In the “real world,” in nature or in a city, it is easy to know when you are lost. Think of times when you got disoriented and “lost” in the world. How did you know you were lost? What did it feel like? How did you find your way? A more difficult questions is: How do you know you are lost in life?
Read MoreThese three psychic virus are as common as the common cold. Are these viruses active in you and your life? How often? Just as in our physical body, a virus can be inside but not active and reappear in times of stress. Does that fit for you?
Read MoreI wrote this letter to myself as part of my ritual of gratitude for my journals. It describes how I might relate to them as I go through the Konmari Method of tidying up. the life changing process of keeping what sparks joy and arranging my life around what I love. Do you keep a journal? If so, what do you do with it once it is complete? How do you preserve what is precious in your heart?
Read More“Let me familiarize myself with you. I’m not just talking about assorted facts anyone can get to compose an obituary. I want you to know the history of my heart, the tiny tragedies and comical acts of my everyday life.” I wrote these beginning lines of this blog after looking up the etymology of the word “familiar,” which comes from the same root word as family. We typically use the word familiar to mean a casual knowing, but when turned into a verb, familiarize, it becomes the act of getting to know someone, especially through repeated interaction over time. This means that you learn the good and the bad in a person and expose the same in yourself. We create the family feeling through regular interaction in which we familiarize ourselves with each other and we come to know, appreciate, and ideally love the quirks and idiosyncrasies, the beauty and dignity, and even the faults and flaws that make us uniquely ourselves.
Read MoreWhat most people call the "comfort zone" is not really comfortable. It is merely habitual, a kind of rut, that we repeat. Patterned behavior, or habits, can be life sustaining. But they can also limit us, turning us into robots and, often, victims of our patterns as well. Putting effort into breaking patterned behavior can be one of the most life enhancing acts and can give the unconscious both practice and permission to update old, limiting, and outdated patterns.
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