How to Transform Fabricated ‘Crises of the Heart and Soul’.
Observe how your mind, body, heart and soul naturally seek homeostasis and regroup, often giving you insight on what you are.
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Loraine Van Tuyl
How to Kill Your Inner Demons Without Harming Yourself.
What we typically perceive as self-sabotage is actually mystery helping us blow up this matrix and kill our inner demons and the power they have over us.
Brave Rebels: Facing the Holidays with Healthy Defiance.
I’m all for crossing the gaps and building bridges over the wide divides. However, this Thanksgiving dinner may, for many, be a bit premature and not the right forum. It all depends on your family, the group dynamics at the party, and the loose cannons present who may make it hard for others to ...
Time to Unleash our Dragons.
What does my dragon spirit guide's behavior tell me? While elitism, classist prejudice, stereotyping and neglect can most certainly explain the many unexpected 'revenge votes' of this election, I think what's really at play, and what will be under continuous threat of being trumped this entire ...
Prayer for Water Protectors: Rebelles Stand with Standing Rock. {poetry}
Flood our parched spirit with life-giving water
and tears that soak, crack, sprout, and root
old shriveled up seeds of consciousness
to once again honor the source of our food
Learning to Be Well: Detecting and Dismantling Fear-Based Manipulation.
Anansi and the Maroon and indigenous dwellers of the jungle had indirectly taught me that my 'primitive brain' and instinctual self, contrary to popular Western belief, were not ruled by fear and existential angst.
The Gift and Power of Your Presence.
Contemporary spiritual teachers, such as Tara Brach, Jeffrey Foster, and Eckhart Tolle, take a different route to Rome, or home, that deflates the appeal of this risky temptation and opens the door to deep healing. Their take on being present is more aligned with Buddhist and Taoist thought, ...
Keep Your Oxygen Mask on in Times of Perpetual Social Crisis: A Meditation.
Most mental illness (except for severe psychoses, OCD, substance abuse, degenerative disease, and the like) is much less fixed and rigidly ingrained in the genes, biochemical glands, brain patterns, hormonal imbalances and other material aspects of the body than most of us realize. These are ...
Are You Thriving or Trashing at Your Furthest Edge of Growth?
You have no desire to objectify and sculpt your body like a piece of meat (and can't see yourself through the burning sweat glistening on your eyeballs anyway), and prefer to revere it as the holy temple that it is -- your sacred well, your cauldron of transmutation, humbled by all the deep ...
The Power and Pitfalls of Using Meditation in Times of Crisis.
We can completely lose our sense of self and reality when PTSD symptoms haunt us in the form of nightmares, flashbacks that are visceral or visual, crying spells, numbing or withdrawing, panic attacks, drowning in intense moods and feelings, rageful outbursts, acute conflict, vulnerability to ...