Energy Matters Vlog
Racism and the Necessity of Chaos ( or How do I personally contribute to Cultural Healing?)
How could I contribute if I’m not an expert in political science, sociology, or race relations AND have no personal experience with racism?
What I am is a healer. What I have to offer is almost more than 3 decades of working – deeply and directly – with suffering and pain. What I draw on is extensive expertise with the chaotic, messy, unpredictable, and sometimes miraculous thing we call healing.
In this video I attempt to expand an elegant model of individual healing to a macro level of community and cultural healing. This is the longest video clip that I’ve ever made, but this topic required me to present it as a cohesive whole.
Originally I used this orientation to find a way for me to personally orient to the racial issues in this country and then to move forward in a way that would let my daily thoughts and energy contribute, even in a very small way, to the healing of our culture. Over time, I shared these ideas with family, friends, and then clients. They all said that they found value in this perspective and encouraged me to share it with a larger audience.
GULP. There is definitely some risk, as a privileged white male, in making a video about racism. The safe path would be to remain silent and keep my head down.
But the ideas kept poking at me until I couldn’t find a way to not make this video. So here it is. This is my offering to the larger conversation about race, presented with humility and respect. My prayer is that each and every human being be treated with dignity and respect. No exceptions. For any reason.
PS I made this to be shared so please pass it along to any and all who might be interested in this perspective. ty, doug
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Managing impulses that arise from my wounds and trauma
Coronavirus 1.13 – Mindfulness and the Dueling Impulses, Part 2
Using mindfulness to help select which impulses to place in the “driver’s seat”
Coronavirus 1.12 ~ Mindfulness and the Dueling Impulses, Part 1
How to use mindfulness to backtrack to the source of arising impulses
Coronavirus 1.11 ~ Surfing the “Don’t Know” Wave ~ Part 4
Practical tips for switching to and using a flow state in relationship with the coronavirus
Coronavirus 1.10 ~ Surfing the “Don’t Know” Wave ~ Part 3
Why my system crashed and how to use “not knowing” to move forward
Coronavirus 1.9 ~ Surfing the “Don’t Know” Wave ~ Part 2
Switching to “Feel and Flow” and using direct experience to inform my course of action
Coronavirus 1.8 ~ Surfing the “Don’t Know” Wave ~ Part 1
Introduction to shifting myself to orient to the coronavirus from a different state
Coronavirus 1.7 ~ Unsticking My Mind From the Coronavirus
2 strategies for preventing the coronavirus from dominating my thinking
Coronavirus 1.6 ~ “Thinning the ‘Thudge’” … formerly “Why am I so dang tired?”
How to counter the fatigue and “sludge” from the incessant bombardment of coronavirus field forces
Coronavirus 1.5 ~ How to “Antidote” the Waves of Fear and Death Heading Towards Us Part 2
Choosing to focus on your life and put living at your center
Coronavirus 1.4 ~ How to “Antidote” the Waves of Fear and Death Heading Towards Us
3 Steps to help us find our way in the face of some very heavy incoming waves
Coronavirus 1.2 ~ The Large Field Force of Terror
How to use the energy of the Large Field Force of Terror to highlight and clarify work you can do to improve your relationship with death and fear
Coronavirus 1.3 ~ Turbulent Field Forces
Multiple large field forces can combine and toss us around — how to manage it as best as possible.
Coronavirus and the Large Field Force of Terror 1.1
How a collective field of terror of death is generated and 2 tools to get yourself clear of it
The Necessity of Dissatisfaction 1.1
Re-examining a very old and very important aspect of our humanity
Evolutionary Energetics 1.6
2 stories about how we get stuck in patterns and forget to use the thinking portions of our brains
Evolutionary Energetics 1.5
How our old brain’s excellence with making habits and patterns can make us stuck in our thought processes
Evolutionary Energetics 1.5
How our old brain’s excellence with making habits and patterns can make us stuck in our thought processes
Evolutionary Energetics 1.4
Teamwork between old and new brain bits plus the story of my Navy Seal Father’s greatest fear
Evolutionary Energetics 1.3
Personal story of how teamwork between my old and new brain kept me safe
Evolutionary Energetics 1.2
Using newer energy/brain components to counterbalance older aspects
Evolutionary Energetics 1.1
Why my failures feel like they have more mass than my successes
Claude Monet vs the Healing Artists
Then my canvas stood up and walked out
The Energetics of Kindness 1.6
Real life story of using resonance in an emergency. OK, it’s a bodysurfing story, but the points are good!
The Energetics of Kindness 1.5
More inquiry on the impact of receiving kindness, including not judging the speed or quality of your ability to receive.
The Energetics of Kindness 1.4
Self-inquiry around reactions to kindness (e.g. belief systems, traumatic wounding, cultural patters, etc.)
The Energetics of Kindness 1.3
How do you receive kindness from another person? What impact does it have on your system?
The Energetics of Kindness 1.2
Resonance as the mechanism for broadcasting kindness
The Energetics of Kindness 1.1
“You have kind eyes.” What’s going on here from an energetic perspective?