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As we grow as human beings we move through different levels of consciousness. Piaget’s developmental psychology described moving from the concrete operational stage with black-and-white thinking to the formal operational stage with gray thinking. This is moving from one level of cons...
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I want to continue with setting an intention and then letting go of controlling the outcome. Specifically, I want to look deeper into control because I think it's really misunderstood. When I talked about the downside of control last week, I was very specific. We want to let go of co...
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This is a continuation of the last blog about offering an intention and then surrendering the form of that intention to the universe. If I want to be a part of a community, I might say, “Hey, I want a community with these qualities.” Then it's allowing the universe and its infinite w...
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Have you ever noticed how some of the coolest things in our lives just come out of nowhere? It was like the universe just said, “Here you go.” We weren't looking for it, and then there it was. If we walked it back, we probably had an intention of "I'd like to have something like that...
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Many of the Aboriginal and Native American cultures have some concept of a spiritual gift that you offer your people. It might be called your medicine in Native American cultures or your dreaming in the Aboriginal people of Australia. Your medicine is your spiritual gift that makes t...
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Social arenas are a way to become part of a community, find friends, or find a relationship. A social arena is a gathering of people that ideally meet on a regular basis. Social arenas might include a yoga class, church, meet-up group, meditation class, wine bar, or coffee shop.
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What are your standards of interaction? One of my standards of interaction is treating other people with respect. I've done a lot of work on myself to truly respect myself and other people. I have a standard that we respect each other in the interactions that I am in.
The second par...
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Summertime on the Medicine Wheel is a time that we try new things in our new way of being and a new way of navigating through life. We use trial and error to find out what works and what doesn't work. We discover whether the things presenting themselves to us are new doorways or repe...
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I want to contrast true compassion with what I call misguided compassion. Misguided compassion has been called other things including codependency, caretaking, and enabling. But I'm going to use the term misguided compassion because it's specific and contrasts nicely with true compas...
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When we're not consciously choosing what we do and how we move through life, we act from our old patterns, belief systems, and conditioning. So if we're not conscious and aware of something, chances are we're on automatic pilot and being governed by our old belief system.
And even w...
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I encourage people to walk with their hearts open. It's a big ask as it can be emotionally painful. We’re living in a world that can break your heart. Just following the news and working in a hospital, my heart gets broken on a daily basis. So how do you walk with your heart open in ...
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I did a video blog four weeks ago that I called Two Intentions. The idea of the two intentions is that even though we're in a new space and have a new intention for our lives new, we may still have a residual old intention as well. We may have an old and new intention both creating d...
