The World Can Change.

‘’We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”

Alan Watts

It’s the age of healing which wants to emerge.

An age of supporting feeling, supporting insight, and an age where patterns are transformed.

A new age for our younger generations growing up.

And the age IS now, before they repeat what we’ve repeated and what the generations repeated before us.

An age where traumas are processed and no longer passed on.

Our ancestors did their best.

They were preoccupied with survival.

Physical life was not easy - they worked harder than most of us can ever imagine.

(still the case, sadly, for many)

However, most of the 1st world’s suffering lay in our psychology and ever-repeating patterns.

We suffer from our neurosis & unprocessed traumas from our family lines and cultures, and the consequential impact on the body.

Dukkha in Buddhism refers to the 'suffering' or 'unsatisfactoriness' of life.

A person might temporarily fulfil their desires, but suffering – whether physical, emotional or mental – cannot be avoided.

But we have been trying to avoid it…

We live in a world of perpetually satiating our desires and filling a void of emptiness - ad infinitum - whilst trying to ignore our suffering rather than face it.

However, this void, this dukkha, cannot ever be truly fulfilled from any external source.

If it could, it would have by now.

All the riches, all the wealth, all the entertainment, all the ‘self-help’ still fail to elicit a reliable source of permanent satisfaction or ease.

Our sense of self is formed from patterns.

Repeated patterns in our early environment of family and society.

We learn who we are through the mirror of them.

They learnt who they are through the mirror of those who came before.

It’s a reflection from murky mirrors, not the truth.

The formation of the sense of self is not true.

It’s a child’s brain attempting to make sense of their world and how to adapt to it to survive.

We are still living old programmes, old worldviews.

The world can be changed.

It’s all in the view.

The next generations hold the keys.

We can direct them to new doors to open.

To do this, we must question our beliefs about everything.

About who we are.

About who ‘they’ are.

We must begin the painful process of questioning the stories we’ve inherited and looking to see if they are ACTUALLY true.

They are stories of separation - us and them; man superior to animal and land; polarisation; and materialistic gain.

The continued trajectory outwards to find satisfaction is not working.

It’s time for the patterns to change.

To do this, we must first become aware of what our patterns are.

The clues will be right through our lineage if we care to look back with curiosity, honesty and bravery.

The clues are in the same relationship challenges - different people, same problems.

The clues are found in our triggers.

We must look at what beliefs about the world and the lenses in which we see are ours or are they theirs?

As in, what stories are inherited from our parents, our society, our religions and our grandparents?

Stories from their pain, their biases, their fear?

Then our job is to question them thoroughly, put them under scrutiny to see if they stand up in court.

Most importantly, we need to get intimate with the feelings associated with them so we can liberate them, such as rage, grief, shame, and loneliness.

Only then will we be equipped to guide the generations growing up on how to be with themselves - we must first learn how to sit with our discomfort - our suffering.

How to sit in silence so we, and they, can experience an inner satisfaction not dependent on external gain.

We need to learn how to listen to emotions and needs and communicate them effectively.

We need to show them how to integrate all sides of themselves to lead them towards wholeness.

We need to guide a new way of union rather than separation, bringing back the recognition of sameness rather than difference.

To come back into the relationship as the Earth and not on it.

We need to show them how to experience their suffering, which processes it rather than avoiding it.

(We aren’t trying, which would be in vain, to extinguish it)

We can either perpetuate the world’s problems or we can guide towards a new way.

To do this we must begin to look inward and not out.

This life can either be lived out blindly, following someone else’s narrative and assuming it’s our own.

Or it can be lived consciously with a great curiosity about who we really are beyond the stories of ourselves and our conditioning.

The expansion is inward.

The ancient traditions knew this:

"Sukha" is distinguished from fleeting pleasure or enjoyment ("preya"), as it implies a deeper, more authentic and lasting state of happiness.

The world isn’t f***ed.

Those of us who are fortunate enough not to live overwhelmed by our basic survival needs have space to get intimate with ourselves.

10 minutes to appreciate the simple pleasures of life - the sound of birds, a sunray on the skin, a smile, the scent of a flower or the grounding of trees;

And if we are lucky, a sense of the sacred, of spirit, of Sukha-or whatever word you have, for the only truly reliable sense of satisfaction & wealth.

Somatic Sensing Sessions are guided 1:1 sessions to unravel implicit beliefs.

To honour and feel the suffering associated with them in a held environment;

Whilst gently guiding you back to your authentic self.