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Don’t ever think you know what’s right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what’s right for you. ~ Paul Williams, Das Energi
This is my secret about what I love the most about life coaching and Reiki. Neither one is about me. One of the most common misperceptions I’ve encountered about life coaching is that it’s about advice-giving. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Continue reading
SunBear and Myo ~ always conscious, fully present, giving love,
with a dose of mischief
~ oh ya, believe it ~
When you close your eyes and imagine Reno, Nevada, what comes to mind? Saloons, gunfights, and tumbleweeds of olden days? Quickie marriages and divorces? Slot machines and craps? Or winding roads to mountain lakes, crisp air, and ski slopes?
Or do you think of a place where people find encouragement to live intentionally, embracing love, integrity, courage, service, and respect? Or where people collaborate to create strong community ties that promote spiritual growth, cultural transformation, and a sustainable local economy?
We’re all that here in Reno, and much more… Continue reading
Everyone asks me, What’s going to happen? I don’t know. What will you choose to do? ~ Proterrian
During the Bruka Theatre’s delightful Valentine’s Day production of “Love Squared,” a character in the scene “Breakfast One” demonstrated his obsession with food by creating a cream puff. He told of how he lovingly rises before dawn to fire his wood stove to bake the pastry. On stage, he dolloped custard sauce and fresh cream between the pastry slices, then dabbled chopped hazelnuts and drizzled hot chocolate sauce on top of the decadent creation. With my mouth watering, I mumbled “amazing.” My friend, Lucie, turned to her husband and whispered, “I want that.” The character handed off his creation to a lucky lady in the first row just as intermission began.
When I returned from freshening up, Lucie was eating the cream puff! Continue reading
What in the world is Reiki? Reiki (pronounced “RAY-key”) is spiritually guided “universal life force” energy that promotes stress reduction and relaxation and contributes to healing. Reiki works on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels, restoring balance to body, mind and spirit. Reiki also helps to remove barriers and challenges, while empowering goals.
People often think of “hands on” healing. It’s different than massage, because it’s not invasive. Light touch, or even just hands over the body, are all that’s needed. It’s super easy and fun to learn. Once we learn Reiki, we can offer it to ourselves and to others. I know first hand, the results are amazing. In addition to the huge benefit of healing from chronic illness, here are some of the benefits that I’ve experienced and shared with others since I integrated Reiki into my life: Continue reading
To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites
with another dragon, the life energy of the soul.
Mevlana Rumi
In “Living with Incongruence Part II,” we explored the different ways that incongruence shows up in our lives. Whether doing or not doing what we know we need to stop or start doing, or whether buying into limiting beliefs that hold us back, we may experience excessive mind chatter, energy drains, diminishment of our personal power related to not exercising our will power, and even disease. In this part of the series, we’ll explore the role our heart’s desires and thinking play in awakening our willpower. Aligning our hearts, minds, and willpower are essential to effecting positive change in our lives.
Here are some ways that incongruence between mind and heart shows up. We may find that our heart isn’t into something even when our logical mind knows exactly what must be done. For example, we know we have to earn a living, but we might hate the time we spend at our current job. Continue reading
When I initially wrote what became my former blog post, “Living with Incongruence, Part I,” I felt complete and certain that this would be a creative, whimsical topic and nothing more. Then, shortly afterward on a road trip, my Sweetie and I re-listened to “Energy Anatomy” by Caroline Myss (http://myss.com/), and I couldn’t ignore the synchronicity when Myss began talking about incongruities. I realized there would be something more to explore around creating congruence by aligning our thoughts with our actions, and so this discussion follows. What I offer below and in my next post is but a taste of a much larger, remarkable work by Myss, with some of my experiences peppered in as they relate to what she shares. I offer this because I’m seeing how this shows up in the lives of so many of us.
Myss explores incongruities in our lives, how they drain our energy, how they relate to willpower, and how they point the way to growth potential. Incongruities show up in different ways, and their effects in our lives can be quite dramatic. Continue reading
I came upon this topic first by imagining a photo shoot that would result in the photo above. The image above struck me first thing one morning, even before tea, petting the pups, or even kissing Dana. Perhaps it was a lingering stream in my consciousness from a dream that came before. I rushed to my journal, started the kettle, and began to write about the incongruence, or the sense of disharmony created, by including such mix-matched images in one moment of time. Business suit with tractor? Drinking from an elegant champagne flute too? I couldn’t help but muse over the “Green Acres” sense of things. As I pondered why such an outrageous idea formed in my head, I began to wonder:
How does our inner incongruence demonstrate our quirks and creativity, our way of showing up in the world?
What does it tell us about what we like to create in our lives?
How does it help us to connect more fully with our own authenticity and with others we care about? Continue reading
During my last blog post, I talked about my struggle to discern intuition from fear-based thinking. I’ve since heard from clients and friends that you’ve faced the same struggle. You’ve inspired me to share a story and resource with you that I hope you’ll find useful.
About eight months before my university position would end, my partner, Dana, and I found the home of our dreams: small home, lots of property and privacy, and enormous potential. It also came with a price tag somewhat higher than what felt like a play-it-safe deal. About the same, time, I began reading The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D., founder of Academy for Coaching Excellence (http://www.academyforcoachingexcellence.com/).
Dr. Nemeth offers a model of the process great ideas must go through before they become outcomes in our lives. First, she explores physical reality that we know so well. This is the place of cause and effect. Much of what we wish to accomplish in this realm involves taking simple steps. In order to balance our checkbook, we have to actually sit down and crunch the numbers. Holding the intention to balance isn’t quite enough to get the job done. Continue reading
I’ve been discussing transition and transformation in my former two blogs. As many know, I’m the consummate planner. FranklinCovey trainings and products pushed me over the edge from planning-obsessive to planning-accomplished. But what of planning now in this age of transition? Everything we know changes so radically. What can we possibly know of what will be in one, five, or ten years? We can plan, as one of my friends suggests, because that’s a way to feel empowered and prepared. Another friend suggests that long-term plans are useless right now, and we must spontaneously respond to each moment. Everyone seems to be finding their own truths around creating balance between planning, being, and doing. Continue reading
Myo and the Kioti
The World is Dead, completely gone;
Yet I will Live, serenely on.
I acknowledge that this doesn’t really make any sense and that it ends with a preposition. It’s a horrible poem! Yet, I received these words like a sudden cerebral or spiritual download when I was but seventeen years old. The circumstances? One of the most important people in the world to me was really disappointed in and angry with me, and rightly so, because I was being cruel with my words to someone who really needed and wanted my love and approval. In those shame-filled moments, hearing the testimony against me, I wished away my entitlement to emotions, caring, and vulnerability as if my life depended on their absence. Continue reading
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