In deep meditation you can witness
how experience is woven together.
Such witnessing leaves traces.
Your hidden aspects become integrated.
A feeling of authenticity arises.
It is deeper than what you can hear or study.
It begins to unravel future patterning.
Bearing no future patterns, you become unbound.
Mindfulness (and other deeper states) triggers a self-reflexive loop-- feedback-- in which becoming aware of autonomic and perceptual processes calms and soothes these processes, which then become continued objects of awareness.... As integration deepens, the stresses of consciousness-- maintaining a self-sufficient story along with an identity to tell it-- resolve into equanimity, so that the changes of life, things rising and dissipating, are not only tolerated, but expected, and perhaps even quietly enjoyed. Like watching waves on the sea.
- from threads of yoga, by Matthew Remski, p. 164-5
