PAIN AS A BRIDGE

03/26/20 • 54 min

Lumen

PAIN AS A BRIDGE: WAKING UP

Reacting and responding
What's under the story
Inside and outside
Experiencing the pain
Becoming sensative
Resistance and Acceptance
Pema Chodron on Warrior Slogans
Ezra Bayda on the "Substitute Life"
Sealskin / Soulskin
Using pain to bring ourselves back home

PAIN AS A BRIDGE: WAKING UP

Reacting and responding
What's under the story
Inside and outside
Experiencing the pain
Becoming sensative
Resistance and Acceptance
Pema Chodron on Warrior Slogans
Ezra Bayda on the "Substitute Life"
Sealskin / Soulskin
Using pain to bring ourselves back home

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A DEPENDABLE STABILITY

In this podcast I talk about developing the kind of strength that makes us consistent, dependable, and gives us integrity as human beings. It is the strength to keep on keeping on. It involves mastery as well as stability. You become like a rock or a mountain. You feel grounded in the world because you are grounded in your own self. A quality that indicates this in your life is the presence of rhythm, daily rhythm. The power that comes from this rhythmic existence is a kind of balance, harmony, and wholeness. It gives us the strength to handle both success and failure. It is the strength to balance and harmonize our individual needs with the needs of the group.

Note: The recording quality isn't the best but I felt like what I said was so important to share, so here is the imperfection :)

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CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY

CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY:

In this episode I talk about working with resistance in a way that can put us in touch with the feelings that keep us stuck and feeling dead in our lives. These feelings can keep us stuck in suffering or they can be a flood gate into coming alive. Learning to feel things we "don't want to feel" can put us in touch with our truth and living in alignment with ourselves.

In the Chinese language the word for crisis has two meanings, one is crisis and one is opportunity.