Neediness. It comes from a sense of not having or being enough within yourself, and nothing could be farther from the truth. We are speaking of emotional neediness today, the feeling of angst, fear, unrest, and jitteriness that simmers under the surface, causing you to be anything but peaceful, yet [...]
When things don’t go as you wish, can you trust there is a reason? Can you take a breath, release your disappointment and frustration, and perhaps engender a bit of wonder? “I wonder what greater purpose is at hand here?” Know that if your frustration involves another, the growth and [...]
Fascination. Can you feel the sense of wonder in this word? What if you watched events unfold with fascination instead of fear? How your experience would change. Fascination does not judge. It observes. Peace is present in awareness when one observes instead of judges. You could use a little peace [...]
If you’re feeling down and lonely, smile. Why do songwriters write about it, singers sing about it? For a smile can change your outlook in an instant. The body is designed so that a smile instantly creates a flush of contentment. It does, indeed take more muscles to smile than [...]
If you insist on pointing out the bad and the good, of immersing yourself in the duality instead of transcending it, then at the very least you might take an observer’s neutral viewpoint long enough to notice the so-called good that comes from the so-called bad. “Everything happens for a [...]
Picture a wheel. Which part of it spins the fastest in relation to the center? The circumference, of course. When do you suffer? When you are not centered. Are you suffering now? You have allowed your focus to move outward, outward, outward, forgetting that there is a still point within [...]
What does it mean to fixate on something? To focus on it to the exclusion of all else. When you fixate upon a thing you lose sight of the bigger picture. Thoughts filled with fear or anger or judgment or any of the lesser human traits are then attracted like [...]
Just when you think you have regained your balance, something happens and you get knocked off balance again. What happened? You ran into a cross-current. Until you are so strongly flowing in the main current of Love-Life-Joy, it is quite easy to veer off as you encounter strong eddies. Do [...]
Worry is wasted effort. You could spend the energy your mind burns in fearing the future and fretting about the past in far more productive ways. How, you ask? Take the focus off the chatter and move it down into the heart center. Now focus on the breath as it [...]
You are given infinite opportunities to BE that which you are: Love. We are not speaking of unconditional love, nor are we speaking of conditional love. Both of those are two poles of one spectrum within your world of opposites. Rise above the duality and there you find myriad transcendent [...]
Can you stop and take a breath with deliberate intent from time to time? If the intent when you pause to breathe deeply is to reconnect in awareness with Awareness, you will no longer need a tranquilizer, a cigarette, a sugary sweet, or a drink of alcohol. The latter are [...]
You are so very loved. Why do these words feel so very delicious? For they are like chocolate—a food you call a treat … something you eat only on occasion, not for an entire meal. What if you were to feast on love at all times? Unlike doing so with [...]
Nowhere to go. Nothing to do. Oh, really? Think outside the box and step outside the box of habit. You are an artist with a blank canvas. Must you always draw the same picture, use the same crayons, follow the same lines? Where have you never been? If you cannot [...]
Fear is like a wildfire. It starts in one place and then spreads rapidly, at times out of control. It waits in certain spots, gathering oxygen and just the right conditions to spread some more. Without the fuel, it cannot spread. Your thoughts are the fuel. Fear feeds on fear. [...]
You never act alone. When you set your mind to something that will serve the greater good, when that is your intent, you are given helpers at the higher levels. They will accompany you as you set about your task. You may not see or hear or feel them, but [...]
If you knew everything at once, it would be “game over.” How things play out, how things interact is part of the game. To use the word “game” implies a disrespect for the process of creation and evolution. This is not intended. What is a game, but an interaction of [...]
Roles change. Love remains. As you dance through life, those who come and go into your circle of love change. That is how it is supposed to go. Through change you learn and grow, but the one constant is that love. If the love you are experiencing seems to change, [...]
Magnets: Hold two of them in close proximity. In the seemingly empty space between them there is a dance going on. There is an exchange of energy, even when you cannot see it. There is attraction or repulsion depending on which sides face each other. Thus ensues a dance. Are [...]
You meet a new friend. It appears you have little in common. Do you want to try an experiment? Pause for a moment and wonder what you might have in common. All of you are interconnected at a higher level. You speak of your six degrees of separation. In that [...]
Do you stand your ground or go along with the crowd? That depends on motive. What will serve the greatest good? Is your motive self-serving or Self-serving? Quite often individuals must make sacrifices for the good of the whole. This too shall pass. Hold in your heart the awareness that [...]
You hear a word that is unfamiliar to you, and within a short period of time you encounter that word. This happens repeatedly with signs, with images, with names. What is happening? You are being shown that you are part of a vast web that extends far beyond the reach [...]
You can learn a lot from a puppy. Look how she greets everyone with such joy. Each one is her new best friend. She does not see them as a threat, a competitor, a stranger. Not at all! This is someone to get to know! How exciting! What fun can [...]
The yin yang symbol so beautifully expresses the human experience. Within the wholeness exist all possibilities. Some you would label good and some bad, yet they all fit together on a continuum of experience. These apparent opposites dance together until they somehow find a way to exist side by side, [...]
