Healing Journey

Intention: My intention is to be able to remain at peace when this difficult emotion/vibration comes up. To simply no longer take it personally, but rather welcome it and give it permission to be in my body without reacting to it or identifying with it. To be able to remain present as presence: holding it…

Intention: My intention is to be able to remain at peace when this difficult emotion/vibration comes up. To simply no longer take it personally, but rather welcome it and give it permission to be in my body without reacting to it or identifying with it. To be able to remain present as presence: holding it…

I’ve come a very long way from the inwardly ungrounded young man who barely registered the existence or relevance of other people and outwardly could only make intensely intellectual and philosophical conversation from the mind and had no sense of how to dress or groom or even brush his teeth and put deodorant on. With…

Intention: sence: holding it in impersonal awareness that remains now – while feelingly in embodied contact with the sensation of it in the present – and holding it in unconditional love. To purify personal identification with this information and all the patterns of feeling, thought, and behavior. The end goal is to be able to…

Following on my previous post about the book: Childhood Disrupted How your biography becomes your biology and how you can heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa – a look at steps she states can help ” create new neurons (neurogenesis), make new synaptic connections between those neurons (synaptogenesis), promote new thought patterns and reactions, and bring…

Violet Flame Mediations Shopping List:

The book’s core concept is that a traumatic core wound leaves a false message embedded in our psyches. These false, negative self-beliefs are what actually continue to hurt us: that the story or events or context or content of the original situation is not really the issue. (Ultimately, everything is impersonal: we were wounded by…

R.A.I.N meditation by Tara Brach was suggested to me as a practice to come into contact with numbness and limiting self-beliefs.  R-A-I-N stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture. Tara Brach has a wealth of mediations and talks at the cross-section of mental health and awakening which is where I find myself. I am so grateful…

Jack Kornfield is a Buddhist teacher and covers a lot of mediation topics related to healing the personal and intra-personal. His website is here: https://jackkornfield.com/meditations/ I made myself the following shopping list to try in my daily practice: https://jackkornfield.com/mind-like-ocean/ https://jackkornfield.com/reconciliation-meditation/ https://jackkornfield.com/refuge-in-difficult-times/ https://jackkornfield.com/gratitude-and-generosity-meditation/ https://jackkornfield.com/joy-mudita-meditation/ https://jackkornfield.com/grounding-practice/ https://jackkornfield.com/align-yourself-with-goodness-meditation/ https://jackkornfield.com/breathe-love-in-breathe-love-out-meditation/ https://jackkornfield.com/temple-of-healing-meditation/ https://jackkornfield.com/the-medicine-of-the-dharma-meditation/ https://jackkornfield.com/worldwide-healing-of-love/

I want to remind myself, lest I fall into personal identification with the healing journey and turn it into an identity, that nothing belongs to me. That the life story of my personal self, my psyche, my mental health, and my healing are not mine for me to be preoccupied and concerned about. They are…

Having formerly been diagnosed as schizophrenic as an adolescent (15) and admitted into long-term back wards of mental hospitals both in France and the UK until I was 18, I got this book to understand Schizophrenia and what may have happened to me better. It’s a lovely quick little read. Apart from the obvious list…

Childhood Disrupted How your biography becomes your biology and how you can heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa. One of the most useful metaphors and concepts the book introduces is the idea of chronic and unpredictable stress in the chapter titled “the Rattled Cage”. This chapter describes experiments with rodents that conclude that ongoing low-level but…