Architecture of Meaning
Cultivating Meaningful Engagement for the Highly Sensitive Person

Recent Reflections

Discomfort in Our Environment as an Invitation

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Incongruity in your environment is an invitation to greater inner alignment. When you are suffering from:

~the inability to feel belonging
~discomfort and disorientation in your living environment
~disappointment in your newly built, purchased or remodeled home
~failure to adjust to major life transitions
~chronic disorganization

you are in the midst of an opportunity to deepen your connection to your values and needs.

What we choose as our environment and what we express in our environment can be metaphors for our inner landscapes. The nonverbal holds the key to that which is beyond our mental understanding, that which is wanting to be expressed. If we are not artists, there are few places in our daily lives where we have access to that which exists below our conscious awareness. Our relationship to our physical environment is one of the places we are able to have a kind of interchange with deeper realms of experience.

The Dislocation of Relocation

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

When you are relocating, the challenges and disruptions you face are often unexpected and disorienting. Even when you choose a move, you can find the ensuing adjustment to a new home and new community to be demanding and jarring in ways you had not anticipated.

…Leaving a place you love and people you love does not mean you do not care about what you are leaving. Just because a move is right or necessary, does not mean it will be easy or that people will support you in your decision. Often, a relocation is a huge process of clearing old patterns and adjusting to new paradigms or energetics of a place, a community and the physical environment. Making these changes can exert huge demands on your energy field and your body.

Unearthing the Roots of Depression

Friday, September 5th, 2008

It is rare to find a book on depression that touches upon the causal elements and dynamics of the depression itself. It is as if the writer - still suffering under the veil of depression’s shadow - is writing from within the condition. Unfortunately, by the very nature of depression, if you are in it - you can only write about what it is like - you can not write about what it is.

Depression is like a fever or a hallucinatory state. It prevents one from:

~seeing clearly
~accessing the core self
~being proactive
~freedom from disempowering influences.

We use terms like - being in a fog, or the light being dim because depression is very much a condition where the individual’s own energetic self is compromised. In my personal and professional work I would say that I have never encountered a depression that did not have spiritual, emotional and energetic dimensions to it.

David Wroblewski & Edgar Sawtelle: A Sensitive Writes About a Gifted Sensitive

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

…Wroblewski’s work reminds all sensitives that their ability to attend to what is unusual and easily missed by others is a gift to be shared. Wroblewski has dedicated himself to sensitive attendance to language and to the realms of awareness that remain invisible to most. His devotion to, and trust in his own perceptions allows him to bring us a world so rich and memorable that our lives are forever enhanced by the memory of what he shares with us.

Unusual and gifted, words that Wroblewski treats tenderly. He has written a love story about the qualities that many gifted and sensitive people make take a life time to treasure in themselves.

Anything but Depression …

Monday, September 1st, 2008

In a creative life, where one commits to transformation, there will be times when the lack of focus and the absence of energy are signs of evolution, not depression.

In a culture that values action, planning, product and proof of value, anything in your behavior that strays from being:

~goal oriented
~future oriented
~product oriented
~positive in emotion
~clear in focus
~enthusiastic in engagement

runs the risk of being labeled as depression.

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