Printed in Tricycle Magazine online. Article from Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters, by Robert Augustus Masters. Published by North Atlantic Books, copyright © 2010 by Robert Augustus Masters There isn’t any such thing as a negative emotion. There are negative things that we do with our emotions, but our emotions [...]
Is there a Miracle Cure? Well, at least I haven’t found it yet. There is, however, the possibility of a miracle. It’s called “neuroplasticity.” What we practice carves out a path inside us. It’s sort of like the Grand Canyon. Have you ever seen it or any other arroryo/canyon in the southwest? Incredible how [...]
Some things are easy to figure out. We know when we get a new gadget how to put the batteries in. We have the basics on how to do a lot of things on the computer. We no longer need instructions on how to get out of the chair and walk around.
But when it comes to our lives it doesn’t always feel that easy. Certainly isn’t that simple. Things don’t always make sense. We’re confused by how people respond to us.
The Becoming Safely Embodied Skills are one way to have an instruction manual.
A couple years ago I met Sara Willerson at a conference in Europe. It was like meeting a soul sister. Since then we’ve kept in touch about her work in equine therapy in the brave and wonderful state of Texas. To see a video of her work click here. Here’s a blog post she [...]
This guest blog was written by Bret Lyon who will be presenting a workshop on Healing Shame in the Boston area May 19 & 20, 2012. Click here for more information. Anatomy of a Freeze – or Dorsal Vagal Shutdown (Drawn from Steven Porges and Peter Levine) In order to sustain life, [...]
It’s often hard to chart the path forward into the unknown. We might not like the past — but we know how to do it. It seems easier to do what we already know to do – even when we don’t like what we’re doing or like the outcome. When we’re faced with a crossroads [...]
One of the most painful possibilities for trauma survivors is to be triggered — to go from living in this body, in this experience, in this present moment, to suddenly finding yourself catapulted into fear, terror, numbness, or panic. What might have felt steady now feels enormously disruptive. It can seem like being thrown into [...]
A couple weeks ago I sat in front of 100+ people at the Sivananda Yoga Retreat. They sat there, respectfully, waiting for me to say something wise or important. Gulp. Every night while I was there would give a talk on the subject of the retreat, which this year was, “Cultivating Love.” That night [...]
Practice. Not always something we like to deal with. Discipline. It sounds so harsh, and rigid, and confining. For many of us adding a practice into our lives feels like one more thing we just can’t do. Instead we bemoan our fates, argue that we just can’t change [...]
If you had asked me so many years ago would I want to celebrate my dad’s 90th birthday I would have to think twice. Yet, celebrate it we did this past weekend with a full force of aunts and uncles and cousins and loved ones. I certainly didn’t think all these people would [...]