Russell Bishop

Last week, just after I put up my article asking if you are using your soul's energy to expand or contract, I was given the gift of meeting with Chan Luu, the world-renowned fashion jewelry designer. After sharing with Chan Luu the work we are doing...

Last week's article asked if you are shortchanging yourself by ignoring life's big rocks while focusing on all the little pebbles instead. This week, I want to examine an apparently-small pebble that is actually the biggest rock you have in your rock pile -- the energy you have...

We all know people or companies that profess high values but come up woefully short on the performance side of the equation. How about you? Do your day-to-day choices match what you say you value? If not, there's no need to feel alone -- most of us overlook what matters...

Got stress? How surprising! Reports of increasing stress are exploding around the country while recent studies indicate that stress may be one of the leading causes of disease and lack of well-being. The hyper-connectedness most of us experience from the intrusion of 24x7 technology, coupled with the demands...

If you have been wandering down the mythological spiritual path for a while, you may find yourself occasionally frustrated, confused or just plain tired. If so, it's perfectly understandable. The problem with the spiritual path is that there is no path to spirit because there is nowhere to go. You're...

Are you playing the lottery in life, or just playing the fool? Lottery hopefuls make bets on Mega Millions while the real fools keep making the same bets with their lives over and over again, somehow hoping things will be better. The difference between Mega Millions and every day fool's...

Yahoo! It's Monday again! Did you know that your soul greets every day this way? It may be hard for you to notice that inner ray of light and hope if you're paying more attention to your Self-Talk than your Soul-Talk. Most of us have endured legions of lessons luring...

Did you wake up this morning enthused with a "Thank-God-It's-Monday!" attitude? If not, perhaps it was more like, "Here we go again," as though you were putting on a cold, wet boot. The cold, wet boot crowd may not have even awakened, and instead are just sleepwalking through the day....

Do you know anyone suffering from some kind of addiction or addictive behavior? While most of us think about addiction in the more common uses of the term, such as alcohol or drug addiction, people can also become addicted to emotional patterns, food abuse, or simply to their own self-appointed...

Do you ever find yourself getting just a little irritated with people who can be so darned self-righteous? You know the people I mean -- the ones who are so far beyond being right that there's just no room for anyone else to even have a thought on the subject?...

What's the difference between true courage and the sometimes foolish or insensitive dogged determination that runs roughshod over other people in the name of some sacrosanct goal?

True courage takes many forms, few of them characterized by bravado and none of them insensitive or unkind. That doesn't mean true courage...

Surely you have had someone give you a half-hearted apology that left you feeling cold inside. In fact, haven't you been the one giving that "I'm-kind-of-sort-of-sorry" apology yourself? Apologizing just might be a very unique poison you take yourself and then wind up drinking with the other person.

Last week,...

Last week we likened resentment to drinking poison hoping the other person would die. If you have been stewing in your own resentment, there is an antidote you can self-administer. It's called forgiveness. Not the poisonous everyday run-of-the-mill-I-don't-really-mean-it forgiveness, but true forgiveness, what I call Self-Forgiveness.

While forgiving...

Are you slowly dying in your own self-made poisonous rut of upset and resentment and calling it life instead? Are you drinking the poison of continuous upset hoping the other person will change? I'm pretty sure all of us have blamed someone else for our own upset and then stewed...

How much upset have you experienced in your life so far? How much more upset would you like to endure going forward? Bizarre questions, perhaps, and yet if you are willing to dig into them a bit, you might be able to dig out from under all that hurt and...

"My seemingly-impossible good is happening now." Last week, I suggested that you print this out, tape it to your mirror and see what happens. Did you do it? If you did, what have you noticed? Major miracles already? Probably not; however, you may have begun to notice...

How can you discover opportunity or an unseen blessing when life presents you with what may seem like an unwelcome event? Last week, I shared some pretty intimate windows into my own experience of what happens when God closes a door and how I managed to make lemonade...

Ever heard or even repeated that hackneyed phrase, "Whenever God closes a door, he opens a window"? While I haven't always found that window when the door closed in the past, some part of me has clung to that belief over the years. In my recent experience, I have discovered...

Ever wonder why those New Year's resolutions don't ever seem to work out? While it probably makes sense to work out more regularly, stick to a better diet or work on that bad habit, you have probably selected the wrong focus. If you want things to be different this time...

Clearly, the world could use a bit more peace these days. How about you, personally? What are you doing to produce peace, yourself? Are you approaching your life in a state of peace, or are you agitating for peace?

The various Occupy movements remind me of my days in the...