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I suspect a lot of you watching this video have worked with being more authentic, true to yourself, and speaking your truth. When you're true to yourself and what you're feeling, you can act from that place. It takes a lot of courage to be yourself, especially in our culture where it...
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There's a practice in my tradition of shamanism and spirituality that I refer to as “I am nothing. I know nothing.” It is a way to go beyond your preconceptions and intellectual knowledge about what's going to happen in the experience you are approaching.
You may have heard the expr...
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A couple of weeks ago I talked about receiving your vision for the new cycle of your life and last week about offering an intention to initiate it. When you offer your intention, it creates a partnership with life or Spirit, and then Spirit will open doorways for something new. But h...
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Happy spring! This is the second video of a two-part series that I'm doing on the Spring Equinox. While this video stands on its own, if you do want to go back and check out the first one, you can go here.
Springtime is in the east in the Medicine Wheel which is where we create our ...
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Happy springtime and happy Spring Equinox. It's a really sacred time on the Medicine Wheel and on the planet. In my tradition, the spring equinox is the east gate on the Medicine Wheel. It's where we enter the Medicine Wheel to begin a new cycle in our lives.
If you look at nature i...
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Today I want to talk about spiritual discipline, as you would have in a spiritual practice. If you've been studying spirituality for a while, at some point a spiritual or meditation teacher, yoga instructor, or book may have suggested having a spiritual practice.
I have found this t...
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I was at a spiritual retreat given by the spiritual teacher, Adyashanti about five years ago. Somehow when you're in retreat, the spiritual truths get in at a deeper level. Somewhere around day three or four Adyashanti spoke about all spiritual teachings being either ascending or des...
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I want to talk about authority in the sense of where we look for direction in our life. Where do we look for decisions and how to live our lives? My observation is that we tend to look for authority outside of ourselves. In our culture, authority is often a relational thing that gets...
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You’ve probably experienced both sides of judgment: judging others and being judged. Today I want to focus on us judging others. Judgment, in the context of this video, is projecting something that you're not able to accept about yourself or the world onto a person, situation, or gro...
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Individuation is a concept that Carl Jung brought to us. Here I’m using individuation to refer to when we're making something ours. During the development of the independent personality which begins at six or seven years old, we're primarily learning things by watching what our paren...
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I want to talk about personal ethics. My premise is that our ethics are personal in that they're specific to us. And not only that, they're specific to how we are right now. My ethics are different now than they were 20 years ago, or even five years ago.
The first way this shows is ...
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I think everyone in one sense or another has had dreams in their life that they were really passionate about. It could have been when you were a little kid wanting to be an astronaut or a princess. It could be later in adolescence, in college, or early twenties.
It's this thing that...
