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Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I think many of the people watching this video have awakened some spiritual gifts. And one of these gifts that I think many of you likely have awakened is the gift of vision, the gift of perception, and being a visionary, if you will. And what I mean by this specifically is the ability to see possibilities. When you're with other people and in situations, you see the possibility of there being greater depth, collaboration, or support. It

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I want to contrast and explore two different ways that we come to understand things or even make important decisions about things. And I'm gonna simplify it by talking about using our heads and using our hearts. So I wanna start with our head, because that's probably what we're a little more used to, it's what we were taught. And what that includes (for this talk anyway) is our intellect, our ability to think, to imagine, to conceptualize

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I was doing this guided meditation the other day. It was actually a friend of mine named Anne Coughlin who does these really cool guided meditations. And the idea is to inquire with spirit and get wisdom from your spirit guides and from spirit. And so I was talking about understanding. I was saying, “It doesn't seem like people understand me. And I think that's maybe why I feel lonely sometimes.” And it was really interesting what I got b

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So there's this really cool teaching in Buddhism, and I'm gonna try to talk about it here. So it really applies to using a Buddhist teaching, really any spiritual teaching for that matter, and it uses this metaphor of a finger pointing to the moon. You may have heard it. And the teaching is not to mistake the finger for the moon. So metaphorically, the finger is the spiritual teaching, and the moon is the truth. And so a teacher's role is re

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): At one point, when I was studying with my teacher, I’d been studying with him for quite a while, and one day he presented me with a hawk feather. And it was beautiful. He had wrapped the shaft in these different colored threads. And I was blown away. It was a big deal because he was a strict teacher, and he didn't just give out stuff like this very often. In a sense, you kind of had to, I wouldn't say earn it, but you had to show some devoti

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I talk a lot about integration and the work that I do. In fact, I even call one type of coaching that I do spiritual integration coaching. And typically when I describe it, I talk about experiencing your spiritual connection and awakening that open spiritual awareness and then bringing that into your daily life. Often, we allow ourselves to experience that in a yoga class or when we're meditating, but then we're not able to bring that int

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So when we would get together and do ceremony, there were a couple of times I very distinctly remember something that I would do right before I was ready to let go, cross over, make a big change, and become really vulnerable, to totally let go of control. While we were often sitting around the fire, I'd look across the fire at my teacher and ask, “Do you have my back? If I let go and this goes south, are you going to be there to help put me

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