The legendary writer and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said: "The greatest success is to remain yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else." How can we remain ourselves if we do not know who we are? Just like in nature and the vast
The legendary writer and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said: "The greatest success is to remain yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else." How can we remain ourselves if we do not know who we are? The Nautilus pompilius is a marine creature
I want to do a post doing a deep dive on what is constant. The idea I have follows from my previous post, in which I learned from the Tao—a 2,400-year-old wisdom—that to know the constant is called insight. I want to understand what the
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842) [1.1] "To return to the root is to find peace. To find peace is to fulfil one’s destiny. To fulfill one’s destiny is to become constant. To know the constant is called insight. Not knowing
If you want to turn on the light in a pitch-black room, do you stumble around blindly hoping you will bump into the switch by accident? Or do you switch on the torch in your hand first and track down its exact location? To learn how to wake up
I was digging through my old voice journals, looking for a completely different note, when I stumbled across one of my most memorable voice journal notes. It was an experimental dialogue I had recorded, giving voice to the two voices inside my mind: My Conscious (I-Pilot)/(I'm
Can a builder build a house without having the building materials? Can we unlock our voice without having the voice materials? Let me tell you a story. When I arrived in the UK from Somalia in 1993, I was nine years old. I did not speak a single word of
When the biological factory settings of our mind have been hijacked by trauma, traditional intellectual strategies cease to be effective. As we uncovered yesterday, trauma plays an ultimate deception: it completely disables our left brain. Trying to think, reason, or talk our way out of severe emotional disregulation when half
A few months ago, I was invited to attend an incredible community event held by a fantastic community mental health charity in London. The topic of the evening was sharing our raw lived experience of trauma and mental health challenges. Sitting in that room, listening to other attendees share their
Every single product we purchase comes with a manual. From a cheap pair of wireless earphones to the most expensive luxury car, you receive a booklet explaining exactly how the machine works, what the warning lights mean, and how to fix it when it glitches. In fact, the more valuable
We talk about self-awareness as if it is a common, everyday trait. We treat it like a simple personality box you check off. But the truth is entirely different: Self-awareness is one of the most important, yet most misunderstood skills in human history. The misunderstanding lies in how
“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An’ foolish notion” Translation: Oh, would some Power give us the gift To see ourselves as others see us! It would from many a blunder free