Category: <span>Healing</span>

Meeting What Is

Last year, Maggie at Humanizing Awakening interviewed me twice. Recently, she had a conversation about healing with Matt and Noel. They were my teachers in somatic therapy.  The wide-ranging conversation explored healing approaches and how …

Why Study Somatic Therapy?

Recently, I saw a presentation on mental health. They leaned on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), which is dominant in modern psychological practice. This is often called talk therapy. Certainly, talking it out and learning to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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