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Video Summary: A transition that happens as we evolve spiritually is that we move from trusting our mind’s intelligence to trusting divine intelligence. We access this intelligence of the universe through our hearts. Relying on our mind’s intelligence is a product of being conditioned to rely on our intellect to guide us through life. We use it to make things happen. We get a plan and set goals. Our mind knows what’s going on the whole time, because it's the captain of the sh

Video Summary: I want to talk about two different ways of interacting. The first one includes predatory interactions in which a person can only benefit at someone else's expense. You can only gain when someone else is losing. This is based on a view of limited resources. It's a zero-sum game in that there are only so many resources in the system, so you're only going to get more when the other person gets less The second way of interacting includes mutually beneficial interac

Video Summary: I want to contrast two different intentions for doing something. The first of these is more strategic in that we're doing something because it's productive and brings value to our lives. For example, we take a job because it's going to bring more abundance to our family, or we go to college because it's going to open doors for us in our career. The second way is more spontaneous, and we're doing something simply because it brings us joy. We do it for its own sa

Video Summary: When we go into new experiences, we tend to focus on things that we're familiar with. We focus like a photograph that uses a focused SLR camera, where part of the photograph is in perfect focus, and then as you move away from that, it starts to get blurry. I'm really interested in the blurry part that surrounds the thing we are focused on. I'm gonna call this the periphery. In this periphery, there are things, people, and experiences that are happening that we

Video Summary: When people don't work or contribute, they no longer feel like they're part of their community. When we were back in clans of a hundred people, everybody had their part. Everybody did something: they hunted, gathered berries, made lodges, or worked with the children. When you worked, that was how you were a part of the community. That's how you became one of the people. It was an exchange of energy, a division of labor. These days, when people do not want to wo

Video Summary: This coming Sunday, March 20th, will be the Spring Equinox, also known as the first day of spring. My favorite way to talk about Spring Equinox is with the Medicine Wheel or wheel of life. The idea of the Medicine Wheel is that whatever is going on with the earth is also going on inside of you. This is because you are part of nature. If you look at nature, springtime is a time when plants and animals are being born. So the question becomes, "What is being born

Video Summary: So I want to talk about engaging people for the purpose of connection. By engaging, I mean reaching out to them and initiating an interaction with them. It’s being vulnerable and saying, “Hey, how's it going?” People are generally wary when someone reaches out to them. They’re often in their own world and not used to it. So their initial response may be, “What does this person want from me?” And the only way they're going to be able to tell that is from our ene

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So last week I spoke about community, and I want to continue that discussion- specifically as it relates to spirituality and spiritual purpose. The best illustration of this is in the Aboriginal cultures- the Native American cultures of North and South America, the aboriginals, and the quote, primitive cultures. These shamanistic spiritualities really have this down. And you have to think about it- they were living in clans, and so their spi

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I want to start with a story. So the spiritual tradition that I've been a part of for most of my life always had summer solstice gatherings. We used to do spring Equinox gatherings as well. Initially, we used to have circles in different cities- one in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Dallas, and Santa Barbara. The Summer Solstice was a time when all those circles gathered together to do high ceremony, and we would do various ceremonies. Those

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I want to explore personal power and sometimes what I call standing in our power. But first of all, I want to look at some of the common conceptions about power culturally and how we think about power. So when I speak of personal power, I'm talking about a natural power, the power of our being. It naturally emanates from us when we have our heart open, when we're speaking our truth, and when we're acting in accordance to our truth and our

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): One of the things that I've really been looking at in myself and with my clients and friends is that when things were not getting what we want in a connection with another human being. It could be a relationship, friendship, business partnership, or interaction. It's usually because the two different people are wanting different things. I do a lot of relationship work with people, and when a relationship is not working or at the end of a rel

VVideo Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I'm hearing a lot in spirituality these days about being present, having clear intention, and being empathetic and connected. And while these are all really powerful things, when we enter an experience, I think we often discount or even deny some of the most immediate, obvious, and basic information. And that has to do with what we're feeling, and along with that, what we want. What we really want to happen or what we're really drawn to