So What?

I was teaching class last night and posted this message to my apprentice group – I don’t usually cross post but I thought I would – if you haven’t read the book Running From Safety by Richard Bach I highly recommend it.Last night was a very...

It’s fixed, but is it healed?

Recently one of my students broke her leg. After putting in pins and plates the doctor told her the leg was fixed but not healed. When I heard that I started thinking about the difference. It is easy to fix something, but to truly transform it and heal is an entirely...

Changing beliefs

Once we become aware of our beliefs then what? It is often frustrating to ‘know’ what you need to do and be in that place between knowing and the change having occurred.I love this story:There were once two wolves. The wolf of fear looked stronger and very fierce. It...

The Process

When I first began to explore my spiritual path I was very impatient. I wanted to get some where. I wanted to get it – whatever it was. My journey was definitely about a destination and not about enjoying the process. I have since realized that life is all about being...

Retraining our mind

Personal freedom is simply a matter of changing our point of creation from our mind to our spirit. My mind would be happy if it knew exactly what was going to happen on July 10, 2006. The truth is, it would only be really happy if it knew something terrible was going...

Community

It takes a village to raise a child. It often takes us finding our ‘tribe’ to achieve a deep sense of spiritual connection. Each one of us must walk our own unique path alone, but to become one with the universe we must do it together.As a species we seem much more...

Wanting

What is it you want? If you want to be loved then love yourself and others – be loving. If you want freedom allow yourself to feel freedom and then make your choices from that sense of freedom. Allow yourself to be whatever it is you want.The world is a vast energy...

Passages

One of the meanings of the word passage is the right, permission, or power to come and go freely. In our life our filter system can deny us that permission without our conscious awareness of that denial. Until we retrain our mind can’t begin to be aware of all the...

Happiness

Ten simple steps to finding Happiness, Freedom and Joy1. Breathing. Pause frequently during the day and take a deep breath. It is so easy to get caught up with the events of the day and forget to take the time to connect with ourselves, no less our spirit. The simple...

Surrender, humility and vulnerability

What is your initial reaction to those words? When I first started playing with those concepts my mind wasn’t wild about any of them. Humility and humiliation were synonymous, surrender was the same thing as giving up, and being vulnerable was a sure way of getting...