Self care, as a personal commitment and practice, is an expression of respecting and honoring the Self. Cats have a lot to teach us in this domain! Our attitude and outlook towards life, the quality of our energy, vitality and general condition will let us know, if we’re attentive, what we need to move towards balance in every moment. The … [Read more...]
Vitality is Life: Some Conditions Apply!
February 17, 2015 by
There’s no season that teaches us more about vitality than Spring when nature’s primal life-giving force is irrepressible and the growing conditions are just right to activate earth’s inherent fecundity in an explosion of colour, scent and growth everywhere around us. Nature’s abundant generosity stirs us awake at our very core, and inspired by … [Read more...]
Accept and Then Embrace Your Life. There’s Power There!
February 9, 2015 by
Change is all there is….you are continually changing and the context of your life – your family, workplace, home life, community, environment and the world is continually changing. Technological developments have always driven change from the industrial revolution to the great cultural, social and economic change catalyzed by the digital era we are … [Read more...]
Is Active Listening Possible When You’re Upset or Angry?
January 21, 2015 by
It's well recognized that the capacity to innovate is a function of active listening and is often compromised by chronic job and life stressors and energy traps. Your ability to listen and actually hear is influenced internally, by what you are feeling and what you are thinking and externally, by stimuli that distracts you. Active listening … [Read more...]
Crafting New Year’s Resolutions that Stick is an Art and a Science
January 16, 2015 by
According to a recent article in Scientific American, “Getting discouraged by setbacks is one of the most common reasons people fail to meet their goals.” This, I am sure, is no great news. What’s important to learn is how to set and manage expectations. In doing that right, you’ll soon experience fewer and fewer setbacks. The small steps, kaizen … [Read more...]
Beginners Mind Makes Facing Change Fun
January 9, 2015 by
Facing change in our lives takes courage and strength of character. Change is not going away. It's here with increasing complexity, frequency and intensity. How we well we do at accepting change is critical to our well being and our survival. So, how can we be pro active towards change? Can we learn to surf the wave of change - be the change … [Read more...]
You Don’t Stop at Your Skin!
December 30, 2014 by
In Therapeutic Touch™, the healing field is the subtle, non-physical energy field, generated by the healee, that is palpable beyond the body’s physical periphery – that is beyond the skin. The Therapeutic Touch practitioner, through practice, learns to guide the natural, orderly flow of energy coming out of the palms of her hands so as to … [Read more...]
Gifts From the Heart are Gifts For the Heart
December 18, 2014 by
Consider giving gifts that help people deepen their appreciation for themselves and their world. Doing so will require you to take time out from your busy life and reflect on those you love and want to gift. This action of slowing down and reflecting will help you de-stress and begin to heal your heart. All healing is self healing. The … [Read more...]
ALL ONE – Body, Emotions, Mind and Spirit
December 9, 2014 by
You’ve been there, at least once in your life and very likely quite often. Activities that get you there – to the experience of ONENESS, to the feeling of FLOW as Cskikszentmihalyi coined it are “truly rewarding experiences that require concentrated involvement and interaction with complex information. The things that give people ‘natural highs’ – … [Read more...]
Harnessing the Ego as a Force for Good
December 2, 2014 by
The ego is the “I”, the social self or personality we and others identify with, as us. It manifests in the role we play and how we play it. Our ego is the vehicle through which we act in this world to pursue our dreams, achieve our goals and get things done. Our ego is outward focused. It tends to measure success by the effect we have on others … [Read more...]
