Enlightenment Lessons #4
Here’s the fourth video in the Enlightenment Lessons series. If you missed the first two videos, you can find them here.
Insight Breathwork Workshop
On Figuring it Out
What percentage of your day do you suppose you’re in your head, trying to figure something out? Maybe you’re thinking about what’s for dinner or using concepts and memory to solve a problem at work.Maybe you’re trying to arrive at the best way to discipline your kids, ask your boss if you can leave work
Enlightenment Lesson #3
Here’s the third video in the Enlightenment Lessons series. If you missed the first two videos, you can find them here.
Bouncing Back
Humans are seriously resilient. We talk a lot about children being resilient. (Especially, it seems, after we feel like we’ve done something to hurt them.)But actually, all humans have the capacity for incredible resiliency. Given that our true nature is wellbeing—and that the only thing that can ever hide that wellbeing is thought—we’re always only
Showing Up Dumb
It’s endlessly fascinating to me to notice the filter of thought that floats over the screen of my awareness. So much of that thick thought filter isa) Basically the same as yesterdayb) Based on something that happened in the past, orc) Stemming from beliefs I formed long ago that most likely aren’t relevant today.One of
From Nothing, Something. (One of my huge a-ha moments)
Who are you, really? I think it’s a pretty safe bet that if you find yourself reading these words right now, you see yourself as something much bigger than a collection of blood and guts and skin and hair. You’re obviously not your body.It’s probably just as likely that you don’t view yourself as your
Why Outside-in Seems so Compelling (and why it’s actually only superstition)
I had a fascinating experience this morning. I felt really good. I was totally tapped into a nice, healthy dose of inner peace. I felt a profound sense of connection—people and nature looked radiant in a way they rarely do. My always delicious coffee was off-the-charts delicious today.The Illusion Almost immediately, and even though I
How to Never Feel Resentment Again
Clients try to convince me that resentment naturally builds in relationships over time. They say so as if it’s a given.It’s not.George Pransky’s book The Relationship Handbook taught me the one, simple thing that leads to—and away from—resentment.When you focus on yourself and how their behavior affected you, you feel resentment.When your partner is away
The Problem With Problem Solving
The problem with problem solving is that most of our problems are figments of our imagination. That doesn’t mean the conditions we label “problem” aren’t real, it just means that the label… “problem”… is only your personal take on those conditions. Here’s an example. If your friend is taking advantage of you, that may actually
Want to get Lucky? Here’s how.
Things happen to us that we can’t control. All the time.But we do have some control over what we bring to the table: how we prepare, our qualities, our attitude. And we do have some control over how we respond to those chance things that happen to us.It’s like the old joke about the guy
