As more and more people mastered New Age terminology, frivolous concepts entered the marketplace -- becoming the opium of choice for escaping the realities of daily life.
Many of us, myself included, get so obsessed with doing things "right," or at the very least not doing anything that could be perceived as "wrong," we organize much of what we say and do to avoid ever being "wrong."
Our bodies don't lie. In fact, they are obvious truth tellers if you know what to look for. So when we put ourselves into stressful situations, we all revert to our conditioned tendencies.
At loose ends and casting about for some kind of meaning to his life, he breaks away from family and home, and describes his discovery and embrace of Buddhism.
Lies are self-abandonment. They are a place where we avoid showing ourselves exactly as we are, and so ultimately they come from fear.
When I am in the grip of an old pattern I don't experience it as alien to me but rather as exactly how I need to be at that moment. So how do I "set my jailer free" if I don't experience being in jail?
Stepping into jobs and relationships that are not satisfying or being completely paralyzed by ambiguity are common outcomes of not really knowing who you are.
Change has to start within ourselves; we cannot expect the world to change if we do not.
We are the two happy misfits in the family, unconnected by blood or official documents, and connected in our certainty that family is more than either.
All of us yearn to be blessed; all of us need to be held securely in the love left so often unexpressed by our families and friends.
Here are five common fears about solo traveling - and some honest answers, taken from my website, sololady.com I'll feel lonely as a solo traveler. Y...
Anyone who has ever worked with victims of various tragedies will know that there is a great deal of difference between what happened and how the person responds to what happened.
Recently when I see couples, families or individuals in which an Axis I psychiatric illness (depression, anxiety, bipolar illness, schizophrenia), is clearly not present, I offer them the following choice...
The best strategies anticipate setbacks, develop options and prepare us to identify solutions. How openly and realistically we perceive problems profoundly influences our chances for success.
For me, the Women's Conference and the times represent another significant change that also begins with "em:" less about empowerment and more about emotion.
There is a passage in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables that makes me think of Rebecca Campbell's installations and paintings -- both are at once familiar and menacing.
One minute a person is part of our lives and then in the next they are gone -- leaving a huge hole in our lives. How to make sense of it?
It's much easier for me to stay busy, keep things on the surface, and pretend to live my life with a real sense of depth, than it is for me to actually go deep myself.
It's Halloween and time to don your masks. What aspect of yourself will you be expressing? Do you see yourself as a gangster, an angel, a beast, or a talk-show host?
Time colors and shades memories in many ways. So, although I think that I remember clearly the day that my family moved into our "new" apartment on November 1957, I probably don't.
Fears are like annoying relatives. You can't avoid them forever, and ignoring them won't make them go away.
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