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Video Summary: The Medicine Wheel moves through the seasons of the year. The east represents springtime, where we initiate our new intention for the year. We develop and learn about that in the south and summer. The west and fall are where we harvest and glean value from the things we cultivated throughout the year. As we move into winter, we're going back into that time of introspection between this cycle and the new cycle next spring. So right now we're moving from the west

Video Summary: We're taught from a young age about how to accomplish something. It's often an intellectual, memorization-based approach that gets indoctrinated in school. You learn about something and take a test to prove that you've learned it. Then, when we get into the work world, we have projects we're working on, and we build upon things to accomplish them. You do A, which leads to B, and there's a step-by-step linear process. If you're building a house, you build the fo

Video Summary: The term sacred circle comes from the shamanistic tradition that I've practiced for years. Our sacred circle is the place where we hold our preciousness, beauty, and the things that are most important to us. It includes things that matter most to us and that we care a lot about. We may have spent years figuring out what these things are and awakening these things. They might include how we feel about our family, significant other, children, and pets. It may als

One of my favorite teachings is that people will always show you who they are. It's become my truth as I've noticed it over the years. People show us who they are through their actions. Even if they're being deceptive or manipulative, they’ll still show us who they are if we hang out with them and pay attention. Yet what I've found is we often do not see them as they are. So I wonder, where is the breakdown? And I'm talking about intelligent people with lots of clarity, intui

Video Summary: The coyote, in my tradition and in many Native American and shamanic traditions, is the trickster that helps you see the things you have difficulty accepting about yourself. He shows you the things that you don't want to look at. He does this so you accept the things you would like to have for yourself. The coyote's healing power is that it brings awareness to unconscious patterns and issues. He shines light into the darkness so you can see the things getting i

Video Summary: The invitation of this spiritual inquiry is to consider whether each of the things presented is something that's outside of you, inside of you, or both. Do you experience it outside of yourself or inside of yourself? I want to apply this to a few things. The first of which is truth- specifically the experience of truth. So does truth happen outside of you or inside of you? Say you read or hear a spiritual teaching and you have an epiphany. What is the truth? Is

Video Summary: Collaborative creation is when we offer an intention, it interacts with Spirit or the universe, and then Spirit offers doorways and experiences that allow our intention to unfold and take form in our lives. In contrast, willful creation is when we envision a specific goal and make it happen. Collaborative creation can take you places beyond what willful creation can because you're teaming up with Spirit. Collaborating with Spirit allows you to unfold things tha

Video Summary: As we grow as human beings, we move through different levels of consciousness. Piaget’s developmental psychology described moving from the concrete operational stage with black-and-white thinking to the formal operational stage with gray thinking. This is moving from one level of consciousness to another. We also move into higher levels of consciousness as we grow spiritually. It's almost like moving into a different dimension that has a totally different vibra

Video Summary: I want to continue with setting an intention and then letting go of controlling the outcome. Specifically, I want to look deeper into control because I think it's really misunderstood. When I talked about the downside of control last week, I was very specific. We want to let go of controlling the outcome. But that's only part of what we’re doing when we create things. We are setting an intention, and then we're letting go of controlling the outcome. We do need

Video Summary: This is a continuation of the last blog about offering an intention and then surrendering the form of that intention to the universe. If I want to be a part of a community, I might say, “Hey, I want a community with these qualities.” Then it's allowing the universe and its infinite wisdom and abundance to supply the form. This all sounds great until you try to do it. It can be challenging because you have to give up control of the outcome. We often manage our f

ideo Summary: Have you ever noticed how some of the coolest things in our lives just come out of nowhere? It was like the universe just said, “Here you go.” We weren't looking for it, and then there it was. If we walked it back, we probably had an intention of "I'd like to have something like that in my life." One way we create things has been called co-creation, and I’ve also called it collaborative creation. It means we're co-creating with the universe. Another way is to cr

Video Summary: Many of the Aboriginal and Native American cultures have some concept of a spiritual gift that you offer your people. It might be called your medicine in Native American cultures or your dreaming in the Aboriginal people of Australia. Your medicine is your spiritual gift that makes the people stronger. What is sometimes missed in the various pursuits of finding your medicine or purpose is that the context for this in aboriginal cultures has always revolved arou