Knowing When
“There’s no mathematical formula or rehearsed steps, magic potion or digital logarithm, spelled out recipe or pre-existing law, just an inner nudge – a soft whisper that tells you it’s time to: call a friend, water the plants, head outside, take that route instead, pick up the tab, recall a memory, say a prayer, refuse the offer, accept the contract, change your mind, decide to leave, take the plunge, cut your hair, offer to stay. All in the name of knowing when but not necessarily knowing why – just knowing it’s time.” To your Happiness,...
read moreWhat if I Told You
“What if I told you that your genes do not determine your fate – that in fact your thoughts about who you are significantly influence how your body responds and manifests the reality you are creating within your thoughts. This concept is called epigenetics, the modification of gene expression as affected by the environment. Since you are creating your environment through your thinking process, you are modifying your genes as a consequence of those thoughts. In other words, saying – and believing, “I’m healthy in taking care of myself”,...
read moreTears in your Costume?
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” When I first read this famous line of Shakespeare’s, I likened it purely to the playwright’s world of theatre and stage. For a number of years, it served as a literal interpretation confined to the limitations of a high school English course. Only after life experiences and deliberate exposure to life’s greater meaning, did I realize the bard had penned a...
read moreYou are Each Other’s Teacher
“Interesting who enters your life when they do for they make their entrance at exactly the time you are to teach them or they you. Perhaps it’s both and. Now you’re not standing in front of a blackboard or behind a podium instructing, you’re being you. Your thoughts, words, and actions, however the latter may manifest, are affecting the people you encounter. Likewise, you’ll be affected by the behavior of those around you whether minimally or dramatically. As you become more aware, this human exchange grows clearer to you, and you realize...
read moreHow You Discern
“How do you figure out what’s going on? Retreat into silence? Ask a lot of questions? Review every news feed? Get others’ opinions? Listen to CNN? Probably all come into play at one point or another. Distilling what’s going on and arriving at what is true for you is predicated on three elements: information, wisdom, and intuition. You synthesize information from external sources; you gain wisdom through personal experience, and you cultivate inner knowing by listening to your intuition. The challenge is to balance all three without having one...
read moreRemember to Live
“The New Year brings with it the ideas of refreshing, resetting, renewing, reflecting, and within each there is a pull to improve yourself beyond what you now are. A plethora of courses, webinars, workshops, retreats, getaways, and teachable moments are flooding the airways, amplifying the feeling and need to learn, to study in order to progress…. Otherwise you risk what? Inadequacy? Failure? Weakness? Alas, our system has taught us a linear “doing” progression to fulfillment and success. Instead of refreshing, resetting, renewing, reflecting...
read moreCourageous Acceptance
“It may be easy to accept this year ending and a new one beginning. It may be easy to accept making resolutions to improve yourself in 2024. It may be easy to accept going back to work after having some time off for the holiday season. All this is rather a matter of fact, perhaps tradition. What may not be easy to accept is the growing uncertainty of local and global circumstances that are impacting – figuratively and literally – your life. Surely these challenges need a response from you: against or for; with or without; winning instead of...
read moreStop Trying So Hard
“Chances are you reading this are already aware there is something more to life than getting up, eating, working, eating some more, sticking on Netflix, going to bed, and repeating this routine again, and again, and again. No doubt the latter is interspersed with some fun moments, complaints, regrets, and doubts topped with heavy dollops of distraction. You are beyond this hamster wheel – good on you! Now it’s a question of going beyond this awareness to what’s next. Here self-improvement has kicked in big time: reading, courses, new...
read moreTake a Day of Pause
“It is disconcerting to see that after a whirlwind of preparation, hecticness and inordinate busyness to ensure all is in readiness for Christmas – the 25th, compulsion, distraction and programming compel further frenzy on the 26th. Oh, that a day of pause can be taken if only to breathe and rest. No thinking is required although it is introspection and reflection that will most quench and still your heart’s unrest. Take up the unheard of, the untapped into, the decidedly “away from the spotlight” sojourn where Instagram doesn’t stand a...
read moreSwept Away
“Swept away either on a sunny beach or at a lovely dinner, by a fantasy snowfall or a dear friend’s memory, a sweet, soft touch or dreamy dessert; the kindness of a stranger or helping someone in need, a wonderful aroma or the fragrance of Mom; swept away by a massive hug by big son or littlest granddaughter, made teary-eyed by a poignant image or miraculous sound of a song in a faraway land; swept away by love’s embrace or a child’s rosy face seen on a path of wind-tossed trees while walking, thinking, musing, remembering, cherishing;...
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