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It's been some time since I did my favourite practice … A good opportunity to return, I guess. 🧘🙏

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The so-called "jhanās" are in essence "just" different levels or modes of skillful nervous system self-regulation. 🧘🙏

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That's what we all desperately search for: someone who really cares, genuinely and unconditionally, and who stays present and attuned and loving, no matter what. ❤️‍🔥

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And yet, there is no "essence" or "Self" of any kind: it's all just dependently arising, all the time; depending on our (childhood) imprints and conditioning. Kamma.

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Everyone shows us exactly who they are at all times (in their acts, projections and transference) …

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It is all right here, right now, in every moment: the cognitive, the emotional and the somatic; and right in this very moment, it can always be worked with, as long as we are and remain present. 🧘

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May we all release and let go of the shame instilled in us.
May all beings learn to love themselves unconditionally and abundantly, as is their birthright.
💛🙏

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The physical correlates of mind/consciousness are only ever useful for interventions on the physical level, from the outside. To change and correct the experience of mind/consciousness from the inside, you have to examine subjective, immediate experience itself.

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Third-person science: looking from the outside at "some thing". 🔬
First-person science: looking at and examining the own direct experience. 🧘
Second-person science: looking at and feeling into each other, in resonance. 🤝

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Nibbāna, in psychodynamic terms, might simply be the ultimate freedom from and the cessation of all internally generated mental suffering (the Buddha's second arrow). 🧘🙏

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Shame appears to me to be the deepest-going wound of all. Existential shame is the mind killer. Shame destroys all agency. 😩🙏

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Whatever abides and rages in our parents, we're likely to (re-) discover within ourselves, as an emotional-energetic implant. 🙏

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Jhānas: proceeding from highly aroused to gently settled energy; Fight/Flight/Freeze: proceeding from highly activated to violently frozen energy. The difference seems to lie in the valence of the experienced energy, "positive/pleasurable" vs. "negative/alert".
(2/2) 🙏

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The (rupa) jhānas might in fact "just" be nervous system regulation in action: consecutive states of (directed) energy in bodymind, from rather coarse to fine-grained, consciously managed and cultivated. 🧘

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There is no qualitative difference between physical and psychological (or spiritual) pain — to conscious awareness, they are the same thing and processed in the same way, either "skillfully" or "unskillfully".
But pain is pain. 🙏

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We hold onto and cling to (tanhā) our internalised pain (dukkha), as part of our delusional, constructed Self-identity, and spread it out both to ourselves and others (kamma). That's the whole shebang of (unskillful) human psychology. 🙏

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In the end, there is exactly one means of healing and salvation: unconditional love, in energetic connection and resonance. This is quite simply the primal basis of human existence, and, in my opinion, also the actual active factor of any psychotherapy. (2/2) 🙏

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Every single psychological injury or disorder appears to be in fact the expression and result of an entire, widely ramified network of injury that stretches back over (all?!) generations. (1/2)

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PSA: Once you have established "root access" (= deep equanimity) in "your" nervous system, you can return into stillness anytime, and in the blink of an eye.
😌🙏

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