Pearls from Pain, Part 6: Inquiring Within, Part 2
Mastery with Inquiring Within makes us adept at sensing and reading energy. While some of you may be well versed in personal and emotional inquiry, others may find trying to catch a glimpse of uncharted inner territory vague or even unnerving. The dance between awareness and subconscious processes is complex and fascinating. Each of us […]
Pearls from Pain, Part 5: Inquiring Within, Part 1: Self Awareness
Inquiring within, to discover who we really are inside, is the activity that allows us to align our needs and nature with our lives in the world. Self awareness is key to satisfaction, healthy motivation, sense of purpose, and true expression. When our authentic needs are not appropriately aligned with what we are doing and […]
Pearls from Pain, Part 2: What Makes YOU Cringe?
One of the most powerful and transformative acts we can take is to move TOWARD what makes us cringe instead of shrinking from it. The first place we usually go with a statement like the one I just made is to think about something outside ourselves, like someone trying to dominate us. While my above […]
Pearls from Pain, Part 1: Work Your Emotional Triggers
My primary healer once reminded me in session: “If you aren’t getting triggered, you aren’t doing your work!” (“Getting triggered” means something sets off an emotional reaction reactivating past trauma, adding misplaced intensity to current interactions.) When my healer said that, I had to concentrate and turn it over in my mind. At that particular […]
Transformation: Balancing the Inner Masculine and Feminine
The dream I had Christmas morning speaks to spiritual transformation through balancing inner masculine and feminine elements. Its message is useful to many of us: I entered a large cathedral with a high, vaulted ceiling into an open chapel without pews. The congregation stood attentively toward the front. As I stepped forward to join, I […]
LGS #98: When You Cannot Access Guidance, Part 2: Uncommon Sense Suggestions & Primary Sense
Suppose you have tried all the interventions from Part 1 and you are still having trouble. Here are additional suggestions: Find resource that works instead of attempting the channels that do not. If you usually get guidance from your inner voice, and that is not clear, try visualizing what would work for you, or sensing […]