Be careful not to use the practice of being present as a way of avoiding looking at the necessary nitty gritty inside you.

To heal, spiritual practice is not enough on its own.

We need to look at our psychological self, traumas and patterns.

We need to learn to stay open and available to and with our humanity; our needs, our past traumas, our emotions, our body’s felt experience, our pain, our yearnings our fears and our joy.

If we do not endeavour to meet ourselves and others on all these levels, then whatever we are trying to transcend through meditation or by being in the ‘flow state’, will keep coming up and we will unknowingly remain trapped in an unconscious loop of resistance and spiritual bypassing.
And we will keep hurting those we love.

“The cure for the pain is in the pain.”
Rumi.