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. …
Category: Healing
Attachment and Non-Attachment
A discussion over on Self and No-Self led to the topic of attachment & non-attachment. The release of attachment is a key step in awakening. When we’re no longer identified with ourselves as an individual …
Empath Review
About a decade ago, I wrote about my recognition of empath gifts. It was a deep insight into my life and a reframing of how I had adapted growing up. In that model, it’s said …
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 …
Seven Factors of Awakening
I ran into a Wikipedia article on the Seven Factors of Awakening (sapta bodhyanga) from Buddhism. This is a different tradition than mine, but one that points in the same direction. I found some good …
Practices
In the recent post on Types of Meditation, I discussed three types of practices and said I would adopt the model. I’ve updated that part of the Recommendations page. I thought it would be useful …
The Highly Sensitive Person, Empaths, & Trauma
In the current time, consciousness is rising. This is increasing access to our hidden trauma (our unresolved experiences) but also means it’s coming up for people who don’t know how to process it. This leads …
Style of Being
I’ve talked before about how the Yoga Sutra describes our tendency to grasp at what we want and to avoid what we don’t. It describes this resisting life as the roots of suffering. This response …
Types of Meditation
About 15 years ago, I wrote an article about types of meditation, based on their brain EEG signature. There has been a tendency for scientists, and indeed many people, to see all meditations as equivalent. …
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 …
What is Happiness?
If you ask the average person about happiness, they may describe excitement or thrills. Perhaps they know satisfaction from accomplishment. But this is only a glimmer of happiness. Short, passing experiences. Often, we have a …