What if your life were not a linear progression? What if time and the next thing and the next thing and the next thing weren’t guiding factor of your life? What would it look like? Western culture teaches us the importance of time, the finiteness of life, and that everything is cause and effect in…
There is an exercise I like to use with my students to help them understand physically what I mean by the limitations our culture has taught us. It helps them become aware that they can do much more than they ever thought possible. I call it “Extending Your Senses” and it’s completely safe to try…
I love October for so many reasons, but Halloween is definitely at the top of the list. I love decorating for it, I love the creativity of it, I love sharing ideas about food, decorations, costumes with people, and scary is delicious when it’s just for fun. I decorate my front yard with headstones to…
I always find it interesting when someone tells me, “I’ve never seen that side of you before”. Or they say “My life is just such a bunch of contradictions”. Our minds what to analyze and organize what it perceives into a system that makes sense so it can manage the chaos of all the input…
A trigger is something that just makes you absolutely crazy every time it appears or occurs. It’s not due to something happening in the moment, but something that has happened before and that hasn’t been resolved. Like an absolute gag reflex to even a mention of peppermint schnapps because you got drunk and threw up…
So while you are trying to find yourself, figuring out what you want to be when you grow up, bemoaning the fate that has brought you to this place in this time, trying to figure out ‘why you’ take a look at who you are in the world right now. Don’t just do something, stand…
“Don’t drive angry” is a phrase I keep on stand by not for use with road rage, because at this point it’s not something that can be avoided, it’s just something to be dealt with, like taxes. What I mean by that is stop and calm down for a minute. It’s good to be in…
Do you recognize how much others affect your life? That a chance encounter can set things spinning that affects you in the future? We like to think about this when we are thinking about romance and good luck and the lottery. That’s when the butterfly flapping its wings in China which causes the flowers to…
Having done it often in my life I tend to forget how many people don’t. Which is I guess a way to keep my life full of surprises. What do yo mean you haven’t gone on sabbatical/taken a pilgrimage/done a retreat/hiked in the wilderness/lived in silence for a week/volunteered for more than one day/traveled to…
Life is happening, you have hopes for what you will be doing these next few days, people need your presence, but your body has other plans. There are things you would enjoy doing, things you would love to do, things that you need to do, but your body has other plans. And you win the…