Opening the Doors to Freedom
Synopsis: Exploring our psyches reveals our unconscious meaning making with regards to love, greatly impacting our life and our relationships.
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Seeking to Know Life
Seeking from our mind is often an endless ride on a hamster wheel. Seeking from our being is part of our inheritance as a living being.
Each living thing has something within it that drives it to grow, to evolve- to go from what was, into newness. This movement to “life” is inherent within existence itself. In plants and animals we simply call it maturing, or growing. In human beings we can connect with it as aspect of “a me” wanting to know a greater sense of Me-ness. We may call it seeking: a seeking of life wanting to know itself in/as Life.
The Gift of Consciously Connecting to Anger, aka Social Justice, Heart-Work, and Evolution Part 1.5
“Everything’s going pretty well in my life, but I feel **so much anger! **” “I can’t get past how much anger I feel! I want to feel better, but I am stuck.” “How can I **not** be angry, have you seen what’s going on in the world?” “Being angry is a negative emotion and now is not the time to be negative.”
Feedback
The feedback from “Social Justice, Heart-Work, and Evolution. Part 1, of 2” had 1 of 3 flavors, generally speaking.
Connecting to the Heart While Connecting to the Social Justice Pain, Part 1
In every moment, new life.
Broken Hallelujah
I had no idea what lay behind the tight, controlling anger bubbling underneath the surface of my being. As I delicately pealed back the layers with inquiry, grief, shame and intimacy were yearning for union with me.
Rest in the Gap
When we stop to rest, to see what’s here, sometimes what we find is nothing, or the perception of space. Suddenly it’s quiet, as opposed to the chaos we’re used to. Sometimes, when we find no-thing, quiet, we get scared because we want to find something- something that we think means… well, something. Because we live in a thing based and a thing filled reality, finding no-thing or quiet can be disturbing.
On Shame and Sharing
“The shame of being me was a frequent visitor during my dark night…It felt shameful to have all these feelings. The shame was difficult to feel, not least because it felt endemic to my whole being. Every cell of my body, every memory, felt shaped by humiliation. It had misshapen my whole being.”
The Dark Night of the Soul, page 81.
Making Peace with Peacemaking
Hi, I’m Lisa and I’m a recovering peacemaker.
There’s not a 12 step program exclusively for peacemakers, but you can be sure that at every 12 step meeting, in every recovery program, peacemakers and recovering peacemakers will be present. And while being addicted to peacemaking may not have the same stigma or even consequences as being addicted to drugs, sex or gambling, there’s definitely a cost.
If you’re unfamiliar with peacemakers, here are some traits:
No Body Knows What the Fuck is Going On
No Body Knows What the Fuck is Going On
An Equal and Opposite Reaction
Can you imagine what the human experience would be like if it wasn’t so dogged by the near ubiquitous onslaught of predatory capitalism and those who are most invested in its continuation?
