Breathing is the only part of the autonomic system you can operate directly, which is why it is the most reliable regulation tool available and also the most oversold. The …
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Ashly
Ashly
Ashly writes TrueAwake. She's not a therapist or a teacher in any lineage - she's someone who has spent years actually doing contemplative practice, reading the research behind it, and keeping notes on what worked and what turned out to be nonsense. She writes the guide she wanted when she started.
Most of what makes yoga calming is not the poses. It is slow nasal breathing with a long exhale, held for twenty minutes or more, in a warm room where …
Integration is the part after the finding, and it is where most shadow work stops. Recognising that you are competitive, or controlling, or that you resent someone you are supposed …
Manifest content is the dream as you remember it — the events, people and images you could describe to someone. Latent content is the hidden meaning Freud believed lay beneath …
For the people most likely to be told to use them, repeating positive statements about yourself has been found to make things worse. That is the actual finding, from a …
They are not competing versions of the same thing. Therapy is a regulated clinical relationship with training, oversight and outcome trials behind it. Shadow work is a self-directed reflective practice …
Nothing is literally stuck. The stress response is designed to switch on and off, and when it appears permanent what has usually happened is that the switching-off has stopped being …
The honest answer depends on which part of manifestation you mean, and Christians do not agree. The practice of writing goals down, praying about them and working towards them has …
The research on this points the opposite way to the advice. Vividly imagining a desired outcome as though it has already happened reduces the effort people put in and the …
Shadow work is a method for noticing the parts of yourself you disowned, using your disproportionate reactions to other people as the instrument. The practice is straightforward: log your reactions …

