True Blood is a way of viewing life -- the struggles we all face with emotion, with right and wrong, with pain and suffering -- and of learning to experience things as they are, whether viewed in a human lifetime or over 1000s of years.
Be patient with the process of meditation, since like any other skill, this will take some time to master. Make it a formal practice, and it will only get better.
Do you ever feel like you are wasting your life? Wasting your talent? Wasting your time, or all of these things, in a job, relationship, or a situation you are in?
Either our self-awareness is a function of the mechanistic forces of the brain and its structure or our consciousness exists in time but not in space and is rooted in a plane of reality that is beyond (but interacts with) our own.
I got home last night and there was a UPS Express letter package waiting for me. I wasn't expecting anything. There was no return address, only a li...
One of the affirmations for this month's intenSati class is "My mind is set." We say it while we run in place and criss cross our arms in front of us...
One of the reasons we often have bad self-images is because we are obsessed by what other people are thinking. And we think they are thinking negative things -- why? -- because we are busy criticizing others
We hold onto our stories long after they've served their purpose and we're ready to move on. Our ability to move beyond what we know, to have foresight and to adapt are critical to our existence.
Studying the ramifications of the power of belief leads to some staggering possibilities and unorthodox conclusions. Perhaps belief is the engine of our reality more than in just some metaphysical way.
From: Oprah and the "Oprah's Lifeclass: the Tour" Teachers Live from Toronto: The Power of Forgiveness By David Whyte The thought-provoking poet...
Answers, like our true selves, at least the truly important ones, are written within. It is up to us to discover the true nature of our being and in that process our answers are revealed.
One of my best friends from high school came into town with her husband from Northern California so we could all meet their new baby boy. So I went o...
"Whoa! You are perfectly capable of doing this on your own," my yoga teacher said in much surprise as she came to adjust my twisting triangle pose. I...
Sundown Monday marks the beginning of the Passover holiday. Many people across the world will be commemorating this holiday differently; some celebra...
Men are often portrayed as lacking self-awareness, but the men I know have ongoing discussions with themselves about faith, goodness, fear and what they should really be doing with their lives.
We sit on the brink of a federal shutdown. Radiation is running rampant in Japan, the country being torn apart and devastated, lives lost, homes lost....
Much research indicates that the capacity for self-evolution -- of your personality, mental capacities, relationships and actions in the world -- is based on conscious intent.
Horses don't assume that just because something happened in the past it's going to happen again. They know that they don't know what's next. And because of that, they're ready for anything. And we can be too.
When we spend hours in the front of a computer screen, we may be involved in rewiring our neural connections to make our brains more receptive to a modern, highly connected and networked lifestyle.
I have been finding myself beating myself up more than usual over the past few months. It seems to be getting worse... I feel like I'm on a hamster w...
Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we're getting too much of stuff we don't need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to redress the imbalance.
The most important question to ask yourself at this point: Are you ready to move from the comfort of your current story to your next big thing?
I have been finding myself lately not feeling well, having low energy, always seeming to be battling some sort of cold or sore throat, which is not no...
"How many of you know someone who has been killed in gang violence?" Denver teacher and self-awareness coach Ra Maat asks an auditorium half-filled wi...
If there's any theme emerging for 2011, it's getting pretty obvious that this year will be about alignment and congruency. Alignment with our truth and our higher selves.
