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In last week's video, I used the metaphor of a tender sprout to represent a new aspect of ourselves. This could include being part of the community, speaking our truth, or walking with our hearts open. This week I want to talk about considering this new aspect when we're making decis...

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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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When we go into new experiences, we tend to focus on the thing that we're familiar with. We focus like a photograph that uses a focused SLR camera where part of the photograph is in perfect focus, and then as you move away from that it starts to get blurry.

I'm really interested in ...

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This coming Sunday, March 20th, will be the Spring Equinox, also known as the first day of spring. My favorite way to talk about Spring Equinox is with the Medicine Wheel or wheel of life. The idea of the Medicine Wheel is that whatever is going on with the earth is also going on ins...

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Someone asked an excellent question in last week's Sharing Circle, and it had to do with the pure masculine energy. And just to be clear, when I say the pure masculine or the pure feminine, it's about an energy that exists in all of us regardless of the body we'r...

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So there's this really cool teaching in Buddhism, and I'm gonna try to try to talk about it here. So it really applies to using a Buddhist teaching, really any spiritual teaching for that matter, and it uses this metaphor of a finger pointing to the moon. You may h...

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At one point when I was studying with my teacher, I’d been studying with him for quite a while, and one day he presented me with a hawk feather. And it was beautiful. He had wrapped the shaft in these different colored threads.

And I was blown away. It was a big...

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So I talk a lot about integration and the work that I do. In fact, I even call one type of coaching that I do spiritual integration coaching. And typically when I describe it, I talk about experiencing your spiritual connection and awakening that open spiritual awa...

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So during this time of year in the fall, when it's time for a leaf to fall, the tree just allows it to fall away. The tree accepts that its time with the leaf has run its course.

So everything in life, including the things in our own lives, has a life cycle, a lif...

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The name of this talk is “Finding the Flow of Your Life.” So I've really been noticing lately that there's a natural flow to my life, and I've been noticing when I'm in it and sometimes I'm outside of it.

And what I've found to be true is that when we're in our fl...

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Welcome to the Natural Way of Being video blog. This video is titled “Making Room for Something New.” Now I can almost guarantee that sometime in the last year you've said to yourself that you wanted to awaken something new in your life.

Now it could be a new rela...

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Welcome to the Natural Way of Being Video Blog. This video is titled “Looking Inside, Looking Outside.” We're conditioned to look outside of ourselves, to the world, to friends, to the internet for things that they’re just not able to provide.

So say we have an im...