I do not believe that we can be a Global Sustainable Society without living in a way that resolves conflict in a peaceful way. That literally means that violence in all its forms, intrapersonally, interpersonally, interculuturally, against women, and against the natural world has to become obsolete. Conflict is inherent Read more…
I was recently talking with an old friend about another friend of mine who is unwilling to discuss anything outside of her belief structure – either agree with her or don’t discuss it. This friend I was out with said, “that’s a shame, but at least we can agree to Read more…
“Most people do not have the willingness to break bad habits. They have lots of excuses and they talk like victims” Carlos Santana. We have this story that is shared by all our modern cultures, but not the indigenous ones, which we just ignore because we can call then primitive Read more…
When we watch movies about wizards and witches, they are always making things happen by casting ‘spells’ using strange ancient magical words in arcane languages. Yet, the reality is that all Words, in whatever language, have power. All of us wield this power every day with impunity not recognizing the Read more…
“Mindfulness is observing your life right now. Accepting your current situation without judgment or struggle. Allowing feelings to exist without letting them driving your actions. Noticing thoughts that occur without needing to buy into them. Taking action based on what you feel in your heart rather than old habits or Read more…
“Mindfulness isn’t difficult. We just need to remember to do it” Sharon Saltzberg In the last post I talked about choice as the way to create personal, social, and ecological freedom. I want you to think for a minute now about the one singular factor that controls much of the Read more…
Flow Theory Part 2 – Understanding Why Flow is Important “Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.” “…It is when we act Read more…
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The blog today is a bit more esoteric but bear with me on it. Our focus and mindset is crucial to how anything is perceived and how we feel empowered, or not, about making change happen. So many people Read more…
“You are not responsible for the programming you received in childhood. But as an adult, you are 100% responsible for fixing it.” Tiny Buddha.com Laying down new neural pathways is a key to reprogramming our brains (see previous post VISION – How we focus on what we really Want 4). Read more…
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas One of the biggest problems we have is not all the chaos we see in the world, it is how we live with each other. We live in a never ending drama of our own creation. Read more…
Your thoughts are you and your body and mind. Over 80-90% of your thinking is literally the same as yesterday. You worries, anxieties, and the story you tell yourself is unchanging as you listen to the ego-voice in your head. This ego-voice is just your conditioned beliefs. A belief is Read more…