can also offer private guidance too. Please email freyja@naturallybeing.one to arrange.
These threads are expressed in the book Naturally Being and writings shared via the Naturally Being Substack.
Please note this work is of an 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.