Tag Archives: life coach

Archie Panjabi and Blazing Your Own Path

Opportunity is so often found inside apparent challenge. If you climb in there and rearrange the furniture, you might discover a really great creative environment to play in. I like this quote by one of my favorite actresses, who plays … Continue reading →

Techno Savviness and Younger People: Teach Me, O Grasshopper!

I do not experience or perceive tech savvy and spirituality/just being as mutually exclusive nor do I worry for our tech smart kids. I am grateful to those in my life (many but not all of whom are younger) who … Continue reading →

Bliss, the Brain & Einstein

  Lately, I’ve seen several articles on Albert Einstein’s brain that posit that he was born with a different sorta brain. Well maybe; maybe not. Research has shown that meditation changes the brain and Einstein was known to have done … Continue reading →

Cleaning Up the Iceberg: Taking Positive Thought to a Deeper level

Change is most successful when positive thinking goes to a deeper level. Affirmations are nice but they can only go so far. Think of an iceberg. Pretty ice on top, but most of it’s under the surface, with the caked-on … Continue reading →

Opening the Heart: The Prodigal Returns

Dissolving the barriers to love and opening our heart to “the other” is like any other habit release or goal achievment. Unconscious fear-based motivations must be acknowleged. In fearless, searching and above all compassionate spiritual inventory, we can understand the … Continue reading →

The Love Mug

Several years ago, I received a coffee mug at a hypnosis conference at which I was a presenter. On it is written this William James quote: “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his … Continue reading →

Parts

We all have ‘em. So many stories we see on TV and in films depict two contrasting characters that reflect our dual natures, mixed feelings, conscious and unconscious. Like Oscar and Felix, Mary and Rhoda, Holmes and Watson.I think it … Continue reading →

The Bold Move

If you take time to reflect on who you are, what you want and what you have to offer, then be bold. Trust your gift. Take it out to the world and invite the world to play.That’s what Veruschka von … Continue reading →

Vera, Bucky and the Bright Idea

In a Sanskrit chant I find especially meaningful, God as Teacher and Inspirer is described as “You, who sit on my eyelids.” What a quirky and accurate image! If you pay attention, life will always show you your next step, … Continue reading →

Phoenix Rising, The Ego and Compassion

I’ve been thinking about unconscious anger, how it plays out in the public arena and how best to heal it. What keeps coming up in my mind is a combination of unremittting honesty and compassion. Ego cannot be healed with … Continue reading →