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What Everyone Should Know About Pain

While I wouldn’t wish pain on anyone, I don’t always think it’s best to make it go away as fast as possible. Sometimes the need to manage pain takes us… Read More

Meditation: Keep it Simple

Of all the things one could do to be healthier and happier, I consider meditation to rank among the top practices on the list. We spend most of our lives… Read More

What’s the Difference Between Dry Needling and Acupuncture?

I am often asked, “What’s the difference between acupuncture and dry needling?” So, I thought I’d answer the question for everyone in our community who might be interested, and offer… Read More

Seven Steps for Managing the Habit of Unhealthy Eating

I love cookies of all kinds. At times my wife or kids have made a batch of cookies and – after they each tried one – I quietly finished off… Read More

How to Be More Alive

Last week I began a series on longevity – the factors that have the biggest impact on our lifespan. I started with what I think is most important – living… Read More

What’s Better than Video Games? Peace, Balance, and Perspective.

One of the things I love about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is its ability to distill complicated problems down to simple ones. If you were to look in a textbook… Read More

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Somehow “dreams” had come to represent crazy or impossible things that would be fun to entertain but are totally unrealistic. Maybe it’s imperfect that we use the same word to mean both “those bizarre stories that happen when we’re sleeping” and “a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal.” Likewise, we have expressions such as in your dreams and keep dreaming that we use to mean that’s never gonna happen. As we grow up almost everyone goes through a process by which we change our expectations about adult life, we revise our estimation of our ability to succeed, and we discover that many of the things we wanted as a child no longer interest us. Thus, it’s easy to convince ourselves that we don’t really have big dreams anymore, that we’re happy to just get by, that we don’t need to rock the boat. But if I asked, “How would you like your circumstances and/or yourself to be different than they are – regardless of whether or not you think it’s possible, reasonable, or appropriate?” how many people would honestly answer, “I have no desire for things to be any different than they are”? Most of us have dreams – the question is whether or not we choose to own them. (Incidentally, I’m not implying that there’s anything wrong with not desiring life to be different. By all means, accept and relish your present reality! And, without resisting the present, feel free to take an active interest in shaping a different future for yourself. This is your creative power.) As I began to challenge my old thinking about dreams, I noticed that lots of people ARE living the lives of their dreams. Then we wrote the Dreambook and I began to witness firsthand, over and over, people clarifying their dreams and making them real. I think the Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective on the capacity to dream offers a useful viewpoint. In this system, dreaming is the job of an aspect of consciousness called the hun. The hun is what’s active when we’re sleeping and it also gives us the ability to dream in the aspirational sense. The hun is said to be able to “wander” outside of the body; that is, it enables us to project ourselves beyond our current reality and envision something else. As you work in your 2022 Dreambook, I encourage you to take some time to engage your hun by projecting yourself into a vivid and detailed daydream of the best life you can imagine. See how long you can stay with it. Do you get uncomfortable? Notice where that discomfort comes from. What’s it about? Is there a part of your mind that protests that it’s too much, that it’s not possible, or that you don’t deserve it? Thank it for its concern and assure it that you don’t need it to blow holes in this dream; it’s safe and non-threatening. It can relax and enjoy this scenario. Even in the midst of these protests, can you stick with the positive feelings this dream reality elicits? Open yourself to the happiness, relief, joy, and peace that go along with the dream. Scan through the various elements and see which ones have the strongest positive charge for you. Imagine you’re exploring a vast palette of possible realities from which you can make selections. Which parts of this dream feel they’d serve your highest good? Which parts feel the most aligned with your Highest Self? Which parts feel the most liberating and peaceful? Then actively claim these elements of your visualization. Transform them from dreams to choices. Imagine yourself stepping into a reality where you embody these qualities. Write your choices down and revisit them frequently. Then make a plan that includes some practical measures you can take toward the actualization of these choices. Even if you don’t know all the necessary steps, just being engaged will put you in touch with resources and avenues that will help you along your way. Finally, if there’s someone you can share these choices with who won’t respond with doubt or criticism, tell them. Say, “Here’s what I’m going to do. . .” Ask them to believe in you and to hold you to the power of your word. If you don’t have a friend that can do that for