The Call of Writing
An untapped power resides within each of us. It responds to the call of writing. When I wrote those words, I was referring to the profound ability within each of us to express our truth, transform our experience and discover…
Confronting Fear – Our Dark Nights of the Soul
Meditation allows our authentic self — our inner hero — to surface and safely guide us through the self-doubts and worries forming our “dark nights of the soul.” The courage required for these heroic acts is simply to sit with…
Life Purpose: Inspiration not Impulse
Every person is sent to this outpost called earth to work on a project that is intended to keep the cosmic order healthy. African Elder Malidoma Some Image courtesy of sattva / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Our life purpose — the creative contribution…
Pain or Suffering — Which Do You Choose?
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Buddhist proverb This profound aphorism teaches us that pain is what life’s events inflict on us, while suffering is what we inflict on ourselves, that is, our emotional reactions to those events. The implication…
When Less Really Is More
Are you feeling stretched to your maximum attending to the competing demands in your life? With all that you have to do is it difficult to choose a right course of action? Once you have chosen, are you able to…
Surviving and Thriving: Life’s Balancing Act
Thriving, for me, reflects my ability to create and express something new and of value. In the business world, we would liken thriving to innovation of products and services. Surviving, on the other hand, reflects the need to take care…
The Gifts of Life
I am rejoicing in Life today. In case you hadn’t noticed, Life has a way of protecting and providing for us, regardless if our motives are less-than-stellar or our mood like a dark night of the soul. This mysterious caretaking…
Life Choices: Courage, Confidence and Commitment
Blades of the finest swords are repeatedly heated and cooled to increase hardness and elasticity. This tempering process for metal is similar to our own personal growth and development. Being presented with choices — exploration or safety, trust or fear,…
Wisdom: It’s All a Question of Balance
In essence, life is not an either/or experience. More and more we are finding it to be a bit of both/and. With both aspects — pleasure and pain, optimism and pessimism, confidence and uncertainty — to digest and manage, we…
Are You Following the Signs?
Last night, my yoga practice of heart-opening twists wrung some very heavy energy out of my being. I could not connect to the reason why I felt such heaviness in my body, but I did recognize how important it was…
To Meditate is to Be
Just as we are moving from experiencing 3D to 4D in the movie theatre, our world seems to be moving from three levels of consciousness — waking, sleeping and dreaming — to accepting a fourth state — meditation. As early…
Uncertainty’s Landing
One of my greatest challenges in living fully present is to stand confidently in the stillness of emergence. You know that place . . . where nothing seems to be happening . . . where it feels as though nothing…