Feb 10, 2019
What is your spiritual practice? What is your creative practice? Practice like a professional.“An amateur practices until they get it right. A professional practices until they can’t get it wrong.” Itzhak Perlman
Dec 6, 2018
Even if you’re enlightened. Even if you meditate every day. Even if you’re a happy and optimistic and spiritual person. Even so, “Life don’t clickety clack down a straight line track, it come together and it come apart.” (Thanks to Ferron for the wonderful lyrics.) So...
Nov 29, 2018
Do you ever feel overwhelmed? Anxious? Bummed out? Fearful? Discontent? Hopeless? Do you ever feel like circumstances are making your life difficult? When you focus on your situation or your circumstances, you encourage anxiety, fear, and hopelessness. Rather, focus...
Nov 16, 2018
Don’t dissipate your power. How might one dissipate their power? Oh dear, let me count the ways! One example — you’re driving in rush hour traffic. How do you interpret that situation? Do you say, what a bummer? Do you rant that there’s a conspiracy to keep you from...
Oct 19, 2018
There are a couple of practices that are keeping me relatively sane during these troubling times. The first one is gratitude. I am enamored of gratitude. Every night before bed, Debra and I write a list of 10 things that we’re grateful for from the day. Then we read...
Jul 19, 2018
The breathing part of my Breath and Water practice is usually my Hug Your Heart breath. But I’ve added something, and it makes a difference. Quite a difference, actually. As I inhale and experience my lungs embracing my heart, I say hello. I greet my heart. I don’t...