Tag: anger
These are very personal questions: What is spiritual to you? When and where do you feel spiritual? How do these spiritual feelings get blocked or expanded?
We can carry these questions throughout our lives. Spiritual practice aims to refine and deepen our understanding of them.
I will focus on three specific spiritual practices: psychological relationships, meditation, and psychedelic plant medicines, including cannabis.
Spiritual practice is about psychological relationships because if our spiritual practice doesn’t improve our relationships with others, what’s the point?
The practice of psychological relationships with others and with one’s inner life is a personal experience with spiritual meaning. This involves experiences of vulnerability, hurt, and confusion that teach us the depth of human love and kindness.
Spiritual practice is not only personal but also universal and objective. We need to look at our minds as they are, our human instincts as they are, and our relationship with the natural world. We are born, go through all the developmental stages, and then die. Life is both precious and painful. We cannot change most of life, but we can learn to connect with it gracefully, little by little.
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How to Love One’s Self and Working with the Fear of Loving
The act of loving one’s self feels right. It makes sense. It is simple, “love your self”. And, it is very complicated because there are parts of ourselves that we resist acknowledging, let alone loving. Loving one’s self is a continual process of uncovering smarter and kinder ways of relating to our self, to others…
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Arya Stark and Game of Thrones; The Father/Daughter Relationship;
Arya Stark is a character with a warm heart and a calculated revenge. She symbolizes for us an emotional tension that all people experience in varying degrees. It is the tension between anger and longing. We can have longing for love, security, comfort, peace, or enlightenment. Arya longs for her father and all that encompasses.…
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“Never Go to Bed Angry”, (Anger as a Doorway)
“Never go to bed angry” was derived from a bible verse: “let not the sun go down upon your wrath” Ephesians 4:26. Ideally, this is a very good suggestion, but what if you cannot do this? When in fact, you stay up most of the night angry and are angry for days. I feel angry…
