Recently I met a new friend! Meeting new friends is always energizing and fun as you explore each other’s worlds and get to know one another. We have a lot in common; a lot of life experiences in common, a lot of life perspectives in common, and a love of the written word in common.…
Category: Inspiration
Where Are You Looking?
It’s long been said – as you think so you are. Your thoughts are magnetic, and they attract more and more of where you place the majority of your thinking. Just look around you to assess where your thinking is focused. I read a good article recently about how racing car drivers NEVER look at…
How Powerful Present Moment Living Really is
The Moments of my Minutes Create the Days of My Life! Listening to the seconds tick away on the wee alarm clock by my bed, I am aware of the fragility of the moment. As soon as I become aware of it, it is gone and the next one is here and so those moments…
There is No Reason for Happiness
…when I am rooted in ‘Being’. I heard this from Deepak Chopra when I was listening to a talk this morning. He actually said “If you are happy for a reason, then that is another form of misery, because that reason can be taken away from you tomorrow”. Any reason for happiness that is ‘out…
The Morning After!
It felt like the worst hangover I could ever have experienced, waking up the next morning to an America with a president-elect called Donald Trump. How could this be, in a world that I had seen as basically good and decent and honorable? How could hate, racism, misogyny, injustice and small mindedness win the presidency…
Peace, Love, Laughter and Harmony
“How can I be the change I want to see?” I have recently been participating in an online course by Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra called “Awakening to Higher Consciousness“. One of the sessions addresses how to live in a world where there is so much hate, hunger, poverty, war, greed and racism. Given I…
Setting Dreams Free
Many years ago I used and taught a technique that helps to make dreams come true. I call it The Pink Bubble. I came across it again recently and remembered how powerful it was. Here’s the ‘recipe’. Take something really close to your heart that you would like to be living more fully – something…
Presence and Personalities
In my inner world of connection with and being in Presence, it is much easier to observe brain tracks as they arise and to allow them to just be as they teach me to let go yet more of that which isn’t really me. Then comes moving out into the world of others: loved ones,…
Melting Into the Moment
I find it so easy to get fired up with great ideas! I love great ideas/inspirations that lift me out of the mundane, the pain of that which I perceive to be not working! Or ideas that have the potential to create new energy, new life, hope, promise of what could be that currently isn’t…
Happy 2016 Dream Creating.
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” ― Franz Kafka Consciously creating your…
Core Desired Feelings
I recently read and experienced Danielle La Porte’s book on desire mapping. (The Desire Map – Sounds True – 2014). In it she takes you through an in-depth process to discover, or uncover, your core desired feelings which you then use as a base for your whole life. Instead of deciding from the mind what…
Guilt: Motivator, De-motivater and Insidious Perpetrator of so much Pain and Sorrow.
GUILT! – is perhaps one of the most controlling functions of mind. It can be the biggest cause of holding on to the past and to the grief that arises as something once valued, dies – not just people and pets – but ways of being in the world. You stay or you do –…
Why Are You Lost?
“You are free and that is why you are lost”. (http://www.kafka-online.info/franz-kafka-quotes.htm) What does it mean to you to be free? Does it mean freedom from the ever-growing responsibilities in your life, or does it mean to live in a free country where you can say and think and do and be whatever you choose –…
Looking for the Magic
What do you look for habitually in your every day life? To know this, you must ‘watch’ yourself, in particular, your mind. The unwatched or un-monitored mind runs on reaction. Something happens and the mind reacts, usually in the same way it has reacted for a long, long time. Let’s say you get to work…
‘The Same Stream of Life…’
“Stream of Life” is a Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth…
Looking Beyond
“The world I see is but a projection of me”. I can blame everyone and everything in the world as much as I want, but until I take responsibility for the thoughts in my mind, I will never find peace of mind. We make so many snap judgments every minute of our lives, that it…
OMG – The Freedom
I am barely beginning to understand the enormous freedom that comes as I recognize I am in a reactive mode and I stop, just for a minute, and I breathe and I say to myself, “This isn’t me. This really isn’t me. This is a reactive brain track I am running along”. And then I…
The Healing of Nature
What is it about a fresh, sparkling, clear, bubbling mountain stream amidst tall fir trees that stirs my soul so? This one is in the mountains behind Alpine, Wyoming. Maybe it is untouched essence that is pure Life expressing in all its magnificence. And the fact that it reminds me of who I am at…
Our Deepest Fear…
This is one of my favorite quotes from Marianne Williamson. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are…
Get the Mind On-board!
One of the reasons we find ourselves exploring different spiritual modalities and practices is a desire to re-educate the mind so it can get on-board with us as we go through the awakening process. By awakening I mean waking up from the world in which we live that is both transitory and illusionary. In this…