How to meditate
Is meditation already a hype? I remember trying to read Osho who wrote a book on how to meditate, without explaining how to do it. Let's not be Osho :)
Only you can make you wait
I wanted to touch base on something quite prevalent, yet maybe from a different perspective than elsewhere. I am talking about misconceptions about love life.
We are all addicts
Here's a few words about processing of trauma and dealing with addictions. Or using addictions to deal with trauma. Or the world around us.
Serious underlying issues and stupid things
Shadow self, denial and disconnection in extreme forms may cause serious underlying issues. And I didn't even get to the external reasons for serious problems!
What is PMDD like?
Many a time have I heard from men about difficulties in comprehending female experience of menstrual mood swings. Yet chemical imbalance of the brain is a thing. It influences our behaviour and makes us attach to the wrong people. I hope to shed some light on this subject.
How much time do you actually have?
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.
Philosopher’s stone
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.
All’s right with the world
This fragment is an excerpt from "Awareness" by Anthony de Mello. I kinda owe this bit to someone - with love :)
12 Laws of Karma
Life requires your participation. And all that, which influences our reality. See if you find anything inspiring here.
Karma
Whatever you do comes back to you, whether it's good or bad. Isn't the idea of some mysterious force being out there to get us within the realm of magical thinking?
Tale of the yellow devil
In the old days, a poor and rather stingy Chinese counted his life savings (which he kept hidden under the floor tile) and realised that he had saved 30 gold pieces. So he went to the marketplace to buy something interesting for the first time after many years.
No man is an island
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.
Meeting the real me
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.
There is only one enemy – ourselves.
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.
Bluebeard
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.
What makes you human?
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.
Basic human needs
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?
Are you taking care of yourself?
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.
Drama triangle in action
If you are familiar with the basics of Karpman’s triangle, you might be interested in various movements around its circumference.