Be the Space: Watching Thoughts and Emotions
When you hear people say “You are not your thoughts” or “You are not your feelings”, you might wonder what that actually means. For anyone who is at all spiritual, you’ve almost surely heard that…
Category: Self-awareness
Giving Yourself Permission To Be Yourself
I want to talk about the idea of giving ourselves permission to be ourselves. What does that mean? Well, there is a subset of people who rightfully or wrongfully believe that they deserve to struggle….
How to let go of negativity and negative feelings
It can often seem impossible to let go of our negative feelings. Our natural instinct is to push negative feelings away, wishing they weren’t there but in doing so we are actually keeping the negative…
The antidote to shame: self-acceptance
I’ve been struggling with shame for a long time now. I didn’t always know it as shame but I always felt a sense that I needed to hide myself from the world. This feeling lives…
What does it mean to validate an emotion?
When we feel uncomfortable emotions, our first instinct is usually to push them away. We don’t want to feel these uncomfortable emotions. But when we avoid feeling our emotions, we keep them stuck because, as…
Working with Suppressed Emotions
When we suppress our emotions, we don’t just push down our negative emotions but also our positive ones. Suppressing our emotions limits our ability to express ourselves fully in life, robbing us of joy, love…
Breathing to Tears
I was practicing the Wim Hof method again today after experimenting with Sudarshan Kriya yoga earlier in the week. Sudarshan Kriya yoga is a method of patterned breathing that also incorporates a type of forceful…
Movement to Heal
Can dancing release stored emotions in the hips? I wanna find out.
Are You Numbing Your Feelings?
What happens when you numb your emotions? Blocked emotions can change the way you function in your life. They can cut you off from being authentic and cause you to act and think in ways…
Are you hiding behind your striving?
Are our attempts at self-improvement really ways to mask our own feelings of inadequacy? This question been on my mind since seeing this video on disliking yourself. Now it’s not apparent to me that I…