Sublime

EXERCISE #20: TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

Emotional movement in response to the triggers of your Karma can release old conditioning in the Will, and judgment release can free the mind. You, yourself, can release to change what you do not want to keep the same.

Their “faults” or what you perceive as their faults become to you their identity.

As Immanuel Kant wrote in The Metaphysics of Morals, “When we realize that we are capable of this inner legislation, the (natural) man feels himself compelled to reverence for the moral man in his own person.” Binding ourselves is a way to be free.

EXERCISE #5: WHAT CONTROLS YOUR PURSE STRINGS?

Within each of us is an inherent drive toward health—a push toward integration. But life happens, and we may sometimes find that integration is blocked. This blockage can come from impairments to linkage, as in unresolved trauma. Blockage can also arise from impairments to differentiation, whether as a fallout from childhood neglect or as a result

Perhaps the biggest tragedy in our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. Entangled in the trance of unworthiness, we grow accustomed to caging ourselves in with self-judgment and anxiety, with restlessness and dissatisfaction.

I began to realize that beneath all my mood swings, depression, loneliness and addictive behavior lurked that feeling of deep personal deficiency. I was getting my first clear glimpse into a core of suffering that I would revisit again and again in my life. While I felt exposed and raw, I intuitively knew that by facing this pain I was entering a p

Our most habitual and compelling feelings and thoughts define the core of who we think we are.