How we choose to use these last few days of 2024 will set the tone and determine next year. Many sit down at about this time of year and for the most part, simply make a list of “resolutions” of all the things they want to do differently in the upcoming year. It ends up […]
You’ve heard me talk about energy a lot recently. Having just completed a month studying with the shamans of the Q’ero tradition of Machu Picchu and being initiated into their ancient lineage, I’m not providing energy healing sessions for my clients. But what is energy? I’m not talking about the peppy “get up and go” […]
Self-sabotage occurs when the beliefs and desires we have about ourselves haven’t caught up with the beliefs and desires that our higher self has for us. As a result, when an opportunity for growth, happiness and fulfillment shows up in our life, our ego comes in to sabotage it. Usually, self-sabotage comes in the form […]
In the Buddhist practices, there are teachings to help ordinary people like us with connecting to our heart with openness and softness. These are called lojong teachings. The basic notion of lojong is that we can make friends with what we reject, those things we see as “bad” in ourselves and in others. At the […]
I believe that everyone I meet is my teacher. Good or bad, positive experience or negative experience, they’ve each in their own way taught me something. Not just something about my life or living but something about myself, my behavior, my way of being, who I am, the work I still need to do. Over […]
We’re really good at thinking up the worst-case scenario. How many times in your life have you talked yourself into something you were thinking of doing using the line "What's the worst thing that can happen?” Immediately, your mind drums up all sorts of doomsday scenarios: the death of a dream you had, the relationship […]
In this week’s blog we continue our discussion about the energy body. Energy centers or “chakras” are wheels of energy which reside about four inches off our physical body. These energy centers absorb, maintain and remember toxic and negative experiences and emotions whose energetic imprint gets left behind. Think of your energy body like a […]
When we understand the meaning of anything we do in meditation, or anything else in life really, it increases the outcome of the meditation and provides greater benefits. So why should we focus on meditation to open your heart? The Science When we relax the heart, it opens the brain. Brain waves then can build […]
Every foundation rests upon the earth - the universal ground for all that we do. What is the foundation to your spirituality? When we connect with the body, we connect with the earth. Our body is the home of our spirit. At the base of the spine, the first energy center of our root energy centers, […]
We all get triggered by something someone says or does. But most of the time, we don’t stop to simply feel the emotions that arise as a result of whatever that experience was or is.