“the breath is the ‘thread’ that leads back through the heart to the present moment”
Simple Reality offers the Point of Power Practice as a strategy to reduce the ratio of reactions to responses. It is essentially a mindfulness meditation which is useful and available all day every day. We don’t just sit on a pillow for an hour a day; in fact our whole life becomes a meditation using the Point of Power Practice.
Author and teacher Ken Wilber points out: “It is important (particularly in our society, and particularly at this point in evolution) that one’s spiritual practice be integrated into daily life and work. … This continuity in practice is the single most important factor in developing and maintaining that high degree of concentration which facilitates the development of insight.”[i]
Seth tells us that our “point of power” is in the present moment, not the past or future. He suggests further that we can “reprogram our past” in the present moment. “When you alter your beliefs today you also reprogram your past. As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus, power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control.”[ii]
“For you, because of your neurological organization, the present is obviously the only point from which past and future can be changed, or when action becomes effected … . Therefore the present is your point of power in your current lifetime, as you think of it. If you assign greater force to the past, then you will feel ineffective and deny yourself your own energy.”[iii]
Insight # 76 comes to us from Roy Charles Henry (b. 1938). He is the creator of The Simple Reality Project.
“When our past false-self survival strategy or other conditioning is triggered, that moment is the point of power. At that ‘point’ we are presented with an all-important choice. If we choose to identify with the body, mind or emotions and react, remaining in P-B, we will experience afflictive emotions and suffering. If we choose to pause, remain calm and breathe, choosing to respond, we will experience the ‘feeling’ that characterizes P-A or Simple Reality. The breath is the ‘thread’ that leads back through the heart to the present moment and thence to the Implicate Order and the energy that is the foundation of all reality.”[iv]
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Additional Reading:
- Point of Power Practice, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 2
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[i] Wilber, Ken, et. al. Transformations of Consciousness. Boston: Shambhala Pub., Inc., 1986, pp. 140, 153, 168.
[ii] Roberts, Jane. The Nature of Personal Reality. New York: Bantam, 1974, p. 291.
[iii] Ibid., p. 303.
[iv] Henry, Roy Charles. “Point of Power Practice.” The ABC’s Of Simple Reality, Vol 2. May 2018, p. 98.
