Anil Thomas

15/04/2024

"We need love like food, water and air and we don't know how to get it. And that's our struggle."

-John Cassavetes

15/04/2024

With Trauma we realise that our monsters weren’t always in the closet, they are in the kitchen, bedroom, parking lot, cafe, on our lovers lap, in their silence, in their wants and asks…
This shadow shows up as tightness in the body, breathing fast, tinkling sensations, urges.
These moments leaves us with sunset smiles and cemetery eyes. Even though our perfume smells great and diction is cool
It’s hard to feel safe in a world when one doesn’t feel safe within. The dark side that comes to the surface ‘now and then’ when we get ‘close to the trigger’ or slowly as we step into intimacy is a recognition ‘that we have been wounded’.
Trauma teaches us to wear our shadows,
while we leave our true self in the closet.

Artist :

15/04/2024

15/04/2024

If we investigate our behaviour when in love,
we find not only tenderness, affection, warmth, poetry and emotional investment but also negative elements as well.
In order to understand the experience of love, its true importance, these dark aspects must be taken into consideration as well.

It is when we refuse to work on the various impacts, events of abuse or trauma, that we might have experienced as a part of our growing up journey….. we become unavailable in intimate spaces for transparency and honest sharing.

Love’s transgressive power lowers the attention threshold of our conscience — with whom can we let ourselves go completely if not with the beloved? — this creates a psychological arena.

05/04/2024

We frequently attempt to control our thoughts, becoming anxious when they wander, and fear when our minds suggest negative things. However, by merely observing our thoughts without interference, we permit our minds to operate naturally, devoid of judgment or assessment. Adopting the stance of a passive observer, we eventually notice our minds growing quieter.

As the mind empties of thoughts, one experiences a heightened sense of consciousness, like a bright flame of awakening within oneself. This state of heightened awareness is what is called meditation.

Meditation is about watching, witnessing, and observing one’s thoughts without getting caught up in them. Through this practice of mindfulness one can move beyond the confines of the mind.

Come join us for a silent meditation session.

ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴀɪɴᴅʀᴏᴘꜱ
𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙣 ‘𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙮’

Day - 20th April, Saturday
Time - 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Place - Vinayalaya Retreat House, Andheri East

05/04/2024

19/03/2024

I am conducting a two day certificate course on skills and practical to understand “how to Trauma, Structure of addiction & Healing Pathways”, this is a non-clinical approach, based on my practice and learning in the field of Neurolinguistics and Gestalt therapy.

in this two day (9:30 am to 7:30 pm) course in which I intend to share with the participants :
- the definition of Impact (popularly called as trauma these days)
- eliciting the impact of the impact (behavioural impasse)
- understanding the process and practice and research of
V(A)K-D
- structure of addiction and certain behaviours are no available to the client after the impact.
- quality and texture of the trigger (memory) and distortion in ecology
- self work and grounding activities to get to COACH
- sensitivity and presence during intervention approaches

“It is not the event that the client is suffering at this point in time, it is the memory of the event”
Trauma is NOT what has happened to the client, it is what is happening within the client’s augmentation and thereby the biology.

This course is a module in offering for all those students enrolled for the 10 month Integrated diploma, it is an approach in Brief Intervention

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This is an intense two day work, definitely not for first timers or freshers.
A background in mental health, psychotools, counselling, etc is essential before you take up this course.

16/03/2024

No matter how carefully we construct the little habitable area around us…
there is always something that we might not have taken into account… always.
There is always something that can pop it’s head out and do us in!!
It is in moments like these that we are made aware of our mortality, age and vulnerability..
This is the truth

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Here is a part of the recording from yesterday’s interaction with the ‘Reading Group’, that means once in a month for one hour, sharing topics around the concepts of psychology, mindfulness, intervention, neurolinguistics and gestalt therapy
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So through the stories of mythology, dreams, art… etc
The psyche speaks about dying and rising gods,
enriching our understanding of the cycles of life,
of expansion and contraction,
destruction and rebirth,
the seeds of life and death are contained within themselves..
Just waiting to be born,
Should be allow the fall.

09/03/2024

Where does love go when it goes away…

At what point in time do we begin to realise, the decrease in the muchness of the abundance to access all parts of our partner.

09/03/2024

A very old recording, just saw on my old hard-disk

09/03/2024

09/03/2024

28/02/2024

The 10 Month Diploma Program

28/02/2024

Ever since that impact, the client learnt an unconscious coping strategy of hiding those parts that was hurt, abused or abandoned… and so the substitution was the overcompensating or avoidance behaviour- which kept up going to hide those parts…

28/02/2024

NLP surfaces observable distinctions in mental processing. These observations act as filters for how and what we let into our heads , which eventually influences our living.

NLP has grown in scope and complexity, and we are now in the 4th generation already...

I am conducting the International Practitioners Certification Course in NLP - a course which would equip you to professionally use the 14 fundamental tools of the subject!

Become a licensed Practitioner of the subject in this transformational 6 day live training experience that offers a hybrid flexibility to attend in person or online from the comfort of your home.

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