What’s growing in your emotional garden? Are the weeds of fear choking out the beauty of love? This is the time to attend to your thoughts and change the focus from fear to love. It is not the time to wait for circumstances to do that for you. When you choose to move your attention […]
Lightening Life
There is an art to lightening life. Part of the practice of that art is stopping to see how much of the load we are carrying really belongs to us. There are times when we are carrying our load and someone else’s. There are times when we work harder than we need to work out […]
True Wins in Life
The true wins in life happen inside of you. It does not mean that you cannot win outside things, but the outside win does not satisfy without the inside capacity to hold and appreciate it. When you decide on a goal and you choose the path toward that goal, you are in charge. You can […]
What Do I Need Now?
It is easy to live your life without consulting yourself about what is really important. A good solution is to ask yourself, What do I need now? You do not have to receive an instant answer, but asking the question alerts you to the importance of receiving the information. If you walk with this question […]
Comparison
When you are full and happy, you don’t feel the need to measure that happiness by comparing your life to the life of another. When you are empty and sad, it seems that your attention goes out of you and focuses on comparing yourself to others. It seems that we often go to the wrong […]
Intentions
When we attempt to control others with our words for their own good, we often have the best of intentions. It seems to us that our good intentions translate into what is good for those around us. Most of the time, that belief is not true. Each of us has a wheel and that wheel […]
Learning to Let Go
Learning to let go is not simply an emotional activity, it is an activity of prioritizing. When you look at your past experiences, it is usually choosing something more important than the pain you feel which allows you to release the pain you have attached to. You prioritized the new thing on which you wanted […]
What’s Driving You in Your Life?
It’s good to know what’s driving you in your life. If the things that are driving you are fear based, you are living your life in too constricted a way. Your spirit and your natural energy are not being well served. This is not to deny that life has demands we must meet, but it […]
Authenticity
Authenticity is not just a virtue, it is a power. When you are operating your life from your personal truth, your life will work. In the world you live in, it is easy to strive for the things the world around you values, and not for the things which are truly valuable to you. When […]
Mind Traps
One of the mind traps we deal with is the idea that if we completely understood the things going on around us, we would feel better and more secure. As it happens, this is not true. If you understood everything going on around you, you might actually feel more insecure than you did before. Few […]