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There’s self, there’s other and there’s other-other. We know the first two. The third may sound a little weird.
Rather pejorative names like sub- personalities, semi-autonomous fragments, dissociated aspects, etc. have been given to what are actually adaptive, protective behaviors. At different times in our lives we felt it necessary to reveal – even highlight – some parts of ourselves and conceal or deny others. Hence other-other…
For example, Fall is a beautiful time of year, a season that many are drawn inward, and
for some a melancholy one.
It also means to fall:
… down
… back
… forward
.. over
… from grace
… in love.
Whenever a skilled or passionate speaker delivers a message, the language used means many different things simultaneously – and social media often exaggerates this effect even more.
…usually are not the same.
Since we all have multiple intentions and sensory inputs simultaneously, most of our communications have many components mashed together.
The speaker has a different set of priorities than the listeners, who extract the portions important to them, seldom the priority meant.
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring.
It’s an active noun like struggle.
To love someone is to strive to accept
that person exactly the way he or she is,
right here and now”
- Mister Rogers
At the main Center in Petaluma:
We are happy to annouce our reopening. We are quickly catching up on rescheduling everyone. Contact with requests.
We have stringent Covid protocols, have added a high-grade HEPA multi-filter air purification system. We are double masking and encourage guests do also (one mask is required).
We are looking forward to helping create a more positive 2021.
Stay safe and healthy.
“I don’t know”-
“I don’t understand” -
“I’m not in control!”.
Each of these have questions and/or confusions, usually with a background of fear.
The first is actually a simple statement with an opportunity to learn.
The second often contains self-judgement,
with a scoop of unfair on top.
Many sacred days are here or just ahead of us. In practice, they seem largely dedicated to reaffirming existing beliefs, and sometimes the actions and usually the images we hold of ourselves and each other. The changing seasons reinforce this need at the cellular level.
Most traditions share values of honesty, helping, and even compassion. But when we look at the world around us, fear and judgement seem to be more in evidence.
The search for self-trust…
Discipline is needed for performance. This is because discipline has a preplanned outcome and predesigned components to produce it. By nature, performance anxiety is a near universal human experience. It may be softened or aggravated by a teacher or other performers, but we seldom have control over how they will contribute. The habitual nature of discipline allows those affected with performance anxiety to work through the mental blocks causing the anxiety.
Heart gives courage, empathy
and connection.
Wisdom grows from vulnerability, acceptance and forgiveness.
Combined they create ongoing awareness of the shared need
and capacity for healing present in us all.
Integrated Awareness is an innately human set of skills for healing and wholeness through movement, touch, enhanced awareness and changes of consciousness. We are each a complete person, but we often feel ourselves to be a collection of parts, any of which… Read more
Integrated Awareness offers three avocational stages of learning: Personal, Exploratory and Apprenticeship. These often begin with a mini-intensive...
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