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by Master
• 19 hours, 41 minutes ago
by Lynn Punnett
• 1 day, 10 hours ago
Enmeshment is the schema where we are emotionally fused with another, often a parent, with no separate or fully formed self of our own. Closeness came at the cost of a boundary, so we feel each other's moods as if they were ours, and becoming a distinct person can feel like a betrayal.
Like every schema, it lives as four threads: a memory of closeness that left no room to differ, the guilt or …
by Andrew Fayad
• 6 days, 21 hours ago
I realize that I have been so disturbed by the image my family upholds of being a family and that we love each other, that I fail to acknowledge this is my family and they love.
Probably because the fight against upholding a lie validates my “I”, while acknowledgement does not.
There is a pressure within my family to behave and lie as though we acknowledge each other, when we have not.
My ego will say either they love me, so the harm was not …
by Ashika Morgan
• 1 week ago
by Rajashree
• 1 week, 5 days ago
by Ashika Morgan
• 1 week, 5 days ago
At this point, listening and the ability to understand Master's words, objectives, vission and the love HE is upholding for all of us, is a gift.
Thank you Master, and to all our fellow creators, love the way we are together in …
by Devi Letchmanan
• 1 week, 6 days ago
I am not not enough onto myself.
I am not buying the lie.
by Ashika Morgan
• 1 week, 6 days ago
by Chris Debner
• 2 weeks ago
by Ashika Morgan
• 2 weeks, 1 day ago
by Aisha Gauthier
• 2 weeks, 2 days ago
by Aisha Gauthier
• 2 weeks, 4 days ago
by Patty DelMonaco
• 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Social isolation is the schema where we feel fundamentally different from others and part of no group, alone at the edge of belonging. Not just shy or introverted, but set apart, as though everyone else received a sense of membership we never quite got.
Like every schema, it lives as four threads, not one: a memory of being on the outside or never quite fitting, the loneliness and ache of not belonging, the body's pull to withdraw and watch from …
by Andrew Fayad
• 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Defectiveness is the schema where, somewhere early, we took in the sense that we are flawed, bad, or unlovable at the core. Not that we did something wrong, but that something is wrong with us. So we hide, certain that being truly seen would end in rejection.
Like every schema, it lives as four threads, not one: a memory of criticism or being made to feel not good enough, the shame that braces for the moment of being found out, the body’s …
by Andrew Fayad
• 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Emotional deprivation does not rage or cling. It learns early that care will not arrive, and it goes still. We become low-maintenance. We keep closeness shallow. We carry the ache where no one can see it and call it independence.
It lives as four threads, not one: a memory of care that was cold or absent, a longing that learned to expect nothing, a body that goes still, and the belief that says why ask. The belief is only the top thread. The whole knot is …
by Andrew Fayad
• 3 weeks, 3 days ago
It is never just a belief. It is a weave of four threads: the memory of trust given and then broken, a wariness that never fully stands down, the bracing where the guard goes up first, and the belief that people will hurt or use me. Underneath them is a need that went unmet, safety, and people who could be relied on. The schema grew in its place.
…
by Andrew Fayad
• 3 weeks, 4 days ago
I started repairing my relationship with my father in my early 20s, sometime after attending therapy sessions on my own. Only then I was able to communicate with him my struggles and I was surprised how he was able to meet me in that... he responded with acknowledgement and an apology. Later on, he shared his upbringing and journey with me...and for the first time (in my early 20s), I was able to see …
by Aisha Gauthier
• 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Abandonment is the first of eighteen schemas, the patterns we form in childhood and carry into every close bond. And it is never just a belief. It is a weave of four threads: the memory of love that came and went, the fear that never quite settles, the chest tightening when someone pulls away, and the belief that whoever I love will leave. Underneath them all is a need that went unmet, steady and dependable connection. When that was missing, the fear grew in its …
by Andrew Fayad
• 3 weeks, 5 days ago
A schema is one of the broad patterns we form in childhood and carry into everything after. Not just a belief, but a weave of four threads: a memory, an emotion, a sensation in the body, and the belief on top. Underneath sits a need that once went unmet, and the pattern grew in its place. …
by Andrew Fayad
• 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Thanks it’s awesome!
by Christelle Boil
• 4 weeks ago
It may not be the end of being triggered. The old pull still comes. What changes is the return: we notice sooner, and we choose to stay. Not a finish line, just a shorter way back, again and again.
What did this once …
by Andrew Fayad
• 4 weeks ago
The Healthy Adult is the mode that can hold them all and stay present. Growth is strengthening that one until it leads.
Consider for yourself which mode is in operation, and who is the one that can see it?
