The Problem with Higher Awareness
What Is Higher Awareness? The problem with higher awareness is that our concepts of what it might be interfere with what it actually is. Words carry previous meanings. Words can prevent us from actually experiencing what we are talking about. Assuming we already know what the words mean can turn potential spiritual exploration into merely […]
Sensation: Essential Key to Self-Knowledge
Sensation is arguably the most important element in the alchemy of personal and spiritual development. Feeling is indispensable to the experience of meaning. If we shut down our feeling function we cut off our avenue to experience meaning. This can lead to depression as we become unable to connect inner value with outer experience. Let […]
Why Sense or Perceive Energy?
Your ability to locate, sense, and recognize or “read” different frequencies of energy may be the most significant factor in having a healthy, vibrant, and productive life. The statement above may seem extreme but it is quite factual. Being able to discern what works for you and what does not, quickly and accurately, and being […]
How You Generate Renewal
Tips to Renew Yourself This post is about practical ways to create an experience of renewal. Every day, every moment is here once. When it’s gone it’s gone. The opportunity—for love, for some small measure of awakening, for choice, for a full and complete breath—is gone with it. Our children are one more day past […]
Symptoms As Positive
I love symptoms. Why? Because they are direct guidance from the body. Symptoms tell us where to dig to identify the exact issue to address to support health and personal growth. Symptoms are doorways to deeper self-awareness. You may well ask, Do we have to be sick to grow? Heavens no. The more intimate we […]
Effective Guidance
What makes guidance effective? Here are some considerations, followed by guidelines below: The most useful guidance is rarely one-size-fits-all. Our bodies, personalities, beliefs, and aims differ. Social consensus–agreement–is often considered truth within a society. This does not make it so. Prejudice, for instance, rests on social agreement. Our perception of what is true changes as […]
Real Life Truth About Vampire Mystique, Part 8
How to Avoid Being Vampire Bait Recognizing “vampire” behavior patterns and “victim” patterns that invite being drained will help keep you out of a relationship that sucks. You deserve to thrive in a loving relationship. This text addresses predisposing issues that attract people who draw energy. Let’s address the internal social isolation and alienation that […]
Real Life Truth About Vampire Mystique, Part 7
Moving from Calling People Energy Vampires into Self-Care People with certain personality disorders do suck energy. They are wounded. This type of deep, core wound is not easy to heal. Calling people vampires if they seduce us into giving them energy is becoming popular. I am not suggesting calling these people vampires: We all have […]
Real Life Truth About Vampire Mystique, Part 6
Vampire Mystique and Character Disorders, Two Please understand that in comparing those with character disorders to vampires, I am not without compassion for their suffering. They, like vampires, may be quite loveable—but dangerously so. These parallels are for the purpose of recognizing these issues to keep yourself safe, not for looking down on people. I […]