Welcome to the first in a series of three conversations with Jennifer Hatt and her guests that explore the potential of the Infinite Dance in 30 Words or Less weekend retreat for evolution through writing. Turns out that writing is not the thing itself. Freeing ourselves from our self-imposed constraints to reveal is what kick-starts the magic in our ... Continue Reading >>
Journal
Imagining Your Life
I recently had an email exchange with a delightful young woman I have come to cherish. As I read her words, it occurred to me that the past continued to be the context within which the ability to choose had become 'frozen' in the face of imagined consequences. So, with that awareness in mind, I offered her a different perspective from which to consider ... Continue Reading >>
Reboot: What’s important to you about being alive?
I originally posted this line of enquiry in January 2020 - and some things just don't go stale. The pursuit of a meaningful life demands an intentional, focused and regular exploration of that which lives within. The invitation for a more authentic and expansive expression of our Being to unveil itself to us cannot be overestimated in its impact and ... Continue Reading >>
Voices Rising
I'm really getting the twists and turns of this 'retirement' thing! Have to admit: I am settling in nicely. Now a first-time Gramma (with the most adorable Little Human in the world within easy smooching distance!), I greatly appreciate the pace of my life as well as the proximity to all that is meaningful for me, within it. And right at the top of that ... Continue Reading >>
Taking Ownership of a New Year
Growth in consciousness doesn’t depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge. (Egyptian proverb) ======================== January 1, 2019. Today is likely a more meaningful day than most to declare: "Today, is the first day of the rest of my life!" I could give you the long version of the long story ... Continue Reading >>
Discovery: Free Access to CD 1
“True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through successive stages.“ (Egyptian Proverbs - Luxor Temple) =================================== Soon, I will be launching a new website for the WEL-Systems Institute that will reflect what I have long known to be true: No one can want something for you ... Continue Reading >>
Incomplete (yet meaningful) thoughts!
Sometimes, it just lands a bullseye. It. The proverbial point of no return. The moment of acquisition of clarity. The great and memorable flash of insight that - in a breath! - changes a world… and a life. The more untethered I become to matter, the less matter holds together as a ‘fact’ or ‘truth’. As I gain distance and it fades into the background, ... Continue Reading >>
Death: Vibration of the Unspeakable
This exploration is a fuzzy one. It is disjointed, lurching from one thought to the next. As I begin, I have no idea where it will end. I only know that now that is not the time to distrust a process of Life that has been there for me for the last 40 years. As I begin, I know it will take me where I need to go. For many, many years, I have focused my ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 10 – The Next Inhalation
Here’s what I have discovered about myself in this 10-day writing process. It is clear to me that I am here: To agitate. I have no memory of ever being other than that as an expression of Being. Even in the innocence of no intention, simply being my Self was agitating to those around me. So be it. To leave no conversation unengaged. Whether it is ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 9 – Living with Amnesia
Today is Day 9 of 10. A sense of relief. Like the horse heading back to the barn at the end of a long day. A sense of peace, as this leg of the journey comes to an end; and a sense of the unearthed provocation that I know awaits. In my experience, it is impossible to ask questions without knowing intuitively that in doing so, new (and often, bigger) ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 8 – Conscious Consumption
Inside myself, the ’tone’ of my own enquiry has shifted. As I move from what I know or have known, to what I know I don’t know, there is a sense of being set adrift in a weightless environment. Perhaps this is what a walk in space might feel like. I am more present to the moment; more in the ’now’ as I release myself from searching and just wait…. for the ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 7 – The Danger of Conversation
When this 10-day ‘Whispers from Within’ process first emerged, oh-so-long-ago, it did so not in pieces but as one, congruent whole. It only followed that once the 7 layers of discovery piece was written, there would naturally emerge a process to coax out its expression in a way that could be generalized and shared. From that came this 10-day writing ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 6 – Allowing the Hunger to Feed
As one who trusts deeply in the intuitive… that inner truth often devoid of outer evidence…. I am naturally drawn to what is called prophecy or the pre-cognitive. How could it be otherwise? Perhaps the difference lies, for me, in the source of the precognition: my own or that of another. When that of another, the same principles apply as they do for any ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 5 – Fluidity of Truth
I woke up with a start at 3:30 am. And now, as I approach 5:00 am and am still awake, the message is clear to me: get up! Stop thinking about engaging and just engage. And so, here I am. I’ve read and re-read your responses many, many times. With each pass, I am attuned to my own experience of myself through the read. I recognize certain things about ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 4 – Follow the Agitation
