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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...
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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...
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I want to talk about turtle medicine. So first of all, what do I mean by medicine? The Native American traditions offer one of the clearest depictions of medicine. Native Americans and all aboriginal cultures were very connected to the earth, nature, and all the animals in...
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When people don't work or contribute, they no longer feel like they're part of their community. When we were back in clans of a hundred people, everybody had their part. Everybody did something; hunted, gathered berries, made lodges, or worked with the children.
When you...
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So last week I spoke about community, and I want to continue that discussion- specifically as it relates to spirituality and spiritual purpose. The best illustration of this is in the Aboriginal cultures- the Native American cultures of North and South...
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So I want to start with a story. So the spiritual tradition that I've been a part of for most of my life always had summer solstice gatherings. We used to do spring Equinox gatherings as well. Initially, we used to have circles in different cities- one in...
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So most of us have recently experienced the time change, or at the very least we've experienced the days getting shorter. Late fall and winter are coming our way.
And what I've noticed about myself this year, even more than most, is there's a little bit of...
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Welcome to the Natural Way of Being video blog. This video is titled “Belonging Starts Inside You”. So the first step to feeling a sense of belonging or feeling like you belong in a given experience is realizing that you belong there.
Because at...
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Welcome to the Natural Way of Being video blog. This video is titled “People that Support You as You Are.” We need support, and we need conscious interaction to unfold the new, the spiritual, and the vulnerable elements of ourselves- the things...
A vision is when you experience a specific possibility as a potential for yourself. It has to have the element of it being possible for you.
It may come in the form of an idea, a dream, or a realization such as an "aha experience." Vision is direct communication from Life...
In game theory and economics, a zero-sum game is a closed system in which one participant gaining means another must lose. Available resources are limited or finite- so gains and losses must add up to zero.
In contrast, a non-zero-sum refers to situations in which gaining does not...
There seems to be this point in people’s lives when they give up. It goes back to that one painful experience that breaks them.
I have heard many of these: getting cheated on, death of someone close, loss of a job, death of a pet, a business folding. Most all of them correlate to the loss...
