Author name: Gurpreet

I’ve always loved language, and irony, and find it endlessly amusing that the third noble truth says, ‘the way out of suffering involves freeing ourselves from attachment’ , which appears to clash so spectacularly with attachment theory. Attachment theory, developed by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth,

In contemporary Western life, it’s pretty safe to say that it can be hard to figure out what is ‘ours’, vs. what is ‘someone else’s’, vs. what’s happening in the intersubjective field (the field between ‘mine’ and ‘yours’). Beginners to nonduality and Eastern lineages

“Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…How’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here. Where are you going?” -Adyashanti

IFS, created by Richard Schwartz, is often called ‘parts work.’ I knew from listening to interviews with Schwartz that he acknowledged IFS as a shamanic way of working

By the point I arrived at Pathwork, a year or so past the Kundalini awakening, I’d already had years of ‘on the job’ experience seeing the various ways I got hooked into misunderstanding and suffering.

By the time I came to Polyvagal theory, 10 + years into practicing, it made perfect sense to me, and fit like a very welcome puzzle piece into existing ways of conceptualizing.

Order of operations is a rule indicating the correct sequence of steps for evaluating a math expression. Because this phrase works so well as shorthand,

Our systems take in an unbelievable amount of stimuli all the time, the majority of which we aren’t able to consciously catch or process.