Feeding Your Demons
Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
by Tsultrim Allione · first published 2008
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Tsultrim Allione brings an eleventh-century Tibetan woman's practice to the West for the first time with FEEDING YOUR DEMONS, an accessible and effective approach for dealing with negative emotions, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. Allione-one of only a few female Buddhist leaders in this country and comparable in American religious life to Pema Chodron-bridges this ancient Eastern practice with today's Western psyche. She explains that if we fight our demons, they only grow stronger. But if we feed them, nurture them, we can free ourselves from the battle. Through the clearly arti
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…typical amount of time is 30 - 40 minutes. I typically use my breath as a concentration object and go into vipassana, though I have done others. I supplement with the teaching from Tsultrim Allione's _Feeding Your Demons_. If I don't meditate, I can feel my mind subtly destabilizing. It may not be apparent to other people, but it is apparent to me. But beyond that, I've had realized some insights to know that mindfulness…
…leads to the other book I would recommend, since people are interested in healing their neurotic patterns. There is a great book whose technique complements mindfulness meditation: Tsultrim Allione's "Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict". This book distilled out an older practice in a way that combines with gestalt therapy and presented in a way that is much more accessible for people who…
on “Cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice” ↗…is. Do not ask yourself, just be, and connect both to your heart and the pain at the same time. There are many different techniques but they all share these core elements. The one I like the most is "Feeding your demons" by Tsultrim Allione.
on “NightWare helps disrupt nightmares for those with PTSD” ↗If you have that secret smile from your vipassana practice, I want to share another practice that complements it. It is written in a book called, "Feeding Your Demons", authored by Tsultrim Allione. In some ways, this method works well to prepare people for vipassana. Yes, yes, I know, you can always note any experience out; but some people are so habituated to their…
on “Vipassana: 10 days of solitude and insights gained from it” ↗…setting and your intent going in matters. Best if your guide is someone who treats this as a sacred rite. Something else that complements vipassana well is the method described in Tsultrim Allione's Feeding Your Demons.
on “Psilocybin shows success in medical trials” ↗…clearly. You can learn about this through http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html or participating in a Vipassana retreat. There is also the method described by this book: http://www.amazon.com/Feeding-Your-Demons-Resolving-Conflict... There are also carefully conducted entheogen sessions that can help treat this.
on “Anxiety: Nothing to Do but Embrace the Dread” ↗…quite deep even if on the surface it appears to be simple. It starts with this: http://www.imsb.org/teachings/vipassana-practice/ and might wend it's way through something like: http://www.amazon.com/Feeding-Your-Demons-Resolving-Conflict...
on “An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage” ↗…surprising things you can find out just by observing it. Another practice I did for a while to really start examining intense, often unpleasant emotions within myself and others is this: http://www.amazon.com/Feeding-Your-Demons-Resolving-Conflict... At the end of the day, someone's suffering is their own. By "suffering" I am really talking about dukkha, the Sanskrit word better translated as existential anguish. This is something…
on “An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage” ↗…shamanic/tantric methods that lets a particular emotional flow take form into a person which you can then have a conversation with about wants and needs. One in particular, detailed in Tsultrim Allione's _Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict_, goes one step beyond "wants" and the underlying "need", by asking for "how will you feel when you get what you need" (a neat NLP trick, going directly to…
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