So many people have asked me to write a sequel to “Savasana – The Deepest Rest Around!”. Inspired by the rejuvenation and refreshment that Savasana invites, here is its ‘sister’ … Most people in the western world – and millions if not billions in the eastern world, too – are standing both feet fully planted on the rapidly accelerating conveyer belt of ‘busyness’. Caught in an ego warp of ‘the busier you are, the more valuable you Continue Reading
Stepping Up into Our Genius
When I was at the 1992 UN Earth Summit, the era of thinking was that, to curb the global climate crisis, we would have to fall back to simpler, less evolved ways. We would have to 'give up' so much of what we've gained since the advent of Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution. We would have to become 'primitive' again. Hmmm. This mis-perception arose from a singular angle of logic – one that apparently was the Continue Reading
The Solution – Applying Our Brilliance to a Larger World View
Firstly, we have to care enough to change. We could, of course, let the natural world collapse beneath us and around us, and witness ourselves suddenly slip away - like watching our own mass death. (Who would want this?) Or we can have faith in ourselves. We can – through our healing, individually and collectively – rediscover our self-empowerment, tasting the exciting energy of possibility Continue Reading
Healthy Humans = Healthy Relationships – With Each Other, With Nature, With Self / Source
It is only when we are healthy that we can be the core – the center – of something else which is healthy. Our relationships cannot be healthy if we are not. Our relationships with Each Other cannot be healthy if we are not. Our relationship with Nature cannot be healthy if we are not. Our relationship with God, Source, All That Is cannot be healthy if we are not. What is Continue Reading
Activism with Heart
In the ensuing months following the UN Earth Summit I enjoyed a wave of direct contact with activists in many fields, including the environment, human rights, women's issues and more. To me, these were all spokes of the very same wheel. I had not worked directly with activists before. This was at the height of the road blockades in various old-growth forests in British Columbia - richly bio-diverse terrain which was being Continue Reading
Sensing Your Full Potential
Relax in stillness. Allow your body to become heavy – in its seat if you are sitting, or on the ground if you are lying down. Allow your body to become heavy, its weight sinking into the surface beneath you. Your physiological processes will begin to slow. The electrical currents in your body will begin to quieten. Allow your breath to slow down. You may find yourself drawn to take a few deep breaths. Or just allow your breath Continue Reading
Our Full Potential
Some of us catch fleeting glimpses of what our full potential might be … through moments of heroism when our adrenaline allows Atlas to perform miraculous feats of impossibility through the power of our body. … When all life stills, and our mind pierces daily consciousness … and we see a glorious reality which is … beyond our life here, on this day. A good friend once described to me one of the most profound moments in her life – a 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
The Gauntlet
What is the gauntlet? To be able to see it – to recognize it, to lift the white sheet that protects it, to reveal it – perhaps we must first identify what it is that it impedes us from. Who – or what – is the 'prince or princess' for whom we run through it? Regardless of whether our own belief system holds e-volution or de-volution to be 'the truth' of our trajectory, we can all acknowledge that each of us is Continue Reading
A Heartfelt Thank You :-)
Thank you to all of you who are reading URLight - and an especially big thank you to all of you who are taking time to express your appreciation of it. Through this sharing of a few moments of your time you are a) inspiring others and b) communicating to me that my time spent sharing with you is valuable to you. Thank you so much for this. I am receiving an influx of Comments suddenly - which is great! Approximately 500 of them Continue Reading