Wisdom

Creating Good Habits

We’re used to thinking about bad habits.  The one’s that have results that aren’t good for us, the ones that are annoying to ourselves or others, the one’s that cost us money for no reason or prevent us from doing what we want to do. …Details

Karma Is Not the Boogeyman

Most people from Western culture countries have a nominal understanding of Karma which simplifies it down to a check and balance system.  There seems to be no positive Karma in that there’s no way you can have so many positive Karma points that doing something negative is unremarkable. …Details

Emotional Dissonance

“Ok, so I’m being in the moment with my emotions and listening to them, but what the heck are they saying and what does it mean?????!!!!”  Every time I talk about emotional process and logic and knowing I try to emphasize that it looks and acts nothing like the brain, which is where we are currently living the majority of our lives. …Details

Prioritize

It doesn’t matter whether you have all the time in the world or none, whether you are running a family, a business, a career, a household, or just yourself, your life is full of the things you choose to do everyday. …Details

The Effects Are Cumulative

“I’ve never been able to stick to one thing.”  So many people in the spiritual community, or seekers who dabble in the spiritual community, or those who look in the window and think about the spiritual community, like pretty much everyone else in the world, want to belong. …Details

Adjust As Necessary

Life isn’t a straight line goal.  No matter how committed we are, no matter how much we strive, the nature of life is more Fibonacci than number line, more Hokey Pokey than line dancing. 🙂  Which means that no matter how well you’re doing or how far you’ve gotten, periodically you’ve got to pause, take stock, and readjust things. …Details

Listen to Your Own Wisdom

I get lots of clients and students coming to me pointing out that they have a disconnect or a problem between what is going on with them physically and the rest of their life.  They are smoking even though they know it’s not good for them and they’ve quit over and over again. …Details

Don’t Just Breath Out, Breath In

People come to me and when I ask them about their background in spirituality or what their practice(s) is or their skills or interest what I sometimes get back is a laundry list of all the classes they’ve taken, the healings they’ve been through, and the people they’ve studied with. …Details

But We’re Friends…

The notion of marriage being about romance, about fulfillment of our emotional needs, having anything to do with a soul connection, that’s an amazingly recent development.  It’s really blossomed in the past 150 years, but prior to that, it was a rare notion that was indulged in poetry and fiction, not because it was common or a goal or even attainable, but because it was not those things. …Details

Self Care 101 as Presented by Corporate America

I bring this up with my clients on a regular basis, but even I forget at times.  In fact, this was pointed out to me recently so it bears repeating.  There is great wisdom to be found in the safety features of an airplane as presented by the airline staff (whatever they want to be called these days). …Details