NONDUAL MENTORING
I offer one-to-one, experiential inquiry sessions and nondual therapy, in person (Leicester, UK) or via Zoom.
Meeting you where you are, my one-to-one work is tailored to you. We explore your present experience and identify the blocks to living the Life that you are.
I’m here to help you reconnect with yourself and discover peace and harmony, to remember you are an expression of love and wholeness. I offer a safe, nurturing space in which you may find your authentic voice and truth, end your inner-conflict and resistance, and meet new possibilities. My hope is that you will begin to relate to your experience in a new way, with friendliness, inclusivity and understanding. May you come to know that the timeless One Life you already are flows through each passing appearance, that you are the Home you seek.
Like a bright light in a dark room, nondual mentoring with Nic Higham is a space for deepening into nondual realisation.
From an intellectual understanding to a deep knowing of nonduality
Nondual spirituality, when removed from personal life, can become dry and a means for bypassing the relative, just as personal life can be painful and limiting when removed from the expansive depth of spiritual realisation.
Many spiritual seekers want to know how to stop suffering, to find peace, and how to progress in their life or path, or to stop seeking. Simplification and reassurance can be invaluable here but are challenging to find. There are many spiritual and nondual paths offered nowadays, and it can feel overwhelming to fathom which one to take. Often the more complex a spiritual teaching system is, the less wisdom and truth it contains. And as most find out, there’s a big difference between mind-based knowledge and “deep knowing” (Jnana), and until you have transcended knowledge and seen beyond the mind, will nonduality truly resonate. Once it does, however, it will touch you profoundly. Such is the stunning simplicity of the realised state.
Through Nondual Mentoring with Nic Higham you will learn to identify apparent barriers to awakening and dissolve them as you come to stabilise in consciousness. Greater harmony between authentic understanding and daily life will blossom. Moving beyond the ego, you will witness the present moment and discern all that you are not so to have clarity and conviction about your natural state (what Nisargadatta Maharaj calls ‘Nisarga’). When liberated from thought and the subtle layers of conditioning, you will discover the unconditional love and contentment of the changeless. However, it isn’t necessary to stop thinking or feeling or even to become free. When we know we are already nisarga, facets of experience and conditioning still arise, but they no longer define or restrict us.
“It is important to take this inward-facing path. To recognise, not just that I am awareness, but the infinite unlocated impersonal nature of awareness, and then to discover everything is that.” – Rupert Spira
“Inquiry is not a kind of analytic digging… In contrast to the approach of Western psychology, in which we might delve into further stories in order to understand what caused a current situation, the intention of inquiry is to awaken to our experience exactly as it is in this present moment.” – Tara brach
Your personal satsang with Nic Higham
Drawing on key principles of the enlightenment traditions, Nondual Mentoring presents the direct (pathless) way to liberation and transcendence without the adornments, trappings, methods, rituals, or distracting features within many spiritual systems. Sessions are bespoke, meeting you where you are and focusing on what is most important to you. Using straightforward English and a no-nonsense approach, Nic will keep bringing you back to the same core truth: your true nature is beyond the body-mind. And for this realisation, we ask ‘Who am I?’ in various creative ways. The answer is already within you, or more precisely, the answer is you. As Nisargadatta Maharaj said, you are That.
Is this you?
- You’ve read some nonduality or spiritual books and have listened to many spiritual teachers talk about awareness and awakening.
- You’ve had some glimpses of insight but feel lost or stuck.
- You want to move beyond an intellectual understanding.
- You’re not sure if you’re meditating or inquiring “correctly”.
- You want to stop searching.
- You want to discover what seems to veil deep knowing.
- You want to take a deeper look into this stuff, get some clarity, and work through what seems to hold you back from knowing, being and living your true Self.
- You want to embody the Truth pointed to through the message of nonduality.
- You want to cultivate a meditative state of mind in all areas of life, not just while you are meditating.
- You want to understand what is meant by the ‘I Am’.
- You’d benefit from ‘post-awakening-integration.’
- You need practical and clear spiritual guidance.
- Need help with clearing up spiritual inconsistencies and contradictions you’ve been confused by for some time.
- Need spiritual / nondual teaching simplifying.
Nic is down-to-earth, caring and devoted and will hold space that is heart-opening and transformative while you reflect, explore questions, and inquire into truth.
“My home is in the unchangeable, which appears to be a state of constant reconciliation and integration of opposites. People come here to learn about the actual existence of such a state, the obstacles to its emergence, and, once perceived, the art of stabilising it in consciousness, so that there is no clash between understanding and living.”
“The Supreme State is universal, here and now; everybody already shares in it… Who does not like to be, or does not know his own existence? But we take no advantage of this joy of being conscious, we do not go into it and purify it of all that is foreign to it. This work of mental self-purification, the cleansing of the psyche, is essential… It is useless to fight the sense of being a limited and separate person unless the roots of it are laid bare… Clarification of the mind is Yoga.”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj