
Audio Introduction
Hello and welcome to “becoming a refugee in the time of covid.” my name is guy duperreault.

Today I am reading from a 2023 essay that I edited significantly in the last week. It looks at our words as spells. And as such demands careful expression, mindfulness at the most profound yogic level. With twenty plus years of examining and then removing from my vocabulary six words in particular, the changes upgraded my life in ways that have been so powerful that they are in some ways pretty much ineffable, wordless. This essay is a summary of my refined examination of those ubiquitous powerfully disempowering spell words. And I argue why they are disempowering and why they are ubiquitous despite their pernicious nature.

For me their removal from my vocabulary more than twenty years ago created a profound change in my life, my energy in life, and my relationships. In the beginning the changes were subtle.  And now it has seen in me an expansive empowerment and the ability to live strongly, bodily, boldly, responsively and responsibly with agency and authority in this exact moment. 

Very recently I had the profound realisation that these words invisibly contradict the yogic principles of the first two Yamas, ahimsa and satya — do no violence in mind or action and speak and act with truthfulness. These words, as you will see by their very nature, violate these ethical practices and do so invisibly because we are bullies being bullied in a social construct I recently understood as being full blown Bully Stockholm Syndrome.

I have included in my audio post the key links from this essay and the hyperlink to the written essay which has, of course, all links and the graphics. 

Also if you are inclined to, I offer courses that include practices to enact these ideas and much more yoga and mind-body exercises that effectively bring into ourselves full empowerment as humans with the agency to change our lives effectively and to significantly change life around us with much less effort than you might imagine. Please message me if you would like to join me.
Note: if you would like to read the original text and/or read with audio, go to:
https://gduperreault.substack.com/p/spell-breaking-language-keys-to-unlock

Spell Breaking Language Keys to Unlock Language Locks — Audio

In recent years, I've become a refugee in the time of covid. I mostly write prose and poetry. I hope to return to reading with music.
My main focus is yoga, meditation and research of Gautama Buddha and health of body and society. I'm creating a yoga centre outside of Oaxaca City to share my discoveries of exploration in this place called 'truth in a pathless landscape', to paraphrase Krishnamurti.

Spell Breaking Language Keys to Unlock Language Locks — Audio

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