We hear a lot about stuffing emotions, comforting ourselves with food, distracting ourselves with entertainment, but people rarely think about being productive or being busy with important and constructive things as a means of avoidance. In fact, we should be doing things, moving forward, creating our best life, making progress, getting things done, fulfilling our…
DetailsPeople love the hero’s journey. It’s the stuff of legends and oral history, religions and movies, novels and poetry, spiritual memes and merchandising empires. We love the thought of going out on a quest to find something and then failing or succeeding (depending on if you prefer comedy or tragedy) and coming home to tell…
DetailsIn the movie Murphy’s Romance, Emma explains the nuances of checking a horse’s teeth including getting them to open their mouths by inserting a finger into the gap between their teeth, then moving their tongue aside one way and then the other. Then she stops for a moment and points out “I warn you. Some…
DetailsWe all get frustrated sometimes because we seem to be doing it all right. We’re holding our intention, we taking right action, we’re being open to the universe, we’re doing what we’ve been asked to do, and still the thing we most want isn’t manifesting. So then we try a new way of setting intention,…
DetailsWho we are is not these material concerns, these attachments, desires, fears or needs. We are much, much more and these things are but minute fragments of our very rich and exponentially expansive lives as souls. It is as if we are angels acting in a play we are hurriedly writing, along with the other…
DetailsEver notice that conversations with one particular person inevitably end with them as the subject, no matter where things started? That talking with them is rarely if ever about anything but what is going on with them and what they need? You go out, sit and end up with a tab to pay and a…
DetailsThere are times when I listen to friends or clients and the entire story they are relating is about someone else. It’s a narrative of “them” and “they” and what they did and what they should or shouldn’t feel or think or be or react… I listen to this, at least for a while, waiting…
DetailsWe’re taught to think about our lives as having segments, like the scales of a snake or a scorpion or a lobster. Each piece is connected but discrete with clear boundaries and sharp edges. They touch, they intersect, they interact, but they also keep to their own. Work life, home life, personal life, hobbies, friends,…
DetailsWe’re taught that our brains are our biggest assets. They are what make human beings the top, or almost top, of the food chain and why we can manage, or mismanage, the earth. We are thinking beings thinking all the time about everything whether it be passively through watching TV and movies, playing video games,…
DetailsIt’s difficult for us to see our selves. Our heads don’t swivel around so we can see quite a bit of our backsides and our eyes aren’t on stalks so we can aim them at our own faces. That could either be cool or creepy, I’m not sure which. To see ourselves we have invented…
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