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There's a tendency in relationships, especially close relationships, for us to insist people be how we need them to be rather than how they are. We all have stories, scripts, and fantasies about how various relationships should be.
We have stories about how our significant...
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We've been trained and educated to prepare, study for tests, and know the right answer. The rather large assumption of this right-answer approach is that there is an objectively right answer for everything. For some things such as math, grammar, or some sciences, there clearly...
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I want to continue with the theme of creating a new life for yourself. At this time of the year in the Medicine Wheel, we've awakened a new aspect of ourselves. It has been conceived and awakened, but there's a good chance it hasn't taken form yet so you may not see it in your...
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I want to continue with the theme of offering an intention for the things you'd like to awaken in yourself and create in your life during this coming year. Another way to think about intention is to let the universe or spirit know your preferences about what you would like to...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
