Such a great article. I wrestled for a long time with being a spiritual "failure", but in recent years have been slowly realizing that I'm doing exactly what I need to be doing - healing. Your article is such a great confirmation.
Thank you for another brilliant, heartfelt and courageous post. The "Manifest" series has been quite provocative--this one being my favorite. It's personal to me as someone who fights for this very awareness with all my white-light-twinkie friends; and as well, the even tougher minds of those who participate in the cerebral "just think it and it shall be yours" philosophers club. Having just returned to Santa Fe after 10 years in the "PNW" where shadow material supposedly doesn't really exist in anyone, I am grateful for your candid and vulnerable presence here.
Hi Chele! Thanks for the support! Look up my friends in Santa Fe—the Sustainable Love community headed up by Robin Duda - who I'm currently writing a book with! www.sustainablelove.com
My friend who is a neuroscientist and psychologist explained that the motor centers of our brain determine the "movement" of emotions and thoughts. I wonder if gurus who hold positions and escape the body might be disconnecting a conscious link to the body, which grounds us to our unconscious/subconscious!
I have found exercises like QiGong helpful for me to think clearly in meditation. Sometimes emotions and/or pain comes up.
Meditation alone without the awareness and looseness of the body turns into your own simulation. We should indeed go within, but still feel our senses and our body.
Like in Zen, they sit with eyes open because vision is one of our senses that we shouldn't tune out, but instead have a soft focus.
Such a great article. I wrestled for a long time with being a spiritual "failure", but in recent years have been slowly realizing that I'm doing exactly what I need to be doing - healing. Your article is such a great confirmation.
Bravo, Cate!
Thank you for another brilliant, heartfelt and courageous post. The "Manifest" series has been quite provocative--this one being my favorite. It's personal to me as someone who fights for this very awareness with all my white-light-twinkie friends; and as well, the even tougher minds of those who participate in the cerebral "just think it and it shall be yours" philosophers club. Having just returned to Santa Fe after 10 years in the "PNW" where shadow material supposedly doesn't really exist in anyone, I am grateful for your candid and vulnerable presence here.
Hi Chele! Thanks for the support! Look up my friends in Santa Fe—the Sustainable Love community headed up by Robin Duda - who I'm currently writing a book with! www.sustainablelove.com
My friend who is a neuroscientist and psychologist explained that the motor centers of our brain determine the "movement" of emotions and thoughts. I wonder if gurus who hold positions and escape the body might be disconnecting a conscious link to the body, which grounds us to our unconscious/subconscious!
I have found exercises like QiGong helpful for me to think clearly in meditation. Sometimes emotions and/or pain comes up.
Meditation alone without the awareness and looseness of the body turns into your own simulation. We should indeed go within, but still feel our senses and our body.
Like in Zen, they sit with eyes open because vision is one of our senses that we shouldn't tune out, but instead have a soft focus.