Sonic Yogi

 

Sound Therapy was one of the first things that helped me find a place of peace, in a time of deep anxiety. When I listened to these healing sounds my mind became quiet, negative thoughts lessened, my breathing became…

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Die off....

That's the non-technical term for the Herxheimer reaction.  When the bad bacteria and fungi "die off" in the system, there is a flushing of dead yeast cells into the system. As the body tries to get rid of…

Note to Self:   Everything that comes also goes. Thoughts come and go. Possessions come and go. Desires come and go. Even personality goes thru changes, and yet there is a part of you that has never changed. There is the…

Note to Self:

Forgive yourself for the big things.. but also the little things..

Don't beat yourself up for things you can't control... or even things that you could have. What's done is done and you gotta let it go..…Read more

Note to Self:

What external things are you giving your power (over your own nervous system) to? What are you giving your power away to?
Ultimately, most mental stress is caused by giving power to something outside of you (that…

I had never heard of methylation (or at least I didn't pay much attention) until last summer.  It seems I have found a key piece in the puzzle..of my experience, and hopefully something helpful to share with you too..

I…

Note to Self:

When shit gets real (or hits the fan), we cut the bullshit.

When the bullshit is cut, you can say what you mean.

When you say what you really mean, you can come to an authentic understanding.…Read more

Note to Self:

"What if God was one of us?... just a stranger on the bus trying to make his way home" -Joan Osborne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gx1Pv02w3Q


What is the word "God" anyway? G-d first and foremost, is a word that seems…Read more

Note to Self:

Meditation is one way of cultivating our sometimes forgotten ability as humans to look inwards to remember who we really are. 

The irony of looking outside of yourself for pleasure, satisfaction. etc.. is that the one who…Read more

Note to Self:

1. You may have things in your life that you want to change, or see happen.. however, instead of becoming stressed about these things make feeling good (internally/mentally) the goal... for now. 

2. It's always now.

Examine…

Note to Self:

There is no such thing as spirituality, mysticism or religion... there is only reality or un-reality, clarity or confusion... understanding or misunderstanding.  While we sometimes employ these words to describe what is unseen and not readily perceived,…Read more

Note to Self:

There is no such thing as spirituality, mysticism or religion... there is only reality or un-reality, clarity or confusion... understanding or misunderstanding.  While we sometimes employ these words to describe what is unseen and not readily perceived,…Read more

The ENERGY is how it's working... 

...SCIENCE attempts to explain how it works.

...and the TEACHINGS are how to work it!!

I don't see the "energy" as a philosophy or a dogma or religion. Rather, I see it as both…Read more

So how does a person open the subconscious? Does this require some deep study, or esoteric ritual?

I don't think so. In fact, it's something we do every night.

My working theory is that opening the subconscious is something we…Read more

This is a guest post by therapist and energy medicine practitioner, Diane Chrestman. Diane and I met a little over a year ago, and I have enjoyed sharing sound therapy with a group class Diane leads for her patients. If…

There are a lot of how to guide's to meditation out there, but I'd like to share some of my personal experiences here. Unlike, teaching an instrument (for example), where you can demonstrate things physically, the hardest thing about "teaching"…Read more

Following up on the last blog, I'd say the other key point was that I realized that my perceived identity is really the source of most mental stress. I realized that in my experience I was either defending identity…Read more

Physiologically speaking, stress is generated within each of us. 

So that means that, physiologically (within our body), we are both the producer and the experiencer of stress. 

So that means, then, that my thoughts have the ability to produce a…Read more

Die off....

That's the non-technical term for the Herxheimer reaction.  When the bad bacteria and fungi "die off" in the system, there is a flushing of dead yeast cells into the system. As the body tries to get rid of…

Consider that the real battle is not against competing ideas and identities, that we can dream up in the form of religions, race, sexuality, political ideas, economic class, favorite fashions or whatever other type of divisions our minds can manufacture...…Read more