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It’s only superficially ironic that work on Creative Regeneration and making a healing refuge should leave me so wiped out.
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It’s only superficially ironic that work on Creative Regeneration and making a healing refuge should leave me so wiped out.
My conviction is this: whatever you actually manage to do, with the sincere intention to improve your life, will work. There really is no shortage of methods. The trick is in managing to do the thing, whatever it is.
Breathing is always there to help and calm you down, to create the sense of safety and a secure base that we all need, but we need to learn how to use this precious resource.
Are you a world-class worrier, or going for gold in the anxiety stakes? We need to pay attention to what we practice.
Good Friday is a time of darkness and depletion that comes right before the light, a time set aside to contemplate suffering. I was forcing my system on full steam ahead and it felt all wrong.
A sense of safety is a crucial human need, and working with trauma and anxiety is all about finding this sense of a secure base in the world. However, given our position in the universe, whizzing around on a rock in the middle of infinite space, with pretty much the only certainty in our life being the fact that we will die, is it not a little crazy to imagine that we are safe?
If I am an individual whose rights and autonomy are sacred, then someone else’s path crossing mine can feel like an infringement, even a cause of anger. But what if I feel like a part of a collective whole?
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