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Fear is a curious thing. When we feel like we’re being threatened, or pushed to our limits, we can take extreme measures to try to protect ourselves. And the threat doesn’t necessarily even have to be real, just perceived that way. Someone may simply… Continue Reading “Feel Your Fears (part 2)”
If we’re feeling an emotion, but not allowing ourselves to express it, that energy will only build in our body over time. We can try to suppress it, analyze it, or busy ourselves in order to distract from it, but until we actually face… Continue Reading “What We Resist, Persists.”
As I’ve learned how to settle my own nervous system, the modern world has started to feel even louder, faster and increasingly disconnected. It feels lost, yet in a hurry to get somewhere; a destination without having any direction or purpose of where it’s… Continue Reading “A Return to Stillness in a Busy World”
Symptoms are justThe Body’s protestFrom living a LifeThey’re not meant to live.From playing a partThey’re not meant to play.We have two ears to listen,And yet it is not those we truly hear it with.For it is in the space between soundWhere our Body’s are… Continue Reading “The Poetry of Presence”
There is strength in surrendering to Life by allowing it to just unfold as it will. To letting go of our need to control and the expectations of how we think it “should” be. Strength in surrendering to what we’re actually feeling and allowing… Continue Reading “Strength in Surrender”
I was reminded today of a story I read a while ago about a child that was brought to the zoo, where he saw an elephant tied to a stake. He asks the animal trainer, “why doesn’t the elephant just use its size to… Continue Reading “The Story of the Elephant”
Yesterday on my lunch break, I found myself lost in thought (as I tend to do) while lying in the grass under a tree. I was starting to get stuck in a loop circling around ideas and potential futures of where the world is… Continue Reading “Rising Higher”
Even the smallest spark can lead to the brightest flame. All it takes is an idea, a flash of inspiration, a glimpse of potential to lead us in a better direction in Life, because if we can’t even see or envision a new way… Continue Reading “All We Need Is a Spark”
Why is it that when most of us need a vacation, we want to go somewhere closer to nature? Why do we even feel we need to “get away” from how we’re living at all? Whether we consciously realize it or not, I would… Continue Reading “The relationship between nature & the body (pt 2)”
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