Adding Struggle to Your Vision Board?

It’s popular in some circles to denigrate the New Age movement.
And I do think there are some things missing from its positive facing approach.

But what if we recognized that what we can do – and in fact are doing – is growing it into something else?

It’s useful to see what’s missing from something.
It’s helpful to recognize what’s not working.
That’s how we can understand what to add or change.
And it’s often more efficient to take what is useful and add to it, make it better, stronger, and more robust, than to start all over again.

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Winter is a Time to Go In

There are many different wisdom traditions that talk about winter and the New Year. Some honor the changing of the sun and the bringing of light with the Winter Solstice, some are more focused on starting new things and resolutions for the (Gregorian Solar) New Year, while (Indian) Ayurveda says winter is a good time to look inside…

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Are you bigger than your mind?

I know that you are, but how can YOU know whether that’s true if it isn’t your current experience?

Most modern humans only experience themselves as their mind (including emotions). Anyone telling them they they’re bigger than that just sounds like a crazy person!

Or at best like they are having a really different experience than you are… which isn’t so helpful.

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Is Your Reality Too Limited?

It doesn’t have to be! You have all the tools you need already to expand your horizons infinitely.

If we spend our time only using our mind to perceive reality, we miss out on a lot of what’s going on. We miss out on all of the things that our mind simply doesn’t pick up on.

Same if we’re only relying on our body/gut/instinct (however you think of that kind of perception). Or only navigating using our emotional intelligence.

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The Utility of Honest Friendships

Do you have a friend that you can be honest with? That you feel safe enough with that you can give and receive truth from, even when it’s not so comfortable?

Most relationships are more surface, which is usually a good thing.
Most of us aren’t equipped to hear what everyone really thinks, and most of us think so many goofy things, that it’s not great to be sharing all that silliness anyway. Certainly my inner critic does not need to be given free rein to speak her mind to everyone all the time!

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