 Are you ready for spring? In my tradition of the medicine wheel, the new year starts in the spring. Spring is when a new cycle of your life is born. This is readily apparent in nature with plants sprouting and animals giving birth in the spring. To be clear, spring is when the essence of your new cycle is conceived, so it may not have form yet. It's also when your intention naturally begins to issue forth
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 Last week, a friend asked me how my day was and I responded, "It was a bad day." Later I reflected why I decided it was a bad day. I labeled it bad because the things that happened did not go the way I wanted them too. But what if Life had other plans for my day? In my forth-coming book, Natural Way of Being, I assert that when we offer an intention, we initiate a partnership with Life. Life's role in this partnership is to present doorways and situations for the thing we intended to unfold. Our role is to offer a
 One of the most common limiting belief systems that human beings carry is, “I do not deserve love.” When we believe this and a significant other or friend offers us more love than we feel like we deserve, we tend to unconsciously push them away. Sometimes pushing people away is as subtle as not accepting help from a friend when they extend love to us. Other times it may present as finding things that are wrong with the person we are in a relationship with. Right about the time we start to feeling more love and closeness than we are used to is when our mind typically begins to find
 A personal practice I call noticing was a theme that developed during a recent workshop I facilitated on “Trusting Your Heart and Intuition” in Spokane, Washington in January. Since I find myself recommending this practice to clients often these days, I thought I might include an excerpt on "noticing" from my forthcoming book Natural Way of Being. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 2: Noticing is the practice of objectively noticing your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in your everyday experiences. This practice applies the principles of meditation to the experiences that
 It’s happened to all of us. You open up your present and see socks or something practical. You smile and say “That’s nice, thank you.” You probably even tell yourself, “Well that’s cool, I can always use socks.” But you were secretly hoping that you got something else – a gift you really wanted. We often gift ourselves the same way. We give ourselves the safe, practical things that are the low hanging
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About the Author
I, Michael Hoffman, am a licensed psychotherapist, teacher, and author with 25 years experience in counseling and teaching experiential workshops. I have maintained this blog since 2009, and my second book Natural Way of Being will published in 2019.
I offer in-person and video-conferencing counseling, intensive workshops, and online courses to allow participants to directly experience their natural way of being and the life they would have for themselves. Archives
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