you, visit the Dragontree Community & Conversations group on Facebook – it’s full of people who are excited to support each other in this way. Be well, Peter [post_title] => Turn Your Dreams into Choices [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => turn-your-dreams-into-choices [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-10-11 20:16:52 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-10-11 20:16:52 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://thedragontree.com/?p=8362 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw [webinar_id] => 0 ) [1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 8933 [post_author] => 3 [post_date] => 2023-01-19 19:24:36 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-01-19 19:24:36 [post_content] => When I first delved into cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as a psychology major, I remember thinking, “This is an evolution for humans.” CBT focuses on examining and challenging one’s thoughts and beliefs, changing related behaviors, and building coping skills and emotional regulation. Of course, there is a long philosophical tradition of examining the nature of human thought and behavior, but the advent of cognitive and behavioral psychology in the past couple centuries infused these concepts into mainstream culture in a profound way. It’s now common for people to talk about their thoughts as something separate from themselves, and to routinely employ behavior modification techniques in all areas of life. I had a mentor in my early 20s who was a big advocate of CBT, and at the time I told her I had been exploring methods for healing the memories of traumatic events. I felt both rebuffed and inspired when she said, “You’re wasting your time. We don’t need to go back and relive our childhood or spend the rest of our life lying on some shrink’s couch analyzing everything that ever happened to us! All that matters is, right now, are you going to be at the mercy of your thoughts and automatic behaviors, or are you going to manage whatever comes up in a conscious, intentional way?” I’ve thought a lot about this in the decades since. My mentor was of the mind that we don’t need to figure out why these painful or dysfunctional patterns keep coming up, we just need to change our response to them, and eventually we’ll transform our psychological makeup in a permanent way. I believe there is real value to this approach, and also . . . sometimes I think we need to go back. When it comes to our healing and growth, here are three good reasons to revisit your past: (1) If you’re constantly managing your response to a recurrent pattern, it might be more efficient to get to the root of the pattern and dismantle it (or at least mitigate it) so that it doesn’t come up much, if at all. Of course, you can also use cognitive and behavioral strategies if it does arise. (2) There is potential for deeper self-awareness, insight, and growth through visiting your past and coming to understand the factors that went into making you who you are. These are opportunities to forgive, correct misunderstandings, reframe our stories, and revise or erase beliefs. While it’s totally possible for many people to be happy without going there, it’s probably not possible to be self-actualized without making peace with your past. There are some caveats. Analyzing your past can be taken to a self-indulgent degree. It can retrigger old trauma. And most common, it can make us feel worse as we work through it (and experience it without resistance, perhaps for the first time) – though this usually gives way to greater freedom. Thus, it’s important to do this work when you’re feeling relatively stable, with a clear sense of why (what you hope to accomplish), and with the tools and/or support to do it in a way that’s likely to turn out well. (3) Finally, some people seek total liberation from our programming, i.e., the ego. Once this urge awakens in us, it often never goes fully back to sleep. If you’re in this boat, you may find value in recapitulation. I read about recapitulation in a Carlos Castaneda book when I was 18 and it seemed unfathomable. Castaneda, a Peruvian anthropologist-turned-apprentice of shamanism, was instructed by his teacher to write down his entire life story, from his very earliest memories, including every person he had ever met. This process, he was told, was necessary to free him from his worldly attachments. It took him years. I remember thinking, “I could never do that.” Since then, I’ve encountered various forms of recapitulation in my other studies of shamanism, and I now feel it’s more doable than I previously believed. Could it take years? Absolutely. But you’ve got time, and it’s not an all-or-nothing proposition. Every time we release some piece of baggage, it’s like dropping a sandbag from a hot air balloon. We’re that much lighter and freer – even if we’re not “done.” As we go through our history, we find countless moments that have a certain weight or charge. They exist in a state of incomplete resolution. Taken together they have a powerful influence on how we show up in the present. They can make us dwell in the past and fear the future. They can cause us to live within a fraction of the spectrum of what’s possible. In short, they limit our freedom. As we loosen our history’s grip on us, we thus loosen the grip of our ego, and we more readily access our true essence and potential. I stumbled upon my own recapitulation process while doing somatic