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Why Love Hurts

6/22/2020

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Love, an unchartered territory, for it creates a whirlwind of conflicting emotions that quandary the soul, and perplexes the mind. Riddled, we are, with a sense of idealisation that begins from birth, and steers us through life, until our formidable last breath.
 

We begin life with an intense desire to experience love, for intrinsically, we are pleasure-seeking animals, and go to extremes in the name of idealised love for the soothing it brings us. 

We are, however, merely consumed with layers of demands and expectations, that swing in the prism of duality, that sways us across the labyrinth of polarised extremes. Filled, we are with unconscious drives and motivations inherited by societal structures, norms and narratives.
 

As the tribal urge for conformity to societal values takes precedence for external approval and validation, “love” takes its toll on our life, and we become laboured in pursuit of it. 

The idealisation of love, which according to Freud is rooted in narcissism, departs immensely from the actual experience of love itself. So, perhaps, the option to sublimate our idealised attachments and discomforts, may serve as a remedy to lessen the cruel, destabilizing and dangerous illusions of love. 

Unbeknown to our human sensibility, exists a hidden realm of the unconscious, which meticulously plays out one’s repressed desires, projecting the inherently hidden drives upon another, in pursuit of “love”.

The unconscious is riddled with inferiorities, inadequacies, despair, jealousy, resentment, possessiveness, and scrupulous attachment upon others, for the purpose of its own gain. It cares not for another, for the instinctual self satiating drives motivate its behaviour.
  

The sublimation of one's animal drives, rests upon the individual’s quest for self-awareness and self-inquiry. To experience this transcendence, the individual is set forth to decode his/her subjective definition, and rationale, for seeking relational love, external to self.
 

In a symposium, Plato describes a dialogue regarding the nature of romantic love. He provides the myth for why mortal humans seem to crave love from another. He contends that in the beginning there were androgynous spherical beings, consisting of half man, and half woman. In an act of realisation, Zeus, king of the gods, severs each spherical being in half. From this, rises the story of humans, born incomplete, in pursuit of its other half to complete itself.
This metaphor plays upon the human quest and motivation in pursuit of love, ever seeking the attainment of one’s object of desire to feel complete.

Much unrealistic idealisations arises from this metaphor, further reinforced within the human psyche by popular culture, creating momentum, within the human quest for perfect flawless love. Further afflicting confusion upon the mismatch of one’s reality, to the idealised concept of love. 


The idealisation of love, as a means for completing oneself, sells, for it tugs at the very lack that resides within the realms of our human unconscious. 
Our patriarchal, parasitic and capitalistic societal structures feed upon this lack, by selling idealised illusions of love and pleasure to the delusion of its love starved consumers. 
      

Around the world, the quest for love has driven humans to do extraordinarily dramatic things, from waging wars, to building shrines, acts of terrorism, murder, suicide to creating markets, and agencies for procuring and selling sex.
Love is complex, but in our contemporary world, love has also become a commodity for consumption. We’ve never been so globally connected, yet so deeply disconnected through excessive addiction to social media, digital devices, and over consumption of porn, sex, and dating sites. On these digital platforms, one can anonymously select from a vast menu of pleasurable commodities.
Capitalising love has played its part in nuancing love further within western societies, and is certainty reforming dynamics in respect of intimacy and desire. Our capitalistic steered society continues to seduce our attention outwards in pursuit of love, inflating “love” as a commodity for consumption.


Across all timelines, cultures and even within the psychoanalytic movement, humans have attempted to reconcile the notion of sex with love.
Like all aspect of mating and reproduction, cultural norms vary in its expressions of love. In the west, sexual desire and love, exists in tandem, superseding the notion of marriage as a means of retaining one’s lineage and status. 

The enlightenment period may have birthed an era of romanticism, which created cultural shifts towards infusing love within human consciousness. Once predicated upon the notion of economic necessity, marriage became redefined as a commitment of love, and weighed its longevity on the premise of intimacy, passion and desire. 

Whilst romanticism sells commercially, it’s application within long-lasting relationships stand to scrutiny.  The cultural aspect of love shall rest here, for it is far too nuanced to address in this essay, and its connotations vary across continents and timelines. For this essay, the focus leans upon the western notion of love and desire, for this in itself shall serve as a multi-layered spectrum to decode, as to why love is sometimes viewed along with hate, fear and cruelty, as a destabilizing force in both our personal and social life.
 
