How Will You Feed Your Soul Today?

How Will You Feed Your Soul Today? What practices will bring you what you long for? When it comes to practices, I have been as stubborn as anyone, finding difficulty meditating or doing the same thing every day at the same time. I remember around 20 years ago when...

The Power of Reframing

The Power of Reframing It’s all in how you look at it. Most of us are past masters at a skill we don’t even know we have, namely, running the data from our life through our pre-existing “filters” to verify what we already expected.  It’s...
The Kingdom of Shambhala

The Kingdom of Shambhala

The Kingdom of Shambhala If you want to save the world, you’re not alone. I still believe we are capable of attention, that anyone who notices the world must want to save it. From Testimony, by Poet, Rebecca Baggett Several years ago I attended a live tele-cast...

Is it your time to roar?

Is it your time to roar? You are much greater than you know. The founder of Somatic Experiencing, Peter Levine, wrote a well-known book called Waking the Tiger. The title refers to a common experience of victims of trauma. During some past threat, they attempted to...

The previously scheduled blog has been pre-empted

The previously scheduled blog has been pre-empted. How do we stay awake in a numbing world? I had planned this week to offer you a poem about the mysterious way we get what we really need from people, even though we often can’t see that until much later. But...

How Do Your Feelings Stack Up?

How Do Your Feelings Stack Up? You’ll be happier if you look at your feelings vertically instead of horizontally. I was with Holotropic Breathwork teacher, Jack Blackwell, last week, when he spoke of “horizontal” vs. “vertical” ways of...