Time to be truly ourselves
We shall turn… The abuse into respect. The aches of our planet into sustainability. The addiction into passion. The annihilation into inclusion. The conformity into creativity. The conservative into progress. The destruction into beauty. The distraction into focus. The fear into prosperity. The fitting in into diversity. The lies into truth. The oppression into support. […]
The 7th step is Happiness
(inspired by “Seven Steps to Happiness” by Yogi Bhajan 7/7)
All means ALL…
Including women. The voices of dissatisfaction and disagreement but also of solutions and creativity. The higher pitch in the room. The natural differential use of vocabulary. Even of gramar. The questioning in science, the taste of experiences, the interpretation of results. If different journeys tailor the forth thinking, being born with a vulva or the […]
The 6th step is Sacrifice
Oh no! The weight of this word!!! Do you mean I cannot have the cake and eat it? Overall, victimhood has no place in sacrifice, for which I renounce to something as an offering to the outcome. What I renounce to is likely to be a matter of life itself because sacrifice is always imposed […]
My own experience…
Practicing sadhana, 40 days of ‘cross heart Kirtan kriya’, the process was not linear. We are not linear. Some days 31 minutes were as smooth as candy sucking. Others, everything ache. Others it was as if my mind was everywhere else but in the room with my chanting. Still other times the distraction was so […]
The 5th step is Grace
Why would smoothness and elegance of movement be important in the path of happiness? Why would effortless good will be important. Why would manners and decorum be important? Why would distinction and honour be important? Why would the quality to magnify and elevate be important? In the commitment to develop character and dignifying the divinity […]
The 4th step is Divinity.
The forbidden words. For an atheist scientific person words such divine, blessing and grace have a heavy, castrating meaning. Let alone god and heaven. Mankind experience within this Universe was itself wonderful enough, the belief in Humanity blind enough, and the sense of fairness overwhelming enough to deny the need to believe in a judging […]
When do we feel in love?
How does it feel in our body? Heat? Vibration? Watery eyes? Belly expansion? Contraction? Arousal? Close your eyes, what comes to your mind? His eyes? Her laughter? A drawing? A tune? A poem? Remember a moment when friendship felt so right? What was happening? Did you share the taste for the same things? Did you […]
“The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”
Well, there’s nothing strange about their case. We have parts of us we choose not to express. We behave differently according to our surrounding, and often we shape our emotional wrapping depending on who we are with. Then, when we become intimate and safe with others our wrapping becomes more transparent. The voices raise, […]
The 3rd Step is Dignity
It’s conscientious. Spend a few moments observing nature, really seeing it. Long enough so we follow the trail of an ant and her hesitations and changes of direction, wide enough so we follow the unpredictable flight and pauses of a small bird from tree brunch to tree brunch, quiet enough so we hear and imagine […]