Something quite profound is happening within me. I cannot describe what it looks like, only that it feels like the million tiny bits of me, previously floating aimlessly, are joining together. In my youth and early adulthood, I knew…
Over the past 10 weeks, I facilitated a meditation, writing and sharing program that hosted individuals keen on discovering and deepening their awareness and transformation practices. Each session provided the opportunity to: a) reflect on one’s present moment experience through…
Am I the only one experiencing this phenomenon or are more and more people we know being diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD)? Bipolar disorder involves periods of elevated or irritable mood (mania), alternating with periods of depression. The “mood swings”…
Today I am not seeing and feeling the endless adventure that Life gifts us. It is because I am tired. Too much work, not enough reward. I need to halt what I am doing and reflect on my inner experience.…
In my early 20s, my boyfriend, an English major, wrote a poem about me. In its intimacy, it was both beautiful and frightening at the same time. While he read it to me, I remember simultaneously thinking, “OMG, he can…
I am struck by the hopefulness and personal transformation of Middle Easterners undergoing significant social change. Along with the rest of the world, they recognize they are in the honey-moon stage of change. As my yoga teacher says, “first it…
While the term ‘generation gap’ often engenders negative relations between age groups, I propose a more constructive way of utilizing each group’s specialized skills. A generation gap is defined as a difference in values and attitudes between one generation and…
This week a dear friend of mine told me it was time for her ‘to dream big’. Her words reminded me this is the life journey we all share, as reflected in a poem I wrote some years back.…
As someone who is not trained in the physical sciences, I struggled with what name to give this very important trend. Should I call it an environment or ecology continuum? When I looked at the two sets of definitions below…
http://mtviewclass.wikispaces.com/Gilgamesh On the eve of 2012 — the infamous year dating the end of the Mayan calendar — we are witness to the beginnings of social transformation in The Middle East. I wonder how the Mayan prophecy and these Middle…
Today we can no longer just tweak old skill sets and behaviours to optimize our performance because the challenges presented to us are of a new character. Furthermore, reframing our assumptions and beliefs systems, although additive, is not going to…
Yesterday, rifling through some past musings, I came upon a piece I wrote in 2003. Its “dual” theme of form and formlessness is what many attribute to be the ultimate paradox in life. Given my blog focus over the past…
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