Awareness that Heals

When Our Greatest Strength is Also Our Greatest Weakness

When Our Greatest Strength is Also Our Greatest Weakness - ATH Blog

Most of us have an area of our life that we give a dominant part of our energy where we might be most gifted. We could dominantly like to interact with people, devote ourselves to our work, or do something centering on the arts, nature, academics, family, pleasure, success, fitness, beauty, or being likable and unique. But sharing so much energy with this part of our life can lead to an imbalance.” Read More . . .

Six Steps to Find Relief from Resistant Emotions

Six Steps to Find Relief from Resistant Emotions - Episode 113

Episode 113 – It can be a lifelong journey to alleviate suffering that stems from anger and aggression. This transformative process can guide you from discontent toward your deepest passions and provides an approach to managing emotions that lead to suffering. The accompanying guided meditation encourages a pause to foster awareness of anger and its resistant emotions, which helps prevent you from succumbing to reactive aggression. Read More . . .

How to Work through Anger without Creating Harm

How to Work through Anger Without Creating Harm - Episode 112

Episode 112 – There are many unique ways that we experience or express tightness due to anger, impatience, irritation, intolerance—or holding onto anger. It’s a mini-miracle whenever we can shift from being against what we don’t like to being supportive and passionate about what we need. We generally haven’t as a society found ways both in the outer world and the inner world to find a way to contain or slow down our resistant emotions like anger, frustration, accusations, and judgments, which has led to war, alienation, distrust, and an inability to communicate.  Read More . . .

How to Gracefully Ask For Help in Times of Need

How to Gracefully Ask For Help in Times of Need - ATH Blog

Almost half the people I’ve met in my life, whether as a therapist, family, or friend, have great difficulty asking for help. You might be similar to them when it comes to seeking help, or you may be good at asking for help when you need it. Still, I would venture that there are certain areas in your life where it’s harder for you to recognize that you need help and ask for it. Fear of rejection, distrust, a false self-image of self-sufficiency, and inadequacy are some reasons we shy away from asking for help.  Read More . . .

Awareness of Aggressive Feelings Can Lead to Inner Peace

Awareness of Aggressive Feelings Can Lead to Inner Peace - Episode 111

Episode 111 – We explore how to become aware of aggressive feelings while finding alternative paths toward a more fulfilling and inspiring life. You will find aids to express yourself without causing unnecessary harm while encouraging you to see the unmet needs that made you angry in the first place. The journey begins with awareness of your aggression, encompassing emotions like frustration, impatience, irritability, and contraction—any form of uptightness.  Read More . . .

How to Use Challenging Feelings to Discover Core Needs

How to Use Challenging Feelings to Discover Core Needs - Episode 110

Episode 110 – You’ll discover how to identify your core feelings and use them as a key to access your deepest needs. Simultaneously, it’s crucial to develop the capacity for self-care and self-awareness, guiding you toward your heart and intuitive wisdom, learning how to stay connected with yourself, and gaining a sense of the direction you need to pursue. Comprehending your feelings and needs marks the initial stage; the subsequent step entails engaging your mind and heart, employing both actions and contemplation.  Read More . . .

How Facing Mortality Can Be A Source of Inspiration

How Facing Mortality Can Be A Source of Inspiration - ATH Blog

It seems like an incredible opportunity lost to not include education about death and mortality from our early childhood. It is clear that curiosity about this naturally arises for most of us when we’re between the ages of 4-8.  Innocent questions about death from kids at that age can be met initially in many ways — in addition to the standard pat religious answers we often offer.  Yes, we could say that in death, people go to heaven or to God or whatever we believe.  Read More . . .

How to Access Courage and Safety through Fear – Episode 109

How to Access Courage and Safety through Fear - Episode 109

It’s an introspective journey, learning how to recognize and accept fear while accessing courage and safety through qualities such as tenderness, kindness, acceptance, and tolerance. Pay close attention to your tone of voice as you acknowledge fear and connect it with your yearning for courage in your mind and heart. Guide yourself toward a compassionate tone that acknowledges fear as perfectly natural.  Read More . . .

The Vital Connection between Feelings and Needs – Episode 108

The Vital Connection between Feelings and Needs - Episode 108

When we understand the vital connection between feelings and needs, we develop a  deep understanding that can enable us to take loving care of our hearts and those around us. This approach is one of the fundamental and most profound methods we can give to ourselves. The more deeply you experience your feelings, the closer you will be shown how to discover clues to what you need. Allow yourself to investigate deeply, realizing that challenging feelings are not permanently in control; you will learn how to make it the starting point and a catalyst for you to recognize how to take care of your needs. It’s an act of self-love. Read More . . .

The Immense Benefits of Following the Adage: “No Performance, No Pressure”

The Immense Benefits of Following the Adage 'No Performance, No Pressure' - ATH Blog

There is immense value in learning how to respond to life situations where you are natural when you don’t have to perform. This requires being in touch with what you feel and also being open to seeing your experience with acceptance and clarity. This is not something you can learn in a day or short time as, unfortunately, in our world, we haven’t been taught to just be open even toward ourselves as to what we feel, let alone be able to accept whatever it is. Read More . . .