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18/12/2024

Have you ever felt like the world is turned up too loud, too bright, too intense—while everyone else seems perfectly fine?

In the delicate landscape of human perception, some of us experience life not just differently, but with an extraordinary depth that can feel more like a curse than a gift. Elaine Aron's "The Highly Sensitive Person" is not just a book—it's a profound validation, a compassionate map for those who experience the world with an intensity that can both illuminate and overwhelm.

1. The Biology of Sensitivity
Sensitivity is not a weakness, but a sophisticated neurological design. Aron reveals how highly sensitive people (HSPs) process information more deeply, experiencing sensory and emotional stimuli with a nuance and intensity that transforms ordinary experiences into profound, sometimes paralyzing encounters. Their nervous systems are not broken—they're calibrated to a different, more intricate frequency.

2. The Hidden Strengths of Overwhelm
What the world perceives as oversensitivity is actually a complex superpower. HSPs possess extraordinary empathy, creativity, and intuition. Their ability to notice subtle details, to feel emotions with profound depth, and to process information with remarkable complexity becomes a unique lens through which they understand and navigate the world.

3. Survival Strategies in an Insensitive World
Navigating a world designed for the less sensitive requires intentional, compassionate self-care. Aron provides practical strategies for managing overstimulation, creating protective boundaries, and transforming sensitivity from a perceived vulnerability into a source of profound strength and insight.

4. Rewriting the Narrative of Sensitivity
Society often pathologizes sensitivity, labeling it as weakness or dysfunction. This book challenges that narrative, presenting sensitivity as a valuable, nuanced trait. HSPs are not broken—they are uniquely equipped to experience life with a depth and richness that others might never comprehend.

5. The Art of Thriving, Not Just Surviving
True empowerment for highly sensitive people comes from understanding, not fighting, their nature. Aron invites readers to embrace their sensitivity, to develop strategies that protect their energy, and to recognize their unique gifts as profound sources of creativity, compassion, and understanding.

This book will transform your understanding of sensitivity from a perceived weakness to your most profound strength. Prepare to be seen. Prepare to be understood.

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21/07/2023

21/07/2023

Carl Jung’s influence on the founding and philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous

In 1961, the year of Carl Jung’s death, Bill Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), wrote a letter of appreciation to Jung acknowledging his influence on the formation and philosophy of the fellowship. Referring to an exchange between Jung and patient Rowland H., Wilson writes, “This astonishing chain of events actually started long ago in your consulting room, and it was directly founded upon your own humility and deep perception.”

In the early 1930s, investment banker and former state senator from Rhode Island, Rowland H., who’d exhausted all other means of recovery from his alcoholism, approached Jung for treatment. While Rowland maintained his sobriety throughout his analysis with Jung, he relapsed during a trip to Africa. Rowland returned to Jung wishing to resume treatment as a “court of last resort”, but Jung pronounced him a chronic alcoholic and told him that his chances of maintaining sobriety were hopeless “so far as any further medical or psychiatric treatment might be concerned”. When Rowland asked Jung if there was any hope for him, Jung stated that there might be, provided he underwent “a spiritual or religious experience - in short, a genuine conversion”, but cautioned that these vital spiritual experiences were relatively rare.

In Wilson’s letter to Jung, he writes “This candid and humble statement of yours was beyond doubt the first foundation stone upon which our Society has since been built.” Wilson explained in his letter that the prognosis had so shocked Rowland that, upon returning to the USA, he joined an Oxford Group (an evangelical movement) within which he underwent a religious conversion and became sober. Furthermore, this series of events would eventually lead to Wilson’s own recovery from alcoholism, his meeting with co-founder Robert Smith (Dr. Bob) in Akron, Ohio, and the eventual formation of AA. As stated by Wilson, “[That] conversation between you was to become the first link in the chain of events that led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.”

Jung understood the intoxicating appeal of substances such as drugs and alcohol as their ability to merge what is otherwise fragmented within the psyche, providing a false sense of wholeness and numinosity that dissipates when one sobers up. He believed the numinous power of alcohol is what made it so addictive, for it provided momentary relief from a much deeper spiritual thirst for wholeness. Therefore, Jung believed a transcendent experience of equal satisfaction was required for recovery.

