Notice How You Feel! By the way … how do you feel when you allow anger energy to move? Next time you spontaneously - or through intention - allow anger energy to move, notice how you feel. Does it liberate you? Do you feel ten years younger? Do you feel lighter, like an enormous weight has suddenly disappeared? Do you smile more often? Do you laugh? What life have you uncovered that was hidden beneath your crusty old Continue Reading
3 Ways to Move Anger Energy Constructively – #1
1. Body Movement The anger energy surging through us just wants to move. Its job - just like the water surging within a river - is to flow through and out of us. As it does, it will leave us refreshed - renewed. One of the most effective Ways to allow this energy to move is through our body. If you are innately a physical person, you will love this. Allowing anger energy to move through the body can be effective through Continue Reading
Your Relationship With Anger – Part Two
____________ How Do You Relate To Anger? Reflect on your recent experiences - when someone was angry 'at' or near you. How did you respond? What did you feel inside? Reflect on your recent experiences - when you felt angry 'at' someone, an event, or something. How did you feel inside? How did you respond? What did you do? How did you feel then? Become more 'self aware'. Notice how you relate to anger - how you feel, how you Continue Reading
Your Relationship With Anger – Part One
Anger has been given a bad rap. For those of us who have grown up in a religiously tinged society, we have learned to perceive anger as something of disrepute; something to be avoided; something sinful; even something dangerous. Anger has traditionally been equated with the devil - with wrath. What are your attitudes about anger? What are your conditioned beliefs about anger? How do you relate to anger? Do you cower in its presence? Continue Reading
Cultivating Courage – The Practice – Part 3
Last evening I joyously found myself in the opening pages of Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love. Marianne affirms that ‘nervous breakdowns’ are gifts allowing what is not working to no longer endure. I often call this ‘cracking the egg’ – something no longer allows the ‘same old’ responses. In short, they are revealed (what a relief) to not actually work. What this requires – what this invites of us – is courage and faith that there is a Continue Reading
The Wright Brothers
One of my favorite stories of ‘leadership’ and of ‘change’ is of the Wright Brothers. I’m an abstract storyteller, so please forgive me if the ‘details’ of this story are not historically absolutely precise! Imagine yourself … As if you were alive, in the town where the Wright Brothers lived, when they began publicly expressing their ‘visions’ that a silver bird could fly. Ha! Most people surely mocked them, Continue Reading
4 Steps to Plenty – Part 2
It can be valuable to recognize the downward spiraling 'pull' of old beliefs and old patterns of thinking and behavior. Just like the suction that pulls water down a drain. These patterns are 'ruts', meaning that there are literally 'tracks in your brain' that pull you into the grooves of your conditioning. This is why it can seem like 'hard work' to overcome them and create new ways of thinking and of behaving which lead to new results. Continue Reading
Cracking Open the Shell – Part 2
Is ‘fighting against’ the only way to access your true strength? Is it the most efficient one, the most powerful one, the most ultimately successful one? Or are there options? (There are. Look around. Not everyone fights against.) I’ll give you an example. In 1988, at the so-called ‘height’ of my dancing career (I was touring internationally with highly respected dance companies, and beginning to have high profile solos Continue Reading
The Most Precious Gift
I realized as a child that perhaps the most precious 'gift' we can receive at a young age is the gift of someone who believes in us. I recognized that life – what a person's life becomes – is very much a reflection of whether we were supported or chastised as a child. If we had the good fortune of having positive experiences – ones in which we felt good about ourselves and/or for which we received adoration and praise – we are Continue Reading
‘You Don’t Have to Have A Past’ – Principle #2 – Living IN The Now
Wow. Could this be true? What is ‘a past’, anyway? Perceiving that you 'have a past' is a perception – a covenant of belief – that you were subconsciously introduced to and initiated into as you were raised. Everybody around you believed they had a past – that they had to have a past – and so you did, too. What, exactly, is ‘a past’? Consider digestion. When you consume food or Continue Reading