Gloomy Humans

We set ourselves up to suffer when we decide that our life should be different - the people should behave differently, the events shouldn't have happened, and so on.  This episode explores how peace comes from acceptance, not from control.  

Whether we are trying to heal or to develop spiritually, we have a tendency to look to our faults and try and improve.  But our faults are subjective and informed by our conditioning.  Healing never comes from judging ourselves.  It comes from self acceptance.  Which can be tricky when we can't see where we are judging ourselves...  This episode looks at the convoluted ways we come up with to keep ourselves from living in peace.  

Humans form habits because it's how we've evolved to learn efficiently.  The problem comes when the habits don't serve us, but we feel compelled to execute them anyway.  This episode looks at how we form them, and how to overcome them.  Not by fighting them, which too often brings about the opposite result to the one we want.

Letting go of the ideas, beliefs, tensions and energies we hold that harm us can be difficult.  We created them for a reason, and as soon as we try to change them, it can seem as though our survival is threatened.  This episode takes a look at what happens when we try to make changes, and how we can build the skill of letting go.

Sometimes doing work to heal our issues can feel a little (or a lot) like Groundhog Day.  We do some self healing, we work out an old habit whose spell we've lived under, and for a while we feel free.  But then, back comes the habit.  What's going on?  Surely we've advanced beyond this?  Or are we just stuck with this for ever?  This episode examines the energy patterns that influence us as we grow and evolve.  Could it be that our blocks are really a sign of our progress? 

Self doubt is a sort of sludgy purple colour in our energy field.  Which gives us a clue as to how to go about freeing ourselves from its clutches.    Want to find out what I'm going on about?  Have a listen, and let me know what you think. 

Gloomy Humans can find all sorts of things to judge themselves for.  And some of those things might actually be our strengths.  This episode looks at how we can come to stop looking for what's wrong with us, and allow ourselves to get on with living.  

In this episode, we look at how we create our karma, how we nurture it and polish it and what this does to us.  Oh, and how to let it go.  

In this episode I take a look at how our beliefs govern our experience of the world, and how we can learn to see it more clearly - how, in fact, the process of letting go of judgments of others creates greater awareness, and more peace in our lives.

As pointed out by Anais Nin, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” 

A look at one of the patterns of belief that occur when we have encountered abuse in our lives, the difficulties we encounter when healing from this, and what we can do about it.