by Havi Brooks | Feb 10, 2009 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
Because it’s not enough that I talk to walls … I recently got sucked into an especially bizarre internal conversation. Between me and myself. Which I reported back to you, verbatim. Because having a blog means you can do stuff like that. Background,...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 2, 2009 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
So yeah, I’ve been doing my share of talking to walls lately. And conversing with blocks. And having long, complicated discussions with old, forgotten fears. To the point that part of me is starting to miss the good old days when my meditations pretty much...
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...