Dissecting Our Defenses; Gluttony, Compulsions, and Addictions with Paramita Oliveira

Episode 6 Paramita OliveiraDissecting Our Defenses; Gluttony, Compulsions and Addictions In episode two of our study, Paramita Oliveira and I continue on a micro-but-mighty odyssey. The terrain is tracing the ego’s development as a series of solutions and defense mechanisms. We’ll examine the structure of the personality, which was built around a being in development who didn’t have the protection or cognitive capacity to navigate life’s difficulties. We start to recognize these solutions and defenses as being a distortion of our essence. The same way a prism separates white light into the full spectrum, the slings and arrows of this human experience fragment our light. Our fragmentation isn’t moral, its fundamentally human, but it can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves and separate from our power. We will deepen in coming episodes and create a map that will lead us back to our wholeness using what in us is most unconscious and reactive as a doorway.In this episode we explore the outermost layer of the mandala; gluttony. We’ll entertain the possibility that our compulsions and addictions exist to keep us from touching a core of pain that we believe ourselves to be incapable of withstanding. We’ll speak about the connection between what was indigestible to us as children and the need to seek for pleasure outside of ourselves.Paramita Oliviera is a psychologist focused on the study of human behavior.She feels deeply privileged to have encountered self-inquiry and self-study in 1994, and was so touched by what she learned that in 2000 she began to dedicate her life to bringing this study to others. She has given workshops all over the world, while continuing her own personal study of meditation retreats and deeply immersing herself in trainings in India, her second home. She specializes in working with the patterns that prevent us from true transformation by keeping us disconnected from our deepest truth. Instagram: @paramitaoliveiraYouTube: Paramita oliveira Amritakaya अमृतकाय is a non-profit learning platform offering tools and teachings to help us to enter into deeper relationship with ourselves, others, and life itself. Instagram: @amritakayawww.amritakaya.org