The Practice
One House of Peace offers a Zen Awareness Practice of Consciousness. Anyone who wishes to deepen his or her spiritual pathway may participate. This practice of consciousness is open to all.
What is Awareness Practice?
It is a practice of personal transformation based on the foundation of focusing attention on the present moment. This focus assists us in disengaging from habitual, conditioned, and unsatisfying habits and behaviors such as stress, fear, and discontent. Awareness Practice helps us to see clearly, as such patterns arise, that we have the opportunity to make different choices. The Practice’s focus is on bringing awareness to process – how we do what we do – including both mental and physical as well as energetic patterns. As we attend to how and where limitation is created in our bodies, our minds, and in our energetic systems we learn to access the alternative: liberation. We learn to be free.
One House of Peace has helped guide me to a place where I really feel like anything is possible. I’ve always been introspective and have enjoyed the process of trying to uncover why I am the way I am, this all happening on a very intellectual level. Through practice and through consultations with Caverly, I have learned to trust in my experience and that I don’t need to always dig through the past to find an answer to the present. There’s a lot of freedom that comes with being able to be with whatever is in front of me. I am so grateful to One House of Peace and Caverly for providing the space so I could discover all of this for myself.
~Laura, Program Coordinator
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One House of Peace offers a practice and a pathway to end suffering by cultivating our ability to be conscious of body, mind, and spirit, while at the same time honing our capacity to accept and let go. In letting go of that which binds us, we are opened to a world of possibility, freedom, and joy.
What will I experience from doing this work?
- A deeper and more palatable experience of presence in your life
- An increased sense of possibility and freedom
- A way to transcend fear
- How to see your conditioned process of suffering clearly
- The ability to stay centered and grounded, no matter the context
- A way to see what motivates your actions rather than being enslaved by habitual reactions
- An understanding of how the chakra system is structured and how working with the energy in your body can help you transcend personal blocks
- Ways to understand your specific personality type more deeply
- How to clarify the lessons you are here to learn
- The ability to see how your conditioning creates a reality in which you suffer
- The ability to let go of that conditioning and live a life of freedom and presence
- The remembrance of who you authentically are
How will I experience this?
You will learn to experience this through:
- Learning to meditate (or deepening your meditation practice if you already have one)
- Gaining the skills to see process – how we cause ourselves to suffer
- Adopting tools to identify negative thought patterns and transform them
- Compassionate communication skills for conversing with the various aspects of the self and others
- Learning specific chanting and breathing techniques designed to shift the energy of the body
- Accessing the internal mentor within
- Learning how to create a regular practice of consciousness that is seamlessly integrated into your life