Category: meditation

empathy, awareness of the body, SNRI withdrawal and self-inquiry…(collected brief thoughts on various things)

sometimes I feel as powerful as I feel helpless other times. I felt somewhat helpless when I first mused about the ridiculousness of academics and scientists thinking they're onto something brand new when we've known some of this stuff for many years. Today I feel powerful BECAUSE I've known this stuff for so many years and I continue to heal. As I continue to heal what I know becomes embodied. ...

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The Illusion of Control: Embracing Humility and Surrender

chaos-psychedelic-fireworks-design-with-muted-colors The Illusion of Control: Embracing Humility and Surrender

"Change your thinking, change your life." -- that's a common message and mantra in our new age soaked modern world. Let's unpack it. There may be some truth to this statement but it's also far more complex than most people understand. Anyone who has done any amount of serious meditation will have come to know that we don't control our thoughts. We don't control our thoughts or our feelings. Of course, that doesn't stop us from trying!  ...

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Trauma, injury, illness, waking up

purple daisy trauma, injury and illness

It’s strange how it works, or maybe it’s not, but trauma, injury and illness can truly be passageways to waking up and it’s not generally appreciated at all in western medicine which seeks to suppress everything and thus stop that process. Tragic really.

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Meditation on death, impermanence and post traumatic stress

Holding, holding, holding...feel the holding, wrapped up with anger, resistance, fear....FEEL it, feel it, feel it... and let it be...all things pass...recognizing and allowing seems to help it move... When post traumatic stress is leaving the body it brings up all manner of feelings that have been locked in. If I'm not carefully mindful it's... Continue Reading →

healing inside….

By Jen Peer Rich -- I am an unrepeatable meal. As I am healing inside through self-inquiry, the more I appreciate the magic and mystery of being a unique being. My spiritual journey is my own, no one can come with me inside here. ...

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Mindfulness in trauma flow

a (large plateau) rock in water with water flowing over it for Mindfulness in trauma flow

I'm proposing (because I've experienced it) a sort of flow that is entered from trauma patterns too and then its the energetic of a painful past that starts moving through us taking us away from the moment...it sometimes needs to be entered in order to watch, witness and release. It's not always pretty. The thing is we can witness it from this place, here now, and sort of be in two places at once. I'm proposing (because I've experienced it) a sort of flow that is entered from trauma patterns too and then its the energetic of a painful past that starts moving through us taking us away from the moment...it sometimes needs to be entered in order to watch, witness and release. It's not always pretty. The thing is we can witness it from this place, here now, and sort of be in two places at once.

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Working with reactive and difficult feelings

Sitting with highly reactive feelings is often a highly somatic experience that most people have no framework for and therefore no means to understand what is happening. It can be a very frightening thing to sit with reactive feelings.

How can I get to know myself?

"How can I get to know myself? Not by thinking, for thinking only reflects my conscious being, but by meditating. Meditation goes beyond the conscious mind into the unconscious. In meditation I can become aware of the ground of my being in matter, in life, in human consciousness. I can experience my solidarity with the universe, with the remotest star in outer space and with the minutest particle in the atom. I can experience my solidarity with every living thing, with the earth with these flowers and coconut trees, with the birds and squirrels, with every human being. I can get beyond all these outer forms of things in time and space and discover the Ground from which they all spring. I can know (...) the Origin, the Source, beyond being and non-being, the One 'without a second'. I can know the birth of all things from this Ground, their coming into being in the Word." … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

"Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too." ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book -- This is true fear is contagious. It's something worth deeply contemplating. We need not fear, however, because one can also free oneself by recognizing what has happened. Then the contagion comes to an end. Observation is a form of illumination. Fear is a shadow energy and it cannot survive illumination. In other words Franklin D. Roosevelt was right. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Cultivate stillness: stillness is our true nature

"There is of course a reason for everything in nature. Your body tells you when you have moved out of harmony so you can adapt and find the most effortless way forward. But we were never intended to live out of harmony. We actually become addicted to stress and the hormones it releases inside us (adrenaline). It’s not that we enjoy it. No one enjoys stress – it’s deeply uncomfortable – but we do become addicted to it. When you only think with your mind, you are operating out of a mere fraction of your true potential. The ancient Chinese called this hexagram ‘Keeping Still’, and it is symbolised by a mountain. Its message is - there is no hurry. The fear that you will miss out comes from this Shadow – the fear that you haven’t got enough time. It’s all about time and our perception of time. When you are stressed, time is always running too fast, or too slow. Stress also has a passive manifestation – which is when we feel stuck. That feeling comes out of this 52nd Shadow. When you feel stuck, it’s because your breathing isn’t reaching down to your base. You can never really be stuck. You just aren’t accepting where your rhythm is." … [click on title for the rest of the post]

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