I’m a big advocate of taking time off from life, stepping away from daily routines, responsibilities and chores, and giving yourself the space for an out-breath. I’m not talking about a long vacation with all its planning and expense. I’m referring to taking a day or two and jumping off of the merry-go-round that constitutes […]
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I’m not into positive psychology or sugar-coating uncomfortable emotions with pretty words. Recognizing and getting to the root of feelings, facing discomfort, and integrating those difficult places are more interesting. Facing yourself is healing not just emotionally but mentally and physically as well. Getting curious about how you operate, what you believe, why you believe
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I don’t know if it’s ADD or ADHD or what set of initials it would be called, but sometimes I want to do ten things simultaneously. When this happens, I start one thing, jump to another, stop doing any of it, have a drink of water and consider what I would like to watch on
I call it Daily Yoga because it’s a practice. It doesn’t involve twisting your body into shapes on a mat, sitting in an incense-filled room saying namaste or going anywhere special to partake. You do it whenever, wherever, and all it requires is paying attention to your body or internal dialogue. Ah, but it’s called
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The distinction made between a good feeling and a bad feeling is a curiosity to me. I’m not talking about physical pain. I’m talking about feelings. The ever-so stealth inner landscape that discreetly directs external behaviors. What determines a feeling being one or the other? At first, you might say, well, that’s easy to answer.
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These days more and more of us feel the call for demonstrating authenticity in our lives, myself included. What does that mean, and how did we lose it in the first place? Is it possible for us to be anything but who we are? It seems so. Human beings have feelings, the desire to fit
Long but worth the read! This piece is written by OSHO When a mood against someone or for someone arises, do not place it on the person in question, but remain centered. If hate arises for someone or against someone, or love arises for someone, what do we do? We project it on the person.
We’ve all heard “you only get what you give” crooned in song lyrics and tossed about in new age seminars sailing through the lips of “gurus,” using guilt-inducing finger-pointing tactics as the path to enlightenment. I say poppycock. Why do I take issue with the sentiment? Three reasons. 1) People often get more than they
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Every place you go these days, people offer you pills, therapies, systems, exercises, eating plans, brain scans, and trips to the Moon to help you change your life. In a recent Internet search for change your life(5 seconds ago), 1,720,000,000 websites came up. Just 3 hours later 2,160,000,000 came up; just 5 hours later, 4,150,000,000.
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I recently listened to a two-part presentation by Michael Meade called Thresholds of Change. Part one is called Standing on the Threshold. He believes we are all collectively standing on a threshold, individually, within our communities, and culturally worldwide. I agree with him. Living in the world has changed drastically over the past couple of years. As
