EP207: If I just [BLANK], my habit will go away. What goes in the blank? A question from a listener.

Patricia is looking for the key that unlocks the grip her procrastination habit has on her. Aren’t we all?Interestingly, she says she senses that procrastination is not really a problem to be solved. It definitely feels like a problem, but she’s on to the fact that things are not as they appear.Patricia asks some great

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Marching Orders

I was talking with someone the other day who was telling me that she has some decisions to make about her kids’ school. I asked what she needs to decide. She didn’t answer my question. Instead, she explained that every time she pulls through the drop-off line, her mind starts spinning. Are we in the right

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EP206: Money with Giles Croft

All of life is a projection. Perhaps one of the easiest places to see this is with money.  In this conversation, Dr. Giles Croft and I have a conversation about the made-up, projected nature of life, particularly around money. We discuss made up ideas like “enough”, security (which Giles says means free of care), that money

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You Don’t Have to be OK With Anything

It’s fine if you’re not okay with what you’re experiencing. Really. Being okay with what’s arising is not a requirement. It’s not the ticket to freedom or the key to satisfaction or anything that dramatic. Experience doesn’t care how okay with it you are. Experience is just experience; it is thought, rising and falling. No biggie. And “okay with”

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EP205: When a habit looks like it brings peace, here’s what there is to see

In listening to one of my Change Coach trainees coach a woman who is struggling with binge eating, two misunderstandings jumped out at me. These are two things I hear from nearly everyone who feels caught up in any habit. I thought these two things myself all the time when I was in my former

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Think of Who Created Thought

Rather than being drawn outward, toward thoughts, sensations, stories, and the world “out there”, stay as the awareness of it all.Rest as the screen rather than getting lost in the movie.Rest as the light that illuminates what’s constantly moving and changing, rather than identifying with the moving and changing things being illuminated.Rest in your heart

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EP204: Do you need to see through a story to let it go? A question from a listener.

This week’s episode is my response to a listener who has repeated physical symptoms like head pain and fatigue. She would like to not have those symptoms any longer. She suspects there is an unhelpful story she’s believing, which she’s unaware of and must have been around for years, behind the pain. If she doesn’t see

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Hand-Me-Downs

I’m the oldest child in my family and the oldest of my 9 cousins, so I never wore hand-me-down clothes. I’ve definitely worn some hand-me-down thoughts, though. I carried around hand-me-down opinions and preferences for decades. I’ve adopted boatloads of hand-me-down worries, and lots of hand-me-down identities.Many of them felt familiar, like they fit. Like they had been

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EP203: Mitigating climate change with a shift in consciousness with Malene Colotla

In this episode I talk with certified Change Coach Malene Colotla about the interconnectedness in all of life.  We are all the whole. The human world, the animal and plant world, the physical world….all the way down, one single system.In this discussion, Malene shares how seeing that interconnectedness is what can naturally make way for

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Gazeless Gaze

“Establish a drishti, a gazeless gaze toward something in the room that’s not moving,” the teacher tells the class. My eyes settle on a grain of white wood molding where the floor and wall meet, about seven feet in front of me. The instant my gaze settles into that spot, my body is steadier. When we have

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