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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

Video Blog Summary: An Open versus Closed Energy System In this case, open and closed systems refer to how we relate to life energy. Our chakras, or energy centers in our body, function as energy sensors. They sense the life energy that flows through them. In an open system, we allow in the energy of life and the experience we are in. We are open, so when we listen to our friend, we allow her energy in. As her energy flows through our third eye chakra, we clearly see who she

Video Blog Summary: What brings you joy? Last week, I spoke about this time of year being a time of introspection. It’s a time to look inside and reevaluate where you’re at with the various aspects of your life. Another dimension of this time of introspection is to consider what brings you joy. The experiences that bring you joy change as you change. Different things resonate with you now that you are the way you are now. So consider, what brings you joy in your life right no

Video Blog Summary: Letting A Phase of Your Life Fall Away One of the dimensions of the Medicine Wheel is that it brings awareness to the various cycles of your life. All of the phases in your life have a cycle or lifespan. So, in my tradition of the Medicine Wheel, things are born in the east and develop in the south in their adolescence. They mature in the west and find mastery in the north. The space of the north, which correlates with this time of year, is a natural time

Video Blog Summary: The Subtle Effect of Your Love When you allow your heart to be open and share your love with other people, it has a huge effect on them- likely much more than you realize. If you walk with your heart open consistently, people become accustomed to your unique energy- I’ll call it your energy signature. They feel uplifted and comforted by it, perhaps in ways they can’t really describe. My friend Eve has an enthusiastic and upbeat energy signature. Last night

Video Blog Summary: Confusion is a Natural Part of Change So for many of us, 2020 was a confusing year. But confusion isn’t always bad. Sometimes it indicates that we are changing. In fact, confusion is a natural part of change. When you've been seeing things a certain way for a while, you become accustomed to seeing them that way. And then something inside you begins to change, and you begin to see things in a different way. So your life is oriented around that familiar way

Video Blog Summary: Stop Editing Yourself Have you ever had something to say to someone and held it back? Or edited what you’re saying, they are comfortable with it. I wonder if you are protecting people from what they might feel if we say what your heart is guiding us to say to them. Our culture is largely based on everyone feeling comfortable. People want to be comfortable when they hear what we have to say. They want our advice, but only if they’re comfortable with it. And

Video Blog Summary: Modeling Openheartedness Life is so much more meaningful and enjoyable when your heart is open. If you're hearing this blog, you have undoubtedly experienced the freedom and beauty of having your heart wide open. And having your heart open is contagious. It invites the people you interact with to be open. The world desperately needs people to model having their hearts open and to invite others to open theirs. And yet there seem to be relatively few people