Our Natural Self
What is the Natural Self? First, let’s explore the words. Natural: a state of being relaxed, with no resistance to the present moment. We discover we are the present. Self: our sense of who we …
Category: Mind
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 …
On Compassion
We were exploring compassion in a class recently. Like mindfulness, many people have ideas about compassion and what it looks like. But often this is cognitive; compassion as a concept. Many spiritual approaches dismiss the …
Embodied Enquiry
Inquiry is a practice from non-dual teachings, a practice of self-discovery. It’s used to question our minds‘ habits about reality. For example, we can observe that our thoughts are experiences and are therefore content. They’re …
Susanne and Rick on Self
Some time ago, Rick Archer, Adyashanti, and Susanne Marie had a conversation I wrote about as it had some interesting distinctions in the experience of self and identity. Recently, Susanne, John Rogers, and I had …
Disidentification vs Disassociation
While studying how to bring new services out, I’ve also been studying the second level of Embodied Processing. This includes Embodied Enquiry, a more somatic and embodied form of inquiry. And this study leads to …
How Does Perception Work?
A reader asked me about the idea that perception is the “collapse of the wave function.” Physics experiments imply the idea that attention collapses a probability wave into a specific particle, solidifying matter & perception. …
Ishita on Embodiment
Are you friends with your body? Many of us have pulled back out of the body because of we’ve not learned to regulate our nervous system and resolve trauma. We hang out in our mind …
Soma in the Soma
With this year’s study of somatic therapy, I’ve realized I’ve been using the word “soma” in 2 different ways. Looking it up online, one finds a wild diversity of definitions for soma: the physical body, …
The Key to Healing
This article is by request, based on a brief talk I gave in November. A friend’s insight also enhanced it. This fall, I finished the theory part of my somatic therapy training. The next step …
Adjusting To Self Realization
One thing about becoming more conscious after awakening (and sometimes prior) is we become more aware of our narratives and programming. We see through and discard some of this. Things we once considered important can …
Awakening Beyond Unity: No-Self and Brahman, with Susanne Marie and John Rogers
Susanne Marie mentioned the anniversary of her conversation with Adyashanti on BATGAP. I’d also written an article on the interview as it was excellent, plus a great example of the variations in “gut” release. John …