Using the analogy of walking on a sidewalk that’s 100′ high, John illustrates how difficulty can be an invitation to finding deeper resources and having mastery over your self.
Topic: Pain & Suffering
In this dialogue a questioner asks John about how to heal depression. Recorded at ABC Carpet & Home in New York.
Q: I wanted to talk to you about trauma. John: Trauma or drama? Drama creates trauma. Trauma is the damages of drama. Q: I see myself playing with it, and it starts because of feeling that I can’t feel this feeling. I resist feelings…
John de-mystifies the dark, dead experience of depression and how to be free of it.
Q: I have some pain in my throat, chest and stomach very much of the time. I have been examined medically and nothing was found but I still experience it. Can you say anything about this? John: If it’s not medical, then it’s your…
VOD
April 22, 2016
“The most beautiful thinking, the most beautiful mind, is when love has it.” No need to figure out your patterns Love’s understanding is a natural development Directly in your heart, connected to your being Thinking instead of being takes you out of being Love…
VOD
January 22, 2016
“Instead of watching the truth that you know in your heart, be taken by the cosmic truth that’s just beneath that. It doesn’t offer an understanding. It does offer a sense of context within which your opened humanness sits.” No conclusions, no distractions Be…
Q: I want to get clear about what seems like a demon that repeatedly comes in bringing pain, as if to say, “now you have to look at it.” Are there, perhaps, dark energies? How can I be with them? John: Yes, there are dark energies…
Q: I have insomnia now for four years, and I was wondering if there’s anything that I can do in my daily life to positively contribute to falling asleep, instead of me relating to tension and stress, to see that there’s an opportunity to…
Q: I wanted to ask you about menstruation. During that time of month, or at least the week before, I am in so much pain in my heart. Does that come from my self? John: The different hormones moving in your body are going…
VOD
February 1, 2015
“Depth of feeling and clarity of thought isn’t the same as knowing.” The real value of thinking and feeling Response beyond self-referencing Your hooks are of no consequence Nothing needs to get any better At rest without the use of anything Experiences are like…
VOD
September 14, 2014
“What you realize in coming together as hearts and beings through the physical, is how to move in your whole lives.” Sexual abuse, trauma and physical pain The purity of deeper levels of sexuality Physical communion resets your relationship What to do when anger…
