Posts by Joanne Dorpat Halverson

Systhesia – an embodied spirit interbeing connection

Posted by on Apr 26, 2023 in Blog | 0 comments

Synesthesia   Do you experience the melding of the senses? It is considered an anomaly by science but revered by indigenous people. It is a spirit and an embodied interbeing connection. One time, driving to a ceremony, I told my indigenous teacher, “If I lay in the meadow on a sunny day and watch a Hawk above me flying in the sky, I feel and hear the movement of her flight in my body as if I am flying.” I feel the up-and-down movement in my muscles, I feel the buoyancy of air, and accompany all this movement is music.” Watching the waves on the lake near my home, I...

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Understand how Envy hurts your soul

Posted by on Apr 25, 2023 in Blog | 0 comments

Envy   In my youth, envy leered at me from all the dark corners. The hearty apparition of envy is a legacy of my ambitious, competitive parents. Ted and Klarese followed the cultural maxim that to succeed, you compete. Competition and comparison go together. Who is up, and who is down? Once, I joined a watercolor class with several friends. The purple haired experienced teacher looked over my shoulder at my work and smiled. My friend beside me inadvertently flinched as her face showed envy souring her creative experience. In the same class, on a table in front of us, a man’s...

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Heal the inner critic and the soul speaks

Posted by on Apr 24, 2023 in Blog | 0 comments

  Healing the inner Critic allows the soul to speak. Transform the inner Critic into a friendly guide and free the voice of your wise spirit. Who is the Inner Critic, the harsh voice who says we are not good enough, we need to be better, we might fail, or we have failed? Our inner Critic derives from our authority figures and enculturation beginning in early life. If we were fortunate enough to be in a school system or to live in a family with gentle, authentic ways of guiding us, our inner Critic would be a more friendly guide. However, if we didn’t benefit from such good...

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THE HEALING ROOTING OF SOUL, SILENCE & PRESENCE

Posted by on Apr 16, 2023 in Blog, Spiritual | 0 comments

The soil of our lives is our existence. Healthy soil is rooted in the sense of being rather than doing. The only way to fully grow, thrive, and blossom is to be present in our lives. From industrial economic and historical forces, industrial beginnings in our economy. Time clocks exert pressure on us beyond our conscious awareness. We peddle on a treadmill of constant doing so that even meditation or yoga is sometimes more in the realm of doing than in re-focusing on the presence necessary to be. We feel an urgency to be more efficient and to produce something. We tend to look for something...

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giving love

Posted by on Nov 13, 2018 in anxiety, Grief, Highly Sensitive, introversion | 0 comments

It often strikes me that our present-day culture is upside down in terms of values and some understandings. I was recently reading an article in a Buddhist magazine about relationship which reminded me of the wisdom of the native people I have been graced with knowing. The article suggested we have been focusing on procuring love and not enough on giving love in our search for fulfillment. What if we turn that upside down and hone instead our heart muscles- out ability to love. When we fulfill the needs for love for others, we expand ourselves and our hearts. Expansion versus the contraction...

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