From an antiquity perspective, the ancient Greek Philosophers had made some sense of man’s destiny in respect of love and desire. They believed one had to overcome his animal nature before evolving to be human. According to Aristotle; “desire must obey reason”.
The Greek philosophers claimed that whilst it is within human right to use pleasure and desire, one must be cautious not to be carried away by it.
“Pleasure is a force liable for excess that requires control and regulation.” The Greek philosophers referred to self-restraint as “Chrésis a phrodision”, relating to one’s sense of “prudence, reflection and calculation” in respect of desire.

Self-control and continence ruled over pleasure and desire, and this led to 
“enkrateia”which translates as self-mastery. 
To the Greek philosophers, matters pertaining to pleasure, and love, are contingent on a battle for power, an internal battle that requires attention.
Exerting power and domination over one’s desire was regarded necessary, in creating and sustaining a morally motivated society.
It was the responsibility of individuals to construct a relationship with his inner self that was of “domination-submission, command-obedience, and mastery-docility”, in pursuit of self-regulation, prudence and moderation. Such qualities were deemed as high virtues to be mastered by all humans. 


Today, fantasies, desires and idealisations are regarded by some psychoanalysts as a necessary, and healthy, phase of adult-human life.
It’s proposed that through meticulous effort in reconciling one’s narcissistic idealisations, the individual may journey in to the realms of self-mastery, and rise above the polarised dance between love and hate. However, in our modern world, we are not guided by any sense of authority, as to how one may journey through this dance. Rather we are scuttled by cultural norms to find “true love” without any form of initiation in to learn what love is, before we set upon a quest to find it.
 

In remanence to Greek philosophers, Freud also states “a man who has owned his way to a state of knowledge, cannot properly be said to love and hate; he remains beyond love and hate, for he has investigated instead of loving”. 

Perhaps transcending love and hate is the cure for the ailments we encounter in search of this unformidable force? The force that evokes bravery, inspiration, bliss, motivation and madness. The polarity spectrum that exists in the name of love swings far and wide. Thus, transcending our animal nature through self-knowledge, as the Greek Philosophers and Freud denoted, may well be the antidote in rising beyond the polarity dance.

To truly transcend love and hate, one must learn to sublimate the inner confinements of a self-obsessed, narcissistic, pleasure-seeking animal, in to a passionate quest to live an emotionally rich and creative life. For this perhaps psychoanalysis can illuminate, or further confuse our inquiry. 
 
In our postmodern, capitalistic society, where love, romance, desire and passion are idealised more than ever as means of production, can psychoanalysis really help us to decode our relationship to love and desire? 

Perhaps our capitalistic society places greater burdens on love between heterosexual relations? 
For Freud, a man in society represents the work of civilisation, whilst, woman represents the family and the interests of sexual life.
As such, he believed, civilisation demands more libidinal resources of men than women. Thus, a man’s attempt to reconcile his finite energy between society’s needs, and the needs of his relationship, creates estrangement in the relationship.
Whilst society has significantly evolved since Freud’s theories of femininity and masculinity, societal narratives and pressures continue to create tremendous tension, and estrangement between the sexes.

The paradigm shifts, post first and second wave of feminism, led to women’s “liberation”, as it achieved major reforms in legislative rights for women in western societies.  
As a result, western cultures have seen an increase in women’s contribution within the workforce and the public sphere.
Women’s contribution and leadership in the workforce, alongside juggling demands of parenthood in a patriarchal system, have also introduced new paradigms and tensions within heterosexual relations.

Rise in divorce rates, and single parent families are inducing socio-economic tensions. These paradigm shifts are narrating what masculinity and femininity mean in context of 21st century, and how they relate to each other.
Whether these contemporary waves of feminism such as the #Me-Too movement, further enslave or free the sexes in their quest to find love, power, and freedom, remains lucid.   


