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How Dealing with Past Trauma May Be the Key to Breaking Addiction

By Joanna Moorhead — 2018

Opening up to past trauma is difficult, but self-awareness is key to addressing issues that leave us vulnerable.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Foster - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

Jeff Foster graduated in Astrophysics from Cambridge University in 2001. Several years after graduation, following a period of severe depression and illness, he became addicted to the idea of 'spiritual enlightenment', and embarked on an intensive spiritual search which lasted for several years.

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Jeff Foster
2011
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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C. S. Lewis
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

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Pema Chödrön
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An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life

Jeff Foster invites you to forget everything you know, everything you’ve been taught, and everything you’ve ever read about spiritual awakening, Oneness, enlightenment, non-duality, and Advaita, and to consider a new possibility: the possibility of absolute freedom, right now, right here, in...

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Jeff Foster
2009
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What Do You Recommend for Healing Trauma?

Sometimes it may be difficult to see past trauma, to be completely in the moment without excessive thinking or managing past trauma. Eckhart offers a compassionate look at suffering through the lens of awakening.

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Eckhart Tolle
2020
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Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties—stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.

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Tara Brach
2020
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Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

Integral Spirituality is being widely called the most important book on spirituality in our time.

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Ken Wilber
2007
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Focusing

The classic guide to a powerful technique that can increase your mindfulness and lead to personal transformation. The focusing technique consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify and change the way thoughts and emotions are held within the body.

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Eugene T. Gendlin
1982
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Transforming Compulsion -- Facing Defense Mechanisms from Conscious Awareness | Jon Bernie

Nondual spiritual teacher Jon Bernie describes the three primary ways we compulsively struggle with our experience -- pulling it towards us, pushing it away, and trying to understand it -- and the falling away of these dynamics as we learn to fully allow the condition as it arises in the space of...

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Jon Bernie
2010
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Being is Your Natural Ease of Awareness | Jon Bernie | Meditation for Relaxation & Healing

At this San Francisco meditation gathering, former Zen monk and nondual spiritual teacher and author Jon Bernie gives a short guided meditation and speaks on healing, the spiritual practice of being present, meditating with a relaxed attentiveness, spiritual transmission, heart awakening, spiritual...

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Jon Bernie
2019
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