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 spiritual awakening to one’s deepest 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.

  • “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.” - Judith Blackstone, PhD, founder of the Realization Process

  • “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 Unified Field of Consciousness is the Ground of Being.

The Unified Field of Consciousness is our deepest identity as human beings; it is the ground of Being. Because this field unifies everyone and everything, spiritual and psychological methods go hand in hand to help us access the wholeness and potential of our humanity, and heal our suffering. It is possible to access the source of one’s trauma in this unified field of consciousness.

A Unity Within all Things Everywhere.

This unified field of consciousness gives us access to the felt sense of the unity within all things and all people. It can be experienced and is described as an all-pervasive spacious luminous stillness. The unified field of consciousness is simultaneously experienced as Presence and Emptiness – a sheer luminous transparency. It is completely whole and unbroken, a spacious luminosity, pervaded by stillness, with all of life moving through it. The undivided light runs through everyone and everything, as Buddhist Teacher and Writer Aura Glaser says, “To know all things, including the painful and difficult, are lit from within by undivided light.”

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

Attunement to Fundamental Consciousness

Core Breath

Realization Process gives us access to the unified field of consciousness in our bodies.

By attuning to this unified field of consciousness, the Realization Process provides a method of precision to release the trauma held in our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations held deeply within our psyche, body, and nervous system as a result of our own trauma.

By going to the source or origin of the suffering, the release is deeper and potentially permanent. In fact, our suffering is validated in the process of release.

It’s not a spiritual bypass. We discover we can simultaneously feel our suffering and open to this unified field of consciousness as our deepest identity at the same time.

Ironically and paradoxically, when we do this, we feel more real, more distinctly like ourselves as a unique person.

It is a transformational moment.