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Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): There's nothing more natural and more beautiful than allowing our inner light to shine, opening our heart, letting our beauty naturally express itself, and letting our essential nature just beam and flow and shine. And yet there's this tendency to dim our inner light. We tend to dim it to fit into the experiences and the relationships and the people, the situations that we're in. Sometimes it just seems like it makes more sense to just dim o

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): The first step to feeling a sense of belonging or feeling like you belong in a given experience is realizing that you belong there. Because at the most essential and deepest spiritual level, you belong wherever you are. Because spiritually, you're part of wherever you are. You're part of life. You're part of everything in life. So you're part of the experience you're in. So how could you not belong there? And in my tradition, we call this tu

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): Now I can almost guarantee that sometime in the last year, you've said to yourself that you wanted to awaken something new in your life. Now it could be a new relationship, or it could be adding romance and passion to your existing relationship. It could be a new friendship, a new spiritual practice, or a new yoga practice. But whatever it is, my question to you is, “Have you made room for it in your life?” Because the thing is, our minds do

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): We're conditioned to look outside of ourselves, to the world, to friends, to the internet for things that they’re just not able to provide. So, say we have an important decision to make. We're looking for direction or guidance for our lives. It could be: Do I stay in a relationship? Do I take this job? What do I do with my kid who's acting out? And we're looking for guidance in one form or another. What our tendency is, again, is to look out

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): Welcome to the Natural Way of Being Video Blog. This video is titled “Differentiating Power and Intent”. Many of us have a difficult time owning the power of our being, and yet we're encouraged to do so. These books we read, and workshops say own the power of your being, step into your power, step into your personal power, own the power of being a woman, don't give your power away, or claim your power back. Yet we still have this resistance

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): We need support, and we need conscious interaction to unfold the new, the spiritual, and the vulnerable elements of ourselves- the things we're awakening in our lives. And the good news is, there are people who are able to support these things. A truth that I've come to know on this matter is: in any given situation, the person that you're interacting with is either able to support you as you are, or they're not. And it's your job to know th

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): The Grateful Dead, when describing some of their shows, would talk about this thing called an X-factor. They talked about it being this kind of intangible element that would happen at some of their shows that would take a normal performance and take it to a higher level. They talked about happening when the band became one with the audience and got in the same state of mind or consciousness. And yes, I personally did experience the Grateful

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): Our culture is very outcome-oriented. We want results. Our boss and our workplace want results. We want two-day shipping from Amazon, and we want instant answers from the internet. So it only makes sense when we offer an intention, we tend to view it and measure it in terms of its outcome, as in, "Is the thing we want here yet?" However, when we offer an intention, a true intention, anyway, it creates a partnership with life. And Life, Spiri

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So it seems to me that more and more people are telling us what to do these days. And not only that, they're telling us how to do it. A common thing, perhaps at work, is that there's this script that we're invited to follow, or basically told to follow. They might call it policy and procedure or whatever else. And basically, it's almost like a flow chart, if you will. It goes something like, "When this happens, you do this, and when this hap

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So there's this new thing that's trying to awaken in you, but it's bigger than the way you see yourself. I think this is one of the most obvious and yet most overlooked parts of making change, especially if it's a spiritual change. (00:31) If I'm growing spiritually (we'll use myself as an example), what my mind might think is, “I'm just going to get this new Mike and put it in place of the old Mike.” It's like getting a new iPhone or a new

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So there's this really cool practice in my tradition that I was trained to ask myself before I go into ceremony, or before you go into any experience of life, actually. And it's basically to say to yourself, “I am nothing. I know nothing.” Now, if you think about it, it's kind of an odd thing to say, right? Our culture really values knowing things. We get trained for a job, we go to college, and we study to take a test. It's all about knowin

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): Welcome to the Natural Way of Being video blog. This video is titled “Accepting People as They Are.” In order to accept people as they are, we need to let go of how we need them to be. And so this is where we start on this journey. I'm going to lay out four steps of accepting people as they are. But first of all, this extends to all types of relationships. It extends to friends, love relationships, acquaintances, coworkers, children, parents