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 …
Category: Psychology
What’s the Point?
Sometimes, we might wonder what’s the point of spiritual practice? Isn’t that all about me? What about all the suffering and drama in the world? How am I going to make any difference? The answer …
Trauma Remaining Post-Enlightenment
Jerry Freeman felt the message about the need for healing trauma post-enlightenment was very important. He asked Nancy Benda to compile parts of our conversations from comments here on the blog and in another forum …
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 …
Spiritual vs Healing Practices
Recently, I saw a talk by Ava Irani of Functional Spirituality. While I distinguish healing from awakening techniques, Ava did it much more explicitly. She observed that awakening techniques often also promise healing and vice …
Deep Patterns
We’re designed to be programmed. For example, in learning to speak, walk, ride a bike, and drive a car. Once we learn, the habit pattern allows us to do it almost without thinking. Automatic. However, …
Validation
For the average person, our mind runs the show, getting most of its information about the world from the senses and memory. Because the identified mind is focused this way, we look outside of ourselves …
Inner Relationship Focusing
Inner Relationship Focusing is the name of an awareness technique for emotional healing and accessing “positive life-forward energy.” Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin developed it from their own client practice and the Focusing work …
Listening
One issue with living in a mind-dominated culture is that many never gain the art of listening. When someone is sharing with us, we’re often in the mind thinking about what we’re going to say …
Personality as Trauma
I’ve observed that we naturally develop roles or patterns of behaviour. Like we learn how to ride a bike, or we learn how to be a parent or a worker or a lover. These patterns …
Divinely Human Stages
This is a followup to my review of CC Leigh’s book Becoming Divinely Human, exploring her descriptions of awakening. My model of the stages of development in consciousness is based on the transcendent shifts within. …