Category: Awareness

Life Is Now – Zoom Out to Zoom In

Today’s article was written by Change Coach Suzie Yeulett   Your whole life is lived in the present moment.   Your memories are just thoughts, carried through time into the present.   The future never arrives; it’s made up of thoughts of what might happen next.   You don’t need to re-suffer what has happened

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The Observer Comes to Class

Today’s article was written by Change Coach Wendy Healy   Sometimes I get a glimpse of the “Observer,” where two worlds connect and I get a real sense that there is something else running this thing called Life…   Today the Observer is fully enjoying watching me teach Aqua class. I can feel her there,

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Unexpected Bliss

Today’s article was written by Change Coach Alex Linares   Today I managed to make it to hot yoga despite all my mind’s protest regarding all the other things I should do.   The last few weeks at work have been testing my ability to remember this understanding, the universe asking like a toddler: how

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Urgent Thinking

Today’s article was written by Change Coach Lindsey Elliott   You know the kind of thinking I am talking about….it whirls around, and around in your head, and demands that you do something about this situation/behavior/person NOW! You feel compelled, uncomfortable, angry, resentful, anxious… and it all looks so urgent, demanding action now.   It

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Trying to Change is Rejecting Life

Change doesn’t happen by trying to change. Trying to change is actually the opposite of what’s helpful.   Trying to change thoughts, feelings, behaviors, level of consciousness, or anything else is a rejection of what is. It’s telling life that it got it wrong; that what’s arising should not be.   It’s telling life that

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The Imprints of Our Childhood

Today’s article was written by Change Coach Missy Maiorano   God comes to you disguised as your life. —Father Richard Rohr   Recently, I was asked to think of a childhood memory from my first decade of life. I was instructed not to overthink it…just to say the first thing that came to mind.  

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Losing Interest in Thought

You can lose interest in thought.   It’s really not all that difficult. You sit back in and as the formless–in and as the seat of awareness–rather than hooking into temporary forms of thought and feeling.   You zoom out to notice that you’re aware of what’s rising and falling rather than zooming in on

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Welcoming or Wallowing?

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the difference between welcoming what arises and wallowing in what arises.   This welcoming stuff is not a perfect science. Please keep in mind that my words I share around it are not what-to-do, but are pointing you in a general direction.   A most important feature of

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