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Forget Self-Love

Forget Self-Love Seriously. If you are wounded, unhealed, if you grew up in a dysfunctional family, if you grew up in poverty, war, racism, sexual threats or assault (this covers just about everyone, no?) where on Earth have you learned the skills on how to give yourself   healthy self-love? Bombarded by consumerism commercials and the new age messed up messages of “you deserve it” you will be shooting in the dark trying to do something that you have never seen modeled for you and never experienced.   Self-love has become a co-opted slogan to sell you “stuff” or “experiences” including all the current workshops that “sell” hope and liberation, guaranteed after attending one weekend. Well, let's just dial that back. How about we start instead with self-care. This will be difficult enough. For those of you who had children, think back on how complex it was figuring out how to care for your first child. You can do the same thing remembering your first pet (as an adult)...

Creating Narratives

Creating Narratives The new age industry has mastered the art (and profit) of creating narratives. Narratives sell (look at commercials!), but do not necessarily heal. In fact sometimes these narratives create huge problems for the people that pay to hear them.   Popular “spiritual” narratives are someone telling you that one of your exotic   past lives (because you were never a janitor in Atlantis) is responsible for your current bad choices when it is your unhealed wounds leading the way. New Age will use chakra misalignment to explain your illness, addictions, or weight issue etc., rather than address your lack employing healthy self-care skills. Astrology will be used to justify the misbehavior of your children with stories of their soul evolvement and calling it indigo or rainbow children, when really it is because you have not bothered to learn about the well-researched information on the neurobiology of child development or the skills of child rearing, etc....

The Secret of "The Secret"

The nonsense of the  new age "laws of attraction" The movie “The Secret” spread like a virus across the developed nations.  Yes there is a law of attraction, but it has nothing to do with your conscious mind. If it did, all the new age gurus would be rich without working, thin without dieting, have muscles without working out and in love with a perfect mate without having to use any relationship skills. Study your new age gurus; see what you can learn about their biography if they haven’t already altered it to make them look good. I promise that what you will find will not be the life they are selling, because it simply does not exist. The conscious mind (your wishful thinking, your conscious desires and appetites etc.) does not run your life, even mainstream psychology knows this. We know the conscious mind is only 10% of our thoughts and feelings, and while unconscious mind is reckoned as a synonym for subconscious, the two are, in fact, quite different from each o...

Addicted to "getting it"

Addicted to “Getting” It Following Guidance, so many “new age” people do this after a lovely conversation, that they “understand” with (so-called) guides that talked to them (in words or “signs” that are easily and immediately understood) so that there is no anxiety of having to follow the next steps (because you “understand” them),   usually to get what you want. This is not Faith. These are not the stories in the bible, the Koran, the Talmud, the I-Ching, etc.   Westerners are addicted to understanding, to “getting” it.   “Getting” it, gaining understanding, is a key component of modern psychology and it definitely has benefits. One way to change is to gain understanding either through a Teacher, a therapist, a nutritionist, a personal trainer, reading research, etc.   You can use that understanding to then implement change, which in some cases will change your energy because you implemented change you understood. However, many people gain understanding ...