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Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): It's a beautiful day here in Bend, Oregon, and so I'm outside today. When I'm creating something in my life, I like to think of it as a partnership with life, spirit, God, or the universe. And, as the creator, I have my part, and that's to have a clear intention and then to offer that intention. And then it's helpful to let life do some of the heavy-lifting, to partner with life, and let it help you unfold the thing that you intend, the thin

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So most of us have recently experienced the time change, or at the very least, we've experienced the days getting shorter. Late fall and winter are coming our way. And what I've noticed about myself this year, even more than most, is there's a little bit of this uneasiness and worry that has me wondering, “Uh oh, are we going into another COVID winter?” Because last winter I ended up being pretty isolated as I was living by myself, so I’ve b

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): My teacher used to say that you can change out of hope or desperation. He also had an edgier, similar saying that you can change willingly or on your hands and knees. This second saying suggests that change is going to happen. That change is inevitable, that life itself is change. The essence of life is change. It's always growing, changing, and evolving. But what I think we do sometimes as human beings is get into a phase of our life or a w

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): A really useful way to think about honesty is to view it in terms of acting, speaking, and relating congruently and in accord with what you're experiencing inside. And the things we experience inside include our feelings, opinions, thoughts, beliefs, the way we see the world, and our senses of things, including our intuition. Today, what we call transparency is being honest. Honesty is a willingness to expose your inner experience to someone

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So during this time of year, in the fall, when it's time for a leaf to fall, the tree just allows it to fall away. The tree accepts that its time with the leaf has run its course. So everything in life, including the things in our own lives, has a life cycle, a life span. It's born, develops, matures, and completes itself. It completes its journey around the medicine wheel. It goes full circle around the wheel of life. And when something has

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): When you speak your truth, in essence, you're saying, “This is how I see it.” You're saying, "In this moment, this is how I see the world." Because your way of seeing things is totally unique to you. It's a unique perspective. No one else on the planet sees things exactly the same way you do. I mean, how could they? They've had different life experiences than you have. Your life experiences inform the way you see the world. So your view of t

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): My teacher used to say that clarity and confusion exist right in front of us at any given moment and that it's up to us to choose which of these we access. Do we choose a clear mind or do we choose a confused mind? They're both right here. And really, trusting yourself and self-doubt are the same way; they're both possibilities at any given moment. So it's really a choice. Do we choose to trust ourselves, or do we choose to doubt ourselves?

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): When relating to or connecting with other human beings, it can be very useful to understand levels of consciousness. Your level of consciousness is the way you see the world. In one sense, it's how much of the world you're able to see. Your level of consciousness determines your reality and your beliefs about the world. So as you grow spiritually, your level of consciousness expands. The world can look totally different from one level of con

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): Judgment is typically based on expecting someone to be other than who they are, or it could be expecting something or a situation to be other than it is. It's often wanting the person or situation to be more in line with how I need them to be or what I'm comfortable with. So when you notice yourself judging (and we all judge things, so we have to get over that). When we notice ourselves judging, it can be really useful to say, “Well, what wa

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): Lately, in my work with people, as my clients and I are identifying the things that limit their lives and prevent them from having the things that they most want in their lives, it seems to trace back to this limiting belief of “I'm not enough”. And when we carry this belief, we tend to create this maladaptive approach of accomplishing things to prove to the world, and ultimately ourselves, that we are enough. We think, "If I only can accomp

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I estimate that at least fifty percent of the new things I try just do not work. So that's fifty percent of the new things I try in my business. Fifty percent of the dates and social outings that I go on don't really go anywhere. Fifty percent of the new things I buy: the new things that I tried, the new books that I read, the new products, the new services that I try are not really worthwhile. Even fifty percent of the new jazz CDs that

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