meditation
I had a bunch of weird dreams while I was down at rock bottom. This is the only time in my life I’d wake up and write them down before I forgot them. They’re full of symbolism about what was happening to me, as well as what was to come, so I thought I’d preserve them here…
In my dream I lived in a village with cobblestone streets. I could feel a strong communal, happy vibe and there was lots of sunlight. I went for a job, to work for a spiritual teacher I respected. I met with her secretary, and I was full of optimism. Then she asked about my past. […]
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An otherworldly wise old man was in my dream, who taught me about discipline and perfection. He conveyed this through guitar, and I listened to a section he played, in which the steel strings were perfect. The tempo, the pitch, the notes were all precisely balanced. He said, “It’s different – can you hear it?”
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In my dream I was at a party in a huge mansion – I was bored like I am at most parties. I remember high ceilings, white marble floors, and I was aware I had a very special pass hanging around my neck. There were heaps of people there I knew – friends from my
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Feelings of loneliness and isolation are states of mind. You can spend years on your own, and not feel lonely. And you can be surrounded by people, and still feel lonely. The reason why so many of us feel lonely, is because the system we live in teaches us that we are separate from everything
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So many of us don’t manage anxiety while it’s a yellow flag. We ignore the warning signs til we’re stuck in the red zone. It just kind of creeps up. Anxiety is a mental health issue that’s becoming increasingly common and it’s horribly uncomfortable. It’s a mind program where we get stuck in loops of
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Until you learn to manage empathy and compassion, it can hurt like hell because you feel more. This is hard because the world we live in is rife with suffering. But once you learn how to manage it, it becomes an enormous gift. It’s no accident there are increasing numbers of highly sensitive people and
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When you connect with gratitude, you tap into one of the biggest highs you can experience, because being in a state of gratitude is as high-frequency as it gets. It’s pure love. As a person who was a gigantic, dysfunctional addict, this is what I looked for everywhere. It’s free and it’s all around you
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Learning sitting meditation made its way onto my New Year’s Resolutions list every single year without fail. And like everything else on the list, it never happened – it just remained a fantasy of some person I wished I could be. The reasons why I couldn’t do it was I was too busy (yep that
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Fear and I have a very different relationship these days. We’re actually weird buddies. Because these days I know when you face your fears, this is how you grow. Before my rock bottom, I wasn’t too bad at doing big things that scared me – but they were all outward, external things. But I couldn’t
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This post is bloody long, because my addictions were whoppers. Learning how to overcome addiction was one of the most difficult challenges in my entire existence. It was the headlining theme for more than two decades of my life. My own addiction story is woven into this post, but the point of it all, is
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