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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...
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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...
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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...
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I want to talk about two different ways of interacting. The first one includes predatory interactions in which a person can only benefit at someone else's expense. You can only gain when someone else is losing. This is based on a view of limited resources. It's a zero-sum...
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One of the things that I've really been looking at in myself and with my clients and friends is that when things were not getting what we want in a connection with another human being. It could be a relationship, friendship, business partnership, or...
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So I think many of the people watching this video have awakened some spiritual gifts. And one of these gifts that I think many of you likely have awakened is the gift of vision, the gift of perception, and being a visionary if you will.
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So I was doing this guided meditation the other day. It was actually a friend of mine named Anne Coughlin who does these really cool guided meditations. And the idea is to inquire with spirit and get wisdom from your spirit guides and from spirit.
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When you speak your truth, in essence, you're saying, “This is how I see it.” You're saying, "In this moment, this is how I see the world." Because your way of seeing things is totally unique to you. It's a unique perspective.
No one else on the...
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When relating to or connecting with other human beings, it can be very useful to understand levels of consciousness. Your level of consciousness is the way you see the world. In one sense, it's how much of the world you're able to see.
Your level of...
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Judgment is typically based on expecting someone to be other than who they are, or it could be expecting something or a situation to be other than it is. It's often wanting the person or situation to be more in line with how I need them to be or what I'm...
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Relationships are subjective by their very nature, especially when your heart is open. When you're really open, and you're relating to someone, there can be this kind of blending of energy. And sometimes it's difficult to tell where you end and the other...
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Our minds tend to construct a reality for us to experience life in. And then our mind imports the experience that we're in into that reality. So when we enter an experience, our mind immediately starts quickly micro-processing it and fitting what's going on...