Outside the societal tensions; love remains laced with ambivalence, as well as wishes for dominance and submission, love is where fears of abandonment reside, where struggles of attachment and separation loom, and a place where fantasies of infantile dependencies and idealisations roam. Perhaps the idealisation of love and desire, are remanence of an earlier oedipal patterns and dynamic? Thus, let us further explore the Oedipus Complex as theorised by Freud 1910 in our quest to decode our human desire for love. 

Freud theorised that the oedipus phase is where a child’s unconscious sexual desire for the mother, evokes a deeply seeded hatred for the father. Thus, giving rise to complex emotions pending emotional reconciliation within the child.
According to Freud, the realisation that the mother is unattainable sexually, results in fear of castration for boys, and penis envy for girls.
Whilst Freud’s oedipal phase for boys follows a natural realisation regarding his love object, the model theorised for girls, remains somewhat incomplete, for Freud’s theory eludes that girls encounter indefinite inferiority complex, due to realising that they do not have a penis.

Feminists such as De Beauvoir perceived Freud’s theory as an extension of his own misogynistic viewpoint, whilst later feminists including Juliet Mitchell (1974) viewed his theories symbolic to patriarchy in a phallic centric society. 

For Freud, Masculinity was the natural state for both sexes. He claimed that a girl retreats from masculinity in to femininity upon the fateful and unhappy discovery that she has no penis. 
Castration anxiety may explain how a young boy journeys to reconcile his perceived inadequacies in relation to the object of his desires. How the dyadic and triadic relations play out for him in his early childhood, may perhaps determine his ability to reconcile his contrasted emotions, in search for his confidence towards the of objects of his desire. 

In the case of penis envy, if understood metaphorically, in context of a phallic centric society, (in that a penis represents “power”), then this theory surely becomes applicable to both boys and girls, for it symbolises the deficiency in the power dynamic, that one may perceive in relationship to his/her objects of desire. 

In both Freud and Lacan’s accounts of psychoanalysis; the oedipal theory concludes that the mother, is both desired and dangerous, whilst the role of the father is the regulator of the child’s desire for the mother. Freud states that, childhood love is boundless; it demands exclusive possession, it is not content with less than all, and this demand, can only end in disappointment. 

In contrast to Freud’s notion of sexual pleasure as a primary motive, Melanie Klein points out the significance for the dual maternal relationship that exists between mother-baby, and of the aggression that derives from it, including feelings of guilt and reparation. In this way, love appears along with the emergence of depressive and aggressive position for the child.  Klein positions the development phase upon the complex intimate and relational component that establishes motives and behaviours, and one that aligns closer to attachment styles.

The Oedipus complex divides much of the psychoanalysis movement, but perhaps if the theory is taken as a symbolic derivative to power, one can begin to perceive the dynamic as a means of transgression and resistance against the power structures that stand in the way of one’s desires. Creating essentially, a tug of war between the individual, and the object of his/her desire. Freud’s notion that desire is dangerous and unattainable, reflects the need to sublimate the narcissistic aspects of desire. 

Essentially, individuals continue to play out the oedipus constellation all throughout life within different social structures. The “mother” becomes the metaphor for desire, and the “father”, becomes the authoritative obstacle that is to be overcome, or is to be sublimated in attaining one’s object of desire.
How one reconciles his/her emotions in respect of the love object, including fear, envy, inferiority, jealousy and guilt rests upon the triadic and dyadic relationships held within the oedipal phase with the mother and the father. 


Thus far, we understand that psychoanalysis deeply concerns itself with human sexuality and the unconscious, and views both concepts as deeply intertwined between the feminine and masculine principles. 
In psychoanalysis, a person’s relationship with desire is believed to be formed through his/her sexuality, and the unconscious contains instinctual desires that may not have been realised, causing unresolved fears and emotions regarding the desire to be repressed. This repression causes angst in one’s ability to seek desire later on in adult life, unless of course, the pain and trauma within the Oedipal phase is examined and reconciled.  
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According to Lacan; the unconscious castration complex shapes neuroses, perversion, psychosis and one’s inability to respond adequately to the needs of his/her partner in respect of sexual relations, nor address the needs of the child he/she has procreated. Therefore, taking us back to the fundamental oedipal complex as a primary source, where perceptions and limitations dictate human behaviour towards desire and love.

