Why did I do that? Because I didn’t know better. What could I have done differently? Nothing. I could have done nothing differently. Because despite better options, I didn’t choose any of them. Why didn’t I know better? Because my ego told me what I really wanted to hear, overriding better. Is there any hope…
You’ve been whining for weeks about those time suckers. Distractions and disruptions have been plaguing you. As soon as you get on a roll someone or something crops up to stop you in your tracks. A minute here. An hour there. Days go by. You know exactly what you want to accomplish, but one by…
Being a teenager is getting tougher by the minute. One of their biggest hurdles is making sense of a world that bombards them with messages about how they should look and feel and behave that don’t align with their own experiences of life. At the same time, they’re navigating significant physical, cognitive, and emotional changes,…
Notice how our bodies tense up and our minds shut down at the first signs of resistance? Something happens that rubs us the wrong way and all bets are off. What someone says, does, doesn’t do, might or might not do triggers us, and we can’t make peace with it. Resistance is a reaction to…
While we all want lasting happiness, there are about as many different ways to go about getting it as there are people in this world. So, we’re going to narrow happiness down to two main sources: external or internal. When we look externally, or outside ourselves for happiness, it’s called object referral. When we seek…
Experiencing life is better when we identify more with the sky and less with the clouds. How we perceive ourselves and our experiences reveals our approach to life. When we see ourselves as the sky, we identify as pure awareness, steadfast in our existence. It’s our awareness that has the experience of our minds and…