“I’m never going to be good enough”. Sometimes I just can’t shake that feeling. Ashamed of who I am, flawed, weak, shy, introvert. Not like the people who have it together, the happy people. You know the ones who are relaxed in their own skin. In short I wasn’t perfect and I knew it. My […]
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Embodied: Addressing anxiety via our physical life
In my extreme anxiety days, it was all about the mind. That is whats going on, what I thought, how I felt. To overcome the trap of thinking so much that is anxiety I had to go elsewhere. A place most of us forget we have until we suffer. Our physical body. Anxiety is overthinking […]
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No self (Anatman, 空 kū)
Here I talk about one of the three marks of Existence (Pali: tilakkhaṇa; Sanskrit: त्रिलक्षण, trilakṣaṇa, Japanese: 三法印 sanbōin). The Buddhist idea of ‘No-self ‘(Sanskrit: Anatman, Japanese: 空 kū) It’s a feeling of a self an ego. A thinker who thinks, a person who does, a feeler who feels, a senser behind our sensations. The habitual way […]
Seeing Impermanence to overcome anxiety.
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.” Dan Gilbert These words of a psychologist point out our fundamental mistake we make when it comes to who and what we are. Anxiety, depression, low self-esteem. We think these are features that define who we are, and there is nothing we can do […]
Impermanence (Annica, Anitya, 無常 Mujō)
Here I talk about, Impermanence (Sanskrit: Anitya). One of the 3 Marks of Existence in Buddhism (Pali: tilakkhaṇa; Sanskrit: त्रिलक्षण, trilakṣaṇa, Japanese: 三法印 sanbōin) What it means is that that all things are in a state of flux. All conditioned things are changing, birth and death, ageing process, objects, possessions, the natural world. It also […]
Romantic to Classical, and back again
Looking back at my journey, trying to deal with the anxiety and fear that held me back, I can see a pattern or path between two forces or worldviews in my life. That of Passion and Reason, or as I will describe here Romantic and Classical attitudes towards life. But what are these two drives […]
