A favorite past time of mine is sitting at a café visiting with a good friend while sipping on a creamy cappuccino or a refreshing iced tea. I cherish quality time spent sharing soul-feeding stories about life experiences, observations, and insights; what the Hawaiians refer to as Talk Story—“to chat informally” or “to shoot the
Growing up in Southern CA, frequent trips to Disneyland were a way of life. As teenagers my friends and I studied the layout of each Land and learned to navigate the Disney formula to our advantage. During the summer months, the Main Street Electrical Parade was a big draw and a crowed pleaser. Two times
A number of years ago I was facilitating auditions for a stage production I was directing. I young actress came into the room and apologetically announced she had misplaced her sheet music during the flight into town. I got up from the production table, calmly walked up to her, and began working with her to
A Course In Miracles suggests we are never angry for the reasons we think. In this, we are invited to consider how, having surrendered our personal power over to external influences, we ignorantly hold these influences responsible for our internal discomfort. However, if we were to get real about what is actually going on; backtrack
When we pray in fear, we can only attract and hear answers and guidance that match our fear. This is so, not because our prayers are unworthy of being heard and answered by a punitive and exclusivist God—good heavens no. Our prayers are always answered by an all-Loving and all-Powerful Creator. We just can’t hear
Understanding what mind filters are and how they work is relatively simple yet profound. Similar to how genetic coding is contained in a strand of DNA, the stories we create about our experience of the defining moments throughout our lives are housed in our mind filters. The evolution of a mind filter looks something like
Begin taking steps to become a cooperative component in your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness. The best preventative medicine is to do more of what you Love. Most diseases are diagnosed well into the manifestation of the disorder, suggesting that most diseases are unconsciously manifested and become a conscious experience only after being diagnosed.
There was a time not that long ago when people accepted as truth the belief that the Earth was flat. And why not? There was no reference to support thinking or believing otherwise … until there was. Today, though some still believe it to be flat, to most, this idea seems absurd. Yet when a
I was having a conversation with a friend yesterday, about how we can manage our thoughts, words, and actions during these “bat-shit-crazy” chaotic times. I offered up these three At-One-Ment cards to support the idea that, though we do not control the chaotic behavior of others, we do have total control over the chaos of
