Last night I watched a delightful movie titled, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. My attention was captured by the mantra (see quote below) of its young proprietor, Sonny, as he struggled to create his dream accommodations for the “elderly and…
What do you see as the greatest source of uncertainty in today’s world? Certainly, driving forces such as digitization, globalization and individuation top most thought leaders’ lists as contributing to the planet’s increased volatility and complexity. However, at the root…
As most of us are aware, emotional repression — the conscious or unconscious suppression of painful impulses, desires, or fears — leads to, at its least, defensiveness and, at its worst, disease. The list of ailments is a long one…
This is my last week for sharing some of the substance from my soon-to-be-published book, Creating Space: The Practice of Transformation, Vol. 1. In the final chapter of this first volume, the focus on emotional awareness completes the circle of…
Just as our global society appears to be coming together through shifting values and social paradigms so it appears to be coming apart at the seams with crumbling social institutions — government, education, healthcare, etc. Such duality of experience is…
The phrase “mind over matter” reminds me of my first year university English Literature class. My 1972 hip and eccentric professor themed the year’s readings around R. D. Laing’s The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (1960). …
In the early 80s, the marketing slogan “no pain, no gain” became the motto for exercising the body’s muscles to the point of fatigue where one would “feel the burn” in order to maximize athletic excellence. Although popularized by Jane…
The prospect of e-publishing my latest and longest developing book, Creating Space – The Practice of Transformation, Volume 1, is close at hand. March is my month to tidy up all the loose ends keeping me from this goal. Because…
In last week’s blog, I commented on the rightness and restfulness of finding the middle ground between extreme choices. Because this balancing act is being played out presently in my own life as survival and thriving, I am sharing something…
The posture of yoga is steady and easy. It is realized by relaxing one’s effort and resting like the cosmic serpent on the waters of infinity. Then one is unconstrained by opposing dualities. Barbara Stoler Miller Until I began to…
Upon some reflection, I feel the loss of solid ground and the shifting sands of a new beginning taking hold of me. In this case, the often lengthy and useful learning phase between endings and new beginnings was unrecognizable and…
Currently, I am working with a new group of clients who are all transitioning from one career to another. As can emerge, when change is forced upon us, fear of the unknown surfaced for many of them. What can also…
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