Realization Process

Embodied meditation towards a direct experience of wholeness.

The Realization Process offers a powerful, precise and effective method for releasing trauma within the body.

Dr. Judith Blackstone created the Realization Process, a method for realizing one’s true nature and undistorted identity as Consciousness. It is both a spiritual path and simultaneously a psychological method for releasing deeply held trauma in the body to help you become more present in the whole internal space of your body.

I invite you to read below, to learn more about the Realization Process through Judith’s words (excerpted from her books), most recent interviews as well as guided meditations recorded by Judith, herself.

  • “The body is our instrument of realization. Enlightenment occurs in and through the body.” – Judith Blackstone, PhD

  • “Even though our basic nature is wholeness, somehow we become divided. This is because the traumatic events that occur in all human lives cause us to fragment and diminish our ability to live fully within our body.” - Judith Blackstone, PhD

  • “Our fundamental dimension of consciousness, the core of our being, has never been injured.” – Judith Blackstone, PhD

  • “Spiritual maturity can be seen as the realization of the fundamental unity of the relational field.” – Judith Blackstone

  • No thing is ultimately at one with itself. Everything that is alive holds distance within itself. This is especially true of the human self. It is the deepest intimacy which is nevertheless infused with infinite distance. There is some strange sense in which distance and closeness are sisters, the two sides of the one experience. Distance awakens longing; closeness is belonging. Yet they are always in a dynamic interflow with each other. […] Our hunger to belong is the longing to find a bridge across the distance from isolation to intimacy. -- John O’Donohue

The Realization Process® was developed by Judith Blackstone, PhD as a direct outcome of her own experiences of healing and awakening, as well as many years of study and practice in different spiritual traditions, including Zen Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.

The Realization Process, however, emerged outside of any spiritual tradition or lineage. Judith is an innovate teacher who has carefully integrated meditation and spiritual practices with somatic and relational approaches to psychological healing. She has over three decades of experience as a psychotherapist and has been teaching the Realization Process throughout the world for over forty years.

You might find these recordings useful in your exploration of the Realization Process:

Introduction to the Realization Process

Interview of Judith Blackstone

The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness

Traditionally, the realization of oneself as fundamental consciousness has been considered an advanced stage of spiritual attainment. The Realization Process makes enlightenment possible for anyone who is drawn to it and willing to do the steady practice of inward attunement.

The Realization Process is a series of powerful but gentle, precise attunement practices for realizing your own nature as fundamental consciousness. It is an experiential method that includes meditation, movement, and relational exercises. It integrates the process of spiritual realization with relational and somatic psychological healing work. This integration arises simultaneously with the experience of embodiment (inhabiting the interior space of the body) offering us the opportunity to….

↠ Grow towards wholeness

↠ Heal from relational trauma

↠ Unveil unbound compassion

↠ Dissolve obstacles to intimacy

↠ Overcome boundary problems

↠ Embody your fluid expression and movement

↠ Cultivate the gifts of your spiritual sensitivity, depth & insight

↠ Liberate innate qualities of your love, gender, power, voice & wisdom

↠ Experience mutual contact when we awaken to the spiritual essence in ourselves and others.

Meditations by Judith Blackstone that may be useful in your exploration of the Realization Process:

Attunement to Fundamental Consciousness

Core Breath

…. I invite you on a journey of unimaginable deepening, expansion and transformation from the core.

The embodiment of fundamental consciousness is the basis of self-confidence, safety, authenticity, and spontaneity. It opens you to the innate qualities and functions of your being, including sexuality, love, personal strength, understanding, and self-expression. Specific practices facilitate grounding, and resilience to sensory and emotional stimuli. These practices can be of particular help for people who are spiritually sensitive to live more comfortably in the world.

The fundamental ground of your being has never been injured.

As you attune to the ground of your being, you can become free of depression, anxiety, bitterness and confusion. You can experience the spontaneous upwelling of compassion for yourself and others. You can find within your body an innate, ever-present source of equanimity and happiness.

“Wholeness is not a vague ideal, but a lived experience. It is a potential - inherent in our human nature. To be whole is to be conscious and in contact with ourselves everywhere in our body, to live within our body....To heal means to become whole. Trauma fragments and limits our wholeness...it separates us from our body and disrupts the unity of body and mind and the oneness of self and other. The realization Process resolves this separation.”

- Judith Blackstone, PhD, founder of the Realization Process