Trauma Post-Enlightenment
When I use the word “trauma“, you may think of the effects of an accident or assault. However, we now know that trauma isn’t what happened, it’s how we responded to it. Anything that causes …
Category: Healing
Becoming Divinely Human
I’ve been reading the book Becoming Divinely Human by CC Leigh. She’s a teacher in Trillium Awakening (formerly Waking Down). Saniel Bonder founded Waking Down in the ‘90s. His primary influence was the infamous Adi …
The True Felt Sense
In this article, Gemma Carroll talks about the felt sense and the nature of the somatic processing of stress and trauma. She’s a practitioner of the Embodied Processing* that I’ve been studying. Pendulation between touching …
Where Am I?
One of the curious questions a teacher or healer may ask you is “Where are you?” Where do you experience yourself as being? This can be a big clue to our stage of development, but …
Styles of Coping
Power is a very curious thing. Often, we equate it with the masculine. However, in its essential nature, power or Shakti is feminine. She drives nature. She is our life force or prana. She is …
Masks and Roles
Some suggest the personality is entirely shadow-based. However, just like the ego, it has a natural function. But it can have heavy overlays. It’s better to see our personality as a blend of laws of …
Sustaining Circumstances
Recently, I recognized another circumstance in resolving karma. For various reasons, when some karma completes, we may not let it go. Put another way, even though the consequences have completed, there is some aspect that …
Story Follows State
“Story follows State.” This is a term from polyvagal theory. What it means is the state of our nervous system drives our perception and that drives our narratives. In the most obvious example, when we …
The Quality of What We Believe
Being able to distinguish truth from distortion is a key ability that can develop in our teen years when the prefrontal cortex (forebrain) comes online. However, we may lean more on peers or those we …
Working with Emotional Resistance
In this video, Ben Tannahill of Drunken Buddha discusses how and why we learn to resist experiencing emotions and how to adjust for that so we can resolve them. Ben is a somatic therapy practitioner …
Embodied Spirituality
Regular readers know that I often recommend an effortless meditation. It takes us beyond the mind and into our deeper nature. This is Yoga. It helps the body heal and softens our attachments. We become …
Hidden Structures
Fundamentally, consciousness structures who we are and everything we experience. The physical world has been built up in layers. There are 7 primary layers (koshas) in this process. And there are 7 primary chakras (energy …