It seems like I’ve been in this exploration forever…… Each of you, as an expression of some aspect of my own consciousness, is calling up within me a different facet of this prism of exploration. I read and re-read your thoughts many times, allowing what moves to stabilize before I move on. I am choosing to be in this process with a relaxed rigour: ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 3 – Provocation
There are no accidents in the intelligent Universe that is my reality. I started my day by listening to Yuval Noah Harari in conversation about the two most important skills for the rest of your life. As I listened, two significant distinctions emerged for me: the boundaries between mind (the Signal of the I AM that I am) and body (the exquisite, organic ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 2 – Perception, Judgement, Creation
Thank you all, for being here. It is evident to me that the collective mind that we are, knows something. It is evident to me that we are willing to know what we know, in the face of the absence of any evidence for ‘it’ to be known or ‘real’. I am reminded of a summer storm. The sun is still out… but the wind changes. It ‘feels’ different; blows differently; ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 1
I begin with much appreciation for your enthusiastic willingness to be part of this journey with me. Each of you already knows that those who step into our worlds are in some way a living expression of some aspect of our own consciousness. I enter this journey with all of you with the recognition that what calls to me requires… and demands!…. that I engage a ... Continue Reading >>
It’s not always easy… or fun
In my decades of working with others, I have witnessed the many come and go. Arriving enthusiastically, seeking resolution and hoping to find a formula - and departing quickly and in great disappointment at the realization that 'not here' is the outcome of their search; moving on in that search, to the next stop along the path of trusting that what they ... Continue Reading >>
Promise: Echo of Another Time?
As a first-time, soon-to-be grandmother, I am becoming more acutely aware of my world. I ponder what can or will likely touch the life of this precious little Life that is making his way to us. In that query, I am filled with the sense of a great and joyous expectation… and an underlying, nagging feeling that all is not right in the world that ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Designing Your Life
I remember well, those days when I believed that I had to plan my life; to carefully map out the trajectory of my evolution rather than simply trust the process of my own evolving. I remember well the degree of detachment that was required in order for me to be able to do what was required; to stay the course of my own intention; and to make the sacrifices ... 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 >>
Do No Harm
5:00 am and the message from the birds is clear: my day has begun. I stand and breathe in my morning; expansive view of the Gatineau Hills from my 8th floor window; observing the rising sun just out of my line of sight, yet evidence of its movement fills the morning sky with those soft pink and grey hues that mark the start of another day. The unusual ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Children and Potential
One thing I’ve learned over more than 25 years of working with others - and from being a Mom,myself - is that we can be very touchy about our kids! Not so much because it’s really about any particular child but much more because as parents, we so strongly identify ourselves by who our children have become. Are my kids well-behaved, doing well in school, ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Intelligence of Pain
So many in so much pain. Physical pain. Emotional pain. Spiritual pain. We have been relentlessly trained to consider the experience of pain as the enemy, seeking to eliminate it and banish it from our lives. We use drugs to numb ourselves to its presence. We accept violent and invasive procedures to the body to cut it out of our lives. Perhaps what ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane Mondays!
Because the WEL-Systems® body of knowledge is intended to open a gateway to a paradigm change, the information that has developed over the years is at a level of thinking that bypasses strategies and behaviours. What that means is that who I ‘am’ at the first reading or listening, may not be who I have become at the opportunity of the next. ... Continue Reading >>
Life called – I answered
Lots on the go and new, compelling observations coming into my awareness. Today, I found myself listening to the opening remarks on Day 1 of the 6-day Manifesting a Meaningful Life experience. There was a time when these were recorded… and I never got around to doing anything meaningful with those recordings. Today, I played ’spin the dial’ and what ... Continue Reading >>
Lies, lies and alternative truths
Lies, lies and more lies. Or are those just alternative truths? I’ve stopped watching/reading/listening to what’s going on in (American) politics. Not because of the lies…. or ‘alternative facts’… but because I can’t bear to witness, yet again, how unable we are to act mindfully in the face of such lies. How desperate we are to WANT those we put in ... Continue Reading >>
The Absence of ‘the next’…
