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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

Video Blog Summary: Acting According to Your Ethics Ethics are the values and principles that govern your behavior. For this blog, I’m going to refer to ethics as the thing that your heart tells you is right for you. My suggestion is to care about yourself enough to align your actions with your personal ethics. If something feels off to you, simply don’t do it. Not out of fear or because it’s what you’re not supposed to do, but rather because you understand that when you act

Video Blog Summary: Ask For What You'd Like As we approach the holidays in this most unusual year, what do you want to happen during the holidays? And, are you willing to ask for it? There’s often a pattern to hope the things we want will magically happen. So we don’t ask for it or create it. This is especially true with families and romantic relationships. Often leftover from childhood, we believe that being in our family will just meet the things we want in family relations

Video Blog Summary: Speaking your truth and genuinely expressing what you feel is natural. We only have difficulty with this when we withhold what we're prompted to say. We withhold things because we are conditioned to believe it's not safe to freely express what comes to us. It’s like the thought bubble in a cartoon comes to us, and we keep it to ourselves. When we don’t speak our truth and freely express our feelings, our throat chakra becomes blocked and does not function

Video Blog Summary: Things continue to be challenging as COVID cases increase and we continue to socially isolate. One of my favorite skills in challenging times such as these is to see yourself as moving toward something you would like to have for yourself. You may say, “It’s kind of tough to move toward things with everything shut down these days.” I hear you. But keep in mind that there may be things you can do inside yourself to prepare for when things open up externally.

Video Blog Summary: Two friends and I were doing a healing meditation to send energy for people to unify after the election. Shortly after we began meditating, an idea occurred to me to send energy to help people unify by understanding each other’s perspectives. And then I immediately heard a voice that said, “That never works.” OK... I realized that understanding perspectives quickly gets into our way of seeing things that involve our social and political views. It made sens