Transcending The Levels Of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment

by David R. Hawkins

The technique of processing out involves very simple steps that all depend on willingness and the capacity to surrender. Stay with the feeling and stay focused on it unswervingly. Realize that all pain is due to resistance. The suffering of loss stems from the attachment and specialness. Be willing to become immersed in and surrender to the feelings without avoiding them. Notice that they come in waves and that surrendering to the most intense waves tends to decrease their emotional severity. Ask God’s help and surrender the personal will to God. (It is helpful to read the Ninety-first Psalm or other favorite spiritual passages.) Be willing to endure and suffer out the process. If not resisted, it will process itself out and come to an end. Although the suffering of loss is triggered by a specific event, the painful emotions of attachment have actually arisen from multiple sources over time, and there may be more of it below the surface than was first suspected. Thus, each loss actually represents all loss, for the experience is of loss itself and not just the specific event that brought it up to awareness. A helpful source of strength during the processing out of painful emotions is to identify with all of humanity and realize that suffering is universal and innate to the phenomenon of being human and the evolution of the ego.