Happy New Year to all! I, for one, am bursting at the seams with the sense of possibility and potential that 2010 offers us all. I know that each of us will carve out our own path as we move forward into the coming days, weeks and months, remembering that it all begins with a single breath. The world is changing - and fast! There are times when I feel ... Continue Reading >>
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The Year of Practical Magic
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 9:17 As 2009 fades into the background and 2010 begins to offer up its opportunities, discoveries and challenges, take a moment to consider how you might choose to live your life in the coming days, weeks and months. Pause.. and consider: when December 2010 rolls around and you look back at your life, who will ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Breathing
Breathing is good! Begin to pay attention to how many times during your day you catch yourself holding your breath or breathing very shallowly into the top of the lungs. In that moment of noticing, don’t bother chastising yourself, just stop…take a long, slow, deep breath….and let your intellect relax into your body. If you want to deepen your state of ... Continue Reading >>
Bullying
I read Tanya's posting and had to move away from it. As I 'heard' the small voice of her son, torrents of memories flooded back into my awareness of a time, not-so-long-ago, when her voice would have been my own. Although the difference would have been in my son being the one in the schoolyard being harassed/bullied/harmed, both would have been victims. I ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Experience
Trust your experience! To trust your experience, you must first learn to trust your body since that’s the only place experience can occur. Your intuition…your instincts….your ‘gut’ feel…are your body’s way of offering you huge amounts of information in a single wave of intelligence. Life expands quickly and effortlessly when we choose to pay ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Heart
Be gentle with yourself. Without that, your capacity for compassion, tolerance and patience with others will be a philosophy that struggles to become your way of life. Learning to be gentle with ourselves teaches us to recognize that moment when it is so desperately required in someone else. ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Chaos
Bifurcation is such an interesting experience in the body. We feel two distinct things at the same time: the chaos of the old coming apart and the great excitement/anticipation of the creation of the new. They co-exist, occupying the same space and the same time, and the sensation plays itself out in the body. Personally? My life has been at its most ... Continue Reading >>