Everything in our experience is relative. We can represent the comparative worlds by speaking of attention, energy, detachment, clarity of seeing. In a sense we are describing relative freedom the higher up the worlds we are situated in.
The Collected State is one such relative experience. When we are asleep our experience of the collective state is nonexistent. It literally does not exist.
When we work, as during Morning Exercise, we use our attention to contact each of our three centers, bringing them together into what we call the Collected State. My thought will not take me away, the mind is present. I feel I-am in the feelings. The sensation body is alive, relaxed, present.
Sometimes through our deep intentional work or through Grace, or a combination of the two, we feel a deeper Collected State. We are not separate from ourselves gathering in the parts and trying to hold them together. We are inside. I feel the presence of I-am resonate deeply in my emotional center. I am inside my head, no thoughts taking me away, watching the arising of the thoughts, feeling the presence inside. My body sensation is unmixed and continuous, strong. The three are inside, present, I feel the energy of them now. I am not separate, they are who I am in this moment. I am completely inside, not taken, immersed in the energy of this Presence.
In this Collected State we open to an energy that I cannot by myself muster. The energy of the three together has the potential for another energy to appear. I relax into this Collected State, there is nothing else now, it is both present and receptive, the three are open and acceptive.