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The logo for this site is both simplistic in a sense and complicated in
another sense. It is both symbolic of the struggle of those with Borderline
Personality Disorder and indeed, all of us, in the imperfect human condition
within which we find ourselves searching for meaning, peace, purpose, healing.
and indeed, self-discovery followed by self-actualization.
Borderline Personality Disorder is frought with fragmentation, dissociation
and is manifested in behaviour commonly referred to as splitting.
There is a core reality of emotional dysregulation that sees most with BPD
shattered (in the sense of a lack of healthy ego development). Most with BPD
experience life in ways in which others mirror "self" to them. It is this
"cracked view" of reality, relationships, experience generally that leaves
those with BPD responding to the present or the here and now
from an emotional context that belongs to the past.
My sense of this, from my experience, is that many on the outside of BPD
don't understand the souls behind those "cracked eyes" anymore than the souls
behind those "cracked eyes" understand those who do not have BPD.
© A.J. Mahari, December 9, 2003
The shattered eye or eye "puzzle piece" is used on this site to represent not
only the cognitively-distorted view of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) from
the inside out, but, also to represent the often-times inpentrable shattered nature
of those with Borderline Personality, from the outside in. When trying to understand
how someone you know, care about, and/or love, with BPD thinks and feels and acts
and reacts there is a gaping crack or break between the views of those with BPD
and those who are non-borderline.
BPD from the inside out is a very painful experience of varying degrees of shattering of
self, true self, and seeing out and seeing in accurately are put in peril by this personality
disorder the results of which are distorted thinking, loss of self, loss of identity and
severe emotional pain which is the result of invalidation usually coupled with emotional
vulnerability -- a lack of emotional skin.
Borderline Personality Disorder is a dysregulation of emotions, an inability to regulate
emotions. My hope is that this will be re-defined by professionals and more accurately treated
based upon this distinction. Perhaps then we can also do away with the prejorative stereotypical
bias that has come to only add stigma and feelings of hopelessness for those with BPD and those
non-borderlines in their lives.
The Mental Health System needs to address this systemic
prejudice that sees "Borderlines" often labeled and/or assumed to be "untreatable". Nothing
could be further from the truth. However, the system, itself, must stop the re-abusing, and
re-injuring of those with BPD -- it must stop further invalidating those with BPD.
© A.J. Mahari, March 25, 2005
 
Reasonably priced and written by A.J. Mahari
This web site is now (on many pages, not all as of yet)
has a purple theme. The reason I decided to go with purple is because
in the rainbow of life that is colour, purple is representative of
spirit or spirituality and is often also thought of as a colour
denoting healing energy.
Since purple is a combination of blue and red, it's worth
looking at the properties of these colors. Red, traditionally associated
with the second chakra, relates to emotions, particularly passion, and
creativity in the sense an energetic flow. Light blue also relates to
creativity and all forms of communication, and dark blue (another colour
for the sixth chakra) is associated with the inner self, the unconscious,
psychic gifts, and dreams.
Purple has elements of creativity, flow, emotion, and communication.
Perhaps with others, perhaps with nonphysical dimensions. Based on these
factors (and in my own experience) the kind of healing accomplished by
the purple ray is that of mental/emotional release, which leads to a
deeper communion with non-physical aspects of self. Mental and emotional
balance is a key function of the sixth chakra, which relates to the color
purple. (Note: there are a number of chakra systems, and some assign purple
to the seventh chakra.)
Chakras and Colour
Kundalini
Kundalini is a name for the free-flowing energy sustaining
and maintaining every cell and self in creation; the Self in creation.
Kundalini: Energy that sustains efforts of our free will;
aroused for use by holding positive attitudes; used when loving thoughts
take form as caring actions.
Meditation arouses kundalini because when we sit still our automatic bodily
functions find a minimal rhythm, and our mind is energized more fully to dwell
on loving thoughts. Loving thoughts, in turn, generate even more energy.
An important point is that positive attitudes and their subsequent positive
thoughts naturally draw in an increase of kundalini which provides joyful
energy for their offspring of caring actions.
An analogy is a water fall¾the greater the force of water from above, the
more power is generated to be channeled as desired¾to run buildings,
communities, cities.
Kundalini develops more fully our capacity to love by giving us more energy
for caring actions. And, it is in the process of our caring and kind actions
that we come to align with and know God more fully.
Our experience of life multiplies in joy the more we are kind and caring.
As a snow ball expands in breadth by rolling along, we expand in our capacity
to hold and experience joy by rolling harmoniously along through life being
kind and caring.
© Susan Kramer
Kundalini Energy of Creation by Susan Kramer
 The medical symbol, the caduceus is an
icon of the Fire Serpents uncoiled around the spine. The round halo of the crown chakra.
They are a giant helix, like DNA.
Inside every human being there is a network of nerves and sensory organs that
interprets the outside physical world.
Chakras are like the organs of your spiritual/energy body.
Of primary focus are the 7 major chakras that run in a line down the centre of the
body, from crown to tail bone -- rainbow of lights, within.
To experience a high level of vitality, energy and well-being, all seven chakras in
the physical body must be opened and aligned. In our fast-paced stress-out world, it is
all too easy for us to take on the negativity around us and to close down our chakras.
 Kundalini Rising: Mastering Creative Energies by Barbara Condron An outstanding endeavor in the field of Self awareness, Kundalini Rising examines the natural
evolution of individual creativity.
Share the creative thoughts of geniuses such as Einstein,
Shakespeare, and Plato, then enter the realms of revelation as experienced by the world’s
masters of spirituality. Dr. Barbara Condron leads us on an exhilarating investigation of
the greatest creative energy available to man – the kundalini.
Tracing the development of creative energy from the time of Adam and Eve to the present,
Kundalini Rising transports your consciousness far beyond the limits of physical time and
space to the source of your creative power. Move beyond the limits of goal setting and
learn how to recognize the awakening of creative energies in your life. Explore the
nature of kundalini to:
-Transform sleeping consciousness into creative genius
-Control and quicken manifestation of visualized desires.
-Awaken miraculous healing abilities
-Draw upon chakra energies for enhanced mind & brain power
-Reveal the mystical experience of tantra and spiritual rebirth
-Achieve peace through transcendent states of consciousness
As the use of kundalini becomes a part of your daily consciousness, soul evolution is
accelerated and global evolution is enhanced. If you aspire to greater Self awareness
and mastery of your creative energies, Kundalini Rising is unequivocally the most extensive
resource available.
Excerpt from Kundalini Rising
Kundalini Books
 as of September 29, 2003
Last updated March 25, 2005 and is © Borderlinepersonality.ca 2002-2005
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