In and Out
One way of relating to our contractions (what we’re resisting) is being inside or outside them. When we’re inside them, we see life through the lens (energy) of that resistance. Founded on a past unresolved …
Category: Body
The Root
Our Root chakra is often a little mysterious. It’s often not very conscious, even though it’s about the very obvious physical and etheric bodies. This is partly because it’s very present, non-conceptual, and instinctive. The …
It’s All Energetic
Certainly, from the perspective of consciousness, it’s all consciousness. However, in the life, in the body, there’s a perspective where everything is energetic. Prior unresolved experiences and trauma disconnect many of us from our emotions …
Sleeping Elephants
Meditation instruction uses the analogy of sleeping elephants. The elephants are unresolved stress & trauma. When you meditate, you tiptoe through a field of sleeping elephants and reach a deep state. Sometimes, an elephant wakes …
Sleep or Samadhi?
Eva Müller posted an article on our meditation experience. During Meditations: Am I Sleeping or entering Samadhi? She raised key points about interpreting what’s happening in our subjective experience before samadhi is clear. It’s challenging …
Susanne Marie on the Gut Awakening
Over the years, I’ve talked about the gut awakening. This is part of a sequence that Adyashanti described as head, heart, gut. I jokingly called these the 3 am-egos. We could say the 3 levels …
On Shame
Shame, as an energy, relates to the root chakra. This is why it can feel existential and dense. Shame is a natural response that helps us moderate behaviour, like acting out or venting on others. …
Where Are The Emotions?
When people describe emotions, some put them deeper than the mind. Like saying spirit, emotions, mind, body. And some put them shallower, like saying spirit, mind, emotions, body. I refer to the “energy” or emotional …
Core Spiritual Practices
In the West, we live in a very mind-oriented culture. A practice like an effortless mantra meditation is excellent for balancing that experience. It uses the mind to go beyond it, into our deeper nature. …
Podcast with Matt on Awakening, Trauma, and Embodiment
Recently, I had a conversation with Matt K., one of the teachers at The Centre for Healing. Unlike prior interviews, we went more into my childhood, then the discovery of meditation, witnessing, and on into …
We Are
We are emanations of the Divine We are uncreated We are one We are consciousness We are cosmic, even the body We are love We are eternal We are the universe We are joy We …
On Embodiment
There is a process of integration and embodiment that takes place after shifts and stage changes. And after big releases. We shouldn’t think of embodiment as something for later, that we’ll deal with it at …