Tag: silence
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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Selective Mutism in Adults: Why There Is Silence
When you think of Selective Mutism, one of the first associations that comes to mind is likely that this is something that happens in children. While it seems to manifest most common in children, Selective Mutism does occur in adults. For those of us who don’t have it, it often begs the question, “Why is…
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Meditation Music and Listening to Silence
Musical sounds can focus the mind/body connection as a door way into deeper meditation. Music, bells, drumming, chanting and other various sounds have been used to enrich the mind, body and spirit for thousands of years. Each person and culture use music in their own way but it is usually for the same basic purpose;…
