Personal & Planetary Healing (Open full page for audio) 1) Imagine your chest soft and porous, breathing in and out of your heart center, dropping into silence for a few minutes. 2) Imagine the world in your heart as you contemplate the suffering of humanity. Becoming aware of the pain, confusion, rage, anxiety, loneliness, frustration,…
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Autonomy Intro
(Notes from our summer SoulWork/SoulPlay intro class on autonomy) Welcome to our exploration of autonomy, that unique, individuated sense of ourselves. Giving our names often creates social referencing so will share them at the end of the evening so we can be in the non-labeled energetic quality that each of us is. Right now we…
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Your Heart as a Doorway to the Self/Cosmos
“For your heart to become a flower garden you must search for the beloved.” “The physical plane is the world of sensation and perception. It is variously called the visible world, the world of waking consciousness, or the world of awareness. This is the room in which existence has reached its culmination and in which…
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PTED: What is CBD?
In my posting on post traumatic election disorder I mentioned the increased uptake of CBD as one of the many varied options that could help with the anxiety and dread. Many have written me wondering what CBD is. My article was written with humor and seriousness. After the legalization of cannabis in Oregon in 2015…
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PTED (Post Traumatic Election Disorder)
If you have been exposed to trauma from the recent election; have intrusive thoughts about it; want to curl up in a fetal position or move to a foreign country; are feeling depressed and have little or no hope for a future; and feel like you are in permanent fight or flight mode you could…
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Working with Presidential Anxiety
Many on the right or left of the political spectrum are dealing with minor to serious anxiety about the upcoming presidential election. The question on how to deal with this anxiety was brought to group a analysts during a wonderful seminar from the Asheville Jung Center about this election. (http://ashevillejungcenter.org) There were no clear answers,…
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