Balance And Being Gentle With Ourselves
One of the conversations that came up in the last class, Self-Care, Balance and Deep Community Connection was how do we bring balance into areas of our life where we’re …
Tonglen
Tonglen practice reverses our usual logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure. In tonglen practice, we visualize taking in our own pain or other people challenges, with every in-breath and …
Palestine and Israel
“I think one helpful angle is to emphasize who belongs to the Land – *not* who the Land supposedly ‘belongs’ to. From this perspective, Jews quite obviously belong in/to the …
Communing With the Divine
Noticing when we’re attached to a point of view, old pattern from the past, or a disempowering paradigm can be a powerful door into the transformational process of surrender. Our …
Spiritual Bypassing vs Authentic Healing
“Spiritual Bypass is based in hierarchy, duality or “right/wrong thinking” from the ego. This is another cut at it. ”And then we tend to use absolute truth to disparage or …
Letting Go
In the book Letting Go, by David Hawkins, “all facts are filed in the mind memory bank under a filing system based upon the associated feeling and its finer gradations. …
Embracing Surrender
“Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for …
Listening to our Inner Voices
If humans have something like 200 internal voices, and investigating and looking at the roots of the individual voice’s is powerful for our quality of life, how does one go …
Befriending the Internal Dialogues
The Vulnerable Child internal dialogue often was created in times of stress and challenge in early family life. As adults when angst or pushback is experienced the vulnerable child voice …
Voice Dialog
Voice Dialogue is a powerful body of knowledge or technology that teaches people how to befriend and become aware of the multitude of internal voices that we all have. Some …