Ideological Foolishness
We get “caught” in our beliefs, and find ourselves blocked, in pain, and unaware. This articles explains the power of ideologies, and how to identify and overcome them.
Healing the Mind - Body Split
I’m suggesting that you examine your emotional list, and discover what you’re clinging to.
Emotions, in and of themselves, do not mean anything. Thoughts, in and of themselves, do not mean anything. You are not your thoughts, and you are not your emotions.
Emotions & Thoughts are things you have, not things that you are.
Letting go of clinging is all about detaching from identifying with these internal processes.
Non-Habitual Living and Being
The way we view our lives, and ‘reality’ is not true. In fact, it’s simply an unconscious habit. Learn ways to recognize habitual thinking and behaving, and then, learn how to change it.
Undoing Trauma’s Knots
There’s no question that in every life, stuff happens. Some of the stuff that happens is really, really uncomfortable. Some of it even qualifies as a full-blown trauma.
It’s important to recognize that my goal here is never to diminish or negate the traumatic experiences that you have experienced. However, healing and moving on requires one thing.
You must learn that trauma is one real moment in time. Thus, a trauma does not go on.
What can go on is imagining (and suffering over) this past event.
No-Body Home
Many religions/wisdom traditions have indicated that there is but one path to freedom, and it is achieved through centering. Now, this centering might be described as praying, meditating, directing our energy, dancing (thinking of Sufis here) or chanting. It might be reached through massage, manipulation of the chakras, through Qi Gong, yoga, Kundalini work, but the goal is the same.
Zen Based, Present Living
