9 results for tag: Spiritual Bypassing
Blindness – A Spiritual Teaching in Seeing
As the weather in South Korea starts to turn, so have the leaves. I have looked forward to this more this year than in the past. I wanted to see what it looks like in South Korea in autumn. It has arrived. Red, burnt orange, orange, yellow, ochre, green and light green fill the streets of Cheonan. Today, being a sometimes-sunny sometimes-cloudy day, I wanted to get out on Tang San Mountain with my camera and hiking shoes to enjoy the day. I did not leave my room till about 3:30, which was fine. It is getting dark around 6:00 these days, so I would have plenty of time to explore and take pictures of the trees and whatever else caught my fancy. I got some great shots of the top of the white cement apartment buildings foreshadowing all the mountains in the background that surround the city of Cheonan. I had not seen this view before; it was the first time I made it to this trail. This trail was more vigorous an incline with better unobstructed views of the city....
Potential Negative Side Effects of Meditation
Is there a dark side to meditation? Can people experience negative side effects of meditation? Why is the spiritual community so fearful of media exposing situations of armful or negative experiences with meditation or Yoga? Or What Research Says about Reiki? I for one am not fearful or startled by these experiences or stories. I have known many people whom have experienced harmful or negative side effects of Meditation, Yoga, Reiki, Tai Qi, Qi Gong and most other healing modalities. Why is this a shock? Not all people, bodies, minds and spiritual imprints are the same, why should our experiences be the same? The same would be true for Prayer, who has not had a negative experience praying sometime in their life? Can you honestly say there is anything that you have experienced anything powerful in your life that has been completely free of any negative experiences - sleeping, eating, making love, walking, laughing, relationships, singing, dancing, painting, kissing, medicine, religion, school, hugging, psychotherapy, counseling etc.?...
