Tag: perception
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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Holiday Stress
How we interact with Holiday Stress is where the relief happens. How we relate with overwhelming situations, feelings and time constraints is the skill that we are learning. Healthy stress and Unhealthy stress Healthy stress is the challenge we give ourselves to mature and grow in our life. Unhealthy stress makes us sick and depressed.…
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A Brief Overview of Gestalt Therapy
There are many schools of psychology. We hear a new spin on therapy, psychology and spirituality on a regular basis. Some of these ideas for healing body, mind and spirit are ancient, others are specific to the needs of our present cultural situation. We find many of these psychological theorists appeared in the western world…
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The Heart Sutra, Holding the Paradox
The Heart Sutra is written in the form of a dialogue between teacher and student. Here the teacher is pointing out a way of perceiving the mind and body. The teacher is clearing up a confusion about our common perception of ourselves. This sutra is an explanation of how the student can embody this…