releasing practices. In a nutshell, all our history with a charge – everything that doesn’t sit neutrally in us – can be experienced through the body. There is a physical expression and felt experience to all of it. And in willingly visiting it, experiencing it without resistance, and accepting it, we promote its resolution. If this is unfamiliar territory for you, just try this: Bring up something about your current life or your past that you wish were different. While holding this in mind, expand your awareness to include what you feel in your body. You will perceive a certain unease. As you meet it and even invite it, the unease loosens. (Sometimes this takes a little practice, especially if you’re not accustomed to feeling your feelings. If you’re interested in diving deeper into this process, check out our workbook called Freedom.) When we do this work we inevitably find layers of holding. We release one layer and discover another layer, and so on. In my case, I began to recognize the layers faster than I could process them, so I started writing them down. Hundreds of cords, linking me to my past, pulling on me, distorting my present self. The list grew at the same rate that I crossed things off it. I’m not nearly done, but I feel much lighter. I’m not saying a person can’t show up in a clean and authentic way until they release every conflict or resentment they’ve ever had. What I mean is that a thorough recapitulation facilitates ego liberation – something that’s beyond the scope of CBT and, frankly, not of interest to most people. In my own process, I found that I was sometimes inspired to move my body in certain ways to assist the release of a sticky pattern, which is an integral part of some somatic therapies. Interestingly, it’s also a technique used in shamanic recapitulation. As Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman explain in their book, Awakening to the Spirit World, we can facilitate the “unraveling” of a memory (or the emotional charge attached to it) by spinning. This can also be accomplished by turning the head or twisting the body from side to side, and the authors say they believe this is also why EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) works. They recommend spinning or turning while breathing deep into the memory and its associated emotions, accepting it, and intending to release it. I believe recapitulation also occurs to some extent automatically, especially when we’re ready for it: in dreaming; in meditation, when we are sometimes spontaneously presented with something from the past that needs to be “cleared”; in yoga and exercise; and very often under the influence of entheogenic (psychedelic) substances, especially when used intentionally as medicine. This is why psilocybin mushrooms are rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the most effective therapies for attaining peace at the end of life. I’m curious to hear from readers about your experience with the different approaches I discussed. Have you used CBT, and did it help? Have you dug into your past to heal yourself? What methods did you use, and how did it go? Have you done a large scale recapitulation? What was the outcome? Please share. Be well, Peter [post_title] => Are You Willing to Go All the Way Back? [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => are-you-willing-to-go-all-the-way-back [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-01-19 19:47:15 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-01-19 19:47:15 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://thedragontree.com/?p=8933 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 5 [filter] => raw [webinar_id] => 0 ) [2] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 8864 [post_author] => 3 [post_date] => 2022-11-25 21:46:31 [post_date_gmt] => 2022-11-25 21:46:31 [post_content] => No matter where you are on your journey, the Dragontree candle collection offers an inspiring tool to help light the way. Our new candles are thoughtfully designed and hand-crafted with intention and quality ingredients. We. Love. Candles. As owners of spas and teachers of ritual, we go through a LOT of candles. Think of a big number and multiply it by a zillion – that’s how many candles we burn. A day. There are plenty of things we love about candles, but the central reason we use them is to bring the Fire Element into our space. From the beginning of recorded time, fire has been a powerful symbol and a central part of our lives. Our relationship to it is embedded deep in our collective consciousness. Fire’s light and warmth has long been a source of comfort and safety, and has been used to initiate rituals, to carry prayers, to promote transformation, to celebrate our connection with each other, and to remember and honor the light of awareness that unites us and transcends the mundane. For millennia we tended fires and gazed into flames on a daily basis, which facilitated a gentle meditative state in which we readily let go of our troubles and became realigned. Deprived of that routine, we find ourselves habitually staring at glowing screens instead . . . an inferior replacement that tends to have the opposite effect on us. The moment we light a candle, it shifts our consciousness. It takes us out of the whirlwind and brings us back into the present moment. Every detail of our Dragontree candles was painstakingly considered to ensure they’d be inspiring, supportive, and simply the best candles we’ve ever used. Why they’re so great:

