Insight Center Insights for January 2022
AWAKENING Insights
“You think your kind word or act is small.
But it might be someone’s light in the darkness.” ~ @newhappyco
“Reminder for co-dependents:
Healthy relationships are reciprocal
Healthy relationships are reciprocal
Healthy relationships are reciprocal
Healthy relationships are reciprocal
Healthy relationships are reciprocal
Healthy relationships are reciprocal
Healthy relationships are reciprocal” ~ The Insight Center
“Your life is your own. I want you to read that sentence until it sinks all the way down inside your gut and meets every impulse that tells you to put your intuition on pause, to place yourself second, to squeeze and bend and break into the molds of what everyone else wants you to be. Your life is your own. I want it to pass through your head so many times it slowly clears out the debris of your fear. I want you to meditate on it until you realize that you are not too strange, you just have the courage to be your true self; you are not too different, you just have the courage to follow your own heart; you are not unworthy, you are just honest about the very natural, human experience of feeling unworthiness. Every person alive wishes to embody these very same forms of freedom. They are not judging you; they are expressing the parts of themselves they’ve judged into silence. Your life is your own, and it always will be. You must find the courage to claim it, or it will pass by you untouched – a glimmering, lost potential of all that could have been.” ~ @briannawiest
“Less social media = less of other people’s information.” ~ The Insight Center
“Re: manifestation: notice when you manifested and receive it (breath it deeply into your soul.)” ~ The Insight Center
“There may be moments when you feel emotionally cold and dark, when it seems that all the light has gone from your life. But your experience and inner truth are not in sync—the light is always there.” ~
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
“What happens when you get caught up in other peoples’ emotions? You can lose yourself.” ~ The Insight Center
“Intuitive and soulful. Live by these two paradigms. How does it resonate with your intuition? Is it soulful? ~ The Insight Center
“You are the most constant thing in your own life.
Befriend yourself first.
Invest in yourself first.
Become yourself first.
The rest will come together in time.” ~ @briannawiest
“You know who’s going through a lot right now?
Literally everyone.
Just be kind.” ~ @spiritualremedies101
“Codependency recovery tool:
Moderate your involvement.
Maybe give 25% less to this person. Maybe 50% less (giving half of what you feel inclined to give is a nice easy breaking point.) Or - maybe 75%. I think the percentages will change. Check in with yourself to see how healthy/RECIPROCAL the relationship is.” ~ The Insight Center
“Similarly, when our minds act in unison, our frequencies synchronize, generating powerful resonances that amplify our states of awareness in whatever task we are engaged in. Pay attention to what type of vibrations we resonate with, because we will inevitably tune our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to specific frequencies that will synchronize to specific events according to the resonance we propagate. The principle of transformation of our minds and manifestation of events are related to energy, frequency, vibration, resonance and synchronization of thoughts-emotions-behaviors, very similarly to principles of tuning forks and metronomes.” ~ Author Unknown
“Dear past self,
Thanks for everything, but I’m moving on.
It’s not you, it’s me.” ~ @spiritdaughter
“Let go of control and find refuge in the body’s immediate present sensory field. When the mind relaxes its grip, the body models sustained attention. The body leads the way. It’s a great relief for the mind, in fact.” ~ Willa Blythe Baker, “The Body Is Already Mindful”
“It’s so important to be in touch with your own soul for validation and confirmation. Especially when very few people can see you clearly.” ~ Maryam Hasnaa
“Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trudging to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.” ~ Ajahn Chan
“Intuition is not intimidating: When you listen to your intuition, you feel like you are your best self.” ~ @somaticexperiencingint
“To become aware that you are conscious right now is to become aware of that intangible essence of who you are, the gap between two thoughts… And that is the unconditioned consciousness in you. “~ Eckhart Tolle
“Next time you feel agitated because you are falling back into past patterns, remember that simply being aware that you have fallen back into repeating the past is a sign of progress. Self-awareness comes before the great leap forward in your personal transformation.” ~ Yung Pueblo
“The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life’s challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
“A moment of silence for all the things i have to do but am not doing.” ~ @moonbodysoul
“Interdependence is the ongoing recognition that we are not separate from other beings or the world around us. Life is a web of infinite relationships.” ~ Djuna Deveraux
“Choose to be as authentic as possible, and if things work out, you will feel authentically aligned.” ~ The Insight Center
“Re: manifestation: notice when you manifested, and receive it (breath it deeply into your soul.)” ~ The Insight Center
MEDITATION insights
“Meditation is about seeing through one’s presumed identity, one’s identifications, in order to become a truer version of one’s own unique self. “~ Mark Epstein
“How to help manage your emotions:
Monitor the inputs and outputs of your emotions. Who you spend time with? Who you talk to? What you read. Monitor when enough is enough, and when you need more.
