Hot Tub Spirituality
your relationship with the divine always takes the shape of your relational patterns in general.
Becoming vs Being (or is it both?)
I then entered the classic California pipeline: when worldly pleasures fail you, attempt to locate the happiness without conditions. I became a self-therapy and meditation nerd, and, as a result, I achieved a much greater level of embodiment. I realized that I’d been stuck in my head for my whole life — that this is not a figure of speech, but a... See more
My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person
Unlearning Default Awayness
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We receive all sorts of voices (body, mind, senses), but intuition is the discerning force that can hear all of them and decide how to move forward.
We can hear a voice without obeying it, but when it feels like its not heard, it will force its way out in all sorts of sideways thoughts and feelings.
In practice, this felt like releasing tension. A healthy inner space was created between me and the dirty kid in my mind. That person wasn’t identical to me, I was not my history. Simultaneously, though, I didn’t need to reject that person, either. This act of acceptance triggered a whole-body relaxation. It was like opening up a lens: unclenching... See more
Sasha Chapin • How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, or, I Demand Deep Okayness For Everyone
What engaging in IFS feels like