High Touch Coaching and Healing in the High Tech Era

On Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Coaching and Healing Over the next few decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is promising to revolutionize the world as we know it. In many sectors of society, it already is! While I don’t consider myself an “early adaptor” I recognize that the world around me and the economic, political, and … [Read more...]

Love as Medicine – Thoughts on how to Enhance Immune Function

It has been said that… “Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy in the world.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin How can it be so? We, along with everything else, live in, contribute to and are sustained by the universal energy field. Signals from this universal field or environment affect our state of being…we are in … [Read more...]

Empowered Choice through Embodied Awareness

“Earthly things must be known to be loved;Divine things must be loved to be known.” Blaise Pascal Mindfulness practice is the key to mental stability, emotional balance and a calm, centered, empowered presence. Learning to quiet the mind and noticing what you are noticing begins with choice and is mastered through practice. Thoughts, at the … [Read more...]

Repatterning your way to Personal Freedom

– an Awareness Training Protocol The moment you realize the cause of your suffering is a moment of liberation. That moment of insight is an opening in awareness of an internal pattern that’s kept you stuck and in pain. Personal liberation then, is a process activated by awareness and pattern recognition, followed by a process of … [Read more...]

Awareness is the Greatest Agent of Choice

There are 5 Facets of Mindfulness Non-reactivity to Inner Experience Observing, noticing, attending to feelings, thoughts, sensations, perceptions Acting with awareness Describing/labeling experience with words Non judging of experience "It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The … [Read more...]

Reflective Practice – A Practice for Peace, Courage and Inspired Action

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” Peter Drucker Reflective practice is learning that is directly linked to our actions, thought and feeling – to our direct experience. As a practice, reflection offers us a way to explore and direct the development of our abilities, … [Read more...]

Mindset – Key to Liberation or Enslavement

I see it time and again…how what a client believes shapes their perception and limits their experience. What does it take to have an “open” mind? Why does it matter? The assumption is that if your mind’s made up, you’ve come to a judgment and require no more information. Your mind is therefore closed and you direct your available energy to … [Read more...]

Is your Caregiving Genuine or Strained?

Selfless services span a continuum of care. One extreme might see selfless caregiving as genuine, effortless and authentic, a charitable act of unconditional love and compassion-in-action embodied and expressed in spiritual saints epitomized by larger than life figures like Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Jesus. At the other end of this spectrum are … [Read more...]

The FLOW Experience

Hungarian positive psychologist, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, right, is recognized for his study of happiness and creativity. He developed and mapped the concept of flow and defined it as a feeling of “being in the zone” - a state of complete absorption, mental concentration and immersion with the activity and situation at hand. Read More … [Read more...]

Imagination is the Heart’s Best Friend

Balance is dynamic (not static) - a state of optimum health marked by rhythm and flow. Optimum wellness is the felt experience of body, emotions, mind and spirit in a state of coherence – a state of openness, expanded awareness accompanied by a sense of oneness with ALL THAT IS, a feeling of true freedom and perfect abundance. While many … [Read more...]