Figure out what works for you and what doesn’t. Process. Meditate. Talk to trusted loves. Accept true love.
Figure out what you need. Downtime. Social time. Friends. Family. Books. Writing. Nature. Food. Water. Vacation. Work.
Meditate.” ~ The Insight Center
“Every thought.
Every idea.
Every experience.
Let it in.
Let it out.
Just like the breath.
Naturally.
In and out.
Regular.
And temporary.” ~The Insight Center
JOURNAL EXERCISE Re: Letting go
1. Make a list of 10 things you have easily let go – amazing – right? I loved doing this. For example, one of mine was “perfectionism.”
2. Now make a list of what you could let go of. For example, one of mine was “Pleasing my dad (dead 16 years)” See by perspective, that it is going to be possible to let them go as well. It’s a matter of time, awareness, and attention.
3. I did this exercise fast so that my stream of consciousness information would show up. I have done this with several students and clients, and several did this quickly, and several were thoughtful and reflective. It doesn’t really matter, both offered insightful information. Try it both ways! ~ The Insight Center
HEALING Insights
“Let go more than once. Let go when an old pattern wants to drag you back into the past. Let go when narratives run wild in your mind. Let go every time you try to cause yourself extra trouble there’s healing in repetition. Soon peace will feel familiar. “~ Yung Pueblo
GRIEF Insights
“Each loss takes a piece of us — a piece soft and alive — and leaves in its place something cold and heavy; each subsequent loss becomes the magnet that draws out those old leaden pieces, pulls them out from the reliquary of scar tissue where we have been keeping them in order to live, makes them rip through our being afresh. And yet the shrapnel pieces that surface are smaller and softer-edged than when they first entered through the open wound of raw bereavement, smoothed, and contracted by the ongoingness of life.
In this sense, grief if fractal, each new instance containing within itself a set of self-similar sub-griefs — miniatures of the same emotional structure, rendered smaller in salience by time and tenacity, those twin inevitabilities of aliveness.” ~ Michael Frame
“Five things to say to someone instead of “I am sorry for your loss.”
1. I’m sorry you’re suffering right now, but I’m here with you and willing to help any way I can. Is there anything you need right now?
2. I’m sorry for whatever challenges might lie ahead for you, but I’m here and willing to help. Would it be okay if I call next week just to check in with you?
3. Please accept my deepest condolences. I can’t imagine what you must be going through right now, but I know enough about grief to know that it can be very challenging. Don’t hesitate to call me if there’s anything I can do to help.
4. I’m so sorry to hear about _____. I’m sure you’re going to miss him/her terribly. How are you holding up?
5. I know there’s nothing I can say right now to make things better, but I also know that having someone to talk to at times like this is really important, so don’t hesitate to call me whenever you need to. “~ Elephant Journal
ASTROLOGY insights
“Pluto wants you to go to the depths of discovery. “~ The Insight Center
“under the Full Moon
she felt her magic
her mystery
and her heart
she felt at home.” ~ @spiritdaughter
“Hug your Chiron placement.”
Where Chiron is in your astrology chart represents past life wounding and your ability to heal those wounds. It is a great placement for understanding wounds and fears, and to pay attention to healing.
Sometimes the wounds are lit up and it is very challenging - and you do your work - and you heal.
That’s when you give your Chiron a hug. Actually, hug it whenever you are inclined! ~ The Insight Center
“Where will you feel soft in 2022?
Look for Pisces in your chart. Jupiter is ther pretty much all year.” ~ The Insight Center
“For today fully be your Sun Sign. And pay attention to the people around you, and their Sun Sign. Sometimes the insights are that simple.” ~ The Insight Center