Discover how to align your perception with the brain’s duality fantasy, thus feeling complete by twofoldness.

From Duality Hack #8.5 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.

»If you’re sitting in a safe and comfortable position, close your eyes and try to feel your heart beating in your chest. Can you, without moving your hands to take your pulse, feel each movement and count its rhythm? Or do you struggle to detect anything at all? This simple test is just one way to assess your ‘interoception’ – your brain’s perception of your body’s state, transmitted from receptors on all your internal organs … There’s a constant communication dialogue between the brain and the viscera (internal organs).«

The above test, to see if the connection between the brain and the body works, is from the article Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes wellbeing in The Guardian. Like Alexius’ Duality Hacks, it concludes that many people cut off the link between the body and the brain. And since the latter controls the body, it is left without guidance.

Therefore, according to Alexius’ Duality Hacks, this link must be re-established so the brain can govern the body. However, the article in The Guardian has another conclusion. It says you need to master the body, and in doing so, you get in touch with its signals and, therefore, your feelings because they are in the body.

But perceiving psychological feelings to be in the body entails suffering because psychological feelings seem heavy when assumed to be in something substantial instead of fleeting clouds in the psychological sphere. Besides, you are a product fabricated and conducted by the brain. So, believing you are the master, not a servant, you feel exhausted because only the brain knows what you are. 

In short, you are not the boss but a puppet mastered by the brain. That is why you feel vitalised when playing by the brain’s duality game, like playing along with the rules of a computer game makes you feel excited. In contrast, you feel worn out trying to override the brain’s set-up of duality.

Of course, you can leave the duality game if you do not like it. However, to leave it, you must play it. And since participating involves feeling it, we continue looking at feelings. 

As usual, we do not begin somewhere specific or end with a conclusion. Alexius’ Duality Hacks have nothing to establish because they know they are as illusionary as anything else in a world of duality. Nonetheless, reading the below ragbag of clips may help you see what you believe in being is an illusion.

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This Duality Hack (#8.5) is not about enlightenment or the reality of oneness but twofoldness because, seeing more than one, you must have opted for duality instead of non-duality. To undo your decision entirely, you must live by duality completely. Thankfully, it is easy when you do not suppress feelings, for example, aggression, but follow the interaction of aggression and peace, like you follow breathing in and out.

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Acknowledging the interplay of opposites makes you feel sound. That does not mean that everything is twofold in a world of duality. If you hammer a nail into the wall, the nail is not twofold. But if you do not edit your hammer experience, it is twofold, for example, easy and difficult.

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Many try to replicate non-duality in a world of duality by being solely positive. However, since their positivity depends on excluding negativity, they establish separation, not non-duality. Ergo, they feel incomplete instead of complete in the constant collaboration between positivity and negativity.

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A common reason for suppressing negative feelings is that one fears they are dangerous to express. For example, when Alexius was a kid, his father beat him if he said or did something judged offensive by his father. Thus, Alexius was afraid to voice his negative emotions accidentally.

But just like the negative pole in electricity is as important as the positive one, you need negative feelings as much as positive ones. When you avoid the negative ones, you deteriorate and blossom if you approve of them.

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When somebody triggers an old feeling of rejection in the special self, it first interprets it as an attack. Next, it blames the perceived attacker for having caused it. Therefore, since the unpleasant feeling seems to originate in the attacker, the special self concludes it has nothing to do with itself. 

If the perceived attacker exposes this self-deception, the special self points out something from the past that makes the attacker feel wrong. Hence, the special self seems off the hook, assured that it is okay and the attacker is not.

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Is life suffering, as some say? No life is non-duality, and it takes more than one to suffer. However, in a world of duality, you suffer if you want to have singular experiences because duality is twofold.

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Nobody but yourself has the power to make you suffer. Therefore, if you feel bad, it is because you see yourself as somebody. Thankfully, seeing yourself as nobody means no one suffers.

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Trouble always follows in the footsteps of somebody, whereas the bliss of nothing comes in the wake of nobody.

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Suffering comes not from something but from how you interpret your response to something. However, you do not fix that by making another interpretation because you probably choose a singular one, which is the root of your misery. Fortunately, if you perceive your suffering as ‘it is what it is,’ you see it is not specific but coupled with contentment. Hence, you neither feel specifically hurt nor content but vitalised by their constant interaction.

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If you want to undo the belief in duality, denying feelings by focusing on their energies is not helpful because the experience of duality rests on feeling it.

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To feel is not to exist because it takes more than one to feel something, and life is that which is One. In other words, it is only possible to feel something if you imagine being in a world with more than one. Can you feel it? Of course, you can. You are reading this. That means you think it is possible to be and have more than that which is One, and you uphold the illusion as ‘real’ by feeling something.

You undo this mistake by acknowledging what you feel. Next, you perceive your reaction to it as ‘it is what it is,’ revealing your response is not singular but twofold. Then, you do not focus on the two polarity elements but go with their interaction, which is the duality flow. Remaining in the flow, you feel so complete that you eventually dismiss the experience of more than one as real.

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Unlike the special self, the basic one does not wish to modify or change anything. So, although it is scary when the brain’s script brings it down, the basic self knows fear contains joy because everything is twofold in a world of duality.

In the interaction of fear and joy, the basic self gets the thrill of the duality flow. On the other hand, the special self does not get it because it bans fear from its awareness to feel joy only. But there is no joy without fear, so it feels dissatisfied.

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The special self gets upset when it sees something it judges as wrong, thus imprisoning itself by its rules. In contrast, the basic self does not see anything as precisely right or wrong because it is in the constant interaction of opposites. So, it is free to be in the present as it is.

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Like a criminal, the basic self does not think in terms of right or wrong. But unlike a criminal, it does not replace these categories with a calculation of what it can get away with. Instead, it remains in the interaction of right or wrong, thus in the duality flow.