By Mark Wolynn With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don’t deal with, pass on to my kids?…
By Mark Wolynn With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don’t deal with, pass on to my kids?…
Relaxation is a hot product in the dimension of 3rd millennium human. We watch violence and stress in movies to let the body relax. We create casts of twisted news stories of disaster, tragedy and perpetual condemnation and dictate them…
“I took my diamond to the pawnshop, but that don’t make it junk.” Leonard Cohen Is purity weakness? Does it compromise our position and leave us undefended? Popular misconception would have us believe that purity is close to naivety, that…
When we feel hopeless and vulnerable in an environment where we lack feeling connection, there is a risk of moving into depression. Depression is the freezing of feelings – good and bad – and this isolates us still further. Here,…
There is an interesting feature of the polarity of heaven and hell. While from the vantage point of heaven, we are able to contain hell (in a way that we can even feel the beauty in painful experiences), from the…
There are many voices in the mental field. Some echo an inner calling, some could seem to be telepathic, and some repeat the mantra of suffering of humanity as a whole, as it evolves from generation to generation, and one…
Even when hell freezes over, it is still here. We can numb ourselves to DREAD for a while, but sooner or later we will move through its precincts in processes of expansion and liberation. In a traumatic environment (in which natural…
Although we might believe that our suffering is a private affair, this haunting, background agony could also be the cry of the separate selves of generations long passed. Is your terror of abandonment an epigenetic marker left by a great…
“I don’t want to be here.” “I don’t belong here.” “Nobody cares.” “I have to do it alone.” “Someone wants to kill me.” “I’m not OK.” This is not the voice of the newly arrived refugee: it is the undercurrent of our own minds –…
Science has shown that meditation offers the chance to form new neural pathways that rise beyond the addictive twin trap of acceptance V rejection, condemnation V redemption, or self V other. In this, the suffering of rejection is immensely relieved,…