Category: Being Human

What if your Sensitivities are your Greatest Asset?

I knew someone with a very sensitive stomach. The tiniest bit of worry and she’d instantly feel sick.She cursed her stomach. She saw it as a weakness.She wanted her stomach fixed. Her mind was full of ways I might help her toughen up her wimpy tummy. Could we train it to not react to her

There’s Nothing to Wait for

“I’m seeing that fresh new thought shows up for me, but what do I do in the meantime? Just sit around and wait?”“Do I go sit in my office each day and wait for it? Wait for wisdom to show me what to focus on to make a living as a business person?”It’s easy to

Home Base isn’t a Feeling

It’s our natural set point. The home to which the momentum of life naturally bounces us back.⁠⁠But more than “within us”, home base is us. It’s everything. It’s the only thing there is.buy strattera online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/strattera.html no prescription ⁠⁠There’s often some confusion about this. Sometimes it looks like home base is a feeling.buy viagra super

All the Same

We are one being.We look separate. We seem different. It appears as if there are solid boundaries that make you you, me me, and that that.But beyond those more-illusory-than-real boundaries, our sameness is massive, deep, and essential. Our differences are superficial and fleeting.Our habits are also all the same but for the surface-level ways they

Relax

The word ‘relax’ has taken on many meanings for me throughout the years.As a kid with energy to burn, I heard “relax”. Stop being so full of life. The adults wanted peace and quiet.Then, relax felt unnatural.As an anxious 20-something, I heard conflicting advice. “Work hard, make something of yourself, what you do now matters”.

Bean Boozled

Have you heard of this game?It’s disgusting.You spin a wheel that lands on the color of jelly bean you’ll eat. Maybe you spin yellow with red specks. That means the jelly bean you’ll eat is either strawberry banana smoothie…or barf.Yes, a barf flavored jelly bean. And it’s DISGUSTING. These jelly bean makers nailed the gross

Awesome

I say the word awesome way too much. I grew up in the 80’s, what can I say?I definitely call things awesome that don’t exactly induce “awe”. I mean, awe is big. It’s huge. My favorite greek salad is delicious, but I’m not sure beets and tomatoes are truly awesome.I’m not sure it’s truly awesome

Chop Wood, Carry Water

Or chop vegetables, carry water. Same thing.The full zen koan is “Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”What does that mean?I don’t know. But what I hear in it is how simple, practical, and “everyday” insights can be…which is exactly the opposite of how our mind tells us they will

Chattering Teeth

If you’ve been in The Little School of Big Change or you’ve watched some Ask Amy’s, you know my teeth.I use these wind-up, plastic, chattering teeth to illustrate how our mind seems to work. Bright red plastic gums and tall, shiny white teeth. You wind them up and they chatter and chomp around your table.Everyone

Mistaken Identity

The only reason you may not feel full of confidence, peace, and clarity is because you identify with experience moving through as who-you-are. You mistake what you think, feel, and do for who-you-are. We all do.It’s a simple misunderstanding. A clear-cut case of mistaken identity.I’m not only talking to you, of course. This mistaken identity