Essentially, humans perceive intimate relationships in alignment to their unique oedipal journey. The feelings which compose the oedipal constellation like jealousy, guilt, rivalry is determined, and stimulated by desire, for desire is a source of human fuel in life. In essence, desire gives birth to creativity, for without it, much of life would not exist.  

We are born from the desire of our parents, we need to be seen by them, we have our own desires and, we have desires toward others, this is why, in every relationship, desire can be stimulating but also creates much conflict.

Stephan Mitchell (2002) states; “the object of desire has enormous power, and vulnerability of the lover is proportional to the depth of love, the vulnerability and dependence to another threatens the integrity of the self. The conflict here is that our desires make us dependent upon another, and this dependency leads to aggression and fear for its loss or failure to accomplish the desire. In a mature relation, the feelings of love with capacity to contain one’s dependence and vulnerability toward another predominates comparative to aggression.”

The extreme polarisation effect in dependency cause attachment and idealisation, which swings the pendulum towards aggression, suffering, hatred and fear. The Dalai Lama (1997) described the emotional landscape of desire in this way: "If you look carefully, everything beautiful and good, everything that we consider desirable, brings us suffering in the end".

Lacan along with many Buddhist thinkers, agree that desire is defined as longing which can never be fulfilled. Fundamentally, our desires, whether they are aimed at bringing pleasure or power, avoiding pain or humiliation, express a longing to control others and the world, all desires ultimately disappoint us when we discover the limits of our control.

Young-Eisendrath argues that certain desires must be defeated in order for transformative love to emerge, echoing the philosophy of the ancient Greeks. Love is a transition journey from the erotic object to the beloved person. Once again, we return to the idea that one is to sublimate the idealisations, narcissisms, traumas and expectations in order to attain the love that is untainted with the incomplete oedipal narrative. 

Love gets conflated with its near companions of romance, desire, idealization, admiration, and compassion. In order to feel truly loved, we have to feel authentically known and seen. true love is a developmental achievement, that must be kept distinct from its companions of desire and attachment. This introduces other concept such as the individual’s receptivity to express vulnerability and intimacy within the relational dynamic, and one’s ability to deconstruct love, attachment and desire. 

Love is the revelation to freedom. Perhaps Psychoanalysis teaches us to appreciate the nuances of love and desire, and one’s ability to take responsibility for one’s subjective projections, and interpretations in respect of personal and social relationships. 

One’s desire and idealisation for narcissistic control of another (in the name of love) must be sublimated with freedom for autonomy and self-expression.
 

One is to be aware of the unconscious polarisation effects, influenced by idealisation, and seek the opportunity to resolve polarised dynamics that exists between; dominance-submission, abandonment-engulfment, attachment-separation, and dependence-independence, that play a part in every relationship. 

Perhaps Love is not only a feeling, or a state of being, nor an attitude, sexual desire, or attachment, but more than this, love is also power.
 
There is no love without the initial idealised desire to satiate the narcissistic drive for power and control.
From oedipal complex determining human attachment styles, psychoanalysis attempts to make sense of love, attachment and desire.

Love is inevitably linked with loss, and in experiencing loss, one acquaints with a deep sense of grief and cruelty associated with one’s lack of power and control.
The force of grief renders one powerless, by destabilising the very essence of one’s departure from his/her idealisations and fantasies.

The journey to attaining love remains an illusionary force, impressed upon a capitalistic society, yearning and starved for love, freedom and power.

Masquerading as love, the unconscious oedipal drives manifest as narcissistic attachments and control. The human desire for power and control ultimately creates a paradigm where love becomes viewed along with hate, fear and cruelty, as a destabilizing force in both our personal and social life.

Paradoxically, this destabilisation also serves as fuel for creativity, which ultimately serves in advancing human life and civilisation. Essential for the evolution of our consciousness.  

