Self Actualization
About 70 years ago, Abraham Maslow proposed a theory of self-actualization and helped found a new branch of psychology. He suggested that if you meet more basic needs like physical and safety, you can address …
Category: Mind
Truth
I can define truth as facts yet facts are items of information or data. How we see that data depends on the perceiver. Similarly, truth can be defined as a proposition or idea that is …
The Inner Child
After we wake up, we become conscious of remaining shadows more quickly. Often we’ll uncover challenges around fear, anger, and a wide assortment of contractions from unresolved experiences. In time, we’ll find they get more …
It’s Not About You
One of the most important lessons of the spiritual journey is letting go of the habit of making it about you, of taking life personally, of thinking what happens is about how it affects you. …
The Hard Nuts
As we shift into a greater awareness of our energy and feelings, we can find all sorts of contractions and resistance. But over time, simple awareness allows us to experience, release, and resolve whatever we …
Spinning or Seeing
There is a simple principle to understand about our life experiences. If there is an experience showing up in our life, it’s there for our benefit. The difficult customer, the meeting going sideways, the crazy …
Dominant Sensing
Over the years, I’ve written about our Dominant Sense, the sense that dominates our way of relating to the world and our typical style of spiritual experiences. I’ve also written how we actually have 7 …
The Past is Sticky
In discussing some points that came out of the Unbalanced Masculine article, I’ve noticed how sticky memory can be. For example, when we’ve had a long relationship with someone like a family member, we fall …
Curving Back
I’ve talked regularly of how consciousness curves back on itself, becomes self-aware, and expresses. In my talk at this years Science and Nonduality Conference, I spoke of how the layers of expression unfold from that …
Offer it All Back
Recently, I wrote an article called Offer it Back. It’s an important insight on the spiritual journey as we shift from experiencing ourselves as a ‘me’ trying to control life to an awareness observing life …
Feelings vs Emotions
On this blog, I use Emotions and Feelings to mean different things, although English is a little limiting. For example, we “feel emotions,” we don’t emote them (although some sure do (laughs)). I use this …
To Retire
There is a word in the Rig Veda, Nivartadhvam. It means to “twist within” or return or retire. We retire from the world through samadhi or transcendence. Then we return to the world by …