Made with 100% beeswax
Higher melting point so they emit the cleanest, brightest flame
Cleanest burning wax produces no soot or toxic chemicals
Releases negative ions into the air, helps purify and elevate sacred spaces
The dense composition of beeswax burns slower and lasts longer than other candles
Individually hand poured by craftspeople in Cape Cod.
Presented in a luxurious box with gold foil lettering – perfect for gifting
Made with natural essential oils for an aromatherapeutic – but never overpowering or perfumy – experience
Poured in beautiful glass vessels imprinted with an affirmation
Vessels can be reused as an elegant pen holder, vase, or a hundred other uses
Ethically and sustainably created
No dyes, additives, or parabens
3"D x 3.5"H
8 oz.
Up to 50 hours burn time
Made in the USA

Why not paraffin, soy, or palm wax? Paraffin is a byproduct of the petroleum industry, and burning paraffin candles releases toxic compounds into your living space, including known carcinogens. Soy wax comes from soybeans, 96% of which are genetically modified to tolerate application of the pesticide Roundup. We don’t want to contribute to the soy industry and its ecological impacts. Palm wax comes from palm plantations which require massive-scale deforestation, endangering orangutans and other species, and contributing to climate change. Beeswax, in contrast, requires raising millions of healthy bees, which pollinate our crops and are a vital link in the ecosystem. You Are Sacred This elegant and soulful candle comes in a glossy black tumbler that is imprinted with a simple but powerful reminder: You Are Sacred. We know how easy it is for this crazy human ride to make you forget, to make you feel small and powerless. But that’s not who you really are. Remember? You Are Sacred. You are an expression of your Highest Self. You are a conscious creator. You can choose in every moment how to embody this sacredness. Light it daily before meditation, journaling, setting an intention, starting your day, or anytime you need some sacred space to get through a negative experience. The spicy, earthy notes of Cardamon, Vetiver, and Cedarwood mix with the bright, clear scent of Cypress and Pine, and the addition of Amyris highlights the soft woodsy aroma with the slightest hint of sweetness. This custom scent was blended to foster a calm sense of wellbeing and connect you to the sacred spaces found in nature . Our You Are Sacred candle makes a thoughtful gift for loved ones to show them you recognize their scaredness and want to be a part of their challenges, healing, and growth. Be The Light This bright and joyful candle is hand poured into a reflective white glass vessel and speaks to a powerful choice that is always available: “Be The Light” in noble gold lettering. This simple, yet life-changing statement reminds you there is a light within and your job is to let it shine into the world. Just as one candle can be used to light another, your light – pouring through your heart, your smile, your hands, giving purpose to your every task – sparks the light in others. Be The Light means not just shining outward, but also inward. In order to be effective beacons in the world, we must not withhold light from any part of ourselves. Being the light means accepting and integrating all that we are. In a world with plenty of darkness, there is no service greater than being an embodiment of light, uplifting those around you and affirming that lightness is their true nature. The fresh, cleansing fragrance of Sage and Pine blends artfully with soothing notes of Lavender and Vanilla and creates a sensory experience that supports emotional balance, blocks negative energies, and purifies your sacred space. Brighten someone’s day by gifting them this lovely affirmation. It serves as a daily prompt and lets them know that you recognize their light and are warmed and inspired by knowing them. Click here to check out our new candles! [post_title] => We. Love. Candles. 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Maybe it’s imperfect that we use the same word to mean both “those bizarre stories that happen when we’re sleeping” and “a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal.” Likewise, we have expressions such as in your dreams and keep dreaming that we use to mean that’s never gonna happen. As we grow up almost everyone goes through a process by which we change our expectations about adult life, we revise our estimation of our ability to succeed, and we discover that many of the things we wanted as a child no longer interest us. Thus, it’s easy to convince ourselves that we don’t really have big dreams anymore, that we’re happy to just get by, that we don’t need to rock the boat. But if I asked, “How would you like your circumstances and/or yourself to be different than they are – regardless of whether or not you think it’s possible, reasonable, or appropriate?” how many people would honestly answer, “I have no desire for things to be any different than they are”? Most of us have dreams – the question is whether or not we choose to own them. (Incidentally, I’m not implying that there’s anything wrong with not desiring life to be different. By all means, accept and relish your present reality! And, without resisting the present, feel free to take an active interest in shaping a different future for yourself. This is your creative power.) As I began to challenge my old thinking about dreams, I noticed that lots of people ARE living the lives of their dreams. Then we wrote the Dreambook and I began to witness firsthand, over and over, people clarifying their dreams and making them real. I think the Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective on the capacity to dream offers a useful viewpoint. In this system, dreaming is the job of an aspect of consciousness called the hun. The hun is what’s active when we’re sleeping and it also gives us the ability to dream in the aspirational sense. The hun is said to be able to “wander” outside of the body; that is, it enables us to project ourselves beyond our current reality and envision something else. As you work in your 2022 Dreambook, I encourage you to take some time to engage your hun by projecting yourself into a vivid and detailed daydream of the best life you can imagine. See how long you can stay with it. Do you get uncomfortable? Notice where that discomfort comes from. What’s it about? Is there a part of your mind that protests that it’s too much, that it’s not possible, or that you don’t deserve it? Thank it for its concern and assure it that you don’t need it to blow holes in this dream; it’s safe and non-threatening. It can relax and enjoy this scenario. Even in the midst of these protests, can you stick with the positive feelings this dream reality elicits? Open yourself to the happiness, relief, joy, and peace that go along with the dream. Scan through the various elements and see which ones have the strongest positive charge for you. Imagine you’re exploring a vast palette of possible realities from which you can make selections. Which parts of this dream feel they’d serve your highest good? Which parts feel the most aligned with your Highest Self? Which parts feel the most liberating and peaceful? Then actively claim these elements of your visualization. Transform them from dreams to choices. Imagine yourself stepping into a reality where you embody these qualities. Write your choices down and revisit them frequently. Then make a plan that includes some practical measures you can take toward the actualization of these choices. Even if you don’t know all the necessary steps, just being engaged will put you in touch with resources and avenues that will help you along your way. Finally, if there’s someone you can share these choices with who won’t respond with doubt or criticism, tell them. Say, “Here’s what I’m going to do. . .” Ask them to believe in you and to hold you to the power of your word. If you don’t have a friend that can do that for you, visit the Dragontree Community & Conversations group on Facebook – it’s full of people who are excited to support each other in this way. 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