Whispering comes the promise of new life everywhere. The early bloom of flowers, the buds on trees, all promise us the coming of a warmer season. But spring is not the complete revealing of our full potential. It marks only a moment of breaking free of the soil, of—after a long, dark winter’s night—the coming into light again.
To try and control the thought or even the feeling without controlling the function, severely limits our ability to entirely transcend unhealthy patterns. This is why so many experience only nominal success or try and fail at program after program. It’s not you. It’s the program.
This time of year isn't about a seed you're just planning today. It is not a seed you decide or the seed you want. It is a seed born of the fruit of last year’s harvest.
I don’t have suicidal ideation, my daughter does. Two days ago, she swallowed a bottle of her anti-depressants because it seemed like the only real solution to her pain.
What is the perfect path to success? There is a lot of information about what's 'right' and 'not right' to do with your day. Some of it seems pretty ironclad. Here's the issue. There is no 'one right path' for everyone.
Whether you love who you are or wake up wishing things could be different, it doesn’t matter. The human brain craves expansion. We strive for more because we are designed to strive for more.
It has been a long believed notion that suffering is inherent to all humans and while this was once a true concept, it is no longer the only option we have available to us. Suffering is not inherent. Neither is bliss. They are day to day, moment by moment mechanisms of the brain mechanisms we can manipulate.
We all understand mental illness is a result of poor brain function. Well see doctors and therapists, take yoga classes, learn to meditate and try a myriad of alternative medicines to improve it, but what no one tells us--maybe because they don’t really see it--is that we can completely alter our brain function and therefore, the consciousness it creates; not over decades or even years, but in just weeks to months.
Whether it is the touch of the body, of the mind or of the soul; whether it is through physical contact, the blending of colors in a painting or a song that reaches to the very core of who we are, being touched transforms us and fires within us the desire to truly live.
