The Witness
Throughout the texts of ancient wisdom literature, is the concept of the witness. If you cultivate it, it is a very important skill. You can learn to step back from your own emotions and reactions and cultivate the witness within you. This skill is the heart of meditation. When we take a few moments to be still and relaxed and take our thoughts less seriously we can come back into the experience of the present moment. The present moment offers riches. It can be more challenging to witness ourselves if we don’t have a sense of who we are. The expectations from family and culture can...
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Resistance teaches us again and again the value of nonresistance. So much is beyond our control. So much is in our control, mainly the choices we make and how we follow through on them. Can we choose self love without self-absorption. Can we choose to support but not over care for others? There is beauty in learning to go with the reality of the circumstances we cannot change and in learning adaptation, not hopelessness, but, rather, when it is wise to accept and to let...
Read MoreTouch More
Psychological studies coming out recently attest to the fundamental power and basic need of touch. They have discovered specific cells in our newborn bodies that respond in very significant ways to touch. Touch enables emotional growth, development and well being. There is now a specialty in newborn psychology. As it turns out, we aren’t blank slates. There is experience in the womb and during our births that affect us profoundly. Touch is one of the primary experiences. If you did not receive optimal touch as a baby or child you can help your body heal from this depravation by...
Read MoreEnvy hurts
Envy Do you feel the painful experience of envying something or someone? It is a common and unhappy experience? Envy is common in a culture where we judge so much about worth based on how we look form the outside and what we have. Commercials on TV and other media sometimes play on our envy to induce us to buy stuff, as if stuff will make us have more worth. When we envy a person or what they have we tend to feel small ad insecure. We feel separate and anxious. When we are supported and more settled in self –acceptance, envy has less of grip on us. We all need one or two people who love us...
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Sensitive Most of us are born highly sensitive people. Children are in love with the world they are coming in to, trying relate to and to understand. And recent research confirms what we instinctually know and that is that relationships further brain development but not only the brain is enriched but all of the senses. If you are a highly sensitive person you have survived some oppressive messages that asked you not to be too in love with the world. Children love rocks and ladybugs and all. And they suffer when bugs and other creatures suffer. Unlike what is commonly taught in child...
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