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A Light Manor Hypnotherapy Reflection The Karmically Perfect Way to Eat and Consume A Light Manor Hypnotherapy Reflection Most of us struggle with eating in one way or another — overconsumption, emotional eating, avoidance, or simply feeling disconnected from our bodies. Mindful consumption isn’t about dieting or discipline. It’s about understanding the mechanics of karma and the Buddhist approach to eating: consuming in a way that increases clarity rather than craving. Below

This morning, I joined the Sangha for the first time. A simple guided meditation — Plum Village style — opened a door I didn’t expect. The teacher invited us to free the feeling of holding formations back , to welcome them to continue but without seeking and without identifying . It was one of those moments when practice becomes real  —not philosophy, not effort, but direct experience of the mind as it is. What Are Mental Formations in Plum Village Practice? In Plum Village l

We often imagine the “self” as something deep inside — a core, a center, a solid identity we must discover or protect. But in meditation, something remarkable becomes visible: The self doesn’t live at the center at all. It lives at the edges  — wherever craving defends or pursues something. Whatever craving wants, we call me . Whatever craving rejects, we call not me . The self is not a stable essence. It is a border drawn by longing, fear, and preference. And every time we

There is a moment each morning that most of us miss—a quiet doorway between sleep and waking where a new consciousness forms. Today, during my morning meditation and qigong, I had an insight so clear and experiential that it deserves to be shared. As I woke, I noticed something subtle: The consciousness that rose this morning was not the same consciousness that fell asleep last night. It wasn’t just a shift in mood or energy. It was a different being  awakening, a fresh const

How Morning Craving Programs the Mind — and How We Unwound It Most people think their habits are made during the day. I’ve learned, through years of hypnotherapy work, that habits are actually created in the first 8–45 seconds after waking . That first moment is the doorway. One of my clients — we’ll call him “G.” — came to me with a pattern that might feel deeply familiar: “I wake up and immediately start feeding. I don’t even choose it. It just takes over.” At first glance

The monk who trained me would sometimes draw in the air as he spoke, as if painting invisible strings that shimmered before my eyes.“Everything,” he said, “is on a karmic journey. You are not one journey but many intersecting.” He would trace the lines between them — body, mind, world — like constellations that only the quiet-hearted can see. The Streams That Flow Through Us The body, he said, began as a single cell that learned to breathe, to feed, to adapt. It has wandered

The Ghost Within In Buddhist teaching, the hungry ghost  — preta  — is a being trapped in endless craving. Its mouth is tiny, its stomach vast, and nothing it consumes ever satisfies. But this image is not about some far-off realm; it is a mirror for the mind that has lost its center. Whenever we are ruled by wanting — more comfort, more attention, more escape — we are walking in the hungry-ghost world . The ghost hungers not only for food or pleasure, but for the feeling of

The Buddha’s Vision of Reality In the quiet of his awakening, the Buddha saw that all things — the body, the mind, even the mountains and stars — are without self . What we call a “self” or an “object” is not an independent thing but a collection of conditions : arising, changing, and dissolving in endless flow. This insight is called anattā , the principle of non-self . It means that in the deepest truth, there is no “me,” no “you,” and no “thing” that stands alone. Everyth

A reflection on the Buddha’s correct perspective There was a time I wondered if the Buddha had gone too far. When he spoke of the “self” as illusion, I thought perhaps he missed something—that we were not the individual leaf on the tree, as he described, but the whole tree , the great Self, the All of All. But then a voice within asked: “If you are the Self… who recognizes that? If you are the All… who is there to know  this?” And like that, the illusion shattered again. Beca

Seeing Through the “Watcher” and Finding Peace in Pure Awareness (Inspired by Buddhist teachings on non-self — notably the Bāhiya Sutta and the Anatta-lakkhaṇa Sutta — and re-interpreted through the lens of hypnotherapy and mindful healing.) 1. The One Who Watches Close your eyes for a moment. Notice your breath. And quietly ask yourself: Who is noticing this breath? At first, it feels as if someone is sitting inside, watching — an inner witness. But if you look more closely,

A vow of simplicity, awareness, and gentle strength I. Intention I walk the path of awakening — not of religion, but of realization. I seek not to become something more, but to remember what I already am: a field of calm awareness expressing itself through this body, this breath, this life. II. Simplicity I choose a simple life. I eat before noon and take only what sustains health —not one bite less and not one bite more. I dress plainly, rest lightly, and keep few possession

We often imagine enlightenment as an escape from the world — but what the Buddha discovered was not escape. It was understanding. When he awakened beneath the Bodhi tree, he saw that all things arise and pass away through Dependent Origination  — the chain of cause and effect that weaves together every thought, emotion, and circumstance. “When this is, that is. When this ceases, that ceases.” He saw that everything we experience — from pain to peace — is the result of conditi

In the Buddha’s teaching, the idea of rebirth was never only about what happens after death — it was also about what happens from moment to moment.  Each instant of consciousness, the Buddha said, arises from the causes and conditions that came before it. In this way, we are continually being reborn  — not as new people in distant lifetimes, but as new states of being right now. One moment, we are calm and clear, living in a heavenly realm. The next, we are angry or afraid, l

We are emotional beings in constant motion — waves of thought, feeling, and reaction arising and fading in endless patterns. The Buddha described this as dependent origination  — the principle that all things arise in dependence upon causes and conditions. Our emotions, too, are not self-created. They are the natural result of our resonance — the energetic field formed by our beliefs, memories, and current state of consciousness. When our beliefs are narrow or fearful, our th

How Consciousness Creates Experience — and How Awareness Frees Itself By The Dancing Buddha at Light Manor Hypnotherapy The Buddha described twelve interdependent links that explain how suffering and rebirth arise in every moment. They are not separate events but movements of a single process—like twelve currents in one river. When seen in stillness, each link becomes not a prison, but a point of awakening. Understanding this process is the key to ending the trance of addicti

by The Dancing Buddha at Light Manor Hypnotherapy Introduction: Feeding on the Drama Look around and you will see it everywhere. Violence on the screen, conflict in conversation, the endless appetite for outrage and spectacle. We call it entertainment, yet the Buddha would have seen it as something else entirely—a kind of consumption. What we take in through the eyes and ears is not so different from what we take in through the mouth. It feeds the mind just as food feeds the

Why humanity fears the silence it longs for — and how returning to stillness becomes our greatest act of healing. The Moment We Saw Ourselves There was a moment in the deep story of our species when something extraordinary happened. A being — perhaps simple, curious, innocent — looked at its reflection or its dying kin and suddenly knew: I exist… and I will end. Before that instant, awareness flowed freely through nature. Every creature moved, ate, and mated in harmony with l

How the world’s tensions reflect our shared evolution — and how gentleness, awareness, and readiness can help humanity heal. By The...

The Story It was a clear morning in the monastery garden. The air was cool, the kind that holds both the sharpness of dawn and the...