Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next
Sean Wilkinson - Circling, Meditation & Trauma
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Quick takeaways
- Balancing circling with daily life prevents inauthenticity in interactions.
- Letting go of practices and embracing stillness leads to deep trauma healing.
- Trusting innate intelligence allows authentic emotional processing for transformative healing.
Deep dives
The Cross Paradigmatic Approach to Transformation
Exploring transformation from various angles, the conversation delves into a cross-paradigmatic approach. This involves deep exploration of practices like circling, meditation, and trauma work to uncover hidden gems. By integrating different practices, individuals like Shawn Wilkinson have the opportunity to bring back insights from the edges of human consciousness.
Challenges of Integrating Circling and Meditation
Shawn shares insights from his 15-year circling journey, highlighting the need for balance. While circling offers transformative potential, integrating it continuously with daily life can lead to inauthenticity. He emphasizes the importance of understanding circling as a practice with boundaries to prevent its misuse in personal interactions.
Exploring Deeper Levels of Healing
Reflecting on a period of unwellness, Shawn discusses a critical shift in his approach towards healing. By letting go of all practices and embracing stillness, he delved into a deeper level of processing unresolved trauma. This shift led to a profound transformation, including revelations about past experiences and the body's innate ability to heal.
Navigating the Feeling Process in Meditation
Shawn encourages a deep trust in the innate intelligence of the being and distinguishes between emotional processing and the feeling process. By allowing sensations to unfold without interference, individuals can tap into deep-rooted traumas and experiences. This authentic expression facilitates a profound exploration of oneself, leading to transformative healing.
Exploring Inner Trauma and Healing
The podcast delves into the speaker's deep internal journey, highlighting the importance of processing suppressed trauma and allowing natural healing processes. Through meditation and emotional processing, the speaker experiences profound releases, uncovering suppressed emotions and connections to past experiences. The exploration of inner trauma leads to insights about responding to past harm and the profound impact of embracing suppressed feelings.
Significance of Surrendered Leadership and Meditation
The discussion shifts towards the concept of surrendered leadership and its role in meditation and personal growth. Surrendered leadership involves trusting one's own experience and leading from a place of deep trust and authenticity, essential for navigating complex relationships and healing processes. The integration of meditation practices and leadership paradigms emphasizes the importance of inner authority and personal exploration, leading to a deeper connection with oneself and a transformational approach to healing and self-discovery.
Circling Europe co-founder Sean Wilkinson and I explore what it's like to practice across paradigms, the limits and transformational potential of circling, and the interplay between mediation, circling, and trauma work. Sean shares from his experience about the problems with static orientations to practice, subtle grasping to personal growth, and the orientation of trust.
Sean Wilkinson is a Circling Europe co-founder with an enduring passion for self-awareness, human potential, wisdom traditions and an ongoing inquiry into life. His focus includes extensive academic research, spiritual and psychological practice, coaching, and therapeutic training.
[0:02:53] Introducing Sean
[0:06:00] What is at the edge of meditation, circling, and trauma work?
[0:10:00] Discovering the limits of circling
[0:16:55] Exhausting an Orientation to Practice
[0:33:50] Scale Invariance
[0:39:10] Eclecticism to Integration
[0:49:10] The Orientation of Trust
[1:05:10] The Feeling Process
[1:25:20] A short guided meditation
[1:41:20] Metamodernism and the Meta-Crisis (mesa crisis?)
[1:42:42] The Paradigm of Leadership
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