My entire work, both personal – inner-work and the work I do with my clients, is focused on seeing through the recoils of the mind around its own mischievousness. More clearly, I focus on seeing for myself and show other people how and where they are lying to themselves. This is one of the most […]
The last few years have helped me see and understand more about what is real and what is not real. First, I understood that the I I was operating from, that the I I was using to assess life, was flawed – filled with wounds, projections, dejections and so on. That was a crucial shift
This is not for everyone. If your life is manageable, if the discomfort you carry is background noise rather than a constant presence, this will probably feel extreme. That is fine. You can put it down. But if you have been living with a particular kind of suffering for years, something that has not resolved,
There is no attracting something. There is only creating something. And what you are creating is not chosen freely. It is generated by a system of patterns, emotional and mental, that has one primary function: to reproduce what it already knows. Patterns are not oriented toward healing or growth. They are oriented toward safety. And
In meditation, something becomes visible that is difficult to name at first. The body is not neutral. It is not resting in stillness. It is reaching. Quietly, insistently, it leans toward something. And when you stay with it long enough to see what it is leaning toward, you realize it is reaching for fear. For
In our childhood, something has occurred that made our body feel a “hormone-like” shot (adrenaline, serotonin, dopamine, cortisol, etc) that was unknown to us until then and that we felt uncomfortable and potentially dangerous as a result of being unknown. I am also thinking this is a very personal wound that we “recognize from past
Any problem that may arise in your life is a signal that you have the mastery, the skills and the strength to overcome it. And then you might ask yourself why can’t you? Why do you seem to be or to feel so powerless in front of it? What keeps the problem separated from its
We are all goofballs burning our karma. 🙂 The more you are searching, the further you roam. The more you think you are right, the more you distance yourself from rightness. The more you think you see, the more blind you are. The more you look outside for answers and for drama and for stuff