Illumement

Beyond meditation: where harmlessness and clarity become one

Illumement, in its simplest and purest form, is all-encompassing harmlessness, to be at one with yourself. Achieving and practising illumement requires that you bring all of your own energies, your Life Force energies as well as your thoughts and emotions, into a state of balance and harmony. Through illumement, you will access the true energies of your Life Force and, in turn, illuminate your life with the energies of harmlessness.

Like other practices such as meditation, illumement carries different meanings depending upon the reason for undertaking it. At its simplest, illumement is being at one with your true self. Through learning to bring quietness to your mind and silencing the endless noise of your thoughts, emotions and feelings, the essence of your true self, the Life Force, gradually begins to emerge.

The light of your Life Force, the true self within all people, is hidden behind barriers of material thoughts, emotions and feelings built up by your mind and persona. Through an open, peaceful and quiet mind, this light of your Life Force can be awakened.

An essential part of illumement is learning to work with your active intellect to bring about a quietness and calmness of your mind. This must be understood before progressing further. Without that calmness and quietness within your mind, as the energies of your Life Force awaken, they can feed the rampant and uncontrolled thoughts and emotions of your passive intellect rather than still them.

To understand illumement is to understand creation, its energies, and your place within creation as an energy being. Breaking down emotional immersion and freeing yourself from passive intellectual reactions gradually but surely releases more of your Life Force energies. Those energies and that strength of your Life Force then flow into the component parts of you and into the world at large.

As you continue to work with your Life Force energies, the light of your Life Force shines progressively further into your mind. As you balance and harmonise with those energies, your Life Force mind will begin to awaken, asserting control over your mental mind and passive intellect. When the Life Force mind takes control of the mental consciousness, a more complete state of illumement can be realised, freeing you from the emotional rollercoaster of life.

Through the practice of Cognition, a true calmness of mind, illumement becomes more accessible. At higher states of illumement, you can experience the realities of the energies that exist within you and around you. Through deeper states of Cognition, the reality of the world around you within the wider cosmos can be more fully appreciated and understood.

Your personal experiences will give you the insight, understanding and motivation to change the way you feel, think and react. Through the activities and knowledge gained from The Life Force Institute, you are given directives and practical activities to apply your Life Force energies into your daily life. This allows you to move beyond the achievements of mindfulness and positive thinking, which are limited to the mental mind, so that you can free yourself from physical, psychological and emotional limitations.

It is worth understanding that illumement is not a fixed state you arrive at and then maintain without further effort. It is a living quality that deepens with practice and that responds directly to the degree of inner honesty and discipline you bring to the work. In its earlier stages, illumement may feel like moments of unusual clarity or a brief settling of the mind’s habitual noise. As your practice matures, these moments extend and stabilise, becoming less the exception and more the baseline from which you operate. What once required deliberate effort gradually becomes the natural aspect of your life.

The relationship between illumement and harmlessness is not incidental. Harmlessness is not the starting point of illumement, it is its natural expression.  You do not become harmless by just deciding to be. You become harmless as the energies that generated harmful thinking, whether toward yourself or others, lose their hold. This is one of the clearest signs that genuine illumement is taking hold: not dramatic inner experiences, but a quiet and growing inner sense of peace and harmlessness.

Illumement also changes your relationship in ways that go beyond thoughts and emotions. As your Life Force Mind asserts greater control over your mental mind, your perception of the events and people around you begins to alter. Where the passive intellect reacts, the Life Force Mind perceives. Where your conditioned mind judges, your illumined mind now understands. This does not mean passivity or an absence of discernment. It means that your responses arise from a place of true clarity rather than mental or emotional habit. Situations that previously generated anxiety, conflict or confusion do not require suppression, because the energetic conditions that once made those reactions inevitable have been better understood and resolved. This is what illumement offers: not escape from life, but a fundamentally different quality of engagement with it.