In a letter of response, Jung described a reluctance to write about his views on addiction for fear of being misunderstood by the scientific community, informing Wilson, “I could not tell him everything . . . In those days I had to be exceedingly careful of what I said.” For what he was unable to disclose to Rowland, but intuitively understood, was that “the evil principle prevailing in this world leads the unrecognized spiritual need into perdition, if it is not counteracted by a real religious insight . . . these are the reasons why I could not give a full and sufficient explanation to Rowland H. but I am risking it with you.”

It is noteworthy that Jung concludes his letter to Wilson with the following insight:

“You see, “alcohol” in Latin is “spiritus” and you use the same word for the highest religious experience as well as for the most depraving poison. The helpful formula therefore is: spiritus contra spiritum.”

Meaning high spirit against low spirit. That is, spiritualism to counter an addiction to spirits (alcohol).

21/07/2023

28/06/2023

Transform you perspective ~ choose happiness…

24/03/2023

A Water crystal from water exposed to a song "We are all water" by John Lennon

Happy World Water Day, everyone!

An old Japanese warrior, Yosh*taka Kuroda, who created five principles that asserted that the nature of water represents how we should live and we would like to introduce that on this world water day.

Five Principles of Water

1. Water can move other things by moving for oneself.
2. Water always seeks its own course and never stops.
3. Water multiplies the power one hundred times when it encounters obstacles.
4. Water gracefully makes others clean and can accept both clean and unclean together.
5. Water fills a vast ocean, vaporizes, making cloud, rain, snow and hail, and freezes like a clear and smooth mirror, but its quality is essentially the same in any form.

21/10/2021

The story of Sedna
Once a young woman named Sedna lived with her widowed father alongside the Arctic sea. Life was harsh as hunting was difficult and fishing dangerous on the treacherous ice. Often there was not enough food, but Sedna always gave the largest portion to her father.
Many young Inuit men came to court the lovely Sedna but she refused them all because she would have to leave her father. Then a handsome man wearing fine grey and white clothing came to Sedna. He promised to take care of her father if Sedna would marry him. He said she would sleep on soft bearskins in a warm
tent, and have scented oil for her lamp. Best of all, he promised to provide her father with sumptuous food. Because of this promise, her father urged her to accept his offer, so Sedna packed her belongings and left with her husband for a better life across the sea.
Instead of a better life, she found herself living in terrible conditions. She lived in a shelter of fish skins with holes that let in the cold and snow. Rather than on soft bearskins, she slept on a hard walrus hide in the dark, since there was no lamp at all. She ate only raw fish. Worst of all, she was kept awake by the constant cries of her husband’s relatives. Sedna had been tricked into marrying a fulmar, a sea bird who had taken the form of a man in order to court her. And of course, no food was sent back to her father, not even raw fish.
When the ice broke, her father came to visit paddling across the sea. He saw how his daughter lived, and realized they had been deceived. He was enraged, and when Sedna’s fulmar husband returned, her father killed him with his knife. Then he and his daughter got into his kayak and began to paddle back across the sea. When the other fulmars returned from fishing, they found the body of Sedna’s husband, and went in pursuit, flying in great circles over the water. Soon they found the kayak. They called on the sea spirits to make a fierce storm, which tossed the tiny craft on giant waves. Sedna’s father was frightened, and pushed Sedna out of the kayak.
Sedna grasped the side of the kayak. “Let go,” her father, pleaded, “Or I’ll die with you.” But Sedna would not let go. Her father took out his knife and cut off the tips of his daughter’s fingers. Her fingertips fell into the water, where they became seals. Still, she clung to the side. Then her father cut off the middle joints of her fingers, and they fell into the sea to become fishes. Still she clung to life. The desperate father then cut off her finger joints, and they fell into the water to become the whales. And Sedna slipped into the ocean. The fulmars, satisfied that she would drown, flew away
and the storm ended.
Sedna sank slowly to the bottom of the sea where she lives to this day in a rock house. She is covered with a tangle of hair that sometimes crawls with crabs and anemone, which she can’t comb out. And it is also said that all the broken taboos and sins against nature, all the filth of those who live in the above world collect
on Sedna’s body as well. And when the accumulation is too great, Sedna sobs in sorrow and grief. The sea creatures gather by her door to comfort her. Then the people know that Sedna is sad and mournful, and from the suffering of Sedna comes hunger and sickness.
The people know they must gather in a circle with their Shaman, and publicly confess their broken taboos, confess their crimes against nature. They send Sedna their prayers. The men, remembering the name of Sedna’s father, do a dance of contrition. Slowly dancing, they sing a song of remorse for all the sins
done by man to women, to earth, and to her children. Then the shaman purifies herself to take the dangerous journey to the underwater world where Sedna lives. She gathers fine sand and seaweed with which she lovingly cleanses the filth of the people’s sins from Sedna’s body. She sings while tenderly picking the
crabs from Sedna’s hair. Acting for the people, she offers Sedna the confessions of those above. She repeats their prayers of respect, their promises to change their personal stories, to be kind and loving to each other, to earth and all other creatures.
Sedna, moved by the people’s promises and atonement, sends a prayer to Creator, asking Creator to forgive them for all of the ways they have become out of balance. She is comforted, the sounds of her sobbing are no longer heard in the waves, in the winds, and at last, the sea animals end their vigil, and swim away to offer themselves again as food.
Sedna’s compassion is enduring; despite her suffering, she is generous, and from her great forgiveness comes the wealth of the sea. And in this way, the Inuit are inspired to return Sedna’s gift by making their life stories better, and by treating their relations with love and respect.
We have heard this sacred story together. Now we need to close the story by saying together:
“That’s how it was, and that’s how it is.”

