Screaming Down the Mountain
Have you ever felt yourself caught up in a negative thought pattern? Your heart is racing, your blood is boiling, your jaw is clenching … you feel stressed out by the thoughts you are thinking. Continuing in my series of articles on self-mastery (see last week´s The Avocado Syndrome), I call this experience “screaming down the mountain.” Something triggers you, and you disrupt the flow in your life by allowing your thoughts to create an uncomfortable and often painful reality for yourself. Your energy becomes negative. In the beautiful mountain air and stunning sea views of...
Read MoreRelease the Past & Create a New Now
Learn how to create a life more in line with your hopes and desires. When we hold on to our memories or experiences of the past, we block our ability to live a life full of the things we want in our future. Our energy is directed into remembering versus living in the now. Releasing the past is simply a decision. It is a choice to create a new habit that brings us closer to what we want in the future. Please join Silver Kim and me at a special retreat from March 21-24 to bring the Spring back into our lives by doing our own internal housecleaning. We will explore and release the habits that...
Read MorePreventing Murder
Enough. I know there are many saying this tonight, after yet another school shooting. Enough. Our children are being killed. What has happened to our society? This is not okay. The time has passed to cluck our tongues and turn the channel, to drown ourselves in our addictions so that we don´t notice what is happening in the world around us. We have the power to make a change, to shift the way the world is headed. Now is the time. How many more must suffer? Thirteen years ago, I sat in a very different seat than I do today. I sat in a posh office in the Los Angeles headquarters of the Motion...
Read MoreNative American Wisdom
I came across this last year while living in Arizona, and find it helpful in times of uncertainty and change. Hopi Elders Statement “You have been telling people that this is the eleventh hour. Now you must go back and tell people that this is the hour! And there are things to be considered: Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your Garden. It is time to speak your truth. Create your community. Be good to yourself. And not look outside of yourself for a leader. This could be a good...
Read MoreFive Steps for Creating a New Now
Originally published in Lehigh Valley Style Online (August 2012) Who doesn’t want a life more in tune with their needs? Any hands raised? When we hold onto the past, we guarantee that our future will hold more of the same stuff that we’ve always had in our lives. That includes all of our stories about what happened to us, who hurt us and also what we have accomplished. The fact is: all we have is right now, this moment. And in this moment, we have the power to create whatever we want to be present for us in the future. So how do we do it? How can we let go of the past so that we...
Read MoreThe Power of Intention
There are many ways to set a goal, and how we mark our intention can take many forms. A paper-mache weeble of red, gold and white was the form my group of friends was given during a post-dinner exercise at a retreat in southern Connecticut. The ten of us, reuniting after a special yoga teacher training program in Costa Rica, were each handed a funny little roly-poly doll. Set an intention, declare it to the group and then blacken one eye, we were instructed. The other eye could only be filled once the goal was accomplished. This weeble, a Daruma doll from Japan, followed me through my...
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