Meeting The Need
In healing work, I’ve talked about 2 arenas. There is the reactivity, the unresolved energy or emotion, the vasana. Then there is the pattern or impression, the samskara underlying the reactivity. And then, underneath that …
Category: Healing
Self-Worth
Part of our sense of identity is a measure of self-worth. This develops when we’re young from feedback we get from others and our own certainty about self. Often, feedback is an attempt to control …
Somatic Foundations
Regular readers know I studied somatic therapy last year at The Centre For Healing. This was a movement to clear samskaras from the body to help with embodiment. Because of my nature, adaptations, and upbringing, …
The Dara Trilogy
Recently, Dara has written a trilogy on power, responsibility, and the restoration of relationships. You have the option of reading the essays or listening to her recordings. 1) Sovereignty in an Age of Shadow How …
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 …
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 …