Positive Energy Guide

Since issues about receiving support and assistance are prevalent, many struggle to find a healthy balance between independence and seeking care from others. Here are some guidelines: Ask for assistance when: You can’t focus well enough to work on yourself You sense that you are missing something You feel overwhelmed, or in over your head […]

“It is life’s job to bring up all the emotions possible for a human being to experience, and a human being’s job to feel them all without obstruction.” Steve Gilligan, Ph.D. Once we can observe and relax mental suggestion and association, direct experience of emotion largely comes down to feeling body sensations and experiencing energy […]

Profound grief has a transcendent dimension. Powerful pain can bring us right into our humanity, in a base and primal way or in a ways that touch the beauty of spiritual unity. The state of one’s heart is the determining factor. My most transformative experience of transcendent grief occurred several decades ago, following a crisis […]

Getting in touch with authentic feeling is an ongoing process. Some want their process to be “done”–as if they’ve got something better to do. We don’t. Whatever we do without being in touch with ourselves is vaguely unsatisfying at best. The clarity we get from knowing our selves and effectively addressing what we really need […]

“Our old personality patterns change without effort on our part in proportion to the depth of awareness that we bring to them.” (Understanding the Enneagram, 365) Of the myriad classes I have taken on techniques for clearing emotional blocks, none have addressed self-observation. Bringing depth of awareness to self discovery takes courage and dedication. It can […]

“If you are interested in transformation, no element is more important than developing a love of truth. The truth encompasses both our fearful reactions and the greater resources of our soul.” (The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 345) Working on ourselves is one of the hardest things because success depends on uprooting our own blind spots. […]

Intense emotion and energy can evoke trauma. Being in the face of the same intense emotions and energy while consciously choosing to be okay and to USE that energy for change can employ this intensity in service to transformation. The same intensity that memorializes experience into tissues, nerve, and brain as trauma is instead used […]

Practice leaning into any uncomfortable inner spaces. This one practice will help you to reclaim parts of yourself that you may not yet be able to engage directly. Such parts hold valuable keys to what you need and want. They open doors, lead to personal revelation, put you in touch with your inner voices, promote […]

Let’s look at the way the pain body operates when we take significant steps to improve our lives: The pain body is an amalgamation of prior experience and an expression of our subconscious personality defense structure. As such, it can kick into gear when we begin to grow emotionally. The pain body becomes most active […]

What does it FEEL like to be aware of the pain body? When we become aware of the pain body we feels something like: Sinking into a pit of shame or despair An overwhelming sense of incapacity Grief, panic, or distress, screaming through body sensation Intense emotional-blending-into-physical pain Feeling incapacitated by emotional intensity Being crammed […]