Paul Rosenberg – Imagine that some combination of circumstances end with you walking into a so-so bar, then accidentally causing some gigantic brute to spill his drink. Imagine also that this brute just learned that his girlfriend moved out, taking his bank account with her.
The brute, towering over you, clenches his fists and start spewing horrifying threats. Your knees go weak, you can barely think or move… you try to back up but do it so clumsily that you’re grasping the edge of the bar to prevent yourself from falling.
The brute hasn’t touched you, but you’ve already been seriously impacted. This happened because of well-known and well-studied chemicals. So, then, was fear not a type of chemical weapon? (It was, in fact, the bully’s first blow.) Continue reading
Mary O’Malley – The storyteller in our heads is so used to being judgmental, cruel and even vicious, telling us not only that we did something wrong (this is guilt), but that we are bad and wrong (this is shame). And it influences our lives from underneath our everyday awareness, keeping us cut off from the vast and healing regions of our own hearts. I used to have an extremely cruel judger inside of me, and as I began to be curious about it, listening to what it was saying, I discovered that the Judger never sees things clearly.
Jennifer Hoffman – In the recent video series on beliefs I talked about how they are so important in creating our reality because our reality is created by our belief system. You can find the previous videos at this link. More important than thoughts, words, or actions, beliefs generate the energetic frequency and vibration that we use to create our reality. When those beliefs are grounded in experiences of judgment, criticism, disrespect, and abuse from others, we believe it’s our fault, we shame ourselves and then use that energy to create a shame-based reality.
year!) we are still in a phase of great change, and of course eclipses are still working with us beyond the initial alignment. A few days after the Equinox power portal I felt a sense of relief, as if much had been released and a new empowerment was born. With any upshift in empowerment comes a greater flow of Love, so it is getting exciting!
“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt” –Immanuel Kant