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the heart of yoga is intimacy: body, breath and relationship in that order 🌬️ “& therefore as a stranger give it welcome” Blake devotee 🌻

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rosalind lucy
2 years
The yoga i feel so lucky to practice & share is a practice of intimacy with All, of making love with life…the union of opposites revealing the source of opposites It comes via Krishnamacharya, grandfather of modern yoga, but “waterblasted” of religious seeking by UG Krishnamurti
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1 year
My friend in Berlin was telling about the phenomenon where young people who are like the stand out weird person of their small town move to berlin and have a complete personality crisis/meltdown because nobody a) notices them at all or b) cares
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6 months
This one landed HARD when i first read it
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1 year
You can definitely change how attractive you are. I’ve seen people transform before my eyes in a matter of days from sexless drudge to vital siren. A combo of relaxation, release, joy, less worry, less facial tension, more pleasure in being.
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1 year
There’s definitely some form of european-christian ancestral trauma that lives in the pelvis and obstructs ability to dance
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10 months
Many people i know who took a toxic turn for the worse in their life did it sort of ironically at first, as a little joke
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1 year
A young friend expressed his feeling of social anxiety honestly in a yoga gathering. I just had time to lean in to warn him in a whisper: “after this, several people will come up to you and act strangely”. “How did you know that would happen?” he said to me later.
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5 months
Damn it , once again reminded that the apparent feeling of being unloved is actually the action of not loving
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1 year
Because he had expressed something that many feel but few admit, and because he is young, some rushed to ‘advise’ him… they were rushing to push away their own anxieties, to pack what he had said back into the box
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6 months
Worst realisations (ie least welcome) i’ve had over the years: - no one is coming to save me, nobody can - there are potentially no limits to how bad i can make myself feel and if i choose that noone will be able to stop me - people who love me are capable of being happy even
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8 months
So i have a friend who is ACTUALLY love and light, she is the joyful state all the spiritual bypassers try to fake, and people project soooo much bullshit onto her
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rosalind lucy
10 months
I know its annoying but people dont change from “feedback” they change (shed patterns) by being sincerely loved
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1 year
relationship: where you just grab an essentially random person and start bullying them for not being able to love you better
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4 months
Amazingly enough i stopped being insane and “co-dependent” once i stopped choosing to be with someone who was constantly rejecting me out of fear of intimacy
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rosalind lucy
8 months
In your twenties you get a free ride because your mind hasnt significantly impacted your face yet After that its there for all to see
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rosalind lucy
8 months
There’s a type of friendliness that gets directly in the way of actual loving friendships
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2 years
My most beautiful female friend: “i can only hang around beautiful women or women who think they are beautiful, same thing, the others resent me too much and are mean” Sounds arrogant but ive seen it in action and its true
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1 year
Yes you COULD take a crowbar to your nervous system (extreme breathwork, psychedelics, etc) to prise open the things we protect ourselves from… but there are gentler ways that dont risk completely losing our minds
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2 years
When did bikini bottoms stop covering the ass. Its so funny, all these people on the beach with 95% of their bare ass on display, but youre not meant to look at it too hard , and everyone is pretending they are still clothed, and would totally freak out at an actual naked person
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5 months
How to get your time back - stress less (it doesnt matter so much) - bathe less (its the stress that smells) - work less (for most) - eat less (for most, some eat more) - spend less (its 90% useless crap) - groom less (its neurotic) - care less (just say no) - vegetate less (shed
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10 months
You have no time because you have to do “fun” & “entertaining” things all the time because you have been dissociated from the first & simplest pleasure, that of feeling at home in this world & intimate with everything. Clarify that & the need to cheer oneself up all the time goes
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6 months
Hear me out - what if “my husband doesnt do his share of the cleaning” is because the cleanliness standard is a little bit neurotic, pointless, time consuming and unnecessary? I propose that a nonzero portion of cleaning is done as OCD or an avoidant hobby
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10 months
Resist the Professionalisation of Everything Write as if to your beloveds Serve food as if to your beloveds Speak as if to your beloveds Email as if to your beloveds Cold-call as if to your beloveds Advertise as if to your beloveds Admire as if with your beloveds
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rosalind lucy
2 years
Imagine you are a deity. A human contacts you, apparently loving you. They place flowers at your feet. Then they ask how to get enlightened. You realise they dont love you at all and only want to use you as a means to an end. You feel sad.
