Awakening and a flat life

people come to me and they say, I had this awakening, but now I feel like all of life is very boring and dry, and it's not a lot of color to it or emotion to it. And that often means that they've gotten stuck either consciously or unconsciously in the witness position, and they've been stuck like that for so long that they don't know how to get out. And so the way to get out of that witness position is to quite literally take a step forward into the fray, into the complexities and internal conflict of the mind and the body and the energies and the body sensations.

You don't need to fully process or fix or heal the thing that's been avoided, but rather we need to change our orientation to it and develop a new way of relating to these uncomfortable and painful pieces of our psyche and soul.