What Supports Happiness?
Really the question should be: What gets in the way of Happiness? Happiness is innate, it is the subjective experience of the flow of life itself. If we are alive, simply being, we should be …
Category: Practice
Emotions and Energy
When I read about Non-Violent Communication (NVC) in the past, I saw it as a way to help resolve conflict between groups. I hadn’t seen it as a healing tool, especially not for self-talk. But …
Non-Violent Communication
Much of our emotional pain and struggles in life are due to unmet needs. These have developed through resistance and denial of what is and being trained that some emotions are unacceptable. This is most …
Life Purpose in 5 Minutes
Here’s an interesting TEDx talk by Adam Leipzig on “How to Know Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVsXO9brK7M He skims over the profundity of some things like Know Thyself, which can make further answers …
Feeling is Believing
Recently, I did another workshop on working with your energy centres with Nancy Shipley Rubin. It was part 2 of the “solution field” process we learned last fall. While the workshop covered all chakras, I’ll …
The Curious Nature of Awakening
There are some curious paradoxes around spiritual awakening. Some cannot really be met by the mind. We say it happened through grace or the mystery or by “accident.” But some aspects we can address. For …
The Buddha still had Bad Days
A nice little clip on Enlightenment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOzH1ycoBYQ A few quotes: “..you will not meet a physically manifested being who is in alignment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.” “…the big waves no longer …
Solving Problems
Recently, I attended an afternoon workshop by Mark McCooey, a very successful businessman involved in multiple industries and several non-profits. The workshop covered problem-solving techniques he’s developed, based partly on the work of Byron Katie. …
The Process is the Goal
During a talk today I heard a quote from Oprah I thought excellent. I can’t confirm its source but it’s worth sharing. “When you make the process the goal, the dream reveals itself.” –Oprah Look …
Making a Living through Precession (Bucky Fuller)
In 1927, R. Buckminster Fuller committed himself and his family to working as he saw nature working. He documents this process, and the spiritual experience he had that started it, in his book Critical Path …
Four Mayas
Awhile back, I wrote about the 3 forms of Maya described by Shankara. The way we perceive the world is dependent on the dominant guna or quality through which we experience it. Guna means string …
Why is there Suffering?
One of the questions we all face at some point in our life – and one that may also haunt us for a while – is the question of suffering. Why am I having these …