We all have an inner Sedna and I encourage you through this story to be compassionate with yourself and dive deep to clear away the crabs in your hair and scrub away debris from your skin.

18/08/2021

The scientific community needs to come to grips with the fact that human biology is the result of the organic garden that we are born within. Destroying the soil systems of the human body are the pathway to chronic dysfunction and disorder.

Another particle in the long line of incredible science has just been published out of Rutgers University. This study demonstrates that in utero or perinatal exposure to penicillin even at very low doses alters not only the microbiota of the intestines, but also the downstream genetic expression within the frontal lobe and amygdala. Interestingly these changes in the brain are sufficient to increase the fear and stress response within the child that develops in the context of this antibiotic exposure.

Glyphosate is the most ubiquitous antibiotic on the planet. Every time you or a child eats conventionally grown produce and meat and dairy products, they are setup for long term suffering.

What does the world look like with unregulated fear?
The proof is all around us. We are polarized not just against one another. We are polarized against nature itself.

Get out into the great outdoors today. Breathe your biome. Touch the nature that can heal us. Remember your origin story. Your health is not waiting for the next technological breakthrough from the pharmaceutical chemical complex. Your health is waiting to rebirth within you as you embrace the nature that allowed you to be here now, at the tipping point of all things.

Stand strong all of you. Do not fear. Beauty abounds.

Read more about the effects of early-life penicillin exposure on the gut microbiome, frontal cortex and amygdala gene here: bit.ly/early-life-penicillin

17/06/2021

Diving Into the Ocean of Consciousness we dive into the unbounded. We say that the mind transcends and it goes beyond the surface level, beyond the waviness of the surface level to the depths of the ocean of Consciousness and experiences that Unified Field, which is pure Consciousness, pure Awareness..

Credit: Hokusai

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08/06/2021

This is too important not to share.

"Perhaps the reason teens isolate themselves when they're overwhelmed instead of coming to us with their problems, is because when they're toddlers we isolate them when they're overwhelmed instead of helping them with their problems.

When our kids are small and trying to manage emotions - they can't express what they are feeling. They throw tantrums, they throw things, they have meltdowns, they scream and they whine. This is their way of communicating with us. They need help to organize, process and express their feelings in a healthy way. And society tells us we should punish them for this. Send them to their room, put them in timeout, s***k them.

We teach them and train them not to show their emotions. Don't whine. Don't complain. Your feelings are wrong. Be quiet. Eventually they stop expressing their emotions to us because we told them over and over again we didn't want to hear it. For so long they needed to deal with it alone. Alone in their room, their chair, their corner.

And then they turn into teenagers and we expect them to feel safe talking to us. We expect them to know that NOW it's okay. They are subconsciously wired to think the opposite because this is what they grew up learning.

Give your child permission to feel. Let them know their feelings are valid and that you care, no matter how small. Make sure they know that they are heard.

Pretty soon meltdowns over crayons will turn into breakups, heartbreak, s*x, or even depression. You want your child to know that you will always hear them, no matter how small. You are their safe space." - Written by Laura Muhl