August 2025

Candace Cave
Sep 27
4 min read

Hello,

This is what I've been feeling this summer. Perhaps you've felt some of the same?

Rapidly changing events and circumstances around the world this June/July/August 2025 have frequently stimulated uncomfortable dissonance, fear of the future and loss of substance.

Realization Process practice has brought me to a state of being that provides me an unwavering, undivided experience of unchanging safety within myself and my immediate environment.

Oneness with the Ground of Being reveals the transitory nature of all Aliveness, and allows me to let go of my grip on fear. Even if for only a few moments, that letting go gives me enormous relief and helps me not grasp so tightly.

Recently, I shared how this happens for me, during Q & A portion of a live Community Portal class.

"Everything is Changing”

A newer RP practitioner asked...

“I am going through an emotional turmoil in life right now.

How can Realization Process help me?”

Everything, all that we perceive or measure or is alive, changes. Except the undivided stillness of fundamental/unitive consciousness. This stillness can be felt seamlessly pervading everything, yet the experience of that spacious stillness remains unchanged by all the changing “everything.”

This is the embodied experience that Realization Process points us to uncover. And then RP helps us find a simple way to include this embodied experience of spacious stillness in our knowing of our own aliveness. We Realize, through a Process of (initially) guided practices, that this spacious feeling of pervasive stillness is a kind of “Ground” that includes/supports/unifies the always changing experiences of being alive.

I explained to the curious student that RP would help them let go of their grasp on the tumult. I suggested they could use Foundational Grounding to discover the experience of settling into oneness, Standing/Sitting Balance to feel received into the equilibrium of stillness amidst churning emotional turmoil, and also let the Core Breath gently draw them deeper into unity and wholeness so that they can live and breathe from the center of their experience, disentangling that grasp.

But those ways of responding to change require practice – you need to know where you’re going in order to arrive there in the midst of unpredictable change and tumultuous emotions. One of the wonderful things to discover about RP is that each practice reveals opportunities to open up more interior oneness with the pervasive stillness of fundamental consciousness.

So we practice Realization Process to gradually open enough we can remain in settled contact with our wholeness, including the stillness, while we ride the waves of aliveness constantly moving through and around us, pushing, pulling, grasping, slipping away. Everything is changing, except the still spaciousness of the ground of our wholeness of being– unified/fundamental consciousness.

And we practice RP to gradually open more and more interior spaciousness revealing room to disentangle the most subtle grasping on those patterns of “managing life changes” that inhibit/limit our contact with our self and oneness with the stillness of unitive/fundamental consciousness.

My beloved friend and RP colleague Dr. Zeb Lancaster expresses this beautifully in his upcoming book, Bonding with Unity. Healing with Whole-Being Embrace...

"We soften our obstructions and untangle the knots of body, mind, and emotion by refining our senses to enter the spacious stillness of unified consciousness. Here we can attend to our old wounds without losing touch with wholeness… Here we find the courage to face conflict because we’re nurtured by wholeness and stillness. Here our authenticity ripens, and a new union quietly blossoms.”

Remember, I explained to the RP student, the Realization Process practices are “enlightening,” but they are not realization itself. Realization occurs spontaneously when we have uncovered enough stillness, found enough wholeness, and can live enough within the subtle core of our body. Judith repeatedly tells us (and it's true!) "We only need to be whole enough."

And the RP practices do gradually open us to increasingly clear experience of stillness and internal continuity. And they help us discern where, in our body, mind, and emotions, we are “holding” ourself tight in ways that keep out that experience of stillness.

Realization Process practice reveals the stillness of Fundamental Consciousness as the undivided “ground" of wholeness of being. Our practice is to allow all expression of aliveness to change without disrupting our experience of the unchanging stillness.

With Love...

Candace

Engaging More People: A New Youtube Channel

Continuing our gentle quest to “Get the Word Out” to a larger audience about inhabiting the body, we’ve created a YouTube Channel for www.nondualembodiment.net. Talia DeFalco has been crucial to the development of this opportunity. Here, you’ll currently find videos and clips of Candace Cave and of Judith Blackstone. We hope to add videos by other RP Teachers, possibly even you.

As a Realization Process Teacher, we invite your contribution to the YouTube channel. If you have something meaningful to share about embodiment, nonduality, living in the subtle core, stillness, fundamental consciousness, ground of being, anything related to “nondual embodiment” as “defined by the experiences we uncover by practicing Realization Process."

Please contact Candace candace@embodiednonduality.com

Supporting Regular Practice: RP Community Practice Portal