How dead or alive is our Soul when business operates within the system of Capitalism? On the other hand…what is it like if we connect to ourselves, our authenticity, our Soul’s, and live from that place? What do our businesses look like then? I’m not entirely sure but I think that, for me and for The Wild & Authentic Path it has something to do with Right Relationship.

Conscious community is a Co-Created tribe that supports each individual in realizing their fullest authentic ALIVENESS. The typical societal/familial/ religious values do not exist here, and instead we play and live the answers to: Who am I, really? What has heart and meaning? What does my unique breed of inner wisdom want me to know? What is the most satisfying way I can live? What makes my soul happy? What authentic sound do I have to contribute to The Concert of The Grand Design? Conscious community explores the answers to these questions together, through different practices, while developing authentic/intimate relationships with one another. It’s good shit.

HOW WILDERNESS SAVED ME…

Nature is my medicine. Whenever I find myself in a state of overwhelm, I think of a hamster running and spinning in an endless wheel of efficiency stress and accomplishment- gotta go gotta move gotta do gotta succeed- move aside people I’m trying to accomplish things, here! This hamster wheel is a symptom of our so-called “civilized” society and I believe it to be a socially acceptable kind of crazy.

LET’S GET TECHNICAL..

Dear Reader, are you in the mood for some psychology and neuroscience? No, not yet? You want a joke before we dive in? Ok, here you go…

Q: How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: One, but the lightbulb has to want to change.

Ha!

LET’S GET KINDA PERSONAL…

This is the point in the blog post where I could potentially share my painful pattern with you. It is the point where, if I so chose, I could be vulnerable with you. Some people argue that therapists shouldn’t divulge too much personal information; that self-disclosure interferes with clients’ processes, that a “blank slate” gives space for clients’ projections and transferences. Fair enough. And yet. Something feels inhuman about that particular philosophy.

ON A VERY COMMON (AND PAINFUL) RELATIONAL PATTERN…

Let me tell you about John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth’s (1991) Attachment Theory. According to Attachment Theory our earliest relationships, the one with our parents or primary caretakers, teaches us how to be in relationship with other people throughout our lives. It is our first relationship that sets the standard for how relationships look, what we can expect, and how we should behave.