Patience, perspective, and possibility are all born from the love affair you have with rest. Two minutes of breathing, listening to the birds, and looking up at the sky, can be like ten cups of coffee sans the jitters and stained teeth. Five minutes of journaling, yoga-ing, or nestling your bare feet into our Earth mamma can be like the ultimate exhale after metaphorically holding your breath for a day or a week or a month that might feel like an eternity.
Read MoreJust like the rest of our lives, memories must be managed and if you assign management to your cousin, or to your 20 year old self, or to your anxiety, the memories will manage you.
Read MoreIf I choose to mold and shape my mental space with my hands of love, intentions of integrity, and goals of evolution, then my income gets to foster a rich, fulfilled, and joyous outcome. But if my mental space is fueled with anger, jealousy, and delusion, then I have wasted all of my precious income to create an outcome that is drama ridden, soul sucking, and a waste of my human existence. The mind can be your ally or your assassin.
Read MoreAssumption and misperception are besties and together they shove gratitude in a dark closet and bolt the door shut. Because we assume there is always tomorrow and next week, it’s like a permission slip to love less, to not try quite as hard, and to play small.
Read MoreThe truth can be tricky and unlike Halloween, its’ counter, is most definitely not a treat. It’s kinda of like looking out a window, seeing sunshine and believing that equals tank top weather, until you step outside and feel the frigid air blast your naked arms. The glass that lies between you and the weather, or truth, can be thick, discolored, and gussied up in all kinds of window dressings.
Read MoreCut out the middle man and save….save money, time, and energy. Perhaps this advice is helpful for drug deals and fruit, but it’s not so helpful when what is being dealt is the quality of the experience of your life. The citta (pronounced chitta) is the space that lies between your inner light and your outer physical experience. The condition of this space will determine whether or not you experience heaven or hell.
Read MoreWhat we tend to with love and devotion, is what will emerge, so, court your light. Make it a love affair. Bring it flowers and whisper sweet words. Prioritize this marriage because it goes far, far beyond, “death do us part.”
Read MoreOneness seems to be a common phrase thrown about in the spiritual world and for sure a trending hashtag in Instagram Land. “We are all one,” is preached and prescribed as the blanket cure for all dis-ease. One people, one race, one planet, one love….all phrases I adore. Yet, if I’m being real, I feel separate….I am here and you are there, I am me and you are you, I believe this and you believe that, I see it this way and you see it that way, I call it teal and you call it green.
Read MoreTrying to control, dissect, and interpret the moment is a noose around your neck, however, what we can control is where we go, what we do, who we talk to, what we watch, what we eat, and so on. The freedom we reap from those conscious choices is the ability to relax into the safety of our own sanctity. That is the security necessary to release our incessant addiction to interpretation.
Read MoreOur words can be gifted as an offering to spread light or they can be demonized and spewed out as the oppression of dark. Our words get to be our contribution to goodness and so the demeanor in which they are contributed ought to be treated as a red carpet VIP. The tone of my delivery can be that of a Nobel prize stature or that of a Kanye West disaster. The energy behind how we give and receive words rolls in right behind the content of the words we are expressing.
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