Actions in life can be reduced to two factors: positioning and timing. If we are not in the right place at the right time, we cannot take advantage of what life has to offer us. […] Position is useless without…
Madness, as in the theme of my soon-to-be-published poetry book, is a relative experience. For instance, the three weeks leading up to Xmas day can be fraught with the chaos of gifts to buy, trees to adorn, lights to hang…
In the end, it’s all a question of balance. Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, 1995 One of my greatest life lessons could be simplified to “all things in moderation.” In my case, choosing the path of moderation literally pulled me…
Although many Western practitioners of yoga “come to the mat” to heal some aspect of their body, soon enough they learn of its holistic approach. As a spiritual practice, yoga integrates our whole being rather than separates the physical, energetic,…
Although most western-culture dictionaries treat detachment and indifference as synonyms, they have a crucial difference. Their common element — non-reaction — is paralleled by indifference’s additional qualities — coldness, passionlessness, lack of feeling/sympathy. I thought my friend Chris said it…
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling. Joyce Brothers How would you define intimacy? The definition I am most interested in is “close familiarity or friendship.” Typically,…
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…
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…
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.
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…
In last week’s blog, I wrote about the five layers that comprise a human being — physical, energetic, mental/emotional, spiritual and joyful (my label). Much of my discourse focused on human energy, that invisible but felt experience of life force,…
Over the span of my consulting career, I met several people who illustrated the ability to envision new opportunities within environments where deadends were all that seemed possible. In essence, these individuals used their intuition to disrupt existing limitations and…
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