 
 


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Transform

5/4/2020

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A blinkered path 
Heart filled with dust 
Mind infused with memories from darkest of nights 
It hurts to be alive, and breathe with delight 
Once awoken, and felt so bright 
A distant memory, it feels to be alive 
To feel, to be, to laugh aloud 
What remains is a path uncertain with immense fog 
What I feel is a deep distance in my heart 
Alas, emerge the light of my soul
Can one, really awaken and see beyond this smog 
The soul may beckon, the mind is enslaved, and its body is deeply drenched and weak in pain  
As one continues to seek refuge in the darkest of lanes  
I may feel too much, or not at all
Both reside in the same misty space of my soul
The light and the dark, swirl in the same dimension 
One cannot transcend one side without the other in site 
Becoming a witness, to all of my tides 
Instead of fighting, I choose to sit still for a while 
Take a step inwards, and feel in to my heart
I let this tide sweep me far away, down in to the well of my heart 
Welcome the master, and bow to the eternal void
It’s here to show you your greatest of teachings
Are you taking notes or choosing to silence her instead?
For without her lessons, you’ll fail to reach beyond the stars
Leading to the world missing your bright sparky lights 
To illuminate the path for others to see 
What would this world be without your insights?
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Identity

1/22/2020

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by Samieh 

She feels really lost, confused, powerless, aimless, no identity and stricken with fear 
lots of fear, but she can’t name the fear, the type of fear that has no basis and can't be rationalised  
she asks, “who am I?” but a speck of dust filled with so much fear and anxiety
she feels consumed with a deep sense of shock, despair and  confusion 
shock for being so irresponsible, for feeling insane, for not thinking rationally, for making mistakes, too many times, for relying on the wrong people, for giving a shit, when she shouldn’t, for taking on too much bullshit, everybody’s bullshit
she just desires to go somewhere where she’s unknown and unseen, even if for a moment 
she feels lost beyond anything she’s ever felt 
she feels she’s been living a fake life
chasing fake dreams, carving fake realities

she doesn’t know who she is, without an identity to cling on to 
who would she be without an identity? 
nothing, nothing at all
is she a girl? a woman? a mother? a daughter? a friend? a status? a title? a job? or perhaps she's a nobody 
she was raised to believe she would be a nobody, and that shame placed upon her psyche has been realised 
the curse placed upon her psyche haunts her to this day, as it's haunted her for decades 
her heart aches for the little girl, who believed the wounded earthly guardians that tormented her, and diminished her worth 
the one's who made her scared of being a nobody, so that she spent forty years tirelessly trying to be a somebody 
like an imposter, desperate to fit in and belong somewhere, anywhere 
when she tried to let go of all the fake identities she’s assumed in her life, she was met with crippling fear,
the fear and shame of being a “nobody”
and having nothing to claim as real
just waiting, in transit, from nowhere to everywhere
from the tormented little girl with a heavy heart 
to a woman ready to release the baggage that never belonged to her
she knew she had to let the fake masks of identity go
and delve in to the depths of obscure abyss, sit there totally lost, isolated and unloved
for once again, like the four-year-old she was nobody and nothing, identity less
but this time, she breathed in the No-Thingness with love, and she knew she’d be just fine, because she was free, and so she was ​
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Are you abundant or miserly?

3/28/2019

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Abundance means different things to different people.
At a fundamental level, abundance is a mind-set before the principle manifests in the material plane. 
You can have immense wealth whilst anchored with a miserly mind-set, which defeats the principle of abundance. For having wealth doesn’t automatically equate to being abundant. I know many wealthy people who possess a miserly mindset, and live in constant state of fear, lack and distrust. This often has an adverse effect on their health and wellbeing. They often feel disconnected from love, and possess a deep sense of loneliness and yearning for more. Such individuals may even lack creative expression, libido and excitement for life. Conversely, I have met many perceived "poor" people on my travels to far away lands, whose lives are enriched by a sense of community, connection and devotion. these individuals possess a genuine sense of kindness and generosity that is anchored in love and charity. Such individuals are often willing to share their last bread with a stranger, and somehow their basic needs are always met.

Now, which one of these cases appears to be a true manifestation of abundance to you? 
 
In essence, abundance in its truest form means liberation from fear and mental lack. If you are seeking peace of mind and liberation, you are really seeking to cultivate an abundant mindset that sets you free from anxiety, fear, guilt and a sense of powerlessness that plagues  life.

An abundant mindset sets you free from the toxic residue of living in lack, and elevates you towards feeling in to the inner riches that already exists within you. 
 
