The path forward is to learn yourself. Learn how to spend time alone, to sit still, to really hear your intuition and witness your entire Self – even, and especially, the darkest parts you’d most like to keep hidden.

majority of us feel unseen, unheard, and unloved and we carry this pain with us throughout our lives.

DO THE WORK: SEE IF YOU ARE STUCK

Many of us were raised by parent-figures who had difficulty navigating their emotions as a result of their own unresolved childhood pain. They may have projected this pain onto us directly, when they urged us not to cry, or indirectly, when they withdrew in response to our displays of emotion.

We explored how she could best use practises of breathwork and meditation.

same imprinting happens when our parent-figures are overly fixated on how they look, modelling behaviours such as obsessive dieting, paying extreme attention to grooming, or excessive exercising.

The child’s experiences may activate similarly painful past memories for

Awakenings are not mystical experiences that are reserved only for monks, mystics, and poets. They are not only for ‘spiritual’ people. They are for each and every one of us who wants to change – who aches to heal, to thrive, to shine.

He described it as ‘the ability to go deep inside oneself and feel secure’ in response to a perceived threat.61