let us listen to the soul.
Ursula Ferreira
helping curious people explore their inner worlds.
non-dual perspectives on life, healing, and happiness.
BA BSW RSW SEP
The source of all misery is the belief in duality. By duality, I don’t mean the appearance of multiplicity, I mean the belief that there are two sources from which all things appear, and that these sources can be in opposition to each other.
The distinction between a permanent “me” inside the body vs. a physical world outside is artificial since you know intuitively that everything takes place within, and that the cause for all that happens is also within, rather than external.
Duality is a posture of defensiveness that puts the mind-body organism in constant alert and in need of defending itself or attacking.
Trauma is not a distressing event that happened to you in the past but the incapacity of the organism to integrate the high emotional charge of the experience in the absence of a compassionate witness.
Trauma symptoms are how the belief in duality manifests in the body and the mind. In order to heal it permanently, we must first address the root.
You are the Source. You are not a separate entity.
There is nothing that you lack. Lack is not a reality.
Trauma responses are the survival responses that maintain the lie that you are not what you are already: the consciousness in which all appearances arise. Free. Undisturbed.
When they are identified with, they keep creating the same patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, and consequently the same external circumstances. When they are witnessed in loving detachment, they dissolve.
You are the master of your destiny, and the power to live a beautiful life is in your hands.
Your body is naturally healing and intelligent. There is nothing that you need to do.
It is okay to stop the fight. There has never really been a battle.
“Simply, remain in waiting without waiting. You are the love in everything you love. You are the beauty in everything you behold. You are the intelligence in everything you understand. You are the sweetness in all things.”
Francis Lucille