Thoughts and Feelings are Real: The ‘Self’ They Seem to Produce Is Not My own awakening was facilitated by a school that, as small as it was, split into two factions a few years back. In the school, we were taught that we didn’t need to perfect the ego in order to...
Simply Awake The real ‘difficulty’ of ‘waking up’ or ‘getting enlightened’ is just how simple it actually is but, how complicated we make it. . Academic scholars have written endlessly, people argue about what the ‘right words are’ to describe it relentlessly, and...
Worthy or Unworthy? Whether I’m working with clients coming to me for psychological help, spiritual help or both, I notice a consistent pattern: everyone feels and believes themselves to be essentially unworthy. On an ego level this is usually because they’ve started...
Using Intuition to Wake Up When the logical, language-generating mind is ‘foggy’ as mine has been this last week or so, I like to change the focus of attention to my intuition. Intuition is another way of ‘knowing’ or ‘learning something’ that seems to bypass the...
Self-Care in Different Seasons In the Northern Hemisphere, where I live, it’s getting darker and colder by the day. Sunrise is currently at 7:11 AM and sunset is at 4:33 PM. This is a very short day with less than 9 hours of daylight. If I use awareness and check...