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What Happens When We Focus Only on the Light and Forget the Shadow

In short, avoiding our shadows stunts our growth toward our highest potential.

The emotional messiness we experience is often the result of emotional avoidance. The more we push away, the more they pile on top of each other.

Staying Human in the Age of AI

Yet I’m aware of the consequences of becoming dependent on AI—just as we’ve become dependent on GPS, smartphones, and Google. We slowly disable our own abilities to memorize, investigate, and problem-solve.

How I Felt When I Journeyed Through a Death Meditation

When his words guided us to visualize our bodies laying still, dying, my mind was on high alert, my emotions triggered, and I felt my body resisting his words and the experience. My mind had anticipated this dreaded moment and I was angry at its arrival, out of sheer fear of what I was going to feel next.

Jeff Carreira 5/12/23 Jeff Carreira 5/12/23

Learning to Flow With the Difficult Changes in Life

Unless you want your life to end exactly the way it is now, a healthy dose of fear of not changing is just as valuable as your fear of changing. And the better you can imagine your life becoming, the more uncomfortable you will be about it not changing.

Jeff Carreira 3/17/23 Jeff Carreira 3/17/23

Who Am I? The Most Important Question to Ask When You Meditate

What we don’t realize is that radical change is possible. We don’t have to be the person we always have been. We can be different, not just the same person with different qualities and characteristics, but a different person.