Twofold reactions make you feel wholly in a world of duality. But singular ones make you feel lost.
From Duality Hack #8.2 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.
This Duality Hack (#8.2) is written within the context of duality because you need to be fully anchored in the belief in duality if you want to undo it completely. However, you are far from that if you believe in a body-union integration, assuming something physical causes your psychological problems or a psychological issue causes your physical pain.
For example, you interpret the physical pain in your foot as fatal and imagine it as linked to a psychological issue from the past. Hence, you conclude the psychological aspect has caused the physical one.
Hereafter, the physical and psychological issues seem to impact each other significantly the more your imagination runs wild on a ‘what if…?’ loop. Fortunately, when you perceive your reaction to your thought-up possibilities as ‘it is what it is,’ you see your response is twofold. Hence, there is no specific reaction to confirm your alleged cause-and-effect between a non-physical and physical issue. Consequently, it is no longer and never was except in fantasy.
Hence, the physical problem can be fixed materially, and the psychological one can be dealt with immaterially. Naturally, this is much easier and less scary than fantasising about a connection between physical and psychological issues.
If you tell a doctor the world spins around you, you will probably be diagnosed with vertigo. But that does not mean the doctor believes your experience is real. On the contrary, it is a hallucination. The world does not revolve around you. However, that does not mean you should turn down your experience – only that it is real. Then, the fear disappears, and you realise the whirling sensation is inside you. Outside, the world goes on as usual. So, you correct your experience of the world spinning around you like you constantly correct seeing the earth as flat. Eventually, you realise that all experiences need correction. None is real since it takes more than one to be aware of something.
Twofold reactions make you feel whole in a world of duality
Having vertigo is a glaring example of believing that the experience of something beyond the bounds of possibility is authentic. The world does not spin around you, but you have an inner vision where everything rotates to suppress your fearful interpretation of an event. Since the whirling sensation disturbs the image of yourself, you project the sensation onto the outside world.
That is, until you stand by your fearful interpretation. Then, it can be perceived as ‘it is what it is.’ The perception makes a crack in your single-minded interpretation, and something vague comes out of the fear you felt. But as soon as it is defined by fear, the vagueness is felt as fearless, redefining fear. So, since you cannot feel afraid without being fearless and vice versa, you do not need to avoid the experience you initially interpreted as fearful.
Put another way, when you apply the perception, ‘it is what it is’ to a single-minded response like feeling sad, you wait a little in a laid-back manner. Then, an airball comes out of sadness, which feels like it balloons outward in a swelling bubble of happiness if you do not attempt to embrace it.
When you hold onto happiness by ignoring its interaction with sadness, you feel alone because happiness is a singular without its counterpart sadness. On the other hand, if you go with the interaction of happiness and sadness, you feel together in their completeness.
Should this procedure seem too complicated or you forget what to perceive as ‘it is what it is,’ you perceive your confusion as ‘it is what it is.’ Since it reveals confusion is not singular but twofold, you are in the duality flow, thus feeling not confused but fulfilled.*
Other ways of approaching vertigo
If your vertigo experience is not too intense, you can approach it by requesting the brain to clarify your experience so the world does not seem to move around you.
But suppose a physical problem causes your vertigo, such as tiny calcium crystals loose in the inner ear. In that case, you deal with it materially, for example, by consulting a healthcare professional or doing the Epley exercise. However, if your reason for doing that is to get it over and done with, you are most likely fixated on returning to things as they were.
Therefore, you do not feel fine regardless of the outcome like you do when you perceive your reasoning as ‘it is what it is’ and see it as not singular but twofold. However, this hack is about to finish, so it is up to you to explore what interacts with your singular logic.
If the ending seems abrupt, and your reaction is astonishment, please perceive it as ‘it is what it is’ to feel the interaction of surprise and calmness. Then, move on to other duality pairs, such as abrupt/gradual, beginning/end, or expectation/surprise. If you do not stop the duality flow by avoiding or enhancing one of the parts in a duality pair, the interaction of opposites eventually blows you away. Hence, nobody walks a path without distance or direction to non-duality.
*) Alexius does not write about something he has not encountered himself. So he knows that the perception ‘it is what it is’ works in the way he puts forth. However, in his case, he primarily uses the fulfilment of the duality flow as a stepping stone to glimpses of the Enlightenment of that which is One. Thus, he goes to sleep, showered by light, and wakes up to Celestial Music. See Duality Hack #11.5.
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