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Welcome to March. We're now in the month of the first day of spring and the Spring Equinox. On the Medicine Wheel or Wheel of Life, it's a time we give birth to and awaken a new cycle of our lives. This includes the new things that we want to awaken, manifest, and create...

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I've noticed we have this tendency as human beings to hang out in this undecided state in which we defer a decision. And, we tend to do this in the areas of our life that are most important. You can understand why as it's an important decision and we want to get it right.

For...

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During the retreats that I facilitate, I sometimes offer the teaching, “How much beauty can you stand?” This evolved during several retreats I participated in where I was doing my own deep intention work with what I wanted to create in my life and the extent I was...

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Happy January! We're in the north on the Medicine Wheel which is winter time and post holidays. This represents a time of introspection where we have the opportunity to look at, reevaluate and, understand ourselves at a deeper level.

This year I've been noticing how we as...

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The essence of bear medicine in my tradition is true strength. The bear can be the clown of the forest because it has no natural enemies. So it has nothing to defend and nothing to prove. So it can just be itself. It trusts itself at a really deep level that it can handle...

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We're taught from a young age about how to accomplish something. It's often an intellectual, memorization-based approach that gets indoctrinated in school. You learn about something and take a test to prove that you've learned it.

Then when we get into the work world, we have...

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The coyote, in my tradition and in many Native American and shamanic traditions, is the trickster that helps you see the things you have difficulty accepting about yourself. He shows you the things that you don't want to look at. He does this so you accept the things you would...

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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...

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You’ve probably experienced both sides of judgment: judging others and being judged. Today I want to focus on us judging others. Judgment, in the context of this video, is projecting something that you're not able to accept about yourself or the world onto a person,...

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In my tradition, coyote medicine shows us the things we don't want to look at and the things we don't want to accept in ourselves. The coyote is the trickster in that he tricks us into seeing things we are not wanting to see in ourselves.

So why would we not want to accept...

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I've been working with finding the flow of my life in my personal spiritual practice. I work part-time at the emergency room in Bend, and as it turns out, working in the emergency room can be a really good indicator and teacher if I'm in my flow or not.

Yesterday I asked...

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I want to start with the possibility that you are way stronger than you realize. True strength is accessed when you go inside yourself and find your connection to life. You are in alignment with life, and life can flow through you.

I want to contrast this with what I'm going...