I know that I am standing at the precipice of…. something. Not sure what. Like discovering that what I’m looking for is just off to the left and not in front of me…. so I have to turn my head, in some way. It’s right there - I just need to turn my head to see it. I also know that despite my increasing disinterest in this perceived 'reality', I know that ... Continue Reading >>
Defining the Search
I woke up this morning, thinking: you will never find what you’re not looking for. That which I seek - the willingness and ability to leave ’the creation’ and know mySelf as Creator - is, in general, NOT sought out by the vast, vast majority of those with whom I have long shared a ‘reality’. In addition, that which I seek absolutely requires/demands that ... Continue Reading >>
Decloaking 20-CD’s: download now available
Decloaking and Living Authentically is a facilitated, five-day intensive experience for accelerated personal evolution. For many, many years, it has been the pivotal point for acquiring capacity to claim a new paradigm for living; launched from the solid platform of a process that appeases the intellect while feeding the Soul. Not an easy thing to ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 10
Good morning! Here I am on Day 10: The first day of the rest of my life. I think of the completion of this cycle of enquiry as the end of a long, steady and deep inhalation… of my Self. Now, I pause… and in this continuing cycle… I enter into the long, slow and deep exhalation as I choose to live my life as an expression of the integration that now ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 9
Good morning! Day 9: the penultimate, in this journey of inner exploration. We are almost complete, ever mindful that we can begin anew anytime we choose. There is never an end - only pauses along the way to live out discoveries and re-awaken the desire for yet another deep dive into the unclaimed possibilities. How does it go? The purported Chinese ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 8
Good morning! Inside myself, the ’tone’ of my own enquiry has shifted. As I move from what I know or have known, to what I know I don’t know, there is a sense of being set adrift in a weightless environment. Perhaps this is what a walk in space might feel like. I am more present to the moment; more in the ’now’ as I release myself from searching and ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 7
Good morning! In my own life and with others, I became aware of patterns and how these patterns, themselves, become the very fabric of our existence; aware that they come to shape our very lives into what we come to call ‘reality’. These patterns come to be relied upon as not only the right thing and the appropriate thing, but the essential thing for our ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 6
Good morning! It has been the longest 5 days of my life! :) Great surges of insight! Deep undulations, reminiscent of those from so long ago. Churning and swirling and twisting….. constant movement of the Soul, as is to be expected when a Great Journey is undertaken. And in this moment, calm. This is what it must be to enter into the eye of a ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 5
Good morning, All! Today, I feel the wrenching. And the truth is: sometimes, when something has been fixed for so long, the wrenching is required for it to be dislodged. A very, very old wave activates as I notice an inner voice speaking to me, in the timbre and cadence of a much younger me, chastising that I have gone too far. That I have asked too ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 4
Good morning! As I settle comfortably at the keyboard… first coffee of the day gratefully within easy reach… I am mindful of the sounds of a new day beginning, as they stream through the open window behind me. The light of dawn and dusk hold a special promise. Light softened yet still allowing for all to be seen, there is a peace as the harsh light of day ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 3
Good morning, All! The dawning of Day 3 and already, it feels as if we have been here for weeks! Clearly, I am in the right place, at the right time and with the right people. With every thought you share, my own expand. The awakening of internal cues is palpable. As I read, I am aware of the great courage that it takes to dive so quickly into the ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 2
Good morning! An earlier start to my day, today, as I am off to Carleton U for a lecture series on astronomy. Yup, not much to do with anything I usually do, and I’m loving it! What great joy to read your insights about yourself, revealed and shared! I have long known - for myself and in my life - that in the choice between willing and able, willing is ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 1
I begin with much appreciation for your enthusiastic willingness to be part of this journey with me. Many of you already know that those who step into our worlds are, in some way, a living expression of an as-yet unrecognized aspect of our own consciousness. I enter this journey with all of you with the recognition that what calls to me requires… and ... Continue Reading >>
Women’s Retreat with Louise: Nov. 22, 23 & 24, 2016
It’s that time of year, again! With the rapid approach of Fall, my thoughts turn to the annual Emerging Futures retreat for women; at the Fairmont Chateau Montebello. The Sharp Edge of Your Own Evolution: Contouring the Curve of Creation November 22, 23 & 24, 2016 Such an odd way to define this event! How do we make sense of recognizing that our own ... Continue Reading >>
You’re Invited: 10-day Writing Adventure!
