Musings
This is a figure it out as I go space.
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Will it connect to a blog?
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Add random thoughts to these two?
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It's my first website, let's see where it goes...
Mind or Heart?
August 21, 2024
I was reading a book about ancient Egypt and was reminded that Egyptians would preserve the heart as they felt this was where awareness came from and would get rid of the brain because it was useless in the afterlife. I had read this before, but today it hit differently. Meditation had become something I was practicing, but really struggled to not identify with my head - with thinking. If I lived in ancient Egypt, would this connection with my ”self” be perceived as located in the heart? Is that what their daily experience was like? What would that be like?
Initial thoughts two years ago
August 29, 2024
I found this as a quick journal note. This is fitting to put here because this is where my questioning of professional use of the medical model started. I noticed there were significant gaps in how I was taught to provide help and what was coming naturally when meeting with clients. I had always understood the value of approaches outside the medical model, but was I now moving in that direction?
My thoughts about over-reaching masculine knowledge (head) and a much needed turn to feminine knowledge (heart). I’m becoming frustrated with the evidence based focus of clinical therapy, which focuses so much on the cognitive and can discount intuition. A cultural avoidance/ fear of emotions which has muted the knowledge emotions have. When did this priority of the cognitive take over? Surely humans haven’t always lived like this. Is this where the industrialized focus of society overtook the natural world?
Another?
I have so many, do I keep adding???
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