Fuel
I watched the latest Star Wars movie tonight. These types of movies are a good opportunity to stay in spacious awareness, and allow whatever is triggered in the personality to be triggered. The energy in the emotions helps expand, clarify and stabilize the spacious awareness. It is quite an interesting experience - the more habitual emotional patterns are triggered, the more space and presence there is.
When awareness is identified with the small self, whatever is triggered is blindly related to, in terms of fueling it further or trying to push it away. There is no space for anything else. We are blindly caught up in the drama of our own making.
When awareness awakens to its own nature, all the experiences of the personality unfolds within clear space - and the energy fuels this clarity and space. We see the drama, but there is no need to be caught up in it.
Of course, this happens in only some situations at first - typically those we are more comfortable in - and then spreads to more and more situations in our daily life. As we become familiar with the process, it becomes easier to transfer it to other situations.
This allows us to more fully engage in life, as the drama comes from a dualistic view, believing in thoughts and the reactions that arise when external/internal situations do not conform with these thoughts, and the confusion that comes from both of these. We can allow ourselves to experience whatever is triggered in the personality more fully - without fueling or pushing away. And the filters (at least some of them) fall away, and we can engage with life more directly.