MattKay

After working with people one on one almost daily for the last number of years, and reflecting over my life and watching myself...

Begin Exactly Where You Are. This moment, right now. Thats where you are, so thats what you work with, thats where you begin. Trust this...

"Why Cant I Relax?" Our bodies crave surrender, they crave to just "Be", but as we relax deeply into now the first thing we meet is...

The Misperception About Who You Are. When we go through life we gather experiences, some nice, and some not so nice. Some, lovely, and...

Meeting ourselves. When we meet an experience that we don't like, that we can't control, or that triggers past conditioning in us we can...

What Drives You? Ponder this question, what is orienting your life? What is the fundamental driver of your words, behaviours and actions?...

Addiction - The Dark Carousel Of Humanity. After a talk I gave today, my final one for the year I have been reflecting on the current...

Getting out of the way. So often, if not always we are standing as an opposing force to experience, experiences of sadness, of rage, of...

Protection Vs Connection. We are literally hardwired to seek deeper connection to life, we are hardwired to belong, to love, and to...

Painful Emotions and Experiences as Teachers. Our greatest teachers are often the experiences we don't want. Whether it be the death of a...

Trauma As the Cause of Addiction. As I heard recently Gabor Mate MD state in a talk on the collective trauma summit, he is getting paid...

Why can't I sit still? Why do we find it so difficult to just be still. Its as if the fight flight freeze response gets activated as soon...

Primal/Survival Rage. Hidden within the depths of the belly, is our primal rage. Throughout our lives we have been conditioned to shut...

Trauma - Being Disembodied vs. Emodied. Currently on our planet, it is very rare for someone to live directly from the body's...

Toxic Shame.... Shame is toxic, it is used by parents, by governments, by society, by schools and teachers as a way to control. If we...

Staying with present experience. (Breaking Karmic cycles) If we look directly at our experience, there are two things happening. Firstly...

Resistance. When we resist a feeling/sensation in the body it locks it in place. Our feelings are nothing more than movements of energy....

Spiritual Bypassing. Pretending to be positive, attempting to convince ourselves that our experience is not our experience, attempting to...

Addiction as a symptom. Asking the simple question to someone who suffers from addiction "What does the drink/drug give you?" can give us...

Feelings are not suffering. If we look at how much of our lives are oriented around feeling better, we will see its the driving force...