I recently had the great privilege of stepping into the ‘Whispers from Within’ 10-day writing experience with a small group of women. These women were asked to be on this journey with me, bringing the full measure of their own concurrent evolution as I chose to dive more deeply into my own. The results for us all, have been outstanding and ... Continue Reading >>
The Meaning of Life
How presumptuous of me : to think that I have figured out the meaning of life. And yet, to be sure, I have figured it out for mySelf. Things change. There was a time when I was driven by a bottomless well of caring that my potential, and yours... as human beings... was given the chance to be fully expressed. In that, I felt it was both meaningful and ... Continue Reading >>
The Mother/Daughter Dance
Tomorrow will be my Mom's 91st birthday. Inside the strong, straight body that moves her through my world, her mind continues to fade into a world that only she can navigate. As I prepare to make the drive to spend time with her, I am grateful that she is happy, healthy and at peace with her reality. Today, as a result of conversations with another ... Continue Reading >>
The Seeds of Potential: Living In the Inclusive ‘Or’
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” (Aristotle) From one day to the next, we are pressed into considering so many diverging and often conflicting thoughts. For most of us, what we have been taught to do is to shut out that which neither reflects what we already know nor builds incrementally on ... Continue Reading >>
Timelessness….
Yesterday, was a really lovely day! In my cozy sanctuary, my Ohana gathered to be in the good company of each other. My always-funny, sometimes-outrageous and ever-loving sons; their wisely-chosen and equally-compelling partners; and long-time, close friends gathered for good food, great conversation and side-splitting stories of long-ago mishaps and ... Continue Reading >>
One of My (Many!) Moments of Truth…
The Women Gathering retreat - at the recent Fairmont Chateau Montebello in November - has left me increasingly curious about my/your/our future. (Stay tuned: Blog post to come re the discovery of a 'Free Fall' exploration and its impact.) Much has stayed with me from that experience, not the least of which is the thought, below: We are rapidly ... Continue Reading >>
When Our Illusions Collapse: Awakened Ownership (Part 3/3)
Through those decades of my own evolution, as well as more than 25 years of working with others, I hold this to be the most challenging and difficult part of this exploration, around our illusions: With ownership, we take hold of mindful and meaningful creation. Without ownership, we cannot let go of the frantic hope that some ‘other’ will create it for ... Continue Reading >>
When Our Illusions Collapse: Ground Zero (Part 2/3)
We can talk about it… ponder it… even anticipate it…. but once we’re in it, our bodies pack a powerful punch in awakening us to a new reality. When our illusions collapse, beyond the internal voices that seek to capture our attention, the effect is most potent in its visceral cues as life as we've known it, begins to fracture and separate; causing the body ... Continue Reading >>
When Our Illusions Collapse: Do they make a sound? (Part 1/3)
I grew up in the post-war, baby-booming ‘golden days’ of cookie-cutter housing projects, rayon blouses, muscle cars and the infinite miracle of plastic. That war-to-end-all-wars was over and it was time to build; to create and invent; to design high-consumption, mass-expression lives. The feeding frenzy went on for decades… imbedding in two generations ... Continue Reading >>
The Journey to ‘Radical’
Be mindful of the company you keep. My world - and yours - is shaped by the conversations that we have and the people with whom we choose to have them. For my world to expand, I must first expand my conversations. I don’t know about you but I have long tired of the blah blah blah... as we continue on, deep in our denial and mindless march to the edge of the ... Continue Reading >>
Refusing to Disappear: Living Large
My choice today, for myself and in sharing with all of you, is called 'Living Large in an Increasingly Smaller World'. It is not what we do, it is who we believe we can become. As our world begins to feel smaller and tighter, rather than curl in on ourselves, we must expand into our Selves. For a new context for evolution, click here to read the ... Continue Reading >>
Men Waking Up
Recently, I was in contact with a man who has been my pen-pal for more than ten years. We met during one of the many programs I have attended and for whatever reason, chose to stay in touch through the years. We live on different sides of the world so, although I consider him my friend, I have not seen him in person since that first meeting. In a recent ... Continue Reading >>
Sexual, Sensual and Spiritual Beings: Penetrating Coma
The pervasive and relentless sexualization of women and children has created a downward spiral for us all. There is no power in judging this or railing against it. The power lies in knowing that this is not the world I want to leave as my legacy for my children... and then, act accordingly. This exploration was seeded more than three years ago. I would ... Continue Reading >>
Seeing Through the Eye of the Storm
Recently, there has been lots of turmoil. Lots of change and uncertainty. Life coming and Life going away. Many new ideas and considerations. New and different paths from which to choose, needing first to explore and discover the underlying mechanism for choosing that will enliven my 'being'. Random thoughts coming and going, some taking root and some ... Continue Reading >>
Women in Collective: Redefining Networking
Now in business for more than 20 years , I’ve lost count of how many early mornings and evenings I’ve spent in the presence of other women in business. Over those many years, I've also had the opportunity to speak to many groups of women (professional groups, corporate groups, personal growth conferences, wellness conferences, etc.) and engage with them, ... Continue Reading >>
Speaking/Listening: The Power of Flow
Strange... I don't seem to notice anymore where one year ends and the next, begins! For me, it is an endless flow - with fewer and fewer distinctions throughout that flow to distract me from the flow, itself, as the force of change. I noticed long ago that moments of passage - like birthdays, anniversaries, etc. - held no meaning for me, despite the value ... Continue Reading >>
I am changed
I’ve been ‘at this’ for a very long time (since I was 18 and I’m 61). You would think that, by now, I’d have a handle on it and would have become adept at the strategies of living my life in this way. Truth is, that is not true. These last three days have found me in the intensive conversations that are the platform for certification as a CODE Model ... Continue Reading >>
Awakening… to what?