If you are seeking more from life, is it not time that you drive out of lack-city and head for the new junction known as abundant-city? Follow me if you will…
 
You can create the blue-print for abundance, and know that all your needs and desires will be taken care of on an energetic and physical level. All you need to do, is lay over some fundamental ground work, to ensure that you materialise the energetic blue print for abundance at a cellular level. Here are some of the key principles to consider as you head towards “abundant-city”… 
 
Trust like a child
All children have a naturally abundant mindset. They trust that all their needs will be met, and so it is.
The innocence that children embody contains the essence of abundance. Tap in to this inner infinite innocence that resides in magic and wonder. The child-like mind truly believes in the power of the present moment, and sees and appreciates the wonders of life, and awes at the simplicity of life. A child’s mind is the most resourceful, creative and abundant mind-set that exists. The good news is that your inner child too has these abilities, all you have to do is access this potential through the power of intention and breath. 
 
Set clear standards
When you believe your world is abundant, your standard of living naturally improves, you set clearer boundaries that is to be respected by others, and you begin to see that your outer world is the reflection of your inner world. With this, you clean up the inner smog and begin to set clear standards in every domain of your life. The standard that we set for our self and our life, mirrors back to us through the lens of our relationship with others. If your outer life is convoluted, it is time to reflect inwards, and evaluate the standards you have set for yourself, and the standards by which you are living life from. Create a set of standards that is congruent with what you desire. You always have choices at your disposable, you must be willing to drop the resistance and become receptive to your inner voice.  
 
Commitment 
The greatest source of abundance available to mankind is ideas, and the greatest source of destruction is fear and self-doubt. The ego projects fear to warn you for your safety. Your job is to utilise the rational conscious mind and erect the white flag. You are safe. Yes, you are definitely safe. Your idea is great, don’t doubt your potentials. The people of this world are full of great ideas, yet, they lack the courage to ground these ideas and manifest them in to greatness for the service of humanity. To achieve this, it requires commitment. Daily commitment. Showing up when you don’t feel like it. Pushing through crippling fear. Dusting the mental gremlins off daily, and pushing through every unimaginable boundary and block that exists. Without commitment to yourself, you cannot discover your truth. Without this commitment, you won’t get the clarity you need, and clarity is power. You have to be committed to your path, and to your vision. The more you show up, the more your powers are realised and heightened. The more you fine tune yourself, the greater version of yourself you become. The more you push through the fear, the further you fly. The more you create, the more you sow. The more you offer, the more you receive. This is the law of abundance. Commitment requires loyalty, be loyal to yourself first and foremost, and the universe shall become your loyal servant. 
 
Connection and exchange 
The law of exchange is the premise of life. Exchanging what you have keeps the energy pulsating and circulating. Hoarding knowledge, money and possession creates stagnation and loss in an area of life. Loss is not always directly associated with money, it can be loss of health, loss of community, loss of creativity, or loss of love. The universe doesn’t discriminate, when the energy of lack is in motion, it can constrict any given area of your life. 
 
It is within a heart felt exchange that we create more from life, more vision, more ideas, more connections, more money, more love and more value. We are always exchanging with others, even when we may not be consciously aware of this process. 

Cultivating presence is the cornerstone for creating space for more to unfold. To attain more of that which you truly desire. Check in with your intention for every action you embark upon. Why do you do what you do? What is the basis of the intention behind your actions, words and thoughts? It is the intention behind the action that yields you the result. For it is the intention that carries the energetic blueprint. Know that life creates on an energetic plane before it manifests in the physical. This is law, there is no escaping it. 
 
Have you arrived at abundant-city yet? 

If you want to feel liberated and at peace, and discover tips and tricks on attaining all your desires, then join my 40 day “Dare to be You!” challenge, and dare to transform your life. I have personally developed tools and techniques that are specifically designed to help awaken your inner potential. This program includes several in person sessions with me, that allows you to really dig deeper to release the hidden mental blocks that hold you back from creating an abundant, magnificent and liberated life. Take the first step and arrange a free in person discussion on how I can support you to step in to more abundance. 

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Healing Through Divination

3/24/2019

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The first time I was drawn to the Tarot deck, I was 18 years old. I bought my first deck of cards from an old London book shop, and started to work with Tarot as a guiding compass for my life. There began a life long love affair with Tarot. 

