Positive Energy Guide

You may think you are doing Inner Work already. Are you? We naturally jump to what we know already when reaching for a new concept. Assumptions based on previous knowledge can undermine understanding and insight. First hearing about Inner Work, you may assume that the techniques you are already doing are Inner Work–especially when you […]

A consistent habit of Inner Work develops within you a central hub of self-observation. This capacity becomes a part of your core–central to you. It is like an inner diamond with facets that face each aspect of your personality equally, or like the center of a wheel. Each aspect of you is a spoke. The […]

Inner Work is the process of gradually awakening ourselves by coming to know and reclaiming all that we are. Knowing is not enough. Reclaiming means that we accept and embrace what we have come to know through direct, intimate experience. Direct experience does not require any particular belief. Belief, in fact, can interfere with open […]

Inner Work is not mental, not emotional, not physical, not energy work. It synthesizes them all. Inner Work is not the same as psychological work. It is not the same as working with systems like EFT, that release stored emotional impressions from the body. It is not the same as soul-retrieval work where we pull […]

Mechanical, habitual, or automatic behaviors are the opposite of Presence, of being in touch and aware. Mechanical behaviors usually originate as defense against emotional pain. When we shut down awareness, fear and anger, and self-observation to avoid pain we can become like an automaton in situations that have been painful in the past. When we […]

Few things are as painful as nerve pain from irritated spinal disks. It shoots, burns, and temporarily cripples. I was physically unable to sit, stand, or lie down for about 36 hours. Being on knees and elbows in total darkness left me unable even to read, totally awake hour after hour with no distractions. Each day […]

Social trends that involve acting ultra-positive cast grim shadows. I said “acting,” not “Being.” Many of us work very hard to “be positive”–by busily judging others and ourselves when one of us expresses distress. Distress generally indicates unmet needs, including the need for expression. Disregarding distress is the opposite of being in touch; Being Present. […]

Frankly I’m fed up with saccharin, pseudo-spiritual talk that leads people to imagine that getting what you want is the aim of spiritual life. That’s just marketers playing off your ego. Why do these representations bother me? Because they feed illusion. Spirituality is about encountering and embracing life in its entirety, not about insulating ourselves […]

Encountering our own humanity is central to spirituality. Symptoms and life events are primary ways of getting in touch with ourselves. The way we interface with life provides guidance and develops insight. This is what the body is for—to give us a means to experience, learn and grow. Learning and expansion of awareness come about […]

Question: “Is there a particular place/article on your site that I could go to get insight/strategies/direction on how to really get rid of the anger that keeps coming up.  I try to do the work, monitor thoughts etc. but I do not feel like I have had any breakthrough.” My Response: Getting rid of an […]