Like millions of others on the planet, I often turn to Facebook and allow myself to wander around and see what’s up in the world. As one who is both mindful of the notion of being ‘awake’ or ‘awakening’ - for myself and in my engagements with others - I am always willing and able to consider that one new insight or that single compelling thought that just ... Continue Reading >>
Catching Up to MySelf
I just realized that my last posting here was July 5th. Four days later, my 86YO mother fell and broke her hip... and my life changed. Exactly one week later, my teenage step-daughter was taken to the hospital in a coma, where she remained so for 12 days. An extensive stay in intensive care led to what now, may likely be a long and slow recovery. And ... Continue Reading >>
Change or Die!
I am having one of those moments when I am either seeing polar opposites or am seeing in polar opposites. I am so mindful of the deep, urgent and massive desire that exists for an acceleration in the evolution of consciousness of the masses. The outcomes we are co-creating as a global collective are moving rapidly down a track that will kill us all. Gaia ... Continue Reading >>
Everything old is new again….
Today, I received a request from a PhD candidate in Sociology (Sydney, Australia) to quote a section from an article that I had written some time ago. It was such a gift to me to have been reminded of those thoughts from what seems like ages ago... that I might find my way through these changes, in these times, in my own life. Funny, don't you think? My ... Continue Reading >>
Women, Breast Cancer, Food and Men
The entangled threads of my own thoughts tug at notions of women and leadership; women and breast cancer; the need women seem to have to apologize when not agreeing or when finding something lacking; food and its stranglehold on women and their bodies; and last, but most definitely not least, women and men. Were these neatly laid out in some pattern or ... Continue Reading >>
Women in Business: Shaping Culture
I've been gathering my thoughts in anticipation of today's eWomenNetwork Success Institute event. I look forward to this conversation, not only in terms of what I want to share with others but in recognition that I will discover so much more about myself, from this adventure! I left my j-o-b in the fall of 1990, a few short weeks after realizing that as ... Continue Reading >>
Women and Business
I've noticed that my interests are all over the map! It is less knowing what moves me and more about discovering 'what else' might move me, into action or the desire to engage in some way. Recently, Anne Day, Founder of the Company of Women, posted her opening remarks in the latest Newsletter... which led me to discover something about myself, as a ... Continue Reading >>
Women Gathering in small groups, talking….
