by Havi Brooks | Jan 26, 2009 | my personal practice, stucknesses & stuckification, stuff I think about
I had kind of a disturbing realization this past week — and it really shook me up. Be patient with me though. It might seem kind of superficial at first glance, but it’s not: I am not an outsider. And neither are you. Whoah. Crazy. This makes no sense....
by Havi Brooks | Jan 25, 2009 | my personal practice
I have a wall inside of me made entirely of shame. Right now, as I write this, my sense is that this fact could not be more obvious, but yesterday when I first encountered it, my wall was a shocking discovery. Here’s how I ran into the wall. I was in meditation....
by Havi Brooks | Jan 15, 2009 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
I’ve been thinking a lot the past few weeks about what mysterious forces and processes come together to allow for “success” in something — insert your own definition here.* *Let’s just all try and assume for now that it’s something...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 6, 2009 | biggification, my personal practice
Wow. So this is number fourteen in a series that has grown way bigger that anything I’d planned on (the original set-up was a six-post series, feel free to laugh at me). On the surface, we’re talking about taking the scary out of blogging, but really...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 4, 2009 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
Friday afternoon I was getting poked full of delicious needles by my wonderful, witchy acupuncturist. And between the resulting blissfully doped-out state and a brain-scramblingly fantastic Shiva Nata practice a bit earlier to shake up some old, stuck patterns …...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 1, 2009 | my personal practice, not hating on yourself
Five in the morning, again. There was a period of oh, at least five years, when every New Year’s Day found me at five in the morning sitting at a certain table in the corner of a certain bar in Tel Aviv. Two of those years I’d spent New Year’s Eve...
