Dropping Arrogance
Emptiness requires that I let go of clinging to my beliefs—or better, to the rightness of my beliefs. Emptiness requires that I understand that how I see the world is how I see the world, and nothing more. Emptiness is letting go of the need to get others to agree with me. Emptiness is living in the ambiguity of knowing without knowing.
Body Voices
There is a certain reluctance, for most of us, to exit our heads and to pay attention to our bodies, senses, emotions, and spirits. We begin to look at how to barely listen to the voice of our body, and in this way to become more centered and calm.
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.
Unstuffing from Stuff
Left to our own devices, we are defined by our stuff. We collect stuff to protect ourselves from emptiness. And yet, we see that stuff does not last. In this article, we look at ways to simply be, while letting go of the stuff we cling to.
Non-Duality
Non duality, on the other hand, (he writes with a smirk) is about loosening ones grip on one note being. Life becomes a dance. You notice that you are judging, labelling, boxing things up, and you have a breath and let go of the definitions. In this letting go process, your experience expands, and you see that whatever is going on has many aspects, all equally true.
10 Ways to Deepen Your Relationship
Elegant Dialog takes communication to a new level of self-responsible relating. None of this comes easily. That being said, here are 10 exercises that will take your relationship from stuck to soaring.
Zen Based, Present Living
