Are you content? This question is more “in general” rather than a specific moment in time. More specifically, are you content with your relationships, health, finances, home, community, planet? If not, why not? Perhaps you can rationalize your discontentment by pointing to others for your emotional state. There are likely associated stories that you repeatedly …
One of the most complicated areas to tackle for spring cleaning are excuses and self-imposed limitations because they are so often engaged on a subconscious level. Once our conscious mind recognizes that the excuses and limitations have been engaged, guilt and shame are often triggered, reinforcing the cycle. Let’s look at four core excuses that …
As the seasons change, performing a cleanse is a useful way to reset the body, mind and spirt. As we prepare in the Northern Hemisphere to move into spring, it it time to prepare ourselves for the upcoming growing season of summer. If we were planning for a garden, this would be the time to …
There is a drawer in my desk that is a catch all for everything I am unsure of where it should go. Likewise, there is a place inside me where I put emotions I am not sure how to address in the moment. Confident that at some point I’ll deal with them (stuff and emotions), they …
I remember the moment in 2005 that it struck me not only did I not love myself, I didn’t even like myself. Worse, I didn’t know where to even begin to change that. This is where many of us get stuck in learning how to love ourselves. There are some many things we dislike and …
Gut health is starting to get more mainstream traction. A friend of mine sent this brilliant article (long, but so worth the read) about different research on gut bacteria and issues of imbalance. Seems there is some connections between increasingly common disease and the microbes in your gut. Over the past year or more, I’ve …
Healthy relationships are rooted in a healthy relationship with the self. If you do not believe you deserve love, are not capable of loving, or don’t know how to love, your relationships will tend to reflect those beliefs. When you believe you are unworthy and incapable, you’ll interpret others actions and reactions as confirmation to …
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi Many years ago, I realized I not only didn’t love myself, I barely even liked myself. I treated myself as an enemy until the self-loathing became bad enough to …
While leading a yoga retreat through Bhutan, our group visited many temples. We heard frequently of the three poisons: anger, ignorance, and attachment. Poison. Toxic. Deadly. All of which are most typically poisons we consume to kill others. I felt compelled to consider my interactions with these poisons. Recognizing the poisons I’ve carried anger as …
Discovering equanimity is a three step process; once you have cleared the path and started building for equanimity, the final step is maintaining focus on equanimity. The Law of Conservation of Energy, (the first law of thermodynamics) states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one …
