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
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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
Myths, Fairytales, and Humanity
Not unlike technology, myths and fairytales are traces from our past, retained and played out in stories which we call fantasy. (See also “Technology and Humanity” and “Telepathy and Humanity”.) Joseph Campbellhas pioneered the journey into myth. Carl Jungdelved deep into dream interpretation. We still think of fairytales as fantasy, science fiction as imaginative thinking. Though grains of memory may be embellished and Continue Reading
Telepathy and Humanity
We humans are of the belief that we are inventing somethings new, creating more from an original state of less, ‘creating’ things and ideas that have never existed before. (See “Technology and Humanity”.) We are bamboozled by the idea of information traveling at the speed of light, of telephones which we can transport with us into the jungle, of recording one source of information while we’re engaged in something else, or of Continue Reading
Technology and Humanity
Technology is not separate from humankind. Nor is it an extension of humankind in the sense of being something ‘new’. In fact, it stems from our deep-seeded desire to reclaim what we have Known and have forgotten. Several years ago I remembered how to fly. Sitting in a chair, listening to a woman speak, I suddenly found myself, fully conscious, being in ‘two places at one time’. - I was sitting, fully aware and sensing of my Continue Reading
The Incredible Human Journey
Last evening my husband and I watched “The Incredible Human Journey”, a BBC documentary hosted eloquently by physician and anthropologist Dr. Anita Roberts. What struck me most - as I reflected on what I watched - was the hypothesis presented as to why Neanderthals became extinct and Homo Sapiens have survived until present day. Homo Sapiens - unlike Neanderthals, 1). developed symbolic expression through art and Continue Reading
Mental Cleansing and Detoxification
In addition to the suggestions in "Cleansing and Detoxification" and "Physical Cleansing and Detoxification", notice the vices / addictions that interfere with your mental clarity and responsiveness. For example, explore significantly reducing - or abstaining from - your exposure to: * Television * Constant audio stimulation (radio, iPod, etcetera) * News * Tabloid Continue Reading
Asking Questions
A profound way to kick-start our personal healing is to begin to ask questions. Asking questions inherently shifts the balance of power from outer structures to our inner ones. It re-empowers us. It re-engages us. Asking questions is an act in itself. We must let go of the idea - the naïve assumption - that when a question is asked, an answer must immediately come. As we begin to ask the big questions like, "Do Continue Reading