Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

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

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

If you are honored but recognize that the praise is like a hollow echo, then you are not in the grip of a demon of elation.

a god, which is connected to longing for something, or being obsessed with a certain outcome.

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.

Since the ego establishes and operates on the principle of self versus other, the ego sees everything dualistically, which places us in a constant struggle to keep ourselves viable; even pleasure is infused with tension. The ego requires constant vigilance, and because the ego’s task of complete control is impossible, we always have a feeling thing

Fundamentally all the demons that we have looked at are thought processes that block a state of clear awareness, and they grow out of this demon of ego fixation. The practice of feeding your demons seeks to liberate all these demons and transform the energy caught up in them into positive energy,

Abusive molestation can be energetic, verbal, or involve subtle ways of touching or even staring. This can be confusing because you might think “nothing really happened,” but this is no reason for its destructive power to be minimized. Problems caused by these kinds of sexual abuse can be very deep.

She started succumbing to an all-too-familiar sinking feeling that her life was not her own. She felt that she was not safe, and that her own vigilance would not be enough to keep her safe. At this point in the demon feeding, Sophia felt hopeless and lost.