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but the way @btomtom5 and The Emerald Podcast talk about it is opening my heart up to this word again a peak experience is just a special kind of trance experience. children and adults naturally go through them in the process of change. humans need them as much as any other
what i was thinking as "peak experiences" wasn’t so much peak experiences as a particular reaction to them a kind of fixating on them https://t.co/fIBvmEfcgn
which i understand, i had that too. but my ordinary life is better now. i like it. i can relate to peak experiences as just part of the inhalation and exhalation of my life some smart people like to call that punctuated equilibrium
peak experience are simply an exhalation of the body and instead of holding my breath, i can follow them with a gentle inhale huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh welcoming with receptivity, what happened. giving ground, for whatever came alive, that needs attention
in retrospect, my singing lessons were pretty consistently peak experiences and very lovely practice in relating to peak experiences in a receptive, grounded way https://t.co/K24UjUA6EG
in my singing lessons, we always start and end with a gong we start with making a bubble, for a safe exploration, and we end with remembering, whatever happened, whatever needs to stay with us, will stay with us in our bodies. we need to do nothing
>we begin making the walk daily https://t.co/7ZgC7Ev4LW
first, we stumble into the blooming well of fatherhood. inner fatherhood. the earth’s fatherhood. the good father. the father that was always there we cannot find our way back reliably. but soon we begin finding little wells everywhere. we make the walk daily
>the lines blur. they barely remain https://t.co/coXWfQnB9W