Resolving Karma
Karma means action. According to the Yoga Sutra, the cause of suffering is grasping at events we want more of and resisting what we don’t want. Part of the art of living is learning to …
Category: Healing
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 …
Fractals of Consciousness
“God is ananda (bliss). From bliss all beings are born, in bliss all beings are sustained, and into bliss all beings will merge at the time of complete dissolution of the universe.” – Taittiriya Upanishad …
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 …
Shakti Process
The model I use for the stages of enlightenment is a Shiva-based framework; the stages in our relationship with consciousness. It includes the stages of refinement, but more generally. Consciousness is the platform on which …
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 …
Processing
When sensations and emotions arise, the natural response is to experience them, process the experience, and then return to centre. We see examples of this throughout the natural world. However, we humans often learn to …
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 …
Doing and Happening
Resistance is less something we do. It’s what happens based on our state. When we don’t want an experience, it triggers us, and we resist. Like breathing, this can be automatic. If there is some …
Superstrings And Memory
Physics This article is going to discuss similarities between physics and memory. However, it’s important to understand that physics studies the physical world. It does not study qualities of consciousness. (And no, consciousness is not …
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 …