Scavenge + Starlight

Before I started to look at my Mind, I didn't even know Just Looking was an option.  I thought it had to be participation 24/7.  "Just look at Mind" was a revelation.  And then when I learned you could look at the wellspring of Emotions, and also not participate in what emerges = I was surprised again.  Why wasn't I told sooner? I tell my clients all the time there is Them, their Mind, their Body, their Emotions, their Stories, and it can all be just looked at.  You can even, mid-getting-swept-away-by-something (emotional outburst, narrative story and drama making, illness, confusion) stop and re-orient yourself into your Themness, your true You.  You can instantly choose something new, some different way of being. It's completely okay to do this. These are things I wanted to know years before I learned them. These are things I think everyone wants to learn.  It's a complete hack to living:  realizing what you think you are isn't even you, an...

there's a lot of talk about the shadow when you get past all the talk about the light in the new age world. if you can get yourself past the shadow talk and down into the realness the new age movement started from, you find gems like this cheat sheet. judgment as shadow elements only takes you so far.  reminding yourself judgment isn't just a rejection of your hidden self and that you can take self-inquiry further:  this is where realness emerges. fear motivates in ways we do not want to acknowledge.  knowing fear and judgment are close friends on the vibrational energy train will help you work deeply with your gap (the space between experience and reaction).  when you judge, it springs from a place of habit and distancing, othering. using the gap to examine the uncomfortableness of it all, and noticing how much you want to get away from that uncomfortableness into somewhere else will help you with the next step: opening the door to the uncomfortableness t...