OM is a mind-training practice that teaches us to attune to life with equal, simultaneous attention at the level of sensation so that, through resonance, we can experience intimacy in each moment. We can live in pitch-perfect response.
In OM, there are three speeds, three pressures, two directions, five lengths, and ten spots that in various combinations compose the sensory palate that plays throughout OM and our everyday lives. Whatever we are able to maintain continuous connection with, we have facility with, and with facility comes a sense of freedom.
Where our attention is unable to properly track and connect, we experience reactivity in the form of grasping, rejection, and checking out; we feel at the mercy of our ingrained responses, rather than feeling we have a choice.
The intention of OM, then, is to develop an attention that can accurately track and remain with sensation continuously in the face of not only a reality that changes, but one that changes in relationship.
In OM, the attention is being trained in the high art of moving with all gradients of sensation while participating as its conduit in a mutually influencing relationship. This is a key aspect of OM because it sets new grooves in the mind that prime it for relationships based in interdependency between two poles.
Developing this kind of attention is both extremely challenging and highly rewarding. A keen, zeroed-in, moment-to-moment inclination toward interdependency regulates attention into a state of taut, active awareness that can respond with optionality: the quality of having every option open equally with the depth to choose the path most in alignment with Eros.
The mind training that OM offers in optionality corrects for the tendency to develop peak states in isolation that do not translate into relational reality as well as the perception that the mundane experience of life cannot contribute to peak states.
In OM, we focus on finding peak-state consciousness in connection. This vertical consciousness is the capacity to first enter the Erotic state—which will be marked by a sense of presence, a feeling of timelessness and connection to all things—without any thought.
We then begin to build our lives outward from that state—one stroke at a time—until it becomes the whole of our lives. We learn to experience the feedback loop of reciprocity through the practice of OM until it becomes the way we relate with the entirety of our lives, until we achieve what is called unconditionality.
Unconditionality is the ability to meet and find this resonance with life such that the higher-order states of consciousness—love, freedom, Eros, peace, creativity—are available to us irrespective of conditions.
When we can find this resonance irrespective of the stroke we receive in an OM, we can abstract it and find it irrespective of the conditions in our lives. This develops a mind that is resourceful, resilient, subtle, and receptive. OM realized is the liberation of attention that makes available an unconditional intimacy with life.