Unfortunately, there is much misconception shrouding Tarot, and over the years, I too was poorly influenced by some of the misleading and terrorising beliefs about Tarot, but through perseverance, and advancing my studies in the occult, I have come to really understand and appreciate the tremendous gift of healing wisdom that Tarot has to offer. Here is what I have come to personally understand about Tarot to be true; 
 
Tarot is a spiritual tool:
In the great scheme of things, we are all one unified field. There is nothing that is external to you, and the great spirit, god, divine, or whatever you wish to call this higher power, resides within your own essence. Tarot is simply a physical tool that manifests your connection with this higher power.
When you establish a connection with Tarot, your essence evokes the higher power for purpose of gaining clarity regarding your inner world. Tarot, essentially helps you to determine how your inner landscape is influencing your outer reality and shaping your experiences.  
 
Tarot does not predict your future: 
Contrary to popular belief, Tarot does not predict one’s future, nor was it ever designed to do so. The “fortune telling” aspect is often projected by the person who is reading (or mis-reading) the Tarot. What Tarot does, is reveal the energies governing the situations you are enquiring about. Even though Tarot offers an “outcome” glimpse, it shows the outcome based on the energetic imprint projected by your current beliefs and thought patterns. This principle is what makes Tarot an amazing healing tool that I have personally used for over 20 years to reveal subconscious blocks to situations in my own life and that of my clients.   
 
Why Tarot may appear dark and scary to some: 
Some of the imagery offered by many different Tarot decks can appear frightening and displeasing to the general enquirer. The imagery is in fact rich in symbolic representations regarding energetic imprints that govern human thoughts, emotions, desires and inner riches. The full spectrum of human experience contains contrast as well as expansion. This diversity enables the lens of human perception to widen and express itself as awareness, compassion and service. The imagery depicted in Tarot, illustrates the human journey through the ebbs and flows of internal states of our being that we project toward situations in our life. Therefore, the enquirer is encouraged to contemplate any frightening notions that arise from the Tarot imagery, for he/she is rejecting that which resides internally within themselves. Fear, judgement and repulsion is a call to face that which we deny and reject from our own psyche. The potently rich imagery and symbolisms offered by the Tarot hurls an awakening for the psyche to accept the rejected and fragmented parts, thus making Tarot a powerful healing tool.  
 
In summary, Tarot offers you a glimpse in to your energetic imprints projected on to different life domains. It is not designed to tell you your future, nor determine your destiny. For Tarot is merely a powerful gateway for disclosing the workings of your subconscious, and reveals the map of the psyche, and how your hidden energies are influencing and creating your life experiences.

We can use Tarot as a means of healing and transforming the adverse energies that may be deep at play. The adverse hidden energies often lead to procrastination, resistance, fear, displeasure, disempowerment, hopelessness, despair, pain and suffering. Tarot holds a powerful mirror to your soul, that enables the darkness and light of your essence to commune as one, in order for you to transform the old constructs that no longer serve your path in life. Through Tarot we learn, we explore, we share and we transform.  
  
Connect with me if you wish to dive deeper and explore the healing power of Tarot in respect of your life.
In person or Skype appointments are available every Saturday between 10.30 – 13:00 GMT. 

For appointments e-mail Samieh.farrah@goldeninnervision.com
 
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Who am I?

9/14/2018

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Life is an evolutionary and a mysterious construct 
Life is energy, and energy is fluid, transformative and vast
The vastness of this life makes the experience richer, more dynamic and intensely diverse
The diversity expands the imagination and perspective from the micro level to the macro level
From the macro perspective one begins to shift the structures of reality
The reality that is ever bending with the power of mentalism
The mentalism that encompasses the mind of the micro, progressively influencing the macro
The mind that is manifesting itself within and without 
The existential reality that is a dream within a dream, co-creating itself through the microcosm  
As it flows it creates an illusion of separateness that is manifested in matter and form
The play continues until the matter awakens from its gross perspective of the individualised self as the manifestation of the macrocosm within its constructs 
Once this awakening occurs the micro self is no longer a unit of the whole, but rather the whole of the whole manifesting itself as an illusion of the unit
& so the reality that once existed dissipates in to the All that remains ever fluid and mysterious  

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