HOW CREATIVITY WILL SAVE YOU: “Jung once said that you can cure a psychotic patient if you can make him creative. In other words, if what is destroying him within can be brought forth in writing or painting or some other form, then he can be cured.” – Marie-Louise von Franz | This echoes an idea from the Gnostic gospels where Jesus says, “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” The point is that creative alchemy is our salvation. #creativity #create #psyche #psychology #mentalhealth #anxiety #depression #trauma
EXISTENTIAL CODEPENDENCY: we live in a world that fetishizes emotional independence— we are told to be existentially self-reliant. I get it. Taking care of yourself is important. However; this can get taken to such extremes that it leaves no room for our fundamental and existential need for love and companionship. Some people literally die of loneliness. If babies are not held and loved they can die, even if they are being actively fed! Human-to-human contact is non-negotiable. For this reason Krishnamurti said “it’s no sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society”. #mentalhealth #healing #lonely #loneliness #depression #anxiety #romance #soulmate
EL MAPA NO ES EL TERRITORIO (The Map Is Not The Territory) Los mapas son necesarios para saber donde estamos y donde vamos. Pero a veces necesitamos explorar, perdernos un poco, explorar el TERRITORIO mas alla de Los mapas. #trauma #sanacion #sanación #desarrollopersonal
EL SUFRIMIENTO MENTAL: no es also que podemos tomar levemente #depresion #ansiedad #saludmental #trauma
WHEN SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE: “…the unpleasant symptoms of mental illness serve to notify people that they have taken the wrong path, that their spirits are not growing and are in grave jeopardy…The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace—a gift of God, a message from the unconscious, if you will, to initiate self-examination and repair.” -M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled #anxiety #depression #trauma #mentalhealth #ptsd #healing
MY BIRTHDAY REFLECTIONS: I try to make every day a celebration filled with gratitude and humility in the face of the cosmic mystery! #birthday #celebration #universe #cosmos
What’s up with my headband!!? #throwback
LOVE AND LIGHT, always
WE ARE THE PSYCHEDELIC CYBORG: increasingly our relationship with AI is revealing a transcendental impulse of the imagination to ‘summon its own literalization!’ #ai #aiart #tech #singularity #psychedelic
WHAT KIND OF PARENT DO YOU WANT TO BE?
DIGESTING OUR GRIEF: affirming life in spite of tragedy #mentalhealth #psychology #philosophy #depression #anxiety
A DAY OF DEEP REFLECTION IS MEDICINE: I met a friend today that I’ve known for over 20 years. Shocking! Can you believe that? A friend for over 20 years provides a rapturous opportunity to check in with yourself and be witnessed by someone who’s known you long enough to really SEE you. Such therapy. So grateful. #friends #healing #psychology #loyalty
THE RELIGION OF TRAVEL #travel #pilgrimage #religion #spirituality
CAN WE CURE A CYNIC? Imagine a “Cynic Clinic” 😂😂😂 #healing #trauma #ptsd #cynical #anxiety
“AFTER THE ECSTASY, THE LAUNDRY” – managing ordinary life after ecstatic moments of joyful inspiration. #inspiration #mentalhealth #creativity
DO I TRUST MYSELF? #trust #selfconfidence #selfconscious #fear
“LAUGHTER IS CARBONATED HOLINESS” – Anne Lamott #laugher #laughing #holy
BARCELONA
COMING ALIVE AGAIN: habituation is the enemy of wonder. When we grow accustomed to things, everything is taken for granted. We assimilate, habituate, grow jaded. This is a kind of death. #habituation #wonder #awakening #nature #healing
MOVIES AND THE MYTHIC LIFE: movies allow me to dream while awake. Cinema is a way for me to reconnect with the sacred sublime and my mythic life. I see myself reflected in my favorite characters, I enter their archetypal world, and I heal my psychological state. #movies #cinema #film #storytelling #psychology #healing
THE FELT REALITY OF IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCE: the diseases of despair are characterized by rumination and excessive self consciousness.. what is needed instead is “immediacy” which presents us the world in all of its vibrancy. “Be here now” is the answer to the pathology of being stuck in our heads ruminating anxiously about the past or the future. #mentalhealth #immediacy #trauma #anxiety #depression
