What Remains
I’ve written before about healing everything. However, it’s important to recognize that, just because we don’t like something in ourselves, doesn’t mean it’s a fault or something to heal. It may just be something to …
Category: Psychology
Lynne Twist Interview
Some years ago, I read Lynne Twists’ book The Soul of Money. It’s quite insightful, and she offers many examples of our cultural relationship with money, including those both apparently rich and poor. She points …
Handling Mud
Spiritual practices raise our light but also move the shadows, exposing mud. When we see muddy situations coming up in our experience, we have a few choices. 1) allow the mud to arise to be …
On Anger
In correspondence, the topic of anger came up. Unresolved anger is a common issue for many, even if you’ve had a long practice. While the focus of this article is anger, the same principles are …
Moha, Delusion
It’s struck me how much of my old karma is directly related to past choices, often a decision to avoid something. And how so many people, even with conscious choice, will choose the dark side. …
Peace of Body-Mind
“Peace of mind and physical well-being are closely related. Some years ago, a scientist at Emory University told me that continuous anger, fear and suspicion tend to eat into our immune system. Besides, peace of …
Layers of Perspective
The average person expects their view of the world to be accurate and reliable, even if they have doubts about certain aspects. We need a stable view so we can function in the world. Yet …
Filling The Void
North America has an obesity epidemic. They relate this to what people are eating and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. But these are not what is driving the issue. These are symptoms. Food is being used …
Moving and Still
For much of our life, we’ve been immersed in movement, in activity. But after we learn to meditate, we begin to experience stillness. Then things seem to have two states, moving and still, relative and …
Styles of Stress
I’ve spoken before about our dominant guna (quality) and how this affects our emotions and the way we experience the world. A very similar model arises from dominant elements in the physiology. A dominant element …
Our Storage
When we’re not accepting life as it is, there’s two ways we respond: – grasping or attachment, trying to hold on to what we want. – resistance or avoidance, pushing away what we don’t want. …
Our Gifts
Each of us has gifts to offer the world. It may take life experiences to recognize them and experimentation to discover how the world wants them expressed. You can also do exercises to help surface …