Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

Our demons get fatter if they are fought or ignored

The real root problem is clinging to notions of self versus other, not realizing how much of what we consider to be external reality we ourselves project.

He has tried to control all social situations to avoid provoking an attack, and has also abused drugs and alcohol to relax in social situations. As a result of his phobia, Douglas has suffered a great deal of anger and frustration for many years.

When mind looks at mind, The waves of conceptual thought disappear.

where there is egocentricity, there are demons and gods; where there is no egocentricity, there are no demons or gods. We

In the second step we allow the energy that we find in the body to take personified form as a demon right in front of us. In the third step we discover what the demon needs by putting ourself in the demon’s place, becoming the demon. In the fourth step we imagine dissolving our own body into nectar of whatever it is that the demon needs, and we let

Our hopes are our gods. Gods create struggles similar to our battles with demons, except they are attempts to get something rather than get away from something.

The ego fears its own demise and is devious in avoiding detection; our demons are the ego’s worker bees.

because Douglas felt responsible for her happiness as a child, he never wanted to share his own negative experiences with her for fear of making her unhappy. As a consequence he never learned to process negative emotions.