It could be said that we 'die' many times before our actual death ... We are growing and expanding emotionally and spiritually throughout our lives and at each incremental transition we have to say goodbye to an older version of ourselves ... a 'little death' that is often felt as a loss on some level. [...]
Really we were born to 'judge'. Humans like certainty and structure and order, and to have that we must weigh up everyone and everything that comes across our path. And decide where they fit in to our tapestry of the world as we know it. This is not necessarily wrong ... it's just the way [...]
It's true ... standing at your back are a legion of ancestors who have paved the way for you to be here on this earth for such a time as this! They look down through the ages ... they see you ... they know you ... they have walked their journey on this earth before [...]
Martin Luther King understood a fundamental spiritual principle .... that what is inside us is reflected in our lives ... we live out of the thoughts and energies that circle deep within our psyche, our spirit and our bodies. The sustained dislike I feel for another person eventually becomes the physical act of violence ... [...]
Even though we want with all our hearts for there to be a place of final healing ... where we will be able to leave our pain and anguish and confusion far behind ... in reality this isn't necessarily so! Healing is a journey, and yes, messy ... there is always another layer! It is [...]
It's very difficult to stay soft in a hard world ... we are invited into conflict of some sort at every turn ... we are easily hurt and quickly offended ... we feel that familiar edge rise up in us to meet the world with our defenses at the ready, and words that form swords [...]
It's true that the only control we ever have lies in our response to what happens to us ... This is indeed the source of our true power! Its sounds logical and sounds like it should be easy, but in fact it's so difficult to achieve! We are wired to want to control things ... [...]
We have learnt to value our thinking more than our feelings in this very cognitive culture. Somehow, somewhere, feelings became the enemy. And not only showing our feelings, but even feeling them! But what happens is we begin to feel dead inside ... numbing our pain and sadness ... our anger ... and our joy [...]
There is innate in each one of us a force that pushes for change because it is the path of growth, of transformation. And there also, inside each one, is the RESISTANCE to change ... the part of us that wants to stay small, stay hidden, stay invisible ... Because that is in our nature. [...]
This is a startling spiritual and psychological truth! We spend so much time & energy trying to change ... trying to be different ... trying to improve ourselves or make ourselves better in some way. But the way we are wired means that we're often entrenching a strong resistance to any kind of change! That [...]
