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Science fiction has long worked with the idea of there being alternate realities. In my recent Developing Your Personal Practice class, I used the notion of an alternate reality to describe what it is like to be separate from the experience that you are in.
In the absence of being open...
“Let your prayer come to you.” It is what I tell people all the time when we are doing ceremony. The intent is to get beyond your intellect and pray from your heart.
This also works for acting from your intuition. Intuitive knowing comes to you when you allow the energy of the...
People are reading many great spiritual teachings. This is a boon for increasing awareness. But for the majority of people I encounter, these teachings are kept at a conceptual level. For teachings to truly make a difference, they need to be integrated into your life.
Most know the teaching of...
People are either strong enough to accept you as you are or they are not.
If you found the courage to be yourself, they can find it in their heart to embrace you as you are. If they can't, it is not a good place to share your heart- at least that aspect of yourself.
In close relationships...
We all have or have had dreams for our life. It might be to have a family, start a business, or live more simply on some acreage.
Our dream often starts with a vision. We create an idealized picture of how it will be. This allows us to create an intention and blueprint for our dream.
From our...
While the masculine dynamic involves offering energy out from within as in creating an intention, the feminine or receptive is about allowing energy in from outside ourselves.
Think of human sexuality and anatomy- the masculine releases out and the feminine allows in.
Women and men have access...
On the way to the airport early Friday morning, I noticed the blue light on my car cell phone charger. It seemed unusually bright. Then it hit me. I am going to need that on my trip. I would have forgotten it.
Things talk to you all the time. To be clear, it is not the things talking, it is your...
Trust takes time to build. Yet without it, many essential things cannot happen. Trust usually trumps other factors- it affects things at the emotional level.
You can't fake trust, and you can't establish it at the intellectual level. While it may be a start, all the trust-building self-talk in...
Opportunity cost is a concept in microeconomic theory that the New Oxford American Dictionary defines as "the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen."
I like to apply it to the choices we make in other aspects of our lives. Because life is precious and...
Honesty is exposing what you are experiencing and feeling inside yourself to whomever you are interacting with. So, honesty with yourself is exposing what you are experiencing and feeling to yourself.
So why wouldn’t we allow ourselves to acknowledge what we feel? Our conditioning and...
Buddhism clearly identifies attachment as the thing that prevents us from being free. The pattern I have been noticing in myself and my clients is that attachment almost always stems from needing something to be something it is not. We become attached to things being the way we need them to be.
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One of my favorite definitions of spirituality is: what is important to you. I like it because it demystifies spirituality. Spiritual is often depicted as cosmic, otherworldly, and separate from our daily life.
This "what is important" definition simply suggests that the things we value and live...