What She Picked up on Her Path
A short bedtime story Painting by Col McGunnigle, Soul Centered Art
Can You Feel It?
Can you feel it? The ground shaking? The great shuddering of the Earth? Somethings coming. Something’s happening. Something new we haven’t seen before. My world has been shifting anyway, in the last several weeks. Where once a government contractor occupied a small suite of offices downstairs, there is now an enchanting young woman exploding […]
Complaining VS Doing
There is some complaining on social media about publications. Most of the complaining has an underlying assumption that we are powerless; we just have to subject ourselves to it. The way the news is presented, the way people are portrayed, the way groups are portrayed, is all put forth by people just like us working […]
SLEEP, the Miracle Drug
4th and last in a series on thoughts from a 6-day silent retreat I attended in August-September I hear it all too often, “I woke up at 1:30 and couldn’t go back to sleep.” “I only slept a couple of hours last night, I’m exhausted.” And many are wide awake on their devices, posting on […]
Set Your Intentions for 2019
Do this alone or with a group of trusted and supportive friends. Have three sheets, 1) One for recapitulation of regrets & errors, self-sabotaging thinking etc, 2) One for achievements, good self awareness, personal growth, aha’s, etc. for 2017 3) One for your 2018 year-end intended self attributes, accomplishments and goals First begin […]
If We Ask Why
School shootings. I’ve written about this before. Everyone seeks to explain, discover a cause, so they know who or what to blame. But we created this. Are we mature enough yet to admit this? Let’s look at the environment we have raised the Millennials and Centennials in, those born after 1995: They’ve grown up with […]
REACH
Another shooting and another round of whys, though they seem to be quieter now. We’re exhausted trying to figure it out. What can we do? The ACLU sued the government in the 1970s to stop mentally ill and homeless from being institutionalized. The state-run mental hospitals, of which several had questionable practices, soon closed. We […]
Change This One Thing and Lose Weight
3rd in a series on information from a 6-day retreat I attended in August-September The field of chronobiology—the rhythms of the natural world and our bodies—is a growing area of research in modern medicine. Many findings so far are things we expected, like how important sleep is, why it matters that we move, get outside, […]
Be a Spiritual Warrior
(2nd in a series on thoughts from a 6-day silent retreat in August-September) A recent retreat opened my eyes once again to how much we depend on the availability of our electronics. We have a tendency to use them to distract us from whatever is going on, or not going on, within us. What I […]
It Doesn’t Matter
(One of the big takeaways from a recent Silent Retreat.) I spent 9 days at the Asilomar Conference Center with my fellow Chopra Center attendees, of which 6 were in silence. No TV, no electronic devices, no phones. It takes a while to settle in, but then it is one of the best experiences ever. […]