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 …
Category: Body
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 …
Insight, Then Embodiment
In the linked article below, Matt Kay explores going beyond a head recognition and into embodiment. Although the article targets those on an inquiry path, people on a transcending path like myself face similar …
Everything can be Used to Escape
A great conversation between Maggie and 2 of the teachers at the Centre for Healing: Matt Kay and Noel Haarburger. They explore bypassing and dissociation and how spiritual practices, somatic techniques, and healing practices can …
The Rise and Resolution of the Contracted Self
In a recent discussion of the way trauma and identity arise, I saw a more complete way to discuss the topics. There are four interrelated processes. Part 1: Somatic Principles and Processes We all have …
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 …
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. …