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Video Blog Transcription: So there's this really cool concept in economics and investment strategies called opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is the cost or loss of potential gain of other alternatives when we choose one alternative. For example, if I choose to invest my money and resources in real estate, there is an opportunity cost of not being able to invest and gain from that investment in the stock market. So that's kind of what it's designed for, then we can look at o

Video Blog Transcription (00:00): Welcome to the Natural Way of Being Video blog. This video is titled, “Choose Your Level of Vibration.” Now, by vibration, I mean energetically we vibrate, and there are levels of vibration if you will. And you've all experienced this. I’m going to call a high level of vibration is how you feel when you watch the sunset, or you do a really cool meditation. Or you're in your yoga savasana, and you're just feeling like, “Wow, I'm connected, I'm

Video Blog Transcription (00:00): Welcome to the Natural Way of Being Video Blog. This video is titled “Hearing Intent.” I want to talk about listening. Now, most of us would agree that it's important to listen when someone is talking to us, but I want to talk about how we listen. To start this journey, I want to go back to how we were trained to listen. I think we were largely conditioned to listen to the words that people were using and comprehend the meaning of those words

Video Blog Transcription (00:00): Welcome to the Natural Way of Being video blog. This video is titled “It Takes Two to Tango”. So have you ever wondered why some interactions that you have just seem magical and open and connected, and both are just having this great connection, and you're getting insights, and it just seems amazing? And then other interactions that may even be with the same person, it just seems flatter and subdued. And you're left with, “Did I do something

Video Blog Transcription: Expanding Your Continuum (00:00): Welcome to the Natural Way of Being Video Blog. This video is titled Expanding Your Continuum. Now, by the word continuum, I'm talking about a kind of our range of human experience between two opposite poles or possibilities, if you will. So the example I'm going to use for most of this video is the range between being passive and being aggressive, and then there's every nuance or gradient in between those two things

Video Blog Summary: Stop Compressing Yourself Recently, while guiding people to open their hearts, I’ve demonstrated how we tend to compress our energy (and love) by tightly clenching my hands together. I continue by unclenching and extending my hands to show that when we stop compressing our energy, it expands into its natural state. When your energy expands, you may sense it extending beyond the edges of your body. This widening of your energy tends to feel expansive, spaci

Video Blog Summary: Grieving the Things You Did Not Allow Yourself The last two video blogs have been about leveraging the energy of spring to awaken new things in your life. This blog continues to expand this idea. There are two truths that provide a foundation for awakening things in your life. First, when you intend something in your life, it is natural for it to awaken in your life. Secondly, the only thing that can get in the way of awakening the thing you want in your l

Video Blog Summary: Spring is a Time to Explore Possibilities Can you feel the energy of spring? Life is awakening and being born. One of the benefits of the medicine wheel is that you can tune into the energy of the earth and life and work with it. The energy of life can aid you in your journey. One aspect of the energy of springtime is the ability to see possibilities. It’s a natural time to explore the various possibilities that are presenting themselves to you. Many of th

Video Blog Summary: Create Something this Spring It’s springtime! Life moves in cycles. Nature moves in seasons. The creation cycle is reflected through the seasons of the year. And throughout nature, spring is a natural time for new things to be born. Accordingly, now is a natural time to consider what you would like to awaken in your life in this coming year. What would you like to have for yourself? You've had a long year of COVID to reflect on things. Surely it's time to

Video Blog Summary: Willing to Have Your Heart Broken When you interact and connect with people with your heart open, you naturally see potentiality and possibilities to explore. It just comes with being open. And it’s natural to feel excited about sharing the various possibilities with that person. We may talk to them about exploring something together. Or perhaps we just notice that possibility and file it in our minds as a possibility to explore at a later time. It could b

Video Blog Summary: Experiential Learning We are conditioned to learn things intellectually from an early age. We learn things in school and take tests to prove we learned and memorized the concepts. We get trained at work to do a specific task. This conceptual learning makes sense rationally and usually involves a linear way to proceed. You do this, then you do that. This is an important way to learn technical things such as computer programs, surgery, and mathematics. Exper

Video Blog Summary: Do you believe it’s possible? Spring is less than a month away, and in my tradition, spring on the Medicine Wheel is a time of new beginnings. So this time of year is a natural time to consider what you would like to create in your life. And as you come up with something you would like to create, it’s effective to look at what you believe about having that thing in your life. We often have limiting beliefs that undermine us, creating the things we would l