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An audio version of this blog post can be heard here. Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer said, “Maybe.” […]
“There’s respecting first your own boundless heart, its wish to connect and a respect for your own limits and the limits of others. It’s tender work that with time brings ease. I know this from my own experience.” Here’s an audio version of this blog post. There’s a premium placed on healthy boundaries. Boundaries are […]
“If you are open to fine distinctions, you can observe that something in you knows the way home, slow as it may be, it returns you to the center of itself.” An audio version of this blog post can be found here. This quote above from Ruthy Alon, a late and great Feldenkrais somatic movement […]
An audio version of this blog post is here. “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” Rumi’s quote offers a […]
As the seasons change to either spring or autumn depending upon where you are in the world, it’s time to pause. It’s also a good time to evaluate as to whether you’ve gone into empathetic distress. There’s plenty to be concerned about in our world. And it’s a good time to rest. Pull back, take […]
An audio version of this blog post is here. “Self help books (or videos) are like car repair manuals: you can read them all day but doing so doesn’t repair anything. Working on a car means rolling up your sleeves and getting under the hood, and you have to be willing to get dirt on […]
You can listen to an audio version of this blog post here. What is self compassion and what gets in our way of accessing it? It seems like an elusive concept. Most of us have not been raised or educated to appreciate self compassion yet, I’ve found it to be a potent medicine. In conversations […]
“The world is as beautiful as it ever was. It is changing, but then it always has. This is a good time to change and remain beautiful with it.” This quote from Alice Walker has been lying on my desk for about a week. Reading her book “We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting […]
These are challenging times and here’s the test of these times: Do we allow our contentment, our joy, to be determined by outer circumstances only? On a recent trip which took me through Los Angeles International Airport, the Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy” played while I was at the boarding gate. It is a contagious piece […]
It’s the beginning of a new year, at least according to the Gregorian calendar and with that comes an almost compulsive need to make “resolutions”. I do not engage in resolutions nor do I work with the usual intention setting, mind maps, vision boards, or other similar processes because they interfere with the natural flow […]