01/09/2026
Sure, I get it: cathartic release is one step of the journey.
I don’t deny the power of intense emotional and somatic liberation practices but you know what I am sick of?
The ongoing advertisement of retreats with full power imagery of people screaming and loosing it, letting go is such a powerful thing to capture, but it also fuels the ongoing adrenaline addiction most people are stuck in.
Catharsis comes from the Ancient Greek word meaning purification and cleansing — intensity as one step of the journey, but then please let’s move into subtlety ok?
The next step is surely to cultivate a much deeper sensing. Maybe an attunement to life, that might be perceived as boredom, as unexciting for the system. But wow if you achieve this I congratulate you — you finally managed to step out of the intensity our nervous system understands as normality
You with me on this?
Let me know
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