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9 months
I mistrust anyone who believes themselves to be a wholly good person
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rosalind lucy
2 years
People with poor boundaries are a total pain in the ass to do anything with, because they will do stuff they don’t want to do and then resent you for it 🙄
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rosalind lucy
1 year
Here’s what i would recommend to do with an unlimited budget to create a real, beautiful, happy life: 1. An insane amount of massage - daily? 2. Pay someone to help you declutter 3. Move somewhere quite warm with clean air and rain, and not mouldy
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rosalind lucy
3 years
I used to pretty much always drive away from my parents’ house weeping with rage, frustration, disappointment, lonliness, repression or some combination of the above. In case this resembles anyone else’s situation, here are some things that changed this to mostly harmony
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rosalind lucy
3 years
If you want to be ungovernable, you have to be okay with people having hurt feelings & blaming you for them —because consciously or unconsciously we use feelings to govern each other
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7 months
I cannot prove it empirically, but i find it usefully empowering to look through the lens of “i chose this family. I chose these things i wanted to learn. I chose these difficulties, to clarify these things. This is the deal, i embrace it.”
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1 year
“Chaotic, compulsive thinking is not a design flaw in the human system that we must medicate or meditate our distance from. It is the intelligence of the body-mind letting us know that our mind has become dissociated from its source, and needs to participate in what is actually
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1 year
How has socially abandoning anyone with slightly questionable thoughts been going in terms of actually helping people become more loving and connected
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rosalind lucy
5 months
It is a human birthright to learn how to turn off the powerful, useful tool that is analytical mind
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2 years
They made us ask PERMISSION to go the TOILET and this is the kind of thing that has shaped our minds
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2 years
Holy moly industrialised rich country middle class norm is so so so insanely luxurious . This must be like the last days of rome, how can we possibly continue with supermarkets and heated blankets and coconut yoghurt and bamboo silk rugs and excess novels and free libraries and
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8 months
Almost everyone is in a state of helpless vulnerability like a naked baby lying by a freeway , because their discernment is not working. To get discernemnet working, you have to: - stop lying to yourself - feel all the things you dont want to feel - admit all uncomfortable
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2 years
Thinking that youre worse than others is a more socially acceptable form of ego than thinking you are better, because it doesnt threaten people, but its exactly the same deluded mechanism and im ready to treat em just the same in my mind
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rosalind lucy
2 years
How much of “i love learning” was “i love knowing more than other people?”
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rosalind lucy
10 months
Why does everyone need to be sexy for halloween… is it that Sex is actually the most scary thing?
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2 years
Being satisfied with things ”as they are” is a magic spell that reveals things to be more than they appear
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10 months
One effect of a desensitizing, automatifying world, is we end up concentrating attraction on physical visual appearance. But attraction has so many more facets in a feeling body: how someone moves, the timbre of their voice, the mood of being near them, the smell of them, their
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2 years
Sadly, it turns out a kinder world doesn’t come about through pressuring other people into pretending they are nicer than they actually are
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1 year
@eatingmehole Hmm. Like a person saying a mix of “oh X that was great what you said, youre doing so well, youre amazing, have you tried hakomi therapy, i used to be like that” Condescension, unconsciously establishing themselves as someone who doesnt have the issue raised, not vulnerability
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3 years
This line had the same curious permanent effect on me after reading it, 17 years ago
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2 years
Small talk is fine because people themselves are not at all small, & while we bathe in their presence we make these little cute irrelevant noises about each other like piglets grunting Only when we’re numb to presence do we demand “depth experiences” from others through language
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2 years
I wonder how come everyone wants harsh truths about themselves and noone wants beautiful truths about themselves
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2 years
Im looking forward to when experience-collecting (“oh yeah we did the waterfall, oh yeah we did the mudslide on friday”) is recognised as consumerism just as much as purchasing items
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8 months
The great dilemma for so many of us to break free from, it seems: our parents CANNOT love the way we want them to. No amount of coercion, pleading, sulking, coaching, guilting, yelling, avoiding, serious talks or bribing will make capacity to love where it is lacking. THEY CANT
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10 months
The conventionally best-looking man i know keeps getting his heart broken because women are drawn to fling themselves at him who don’t actually love him or care about him (yes he is figuring out how to discern this)
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do really good looking people ever know for sure if someone's with them because they really love them or it's just because of their looks? or it doesn't even matter?
