Your Stars Within

Artwork By: Pieter Weltevrede The phrase “compassion fatigue” is a commonly used term to express the burn out many helping professionals experience at some point in their career. However, it’s really a misleading term from the Chakra Psychology perspective as the answer is embedded within this common phrase. There is a huge difference between compassion and empathy, and what most people are experiencing would be more aptly termed “empathy fatigue”. Empathy is a function of th

How Identity Causes Separation and Suffering The confusion of identity is a primary source of human suffering. We seek different identities throughout our lives, always seeking to define ourselves, as if we could rest when we find just the right names to give ourselves. Why do we care to identify so much? Why is this such a core facet of human beings and what are its consequences? Our confusion is not just that we identify with incorrect attributes, it is that we identify wit

Sympathy and empathy are quite different from the state of loving compassion. In sympathy, we are often feeling bad for the other, seeing their struggle and not accounting for their strength and their ability to overcome. This is the beginning stage of caring for others and understanding their experience. In sympathy, we’re somewhat pitying the person in their struggle, maybe even grateful we are not in that struggle ourselves and feeling a sense of unfairness at their plight

Often, psychology as a field, gets bogged down in its focus on the sickness in human beings. In its attempt to help heal the world, it has created model after model of human understanding that accounts more for our dysfunction than for our potential. The myopic view of human sickness has led to the expectation of a healthy baseline as simply not suffering with extreme symptoms. Yet, humans are wandering, looking for something more, something that will truly fulfil them. As we

Yoga, Mindfulness, Psychedelics, Transcendental Meditation and many other alternative modalities have entered the scene in a way that hasn’t been seen since the sixties. Many of our clients are participating in practices aimed to change or raise consciousness. I am not suggesting we offer anything we are not specifically trained in, however, our client’s engagement in such practices create the need for a language and systematic understanding of these states of mind. This can

Our concept of intelligence (IQ) is severely limited, it essentially values logic above all else. Logic has its place and it’s use; it is the understanding of how the materials of the 3D world function. From a chakra perspective, logic is a third chakra mentation- way of using the mind. It is focused on understanding the physical world, such that we can impact it- to force our will upon it. It allows us to understand causal relationships and thus act according to the results