Category: Psyche undercurrents
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Listening to The Longest Night
Winter Solstice. The North pole is furthest away from the Sun. Northern Hemisphere gets minimal light; and on 21 December you’re in between two longest nights of the year. Held between two seasons, two worlds. What do you want to plant in the darkness of the night? What seeds you want to see sprouting in spring? And…
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Emotional confusion – why it arises.
I began calling it “whatever-ness”. A combination of emotions and their unique relationships between each other. As a human being, you’re capable to feel emotions that conflict with each other at the same time: sadness and joy, hope and despair, stress and inner peace… how is it possible? But also… how to navigate such conflicting state? The…
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If you need to decide…
What if there was no right or a wrong decision? Simply different paths that lead you to a destination where you were always supposed to be. How would you approach your decision-making then? We get lost in the litany over the consequences of our decisions, without realising that the time spent doing so – make…
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Trusting others
Sure, we can place our trust into the hands of our partner, our government, our boss – but with that we’re handing over the agency over our inner peace. We create an expectation that they won’t hurt us and eventually – that trust gets “broken” resulting in a cascade of trauma and blame. Often “I…
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Discipline of a hunter
The point I knew I wanted to interview Daniel, was when he said “It’s not that you have a nervous system… you are your nervous system”. And it just never occurred to me. Fascinated by his intensity and the way he carried himself, I began asking questions and in return, was soothed by Daniel’s wielding…
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