Offering Up or Right Here
One practice, common to many traditions - and one that may arise spontaneously during awakenings as well - is offering to the divine.
Offering any perceived problems, a difficult situation, our human self, our relationships and those close to us, our material possessions, our community, earth, the universe, existence. All we do is really to offer aspects of God back to God, and we do it for our sake - to remind us of this, to release our sense of anything being not divine, of anything being separate, of any "I" anywhere in all of this.
In terms of perceived problems - and everything else, it helps us loosen our grip on it and our perceived identification with it.
Some time back when I did this, there was a sense of it being offered "up" to the divine. Now, it just seems to happen in place. This is similar to the shift that happened for me in receiving deeksha, initially experiencing it as coming from above and "outside", and now as happening right in place - coming out of every point of space. Flowing directly out of the Ground, everywhere.
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