TRUE ♾️ NATURE

Every big breakthrough in your life will first require a descent into the underworld, where you will be forced to face exactly the things that you least want to face. Every priceless gift you gain in life will first demand a sacrifice, like of your outworn habits, beliefs, or ideas about who you are and how life should be. The greater the price you pay, the greater the gift your soul will gain from the experience in the end.

Trauma is not what happened to us but how our nervous system has adapted to what has happened or didn't happen to us.  It is how our nervous system has learned to process life. ⁣⁣ One common adaptation: ⁣ ⁣ - the adaptation towards intensity or intensity driven;  be on high alert, scanning for threat, en-guard and defensive, overdoing, ruminating or replaying challenging experiences, imagining and projecting black and white scenarios, overwhelming emotions such as anger or rage.  This is a system that holds a high degree of unresolved stress and trauma. We resort to this coping mechanism because the nervous system has impaired capacity to process intensity and so, we remain on high alert. That unprocessed energy builds up creating more and more distress. ⁣ ⁣ When we fail to recognize what drives high levels of intensity in our system we risk continuing patterns of making uninformed choices, forgetting or dismissing our boundaries and potentially retraumatising our central...

The idea here is to learn to allow yourself to feel your emotions (inner somatic energy) so that your emotions don’t get stuck inside of your nervous system, which may lead to emotional, physical, relationship, family, social and work related disconnections in your life. If by allowing yourself to vulnerably feel the present moment, you may become flooded with many emotions at once. This simply proves again you are full functioning healthy human. This strom too shall pass. Don't resist, don't trap the energy, don't try to control or think or project this energy onto others. Simply ride the current wave and if you get to choose the next one, do so more consciously.  If your consistent patterns of emotional "wave riding" are so intense that they overwhelm your coping skills, this is a sign you may need help learning how to experience and feel and enjoy your emotions in such a way which is more gentle, more manageable and more life affirming.  For this type of inner ...

presence is being centred as The True Self, a simple joy 

One of the most effective strategies for regulating emotion is this: cultivate an attitude of acceptance towards your emotions and the emotions of others. Practice saying ‘yes’ to your emotions, your children’s emotions, your partner’s emotions, and your friends’ emotions and notice how, not only your relationship with emotions changes, but also your relationships with people. When it comes to emotions, what we resist persists. By accepting our emotions, and the emotions of others, we give emotions space to move, to come and go, to rise and fall. Our own experience with emotions tells us that no emotion lasts forever, but when we resist and struggle against our emotional experience, we are more likely to get stuck in our feelings. We can’t push our emotions away (at least not for long), and we can’t push our children’s or partner’s emotions away either. When we are open to the full range of our own emotions, it becomes easier to open to other’s emotions, and this emotional openness pro...

"As our conception of consciousness expands  to include what was once unconscious,  a greater awareness develops that embraces others,  the natural world and the cosmos,  while potentiating opening to primordial awareness."  "The manifestation of the imaginal may allow one to reclaim their authenticity, and to open to the truth of nondual awareness,  or simply the inclusion of the imaginal in one’s everyday practice will assist with one’s growth and illumination." Dr. Julie Brown Yau  Biography "I have a 33-year background in psychological, somatic, and spiritual traditions, which provides a unique depth of knowledge and experience. Born from a fascination of what lies below our conscious awareness, and how trauma shapes our lives, I gained a PhD in somatic depth psychology, and master’s degrees in both spiritual psychology and depth psychology.   I specialize in developmental, inherited, and shock trauma, and have studied and taught with some of ...

Many men are wired to seek freedom. Many think we’ll find it in earning more money or accumulating status. We think we'll find it in relationships or dating conquests. We think we'll find it in winning and competing and taking other's out, in sport or business or life, hard. We look for freedom from societal rules, from commitment to "anyone". Many Men avoid structure, because we see it as a prison. But we are completely limited if that remains our definition of healthy masculinity.  Men remain closed off to their limitless potential and remain misdirected even though they "think" they are "winning" by doing more. Doing more gambling or doing more winning or doing more deals or doing more drugs or doing more unhealthy coping choices. Like abandoning the real self. Ignoring the ever present inner self.  Re parenting that little lost boy who was spoilt rotten or indulged by a "yes" parent or enmeshed and engulfed by them without boundar...

Holy Darkness: A Tantric Opus by Maya Luna with Pattern Disrupt "Lately I am reflecting on how many humans have been medicated or diagnosed or institutionalized for having a human experience that is outside of the box of what is considered “normal” and “healthy”. How many mystics and geniuses have not been understood. How many people having a healthy response to trauma have been deemed pathological or broken. How deeply we reject the speaking through wounds when wounds are open mouths that have things to speak. How binding and limiting our understanding of psychological health is.  How little reverence we hold for the wild initiations of chaos and psyche that erupt from the human soul. How much therapy has been prescribed for people who really needed art or revolutions or an accurate mirror for their brilliance. The cruelty of fixing what was never broken. The cruelty of limitations and attempts to cure.   The wisdom of what breaks us down and cracks us open to reveal The...

YOUR CORE VALUES ARE THE HUB FROM WHICH ALL ELSE RADIATES.  DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURS ARE?  I CHOOSE TO LIVE MY YOGA OFF THE MAT INTO THE REAL WORLD. I MEDITATE AND RELATE ON AND IN REAL LIFE, NOT IN A CAVE NOT IN A TEMPLE I ALSO CHOOSE TO LIVE MY UNWAVERING CORE VALUES  AS MY SELF SUPPORTING RADIANT HUB. PEBBLE POND RIPPLE SIMPLE INTEGRITY ~ KINDNESS ~ AUTHENTICITY ~ JOY NOT PERFECT, JUST HEADING FOR WHOLENESS, MESSY AND FLOWING DOING THE INNER PRUNING WORK, MOMENT TO MOMENT WITH AS MUCH GRACE AS I CAN HUMANLY MUSTER AND I STILL SWEAR I SWEAR TOO MUCH Fire trUCK OFF TONY? WHY SO SERIOUS?  GET OUT OF MY OWN WAY ...  DO YOU GET THE GREAT COSMIC JOKE? YET?  NEVER TELL or SELL or YELL ANYONE ANYTHING...  LIVE & LET LIVE, COMMUNE IN COMMUNITY SOVEREIGN, INTER DEPENDENT, KIND AND ALIGNED HELP SUPPORT CARE AND LOVE LIKE A MUDDA DUCKER BUT DO NOT ENABLE OR SAVE OTHER GROWN ASS ADULTS THATS EACH PERSONS OWN JOB.  TO BE THEIR OWN INNER PILOT LIGHT OF DECO...

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Signs of emotional/psychological trauma (neglect/abuse) caused by parents to their child or own inner child Be aware of even subtle Self abuse Would You Treat Your Own Inner Child like this? If actually aware? Once aware, Well, just stop it... Spectrum & Spirals A Whole Life Worth Living Eleonora Shares, Slow The Duck Down ...  Get Grounded, Get Bendy, Get Off The Mat,  Be Warm, Find Your Edge & Breathe, In, Pause, Out Pause, Repeat ... as often as needed ... Awareness each deep slow Breath, Be Grounded & Stay Bendy Presence As Self from moment to moment Love Life More & Be Prepared To Explore To Be Stretched To The Nascent Places You Grow This Path Is Your Choosing, Do Not Follow The Flock Re Turn To The Unadulterated Self Descend, dive deeper,  Feel, Peel, Reveal, & Heal, Then Rise & Rest & Celebrate You On The Daily   Why So Serious? Laugh more, at Self first ... Be You, unapologetically messy, imperfect and feeling whole Be You, u...