What Time Are We?
When we’re living in the mind, we’re always in the past or future. For example, we’re thinking about what happened and how I could have done it differently. Or about how they did that to …
Input, Output, and Neutral Activity
We can classify activities into Output, Input, and Neutral, based on their processing requirements and impact on our physiology. Output: these are our daily productive activities, like the work we get paid for or cleaning …
The Light of Conception
At the moment of conception, the egg produces a flash of red light known as a zinc spark. Later, there is a zinc wave of gold. This is apparently true of all vertebrates. Our first …
Our Sensing
We tend to think of sensing as through the physical senses. However, there are other ways of sensing that we may pay less attention to or may not have shown up yet. Science tells us …
Letting Go Deeper
Getting regulated is the first step before we attempt to heal anything. When we’re calm, we can create the space for releases without getting entangled by them. When we’re exploring energy healing, a key flag …
The Judge
For most people, we’re identified with the ego and experience ourselves as a distinct individual. In such a case, the intellect gets associated with the mind and pulled around by it. A common way this …
Equality
Western political philosophy developed the idea of equality. That all men, and eventually women and children, have equal rights under the state. This is an important milestone, moving away from the idea that our circumstances …
Holding Beliefs
When I talk about healing, I caution to be wary of our habit of trying to manage everything with the mind. While we can notice and name emotions with the mind, processing emotions has to …
The Hungry Ghost
Some of our larger contractions can feel like carrying a “hungry ghost,” an energy of want that seems unquenchable. Almost like an energetic parasite. The big ones can be collective, passed down in our family …
Merit vs Need of the Time
In the West, we see progress as based on merit. We see someone accomplished as having deserved it. It feels disheartening when our efforts don’t pan out. We feel it unjust when connections, rather than …
Taking a Break
I’ve written a lot about energy healing and somatic therapy over the years. These are very valuable for supporting quality of life and the embodiment of spiritual development. Texts like the Yoga Sutra mention the …
Yoga, A Bigger Picture
About two and a half years ago, I went to a Day of the Dead event. It turned out to be hosted by a Toastmasters club. As I give occasional talks and interviews, I knew …