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Welcome to the Natural Way of Being video blog. This video is titled “The Opportunity Cost of Possibilities.” So there's this really cool concept in economics and investment strategies called opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is the cost or loss...
Video Blog Transcription: Expanding Your Continuum
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Welcome to the Natural Way of Being Video Blog. This video is titled expanding your continuum. Now, by the word continuum, I'm talking about kind of our range of human experience between two opposite poles or possibilities, if you...
Video Blog Summary: Do you believe it’s possible?
Spring is less than a month away, and in my tradition, spring on the Medicine Wheel is a time of new beginnings. So this time of year is a natural time to consider what you would like to create in your life.
And as you...
Written Blog: Illusions are Convenient
Removing illusions is a paramount practice in most spiritual paths. Some of my favorite archetypes include Shiva being the destroyer of illusions and maya as the Sanskrit word for illusion. Once we discard our illusions, we can see things as they are.
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Written Blog: The Value of Outrage
So what do you like least in Donald Trump? Or Joe Biden? Or perhaps Hillary Clinton? Amazing teachers all of them, but not in the way we might think. Perhaps they teach us the most when we have a strong reaction to them.
Many of us have been experiencing...
Written Blog: Be Like Water
So I’ve been noticing some things about myself of late. Despite my working forever on allowing things to be as they are, I still tend to force things to be the way I think they should be.
It’s been coming up while working on my website when one of...
Michael Hoffman discusses the inevitability of encountering resistance when you undertake something worthwhile. This video offers clear guidance on how to move through your resistance by embracing it.
Opportunity cost is a concept in microeconomic theory that the New Oxford American Dictionary defines as "the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen."
I like to apply it to the choices we make in other aspects of our lives. Because life is precious and...
Buddhism clearly identifies attachment as the thing that prevents us from being free. The pattern I have been noticing in myself and my clients is that attachment almost always stems from needing something to be something it is not. We become attached to things being the way we need them to be.
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Original sin is a paramount belief in Christianity and many religions of the world. It says that the basic nature of human beings is morally flawed and full of sin. And that it is only through prayers and God's guidance and grace that we can manage this deficiency.
But what if the opposite were...
Contemporary human beings have a tendency to distort information when translating an experience. We amplify, personalize, or make assumptions about the things we encounter.
We then emotionally respond to our translation of the experience rather than the actual experience which often creates...
Sure you could, you just don't want to. You just tell yourself that you can't so you don't have to consider it. When we think of doing something we are drawn to but is out of our comfort zone, it creates conflict and tension.
Plus, there is the fear of doing it. The most convenient way to...