During the last Navigating Chaos exploration, we took the deep dive into the challenges associated with both setting and holding to a boundary, particularly in the face of chaos. Think of chaos as the experience of rapid and frequent layers of change, emerging from those expectations in life long-held as stable and predictable. Having and holding to a ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening
This is not a meditation…
.... and it is an invitation to consider: "How else might I choose to live MY Life, today!" It doesn't have to be hard or take a long time. The simple act of choosing - mindfully and intentionally - to pause... and redirect your attention... can change your Life. ... Continue Reading >>
Focus: Choosing an Emerging Future
The easiest thing in the world to do, these days, is find something miserable to contemplate; something that will engender fear and a sense of hopelessness and despair. Thanks - I'll pass! In addition to being retired, I now have the great benefit of having even fewer obligations as all around me closes up and compresses the Space within which any signs ... Continue Reading >>
Stela & Jennifer: Conversations that awaken!
Another layer presents, allowing a deeper dive into the untapped potential that lives in our silence. Stela Murrizi just posted in response to Jennifer Hatt's recent blog on Pen and Punishment, adding thoughts of her own as well as a link to a recorded conversation that she and Jennifer recently had. In this compelling exploration, they delve into the ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Murrizi: Tips on Choosing Joy this Holiday Season!
"How you relate to life is a matter of what you choose to prioritize in your mind with the things you focus on. I know, from personal experience, that what we think we must prioritize doesn’t feel like a choice because we feel taken by the thing we are habitually focused on. Therein lays the predicament – the capacity to notice choice has become hijacked by ... Continue Reading >>
Authenticity as Boundary
Over time and in many ways, the idea of establishing boundaries has been explored. Typically, it is done by way of identifying things to do; behaviours to change; new strategies to put into play that will prevent your being pressed... bullied.. cajoled, shamed or provoked... into choices that are no longer a choice and have become the imperative of another, ... Continue Reading >>
What is authentic? And how can we tell?
The world is teaching us to notice that external validations are becoming more and more unreliable. How do we strengthen and expand our internal capacity for determining what is authentic? ... Continue Reading >>
The Power of Walking Away
I think of the power of walking away as akin to the power of silence. The choice to be still rather than be drawn into the vortex of a presenting option. An option and a choice are not the same thing. An option is presented to me - a choice is something I create. Both of these create a gap.... open up a space which to many may appear 'empty' and yet, ... Continue Reading >>
The Power of Surrender
Below, is a brief recording from some of the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza. It’s worth watching/listening to, from beginning to end… and to discover that after decades of doing what you’ve been told to do, the answer is: STOP! And surrender. Surrender... the limitation of the intellect to the power of the body. Surrender… the truth that you are ... Continue Reading >>
Sheila Winter Wallace: Focus on Resourcefulness!
"This global pause to be still, let go and let god, invites me to consider what I'd like to contribute in these times of rapid fire uncertainty... contributions that will nourish one's body, mind and soul in ways that will transform pain into peace and possibility. What is it that you need to lead yourself out of overwhelm and into the certainty of your own ... Continue Reading >>
Update: Women Awakening – Part 6 – Audio fix
For any who've been wondering where the Women Awakening: Part 6 audio file went.... It's back! It was brought to my attention that it had disappeared. Happy to say it is now available for any who were left hanging without a conclusion. Enjoy! ... Continue Reading >>
Vegan Awareness Moment : Cultural Coma of Food
Wow... two posts in one day. That's got to be some kind of record for me.... in my retirement! I came across this short video clip (3:18) that addresses plant protein sources vs meat. Take a moment to ponder how deep the protein myth permeates our cultural conditioning. Coincidentally, Deb Ozarko's new blog post included a number of references to ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Money, Self and Stuff
It’s that time of year, again. In a debt-driven economy dependent on perpetual consumption, December brings with it the biggest retail event of the year! Purported to open our hearts, for many this is more likely the press to open our wallets in some effort to meet or exceed expectations too often shaped by advertising and marketing hype. Who amongst us ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 6/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: To assist you along the way, you can find visual aids for each of the wall charts referenced in the audio material on the WEL-Systems Institute website. Scroll down to about the middle of the page to access links to a PDF of each wall chart. This final week's conversation is intended to offer an experience ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 5/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: To assist you along the way, you can find visual aids for each of the wall charts referenced in the audio material on the WEL-Systems Institute website. Scroll down to about the middle of the page to access links to a PDF of each wall chart. This week's conversation is an invitation for you to re-awaken and ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 4/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: I’ve decided to share the full experience of that ‘Women Awakening’ event (Volume 3). The related sound files will unfold over the coming six weeks, each part approximately 20-30 minutes in length. These are intended to offer you food for thought; and if you’re willing, a gateway to a renewed trust in the truth ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 3/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: I’ve decided to share the full experience of that ‘Women Awakening’ event (Volume 3). The related sound files will unfold over the coming six weeks, each part approximately 20-30 minutes in length. These are intended to offer you food for thought; and if you’re willing, a gateway to a renewed trust in the truth ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 2/6
To recap from the first post: One of the explorations I came across was to be Volume 3 of the ‘Women Awakening’ series. These were evening events, usually three hours in length, that were intended to be of value to women who were seeking to find a process that would guide them back to that within themselves which was core to their unique and authentic ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 1/6
One of the fun parts of exploring ‘retirement’ is that as I wander through long-untouched audio files, I have discovered many, many hours of unpublished recordings. Due to constraints of available time and effort, these sound files are just now re-entering my consciousness. Given that a WEL-Systems® approach is process and context driven, the ’shelf life’ of ... Continue Reading >>