Truth, Confidence & Contentment: The New Success Paradigm
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Discovering Your Blind-Spots
Transformation occurs when we are able to expose our blind spots and release the unconscious but conditioned default patterns associated with them. The challenge is how do we become aware of what we don’t yet know about ourselves. My last…
Clear Seeing + Calm Abiding = Truth
Knowing that the mind’s afflictions are overcome through penetrating insight [clear seeing] suffused with stable calm, you should first seek the peace of calm abiding, which is found in joy and non-attachment for the world. Santideva Yogis are famous for…
Clear Seeing Unveils Confidence
by photostock freedigitalimage.net If you have followed my blog conversations over the past two weeks, their content has ranged from self-sabotage to self-mastery via real-time dialogue between myself and “Sandy”. This continued instalment depicts the shift into clear seeing and…
Talent + Discipline = Self-Mastery
When we develop our self-awareness, we are strengthening our ability to make healthy choices and evolve self-mastery. In other words, our awareness of our inner experience, in the present moment, overrides our addictive dependencies or co-dependencies on another person. As…
Self-Sabotage: The Outcome of All Addictive Habits
After reading the title, you might be thinking, “Well isn’t that obvious; nothing new here”, and I would agree. But what if I added, all habitual behaviours that keep you from healing and growing are addictions. What is your response…
Freedom: What Does It Mean To You?
Do we have free will? Or, are we human pieces of a greater puzzle being enacted by the ever-evolving universe? Not neither nor either?
The Critical Path to Foundation, Flow and Freedom — Part IV: Creative Expression
Several weeks back, I began writing this four-part series in an attempt to describe a critical path for expanding one’s creative and spiritual growth. Over many years of personal research, my experiences taught me that creativity and spirituality are intimately interwoven. In fact, I often wonder if we are using two different words to describe the same “way of being.” This series of blogs dabbles at demystifying our human “being-ness” by outlining four foundational pillars that liberate creativity — awareness, deep-felt experience, deep collaboration and finally, this blog’s topic, creative expression.
The Critical Path to Foundation, Flow and Freedom — Part III: Deep Collaboration
What drew you to yoga as your spiritual practice? In my case, it had everything to do with having a direct or felt experience of spiritual practices and philosophies. In the eight-limb practice of yoga, I do not have to…
The Critical Path to Foundation, Flow and Freedom: Part II—Deep-felt Experience
The search for truth has guided human development from our earliest origins. With the advent of CIT (communication and information technologies), this search became increasingly more accessible, but also more challenging due to the sheer volume of information now readily…
Creating Space: Yoga Actions Asana Glossary
Creating Space: Yoga Actions Asana Glossary We’re so excited! Our companion glossary for our Yoga Actions series print version is finally available on Amazon! Check out the Table of Contents and a sample of the inside pages below (Note –…