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month ago
This is schema-therapy-informed, offered as inquiry, not concluding. A schema is relational: when we go absent, the people closest to us become victims to it. Most often, the move meant to protect us creates the very thing we feared.
Inquiry: How does my schema minus me and the people I love, and what would it look like to stay present instead?
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month ago
The fear is specific to the loop: of being left, of being flawed, of being hurt, of failing. Underneath them all sits the deepest one, that we do not matter as we are.
Schema therapy labels the three reactions surrender, avoidance, and overcompensation.
Surrender: we give in and take less so no one leaves.
Avoidance: we numb and withdraw, hiding whatever might set the loop off.
Overcompensation: we do the opposite, often making another person less so we can feel more.
…
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month ago
Vachika Bhavana was something I first encountered through theory books. Transforming those teachings into Natya became an entirely new and deeply transformative experience. I am immensely grateful to Master Nimal Raj for his guidance throughout this creative journey.
This production is a reflection of my own path—as a child, a teenager, a wife, a mother, and a teacher. Every role I have embraced, every lesson I have held onto, and every moment of meditation has gently revealed a deeper truth …
by Devi Letchmanan
• 1 month ago
This illustrated series connects schema therapy with the June Celebration Month retreat, where we’re learning what it means to come into being. The childhood schema keeps us absent.
Consider, how did our environment and our temperament create and keep us in a schema loop?
As a disclosure, this is something new I’m learning and sharing as I discover these insights. I’m not a therapist or anywhere near a level …
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month ago
Subjugation, self-sacrifice, approval-seeking, negativity, emotional inhibition, unrelenting standards, punitiveness.
Each one has a cost: resentment under the giving, burnout under the standards, distance under the control.
This completes all 18 across the three parts. Old belief, trigger, protective response, an impact that feels like proof.
Inquiry:
What did this once protect?
Wht is it recreating now?
What could I try differently?
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month ago
This is the Disconnection & Rejection cluster: abandonment, mistrust, emotional deprivation, defectiveness, social isolation. 5 of the 18 patterns.
Old belief, trigger, protective response, an impact that feels like “proof.”
These are patterns we learned to survive.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month ago
Dependence, vulnerability to harm, enmeshment, failure, entitlement, insufficient self-control. 6 of the 18 patterns mapped in schema therapy.
The thread through them: the protection shrinks the capability it was trying to protect. Avoid the effort, and we’ll never get to disprove the fear.
Old belief, trigger, protective response, an impact that feels like “proof.” But proof isn’t always the truth.
(Parts 2 and 3 coming.)
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month ago
Schemas are deep patterns of belief, emotion, memory, and body feeling. They shape how you see yourself, other people, and relationships.
They can grow from childhood experiences, repeated patterns, and temperament. What starts early can keep echoing into adult life.
Awareness, compassion, and practice
can create real change.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month ago
Life traps are learned patterns, not fixed identities.
In chapter 2 you can take the assessment to discover your own life traps.
https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Your-Life-Breakthrough-Negative/dp/0452272041
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month ago
As I reflect on acknowledgement, if I go a day alone in my apartment not meeting anyone, that first simple acknowledgement after feels like a huge breath of fresh air. Like a reminder: I exist, another exists, we exist. Something I need to be more conscious of for myself and another.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 1 week ago
The part of us that resists transformation isn’t broken, it’s communicating something to us about readiness. It can show up in four places: the body, the emotions, the mind, the behavior. Each one leaves clues, and underneath all four it’s often protecting the same thing: the self we know.
Forcing past it tends to make resistance stronger.
Acknowledging, giving it space and time it tends to help.
And every time we meet it with compassion, our capacity to be present grows.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 1 week ago
The fund will remain open for anyone who’d still like to contribute, now or in the future.
Thank you to everyone who gave and supported along the way. It’s been amazing to see us come together.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 2 weeks ago
by Master
• 1 month, 2 weeks ago
We may become more honest about what matters. More present. More grateful. More compassionate toward ourselves and others. Not because suffering is beautiful, but because surviving and striving can change the way we move through the world.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Their view might be right for them, everybody might agree with it but it’s their view. It’s one view… it might even be a fact but that’s not all there is.
All Master is asking us to wake up to at this point is to know I’m in this trap. That is the first realisation.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
What am I creating?
What is my meditation?
What am I doing for me?
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
To accept this blindness is the first step; I see but what I see is all I can see and I recognise there is something beyond my sight. If one rejects what is beyond one's sight, one makes one's sight all, and see the trap that creates.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Night owls, brace yourselves.
A new study by Stanford Medicine researchers has found that following your
natural inclination to stay awake until the early morning hours is a bad choice for your mental health.
