Here are some of the most recent Awareness posts.
Triggers!
You’ve probably heard someone say, “They really triggered me.” Or maybe, “They always get triggered so easily.” Triggers are external events or circumstances that may produce very uncomfortable emotional or psychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety, panic,...
Clarity’s story…
Clarity’s story… by PaRisHa | Aug 19, 2022 | Apprentices I want to share with you a story that happened to me. In the spring of 2013, I was on my way to school. One of the main roads I take is just a one-lane, going each way. I was behind a white mini-van that...
Smoke Blessing Teaching
Many may be familiar with the process of burning sage and cedar to ‘smudge’ or bless your environment. I was taught about smoke blessing many years ago by Parisha Taylor. She shared that the use of burning certain herbs – white sage and cedar – among the most common,...
Learning To Meditate
Some General Thoughts To Consider In Learning To Meditate Procedural memory is a process that can lead to personal change. When anyone does a practice such as meditation long enough, success is achieved due to movement from thinking to doing. In time, both body and...
The Elders Fires Have The Stories.
Fire Fire is not from here. Fire provides a window between this world and the others. When we look up at night and see the stars, this can be the Elders' Fires above. Each one of them has its own teaching or many teachings. The stories tell that some come from so far...
I Feel This In My Body, And The Connection
As we continue to work with this material I find myself asking, Why do I keep my attention on that small percentage of the physical world when I am so much more? If an atom is 99.99999 percent energy and .00001 percent physical substance then I am actually...
Some Personal Reflections on My Journey to Master Meditation
By ~ Joyce Mollenhauer My initial comment is my tendency to have an expectation of what the destination of successful meditation looks like. Until recently I have entertained what I now consider a “fictitious”...
Getting Depth in the Blackness Meditation
Many people have shared how challenging it is to go into the blackness meditation. Some have shared that they have negative connotations with blackness and evil or something scary and struggle to get depth perception. There are many ways to develop a good...