The ego mind has its uses. It helps us navigate through and manage and transact with the three dimensional material world. This ego mind is examined at length in traditional psychology. This mind is at times denigrated in some spiritual or new age quarters because when left to its own devices it can be very …
One of my clients recently said that he wants to eat certain kinds of food because they are exciting. He doesn’t want to eat boring healthy foods all the time because they aren’t exciting. There is a deep wisdom peaking out from him through these statements. He is revealing to himself that there is a need …
That which causes us the most suffering is also our crucible. It is through our toughest trials and most painful heartbreaks that we find out what we are made of. And because life can be so difficult it’s well worth our while to learn how to work smarter and not harder. The Sedona Method, AKA releasing, …
I waited to write this after being into the New Year for a few days because most of us are in “recovery” from the stresses and strains of the previous Holiday season. It can feel overwhelming and painful to think about resolutions when we are still feeling pressed to pay for gifts we gave or …
Love, any kind of love, love of art, of animals, or music, of children, of our work, of our significant others, softens the heart and allows us to open fully to flow inside. A soft heart is flowing, open and receptive. Internal flow, openness and receptivity allows us to have, do or be whatever we …
There are different processes of self inquiry. Some are designed to see through the illusion of the material world while others are designed to see through to what is standing in the way of our mastering the material world. One of the questions from The Sedona Method that I love is “Could you/I allow ___________(fill …
This little idea sounds too good to be true but when more deeply examined we can see the sense of it. If we are a glass half empty kind of person then we only see lack. When we only see lack we can not see how to move towards our goals and our aspirations. If …
We are constantly told that the more we want to accomplish our goals the more likely it is that we will. In fact, when I was growing up, one of my mother’s several phrases she would regularly say was, “Where there is a will there is a way.” As a result I came to believe …
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Many years ago, before I knew how to let go, I thought positive thinking involved trying to control my thoughts. One technique that I used to try control my thoughts was to have a response to a negative thought that would inevitably pop up like, “ Delete that thought.”, or “Cancel that thought, that reality …
Many of us are afraid to feel our feelings. This is more common that we think. The reason we are afraid to feel our feelings is not because we are cowardly, or somehow inadequate but because feelings are sensations in the body. Sometimes the sensations in the body can feel uncomfortable and so we either …
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