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10 months
If you only allow yourself to get out of things that are wrong for you by being sick, you’re training your body to be sick as the only way to get out of things that are wrong for you
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2 years
Not that interested in environmental strategies that a dead person can do better than me. “Reduce footprint”? “Cut emissions” dead people are winning at these I am interested the unique tasks of the living, that only we can do
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1 year
Sex is an act of giving, with the whole body / heart, a communication of love. In its degraded form, it becomes and act of taking, trying to get a feeling from another person’s body.
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10 months
You can tell if someone has authentically mostly finished with their own suffering, because they will spontaneously start being useful to others with theirs. Most people have just stuffed it in a cupboard however its quite obvious.
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5 months
Big talk
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10 months
Saying “i love you today but i dont know how i’ll feel tomorrow” isnt transcendent spiritual wisdom free of all bondage, its avoidance and will bring out the worst in your beloved, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy
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1 year
Planning to live like this, ask me how its going in 5 years
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3 years
Im sad watching a friend break up with her partner & seeing all the usual patterns. It didnt have to be like this. The usual relationship is just vampiring off each other & calling it “needs” until one person cant take it Love fails not when i am unloved but when i fail to love
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2 years
The “meet my needs” vision of relationship makes my skin crawl
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2 years
Hello to everyone who is doing their best to love their parents and be grateful to them for being alive despite them being unaware of the permanent psychic damage they inflicted through their own emotional deprivation and the chains of karmic patterns known as ancestral lineage
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1 year
Adulthood to me feels like no longer demanding parents to have been emotional paragons and instead loving them in gratitude for giving me a body, a lineage, an education, feeding me and not leaving me in the gutter “They should have done X better” is an unnecessary extra concept
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2 years
I thought it was bad that the therapists couldnt talk like a real person, but even worse, now the real people have started talking like therapists?? Its demonic because its not REAL, its a patterned language of faux tolerance “im here for you” without real love or humour
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2 years
My aunt on growing up in the 50s: “We didnt have emotions back then”
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1 year
“Let me interrupt you. We havent been in touch for a while & its okay. Youre calling to get something & thats okay too. We are inherently connected. Im not mad at you for not being in touch. You dont have to pretend to be interested in my life right now before asking the favour”
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I cannot overstate how deeply it is programmed in* to the female psyche to want to be “hot” I would have traded everything and anything for it Seemed like ultimate source of power Because male attention was assumed as ultimate source of power - even internalised Because male was
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3 years
I’ve met several guys who feel they ought to be teachers, because they’re just so overflowing with spiritual insight and experience, but they are fundamentally disinterested in, if not scornful of, the lives of others (except as an audience or person to help). It’s an archetype
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1 year
Special genre of man who has committed his life to supporting a covert narcissistic woman and feels sad that everyone is so mean to her all the time
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3 years
Today i send apologies to every person whom i encouraged or even dated without actually feeling mutual love/lust, just because i was insecure & feeding off their admiration. Accidental cruelty. Sorting ourselves out is not selfish.
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11 months
Im promising you, the feeling of intimacy moves the lifeforce like no willful thought, pharmaceutical intervention, or external stimulation could ever
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5 months
Youre ignoring the achievements of growing skin, hair, of having a liver, of growing from a single cell, the miracle that is your eardrums, youre ignoring the achievement that is oxygen transfer and mitochondria, the heartbeat, the flush of hormones at the sight of beauty
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1 year
I sat down with a sweet guy who had been doing ayuascua in Peru 300 ceremonies, now in Bali deeply dissociated into advaita vedanta. Practicing hours a day. Seeking makes people DEADLY serious. What's the point of believing yourself enlightened when you cannot relate to others?
