Being busy and having no time seems to be quite a common tendency in the Western World. Being short on time seems to be almost fashionable, it boosts our mood and plays well with our FOMO. Simultaneously, everyone knows prolonged exposure to stress has serious health-related consequences. It is hard not to think we fell into some kind of a trap.
Light comes when you do the work of transmuting that darkness within yourself first, understanding and coming to terms with it.
We are complex creatures.
Relationships help us grow as individuals - in a different way than some of us think. They don’t guide us directly, only show us where we are wrong. We may hope that someone will show us the path, but the thing is, we need to find our path ourselves.
So I said earlier this blog is about my road from now to the future. I was also hoping to share some stories. So here is one, a personal story.
Have you noticed the human tendency to escalate and rebel? Even if our daily experience provides us only with happy reasons, if there is any bit of unexpressed anger in us we would change the narrative so that it looks like the injustice was there all along. We need our antagonist so that we can keep running away.
When a human experience repeats itself, stories are born. One of such is the story of Bluebeard. And literally hundreds of others. As we learn about them, we can get in charge of our narrative. Write our own stories - and lives.
There are a few qualities that make us different from other animals. Anthropologist Margaret Mead brought the example of the 15,000 year old human thigh bone with a healed fracture, as a prominent sign of civilisation.
This entry is about our basic needs. Having them listed out and summarised may be a good way to analyse our conscience and confess to ourselves - did we do our homework?
How much of our feeling-happy is determined by chemical imbalance of the brain? Or perhaps nobody taught us how to properly address our needs? Or perhaps there is something we can change in ourselves, that could do the trick.
If you are familiar with the basics of Karpman’s triangle, you might be interested in various movements around its circumference.
Nowadays mental health is a thing. One of the signs that may signal there is something worth checking out is recognition of the Karpman's drama triangle.
Yoga consists of eight limbs. First limb is a collection of yamas, ethical rules in Hinduism. Aparigrapha is one of them. This life lesson is definitely occupying most of my thoughts recently.
So often we get trapped in our thinking patterns that are supposed to protect us from experiencing the sensations. By doing so we deny some parts of reality, we repress parts of our nature.
