What wounds did life afflict you with? Did these wounds interfere with your ego plans for your life? “. . . Jung spoke of God as whatever interferes with or obstructs the ego’s desires and intentions” (The Alchemy of Healing: Psyche and Soma by Edward C. Whitmont, M.D., p.91). Did your wound appear in your […]
Softening the Heart
Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, wrote about tenderizing the heart. “Trungpa taught the Buddhist practice of bodhicitta, or awakened heart. His own term for awakened heart was ‘the genuine heart of sadness,’ which he explained as a natural and beautiful condition, the result of staying open to the full experience of life” (The Seeker’s […]
Are You Ready to Transform Your Wounds into Words?
If you find yourself in the shower “Singing in the Pain,” then you have discovered one way of using words to express your wounds. However, if your words are from other people’s songs, then you haven’t yet transformed your wounds into your own words. In order to do this, you must first describe your wounds. […]
Here Comes the Sun
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you). “Here Comes the Sun – Abbey Road” was written by George Harrison in the spring of 1969 and appeared on the Beatles’ Abbey Road album. Background “. . . ‘Here Comes the Sun’ was an expression of delight at bring able to slip away […]