There are as many ways to heal as there are human beings. Spirit Reins works with children and families who have experienced trauma to make sure they have the tools and resources they need to reach their full potential and contribute to their community. - This is a beautiful and touching short film. Included is also more links to information on trauma and how it pertains to that which gets labeled mental illness.
Woke up to energy that was needing expression. Fighting. I turned on youtube and searched kickboxing. OMG where have you been all my life? Anyone with stifled fight or flight energy (from PTSD) would likely benefit from this at some point. I've been stuck in passive attention. That is over. What a most delicious RUSH.... Continue Reading →
I get information and data about the living whole in every moment of my mindful existence. Sometimes I utilize systems, ideologies, religions, metaphor and/or myth, poetry, art of all kinds and science too. All manner of creativity and human productivity are expressions of the collective whole and thus a source of information and greater connection.... Continue Reading →
This, too, is another way to talk about some of what I've been experiencing with my transformative healing from the iatrogenic brain injury. Jane Fonda speaks of it in terms of a maturation process...a developmental stage, which I think is totally appropriate. That said, I have encountered hundreds of young folks through my work and social media who are also coming into this sort of rapid maturation of the spirit. We are waking up all over the world!
The one, perhaps most foundational, thing I did was practice feeling what I was feeling. Since that was overwhelming and incomprehensible amounts of pain that meant 30 seconds at a time at first and slowly slowly practicing BEING WITH WHAT IS...what is was a ton of pain and agony...what is was a ton of fear keeping me from feeling the agony. The practice was to ALLOW. We need only to allow. This is it. This is reality. Allow it.
This is a lovely little video project I was lucky enough to participate in. My friend Jen Peer Rich made it.
This was first published on David Healy's site, RxIsk: Making Medicine's Safer for All of Us, about 4 years ago. I've never published it on this site and thought I'd do so now so that it will be part of the archives here as well. It's a memoir of sorts up to that point 4 years ago.
Below is a very simple but elegant breathing exercise shared by Dr. Weil. -- Also some additional links on sleeping and insomnia and how to reframe possible problems in that domain.
So being that this is the case, I practice surrender, acceptance and letting go. Because like it or not we are not in charge. This is perhaps my most important practice ...
Ecstatic dance is awesome in the literal sense of the word and I consider it a body oriented mindfulness practice as well. I've also referred to it as self-directed body-work in conversations with friends. Sometimes my "dance" is about moving and stretching my body in some really odd ways to get at something that is tightly held in the body and needs release. Dancing can sometimes be me not moving at all (on the surface) while the music courses through my body and my cells and neurons DANCE. ...
Mystical loveliness. I've shared Ayla Nereo's music before. See: Life Bound Friend
My favorite lyrics from this song are:
I release you. I receive you.
I release you. I receive you.
and
I do not show this skin for you
I show myself to know myself
I show it for the Earth from which I came
my prayer is for you to do the same ... [click on title to see more and listen too]