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Me at 24 with my friend Tim… people used to say we fought like married siblings. He was a total genius and the oldest of five boys and lived next door to my hippy flat. I would barrel in to the chaotic family, wake him up, thrust breakfast in his face, throw his wetsuit at him
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The test for meditators: can the sexual current flow comfortably in your body, witthout haste, without urgency, without thrashing around, without the need for urgent tension-release orgasm… can you enjoy being full of desire when ‘nothing happens’, can you walk away mid-embrace—
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2 years
Here’s what happens when you have a child to cheer yourself up and give your life meaning: the child’s nervous system is massively burdened with the sense of being responsible for an adult when it should be the other way round. They learn to adapt themselves to the parents needs,
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2 years
Is it possible that not everyone feels like they have to spend their life doing something intensely meaningful and sincere? Or is it a hidden universal urge
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10 months
Some v painful yet common beliefs i see over and over: - this is my fault - there is something wrong with me - this will never change - i cannot change - i’m damaged - other people don’t like me - this situation is not fixable
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1 year
When i hear normal people talking, they are so jolly and yet SO afraid of each other
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2 years
Imagine a spirituality free from “if i’m a good child mummy will reward me” syndrome
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8 months
Its like the kind of friendliness that cannot bear uncomforable feelings in self or other
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7 months
When man can love woman as much as he loves his own imaginary spiritual progress, then the world will know peace
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2 years
What scares me about normal people is that they seem to believe that being normal is a moral responsibility, and they will gang up on you given half a chance in that shared belief
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2 years
@VividVoid_ My contrarian take having studied illustration for 4 years is that the AI stuff isnt art, but that the vast majority of what gets called art isnt art either, so it doesnt matter. What gives real art power to me is the communication of the perception of the artist, not aesthetics
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2 years
Its a privilege to be around someone who is grieving. In their rawness they stand close to a door between worlds, a realness, a sharpening of what matters.
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10 months
Every judgy person is judging the shit out of themselves first and foremost
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1 year
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff & grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and
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Yogananda’s guru on astrology:
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It doesnt matter in the end how perfect your parents and their attentions were, we all suffer the painful misunderstanding of embodied birth: that i am this physical thing, vulnerable, alone, abandoned by nurturing connection, bound for death. Our independence is interpreted as
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1 year
Only problem is once i found out this was possible for myself its hard to see the second order effects OF being stressed or worried - my attractiveness massively changes - so its still not safe to base self esteem on this or it will be missing just when we need it most
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2 years
Has acting out a version of themselves for public consumption done something strange to people’s minds?
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10 months
You cant just bully your mind and body into gratitude… gratitude comes naturally when our full feeling capacity starts being restored so we can actually FEEL the sunlight, the wind, the murmour of trees, the state of an animal, the quality of life
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2 years
Have you considered how “only able to feel attraction to socially sexy physical appearance” is going to affect intimacy in relationship as we age together…?
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rosalind lucy
2 years
The thing with spiritual seekers is they hardly ever become spiritual finders. Just seek seek seek seek seek and die. What a waste of a life
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2 years
I just met a beautiful, upright, intelligent youngish man whose dignity was continually undermined by the need to clarify how nothing was his fault, and i felt such sympathy, because i do this too, and its often an adaption to angry parents/adults
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1 year
I understand that people notice their mind is insane and want to relief from it. But I'm begging you to go down into the body, into life, into relationships, into the heart, into the wound and heal it... not up and out. Please!
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When i emotionally collapse in the face of someone’s reasonable anger, i am depriving them of their moment of just expressing that emotion, not receiving them, and thereby preventing their anger ripening naturally into grief & compassion
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2 years
Hello from this side of the “Earth”
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2 years
“I want to live on a commune with other like-minded people” = my friendships always dissolve because of the unresolved dysfunctional relational patterns i bring to them, so i would like some friends “on tap” who are trapped there with me and wont abandon me like all the others
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1 year
@geometricnatura Yeah i think a personality crisis can also be a good thing !
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1 year
Not a seeker any more 🌿 forget it, enjoy your life. Theres nowhere to get to amd nothing to be liberated from. Unity is already the form of reality. We can relax
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1 year
Yes you can go to a beautiful yin yoga class or a sound bath or a forest bath or a massage or a healing session and sooth the nervous system, and its needed and valuable. But i am interested in WHY our body-mind resets into stress by default. What is frightening it?
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3 years
What has helped is acknowledging that it IS like that. That is how it is. And it is not in my power to fix that. It is not my job to change the emotional state or maturity of my parents. It is my job to love them as they are, two people who gave me form and kept it alive.
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I found that most of my grief & anger driving away was toward myself—that i hadnt made it work, hadnt achieved depth or intimacy or cathartic release. Life is better without these ideals Someone said “people can only meet you as deeply as they have met themselves” & its true
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