There are many faces of anger. Just like the Inuit who have some twenty-two words to describe the subtleties and nuances of what we call 'snow', there are many shades of anger. Let's explore some of these - to unmask them, shifting us into power - our ability to navigate our way through them and into greater joy. Frustration, irritation, edginess, resentment, passive aggressiveness, impatience, cynicism, sarcasm, pointed jokes, withdrawal, Continue Reading
What are Boundaries? – Part Two
Healthy boundaries arise from the level of our instinct. They are our deeper wisdom's way of telling us what we need to do or say in order to preserve our well-being. As humans we spend a lot of time and resources creating and maintaining boundaries toward others and toward nature. We spend relatively little time and resources setting inner boundaries toward ourselves. It is the latter kind of boundary that hones our maturity - Continue Reading
The ‘Map of Emotions’ – #9 – Courage
Courage is the tipping point. It is the eye of the needle, the fulcrum point between the downward suction of debilitating emotional states and the upward spiral of life. If you were to ask people randomly on a street corner if they are familiar with the experience of one thing going wrong and then a 'mud slide' of things in their life falling apart, most people would immediately, triumphantly list to you a litany of examples. If you were to Continue Reading
The ‘Map of Emotions’ – #7 – Anger
Anger is among the most misunderstood and misconstrued energies in the human emotional spectrum. Anger is the 'rocket fuel' which propels us out of the lower, downward spiraling emotions (which, like opening a drain in a sink, act to suck us down). It is the power that blasts us up - into the realms of our true, glorious and benevolent nature. As we begin to recognize the '3 Purposes of Anger' and explore practicing the '3 Ways to Express Continue Reading
Where Anger ‘Fits’ – Part One
Anger is a vibration - an emotional vibration. It exists - it arises and it falls away - on a continuum of emotional vibrations. Just like a sound - a pitch - in a song. Just like a light in the sky as the sun rises, burns and sets. I am about to guide you on a journey that you are familiar with yet unconscious of. In-so-doing you will come to recognize where anger 'fits' on the continuum of emotions - what spirals down beneath it 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
A Higher Spiral of Consciousness
Perhaps the reason it can be somewhat of a conundrum to define what consciousness is, is that … we are trying to articulate something that the mind must grow into in order for it to be able to perceive it! Definitions are by their very nature an expression of what the mind perceives. And so if we are discussing something which the mind does not yet perceive, how can we define it? How can we express it? Continue Reading
What Is Consciousness?
Awakening our consciousness is the whole point of healing. It is only when we are 'asleep' that we can suffer. Awakening our consciousness is rising to a higher level of vantage in our own mind. It is spiraling upward, like an eagle into the Sun. It is waking up to our full potential. It is awakening into a recognition of and a sensitivity to the whole. When we are wounded, we are Continue Reading