People-pleasing, addiction, righteousness, arrogance, rationalization, aggression, are the psychological survival mechanisms we will elaborate in this post. — Following on from Psych Survival 101: The 3 D’s of Psychological Survival, there are several other psychological survival mechanisms we will discuss in this post. It would be valuable to read the first post before going deeper here because many key concepts are covered there.

A poem about the ineffable journey of Consciousness Development — The Path is neither straight nor twisted Neither flat nor bumpy It changes when you think you know it It disappears when you think you found it The path is not meant to be found or known It is not meant to be shared or shown It is both magical…

Psych Survival 101: The 3 D’s of Psychological Survival are Depression, Dissociation, Denial. In this post we explore how they help us deal with life and get us through painful times. — The 3 F’s of instinctive survival: Fight, Flight, Freeze, have been studied and discussed extensively. In contrast, the 3 D’s of psychological survival that we will share today have been denigrated, stigmatized, and relegated to the “crazy” zone in most parts of the world, and are termed as mental “illnesses”…

Understand the difference between your Life and your Self, learn about the survival mechanisms of Denial and Depression, and how you can transform not only your Life, you can also transform YOU… — A survival mechanism called Denial is going to urge you to quit reading this article soon. If you choose to overcome this urge, you may find something more real than life itself… What is the difference between something that changes your life and something that changes you?

What is an Identity Prison? What is Identity Lock-in? Learn about these concepts and ways to free your Consciousness from being suffocated in these tiny corners of Reality… — An Identity Prison or Personality Prison is, most simply put, when “we” or our Consciousness are trapped in our identity. We are imprisoned by the character and role that we play in our lives. We are completely “locked-in” to the story, behaviors, habits, beliefs, truths, and lies of this identity…

OR “The Spiritual Self-Help Hamster Wheel”… Call it what you want. As long as you realize what it is and get off of it. — Most people dabbling in modern day or new-age spirituality and self-help are aware of the hamster wheel of mundane life, the grind, whatever name you want to give it. For many it involves the rut of corporate life, for others it may be looping in other ways. No matter how…

My surrender experiment and the lessons I learned from it I just returned from another trip to India where I was visiting my birth family. While sharing my experience with a friend, she reminded me how many people have “holiday-family-anxiety”, that thing where people get stressed and anxious about meeting and being with their family during the holiday season. For…

In this post we will explain exactly how it is possible for the Earth to be both flat and spherical, and a lot more… Preparing to read To fully grasp this piece, it is important to allow your existing beliefs to be challenged and also to consider the possibility that everything you “think you know” is just a belief. Instead of trying to prove me wrong or convince me of your opinion, forget about…

Your presence, your desires, your needs, can all be inconvenient and burdensome to others. We unpack this topic and share why it is acceptable to be a burden. Are You Worthy of 20 minutes of your own time? If not, perhaps that is exactly what you need to take to…