In a survey of nearly 75,000 adults, researchers compared the participants' preferred sleep timing, known as chronotype, with their actual sleep behavior. They determined that regardless of one's preferred bedtime, everyone benefits from turning in early.
Morning larks and night owls alike tended to have …
by Kiran Sandhu
• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Take one view that you can detect that was
placed on you and that has come to be you and challenge it for yourself.
This exercise is to free yourself from the mind that has been placed on you
by the world.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
If you really observe, people go out and make an active effort to confirm their prejudice, to confirm because it feels safe. This is what I know. What is beyond my known feels like something challenging.
This isolative movement denies the possibility there’s anything more than them, and if at all something more comes into being, they feel attacked, destroyed.
So we first begin by deeply contemplating this, learning this — …
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 4 weeks ago
by Aisha Gauthier
• 2 months ago
Real change is not adding to who we are, but a restructuring of the very lens we see through. And it tends to begin with a disorienting experience, one that no longer fits the life we have built.
From Lesson One of the Living in Transformation Certifcation Course
by Andrew Fayad
• 2 months ago
by Master
• 2 months ago
To embrace what is possible in oneself and for oneself. The way the world has been, it supports you to avoid this, to escape this, and by this, we have ended up as how we are.
The goal is to create enough people around the world that know this science, and has the ability to live in transformation and by that embrace a life in living possibility.
For many of you, this will …
by DV Institute For Higher Learning
• 2 months ago
by Master
• 2 months ago
The invitation is for students to share our responses as comments to Master’s 3 daily questions:
What am I creating?
What is my meditation?
What am I doing for me?
Your responses are inspiring and help us grow our perspective on what it means to live a conscious life 🫶🙏
by Andrew Fayad
• 2 months ago
when one is willing to be naked with this, one sees the real beauty and truth of Life
and the one that is alive in it….then one touches this truth call enlightement, and when this happens, all changes , life is an overflowing truth that one …
by Master
• 2 months ago
Here is a quote from one of the lessons:
"To wake the creator - you must be in a state all is possible" - DV.
by DV Institute For Higher Learning
• 2 months, 1 week ago
When this happens the ego gets the best of them and assumes they’ve arrived .
This assumption of arrival minus and stops once capacity to learn and grow and the moment one minus the ability to learn and grow ,once transformation ability ends .
Whenever one cannot transform sooner or later one moves to darkness
The way to be with the light is to constantly see the need to grow and transform and by that one never …
by Master
• 2 months, 1 week ago
I spent my 20s being really good at being everything I was trained to be... athlete, paralegal, daughter, the "hot girl" on instagram.
But all those started to fade away around 25 when I began meeting the right people.
Nevetheless, I grieved the many versions of myself.
The one rushing to arrive somewhere, for some reason, desperate for the community and female friendships where she can be all of her, beautiful, silly, loving, and more...
And for some odd reason, I tried to cling to her. That version of Aisha was all …
by Aisha Gauthier
• 2 months, 1 week ago
by Andrew Fayad
• 2 months, 1 week ago
by Andrew Fayad
• 2 months, 1 week ago
by Master
• 2 months, 1 week ago
by Master
• 2 months, 2 weeks ago
only the one that is ready and available and is in the right state,can the more or the guru hold one to be more than what is present…this is the effort for the month of celebration…
by Master
• 2 months, 2 weeks ago
by DV Institute For Higher Learning
• 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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by DV Institute For Higher Learning
• 2 months, 4 weeks ago
by Master
• 3 months, 1 week ago
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by DV Institute For Higher Learning
• 3 months, 1 week ago
that wish me to be enslaved
I look upon it as an act
Of an idiot,
that is powerless.
For I recognise only when I give up my power
they have the power over me.
For this I recognise
the helplessness of the other
in this
I hold myself in power
and in the ability that is mine and mine alone to be lived.
Recognising i am the source of me and all that can come to be as me.
For this , this unconscious wish of the other to enslave me
does not …
by Master
• 3 months, 2 weeks ago
by Master
• 3 months, 2 weeks ago
https://thepivotpoint.world/events/conscious-living-series-on-zoom/?communityRef=DVQUN6RM
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by Master
• 7 months, 3 weeks ago
It appears most demands in life are false, created by the world or the other. Is the only real demand of these to learn detachment, to come to our aloneness— our real self?
Seems like we go from living in the mind with the false self using others to mirror, to the gap with real self mirroring the more.
When we’ve learned to detach and what’s …
by Master
• 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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• 8 months ago
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• 8 months ago
What we like to see is that , all participate and give inputs so this can be a real platform for all to have a space to learn to explore and share and to play a role in building a community that wants to uphold this effort.
by Master
• 8 months ago
