PAUSE to simply BE…
Archive for November, 2015
Awakening
Sunday, November 8th, 2015When our experiences are ‘raw’ in nature, they are best approached with openness & tenderness… much like a mother would cradle her young child in pain.
The ‘Work’
Sunday, November 8th, 2015Driven by clear intention… motivation… and sustaining effort is the ‘inner work’ we engage to become closely familiar with our own mind- to free ourselves from our impulsiveness, reactiveness, habitualness- and from states of being and doing that cause us repeated suffering. Engaged in this deeply meaningful work, we come to explore the mystery of […]
Awakening
Saturday, November 7th, 2015In the absence of ‘thinking’ about our emotional experience, there only remains ‘energy’- the energy that will simply pass through us.
‘Thinking’…
Saturday, November 7th, 2015We are not our thoughts… We are not defined by our critical thinking, or by the ‘self-critic’ from within. We are something much more than who or what we may conceive ourselves to be. In this practice of coming to know ourselves and our experiences of mind, we rest in awareness in the spirit of […]
‘SELF’
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015What often stands in our way is our solidified concept of ‘SELF’. Rigid and steadfast, we often stay the course unable to free ourselves from conditioned patterns and belief systems that function to support who we ‘think’ we are… rather than who we truly may be, or who we may potentially become. Relaxing this concretized […]
Awakening
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015Can we simply experience the emotion- the ‘energy’- the ‘felt sense’- without thinking about it?
Awakening
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015With trepidation, we open the ‘door’ & step through not knowing what we will experience. We trust this intent to come to know the nature of what we think & feel. To know these patterns is to come to know the nature of our own being.