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At some l essential level, everything is a relationship. Obviously, we have our relationships with our significant others, family, friends, and community. And then that extends spiritually to a relationship with nature, a relationship with the planet, and a relationship to God or Spi...
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I'm going to talk about projection. It's a term or a concept that was invented by Sigmund Freud, and then later developed by Carl Jung and other psychoanalysts. Projection is when we take part of ourselves and project it onto another person. And we're unconscious that it's actually t...
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I want to talk about a concept that I called attachment to the outcome. Here I'm using attachment similarly to how Buddhism uses it. The Buddha was big on non-attachment and taught that attachment creates suffering and bondage.
Accordingly, the intention of this video is to learn abo...
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Happy summer solstice! My favorite word for the energy of the summer solstice is dynamic. It's energetic, life-generating, and active. And it has clarity. The time of the day that it would be is high noon when everything is in the light.
During the time of summer solstice, we can dr...
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For this week's video blog, I included one last clip of a Q-and-A session on Zoom for Chapter 4 of my book Natural Way of Being which happened on May 4. It begins with Kate asking me a question regarding thought-based emotion and pure emotion.
Kate (summarized): So it sounds like an...
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I spoke about collaborative creation in last week’s video. By this I mean when we offer an intention, the energy of our intention goes out and interacts with the universe, life, or spirit. What really struck me is that this is already happening, because it's the natural way of things...
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The reason I call it collaborative creation is I'm collaborating with the universe, Life, or Spirit. When I offer the energy of my intention to the universe, it presents doorways and resources that I might need.
An advantage of using collaborative creation is that Spirit can see al...
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For this week's video blog, I included a clip of a Q and A session on Zoom for Chapter 4 of my book Natural Way of Being that happened on May 4. It begins with me answering a question that was emailed in: Can you provide more examples of pure feelings versus thought-based feelings, w...
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The other day someone shared how something that I said really touched his life. And, as he went on to explain it, I discovered that his takeaway was totally different than what I was trying to get across. I had to hold myself back. I almost was ready to say, "You didn't get what I me...
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For this week's video blog, I included a clip of a Q and A session on Zoom for Chapter 4 of my book Natural Way of Being that happened on May 4. It begins with Tasia asking a question:
Tasia: I was hoping that maybe you could give us a little bit more advice on strategies for allowi...
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I want to talk about a tendency to externalize our beauty and our love by projecting it onto people, experiences, and things outside of us. We no longer see it as our love which can cause problems spiritually and emotionally.
An excellent example of this is when we fall in love. Wha...
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A transition that happens as we evolve spiritually is that we move from trusting our mind’s intelligence to trusting divine intelligence. We access this intelligence of the universe through our hearts.
Relying on our mind’s intelligence is a product of being conditioned to rely on o...