Tag: awakening

Chanukah – A Deeper Light

The deepest meaning of Chanukah is not that we transform the world by bringing light into the darkness. We transform ourselves by seeing the Light that is within the darkness. Suddenly the world is different.

About Mindfulness

This is the beautiful Chinese character for ‘Mindfulness’. The roof-like part at the top means ‘now’ or ‘this’ – in other words ‘presence’. The bottom portion means ‘heart’. This tells us that the seat of consciousness is not in the head, rather it’s in the heart! Isn’t it true that we mistake ‘thought’ for consciousness? […]

Further Reflections on Pain and Suffering

Here’s more on the role of consciousness in the experience of pain and suffering. Dr Elisha Goldstein, in this illuminating extract from an interview on Psychotherapy Networker, describes Jon Kabat-Zinn’s groundbreaking discovery of using Mindfulness to relieve chronic pain. Click her to listen (duration: 1:42)

Discovering my authentic self

I’ve learned that underneath my neurotic behaviors lie unconscious purposes – usually to avoid some fear that I’m also unconscious of having. And it’s all the product of my unchecked mind. My healing starts with focusing first on the discomfort I feel in my body and expressing that to myself. When I choose not to […]

A paradigm shift in psychology – from ‘talk’ to ‘experience’

“The more we learn about neuroscience, the more we realize that human beings aren’t driven by our ability to analyze and cogitate about our lives… The key word here is experience. In other words, as a growing body of research shows, deep change doesn’t come when clients just talk about their problems; it results from […]

“The real voyag…

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust Much of what holds us back in our lives or keeps us blocked or stuck in negativity resides in our subconscious mind – in the form of unrecognized false beliefs. The beginning of transformation for ourselves and […]