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Booster Technique: Hidden Meanings and the Unresolved Past

Why do some things – certain words, certain people – hurt so much? You know it shouldn’t affect you that way, and yet it does. In my own work, I’ve found these events touch my unfinished emotional business – these people represent others from my past, represent issues larger than I suspected. Find out more in this post, together with some questions to help in your own search – is this true for you as well?

Booster Technique: Inauthentic and Authentic Emotions

Booster Technique: Inauthentic and Authentic EmotionsWhen it comes to healing and understanding our negative emotions, there is one important thing to realise: Some of our feelings are inauthentic. They cover up other feelings, beliefs, and inner states. What really needs to be healed? A companion to the UrbanMonk.Net Core Practice.

Core Practice: Welcoming and Releasing Emotions

Core Practice: Welcoming and Releasing Emotions This post presents two basic practices for working with your emotions – allowing them and releasing them. These form half of the core practices of UrbanMonk.Net, letting the reader use the various “booster” techniques described in the rest of the blog.

The Inner Child – An Introduction to Dialoguing

The Inner Child – An Introduction to DialoguingThere is a child inside all of us, whether we realize it or not. And sometimes we return to that state, with all of its vulnerabilities, dependencies, and insecurities. Many of us try to become an adult by pushing away and ignoring this child – but the real path to adulthood is recognising and making friends with him or her. This post introduces a simple and yet very powerful process for reintegrating your inner child.

Realizing We Secretly Want Our Suffering – A Process for Emotional Healing

Realizing We Secretly Want Our Suffering There was something I discovered recently, something that sounds so absurd and yet so simple. As much as I want to be free of whatever I am suffering – there is a part of me that wants it. Getting in touch with this part can be the next step in finding inner freedom.

6 Billion Worlds in One – A Process For Inner Freedom

small_hand_mudraWe are all living on one planet, in one physical reality. But there is one common mistake many of us make – we think we are living in the same world. This post introduces a process that builds on some of the most powerful methods offered on this blog, taking them to a deeper level for more freedom.

The Key To Behavioural Mastery: Letting Go

The Key To Behavioural Mastery: Letting GoWhat do we do with the attachments, desires, and habits that cause our suffering? What if the usual methods of handling our behaviours are making them worse? This article details some of these errors, and provides a long-term solution, the most useful I have come across.

How Our Cravings and Attachments Cause Our Pain And Suffering, Part 2

How Our Cravings and Attachments Cause Our Pain And Suffering, Part 2If you look deeply into your own life, you’ll find something shocking. Much of our unhappiness comes from our desires and attachments – even the ones we achieve! How does this happen?

What will life be like without attachments? Does all joy disappear? No – we are simply left with the freedom to enjoy all we have.

Attachment: Understanding the Origin of Human Suffering, Part 1

Attachment: Understanding the Origin of Human Suffering, Part 1There was a famous teaching once, a long time ago – the origin of suffering is attachment, desire. This post will prepare us by introducing attachment, the root of all our unskilful behaviours and pain, and how to uncover them in our own lives.

Meta-Emotions: The Downward Spiral to Unhappiness and How to Avoid Them

Meta-Emotions: The Downward Spiral to Unhappiness and How to Avoid ThemA meta-emotion is a subtle feeling, one that contributes significantly to the anguish we feel. This post covers this sensation and the various ways it arises – to bring awareness, the first step to change.