Cultivating Presence
Key to Self-Empowered, Authentic Leadership!
Is Yours A Spiritual Hunger?
What do you really hunger for? It’s spiritual hunger I’m speaking of - a hunger for wholeness, balance and a sense of connectedness. When you've satisfied your spiritual hunger, you make do with a lot less of everything else, no longer needing or wanting to clutter up your life. How often, in your work-a-day life, do you live on automatic pilot, … [Read more...]
Crafting Career Success in the 21st Century
The increasing rate of change globally and technologically is calling for a personal redefinition of career success. Over the last twenty to thirty years, it has become increasingly common for people to switch jobs, change roles within an organization and even careers every 2.5 to 3 years or even less. The Baby Boomers, a huge demographic, now just … [Read more...]
Acceptance versus Resignation
YES and NO are the two most basic human responses to internal or external stimuli. The gap between these two, diametrically-opposed positions from acceptance to rejection, covers a wide range of emotional states from an energetic and enthusiastic YES to a vehement and forceful NO. Our whole being: mind, body, and spirit, is directly affected by … [Read more...]
How can Sustainable Success be Possible?
There’s no time like right now to stop and assess your strengths, opportunities, and threats and make some healthy choices that will empower you and transform your life. I call it developing personal leadership and cultivating resilience. While this, in my view, is a life way, a mindful lifestyle practice that can lead to personal fulfillment … [Read more...]
How to Face Suffering with Compassionate Intent
Therapeutic Touch® is widely recognized as a gift that eases pain and suffering, so common at end of life. To understand and appreciate Therapeutic Touch as a helpful means of easing the experience of those dying, it is important perhaps to reflect on the end of life experience from the perspective of the dying; the context and the dynamic of … [Read more...]
Are you a Sucker for the Irrelevant?
Managing attention is the toughest challenge we face in our lives. Sucked up into the whirlwind demands of everyday living, like a rat on a treadmill, we give all we’ve got to keep the little treadmill going that keeps us humming and spinning ever faster….but whatever for? It’s the patterns of thought and behaviour that keep us stuck, in a rut, … [Read more...]
Anatomy of a Habit and How to Over-ride Old, Counter-Productive Conditioning
Engrams are what neurophysiologists call learned behaviour, neural patterns put to memory. They are coded step by step instructions for each habitual movement. The first time we do anything, whether learning to dance, swim, drive or walk, we have no engrams to rely on, so our movement is erratic and sloppy. With repeated practice, the engrams, for … [Read more...]
Four Powerful Questions for an Empowered Life Journey
Questions are powerful tools for prompting shifts in perspective and deep reflection that create insight and awareness. Questions invite imagination and activate possibilities thinking that is energizing and fun. They encourage creativity and out of the box thinking. Being asked a question or posing one to oneself is like opening a file. It helps … [Read more...]
An Invitation to Open to the Magic of the Holiday Season
Give yourself a break from the hustle and bustle of your life to open to the magic of the season. You owe it to yourself. Simply pause, tune inwards and take a few deep breaths to quiet your mind. Now, listen to your heart. Trust that it will guide you – move you to attend to that which wants your attention. Stay present to your heart and give … [Read more...]