I was visiting the WGGG (Women Gathering Google Group) today and was reminded of this recording from earlier in 2010. As I listened, I heard new things - not because they're new but because I am. Women's Voices - Women's Choices is a testament to the simplicity of the power of women. Maybe you'll find something new, for you, too. ... Continue Reading >>
Space, Movement and Flow: The Next Wave
I’ve known for some time, now, that breathing is good! Not because of the effects of the physical breath on my physical body, but because the very process of breathing graces me with a constant reminder of my own, uninterrupted potential for the next wave of expression. In that, my state of being is infinite; as are my intentions and outcomes, beyond any ... Continue Reading >>
Urgency vs Panic
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to spend time with some women who are new to me, in my life. I have become accustomed to spending time with people who know me well through abundant personal contact. I sometimes forget that what I intend to say and what others hear, don’t always match. Such was my discovery during this recent conversation. As we ... Continue Reading >>
A Meaningfully Sustainable Life/World
It's been an incredible few weeks. Lots of 'stuff' going on; so much creativity and innovation; so many new ideas, projects, conversations, programs, experiences, etc. coming into expression, leaving me breathless with the potential revealed... ready and waiting for me to engage the next wave! Does it get any better than this? Last week, I spent two days ... Continue Reading >>
Sacred Space in Cyberspace
Slightly more than 18 months have passed since I had the urge to create the Women Gathering Google Group - a place for women to dare to be themselves, for its own sake, regardless of who may see. Over these 18 months, I have laughed, cried, grieved, celebrated and delighted in the presence of those - most unknown to me, personally - who have chosen to show ... Continue Reading >>
Scorecards
It's been a long time since I've considered the notion of 'keeping score'... maybe because now, the games I play are intended exclusively for my own accelerated evolution, and not much else! Is that a good thing? A bad thing? I have no idea - I only know that I love being me. I think that's a clue. A couple of weeks ago, I was reminded of the notion of ... Continue Reading >>
Talking to Myself: Paradigm Shifts
I do that sometimes: have chats with myself, fingers to keyboard... wondering just what I have to say to myself that I've not yet noticed. Know what I mean? One of those explorations is below. Now that it's here - having bubbled up from the invisible to the visibility of these words on a screen/page - I can move on. Maybe, as you read, you will move on, ... Continue Reading >>
Losing Faith in Organized Religion
Once again, allegations of institutionalized child abuse perpetrated by the clergy of the Catholic Church fill the news. This time, Europe is awakening to what we for all too long have not wanted to see or hear or know as a truth in our own experiences: we are a species that cannibalizes our young. I've written about this in many other times and spaces. ... Continue Reading >>
Entrepreneurial WELbeing
How do I compress 1000 thoughts, streaming at mach speed through the living organism of this quantum biological processor, into coherent and successive statements that will make sense to the intellect? In this moment, I know fully the visceral meaning of that expression of “... a picture being worth a thousand words! “ So many pictures - and far too many ... Continue Reading >>
Half measures = Whole Life ?
I woke up this morning to this thought: half measures will never get me a whole life. Half a marathon will never get me across the finish line. Half a recipe will never get me a pan of brownies. Half way will never get me to Hawaii! Half of my attention will never get me a whole understanding. How many times in my life have I longed for... strived ... Continue Reading >>
CODE Model Coaching™: Midwifery for the Soul?
I've never been a big fan of the notion of 'coaching'. Way too guy-like... sports-like... and far too reminiscent of the guy standing on the sidelines, running it all while observing the players on the field - the ones engaging life! Guiding, directing; chastising, praising... and all the rest of it that goes with it. Short conversations with clear ... Continue Reading >>
When does less become more?
When DOES less become more? When does slowing down speed up my evolution? When can doing nothing be exactly the right thing to do? This may be a moment that will pass, or it could be the impending turn in the road that will take me to a new destination. As I take this breath and lay fingers to keyboard, I have no idea which truth will become my own. I ... Continue Reading >>
WEL-Systems: Discovering what it is by eliminating what it’s not!
Wow... here I sit, wondering: what will it take? What will be the 'right' combination of words, ideas, notions, experiences, outcomes, tools, frameworks... moments!... that will finally have it be clear; that will finally make it easy and effortless to understand what WEL-Systems® is! 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of this amazingly powerful, ... Continue Reading >>
When does virtue become a vice?
I am so mindful of reactions to and language around those moments when women are perceived to be less than 'patient' and 'understanding' and 'caring'. What exactly does that mean? In a recent chat with a friend and colleague, the thought that kept coming into my awareness was about 'patience is a virtue'... leading me to wonder: when does a virtue become ... Continue Reading >>
A Gift to Yourself: Intimate and meaningful conversations
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 >>
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 >>
“My people…”
November has been an incredible month for me - not just because of its intensity but because of the acceleration of my own evolution, as a result of it! November began with the first of two Engaging and Awakening Others women's intensives, offered in Halifax. A small group of women gathered, talking about their lives and the potential that awaited... if ... Continue Reading >>
Sleeping to awaken
I am feeling the urge to reveal myself, to myself. I know of no better way to do this than to allow the words to flow out the ends of my fingers onto the screen, ultimately allowing me to discover who I have become. Last week, in the good company of a loving and ferocious friend, I created space for myself to stop... let all of it go... and rediscover who ... Continue Reading >>
My emerging future…
"Eleven different climate zones generate everything from lush rain forests to arid deserts, black sand beaches to snow-capped mountaintops. The Big Island is Hawaii’s biggest playground." I now better understand what so pulls me to the Big Island of Hawaii. In many ways, I 'feel' just like that! Over my lifetime, some have delighted in but most have been ... Continue Reading >>