Is doing something always the right answer? Ours is a culture of doing at an increasingly frenetic pace. We’re taught that if we’re not doing something, then we’re failing, wasting time, or lagging somehow. Everything in our world is about growing, progress, and production. Taking action for the sake of action with little emphasis on purpose or results, […]
Four Levels of Healing
There are at least four levels of experience we have as humans that run in parallel with available healing modalities. Each of these four levels are dimensions associated with any problem or dilemma we wish to resolve. We’ll describe these below in increasing levels of subtlety and leverage. 1) Mental. We all experience many thoughts, beliefs, and ideas throughout our […]
Poem for Life
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered ~ Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives ~ Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies ~ Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you ~ […]
Listening to the Soul
One of the most powerful metaphors I’ve discovered with regard to inviting a deeper experience of our Soul is the 3-D stereoscopic image. So much of our time is spent focused on the busy surface level of our lives. We are focused on the “object” of our awareness. That thing we are looking at, that sound […]
Is Your Mind Making You Sick?
The modern world has erected countless monuments to the pursuit of thinking and thought. We greatly prize an active mind and engaging ideas. As a former engineer, I too prize a sharp intellect and appreciate the power of the mind to create many wondrous and horrifying things. The mind is a wonderful tool, but like […]
Three Ways of Knowing
Since the Renaissance and the emergent preeminence of science, the debate between science and religion/spirituality has raged to a stalemate. Understandably, science wants proof of any claims made and religion relies on faith and belief independent of proof. The most conservative corners of the scientific community has taken the extreme view that anything non-physical, including our subjective inner experience, […]
Tuning in to Your Soul
This is a simple four-step meditation to align with your Soul Body Awarness. We’ve been trained most of our lives to squelch or ignore discomfort in our bodies. For some of us, we’ve sought to numb ourselves or ignore any sensations at all. The body is an often over-looked source of psychic information. Body sensations arise for […]
Waking Up
Have you ever struggled to wake up from a dream? You have a sense that something isn’t right with the scene but you can’t quite put your finger on it. The dream is scary, painful, or confusing and your mind is looking for an escape…but it can’t escape in the dream. What we call reality, […]