It is hard to see the forest for the trees but most of us traverse up two mountains in our lifetime. We start to climb our first mountain when we are young, as we establish our identity and satisfy our ego. We learn how to navigate our personal journey, often through trial and error, as […]

The following topic has become so convoluted in our culture that you most likely have a bias or opinion on it and will tune out. That is because the messenger(s) of this information has traditionally been from an extreme religious sect and/or culture you can not identify with. So I am going to strip away […]

Drop a frog into a pot of extremely hot water and it will immediately leap out.  Put that same frog in a pot of cool water that slowly heats to a boil and the frog will not jump out.  It will remain in the increasingly hot water until it eventually boils and dies.  Why does […]

*Reposting* Now is the time to recharge if we can free ourselves from the undercurrent of stress and anxiety this pandemic causes on our psyche. In our modern world today, this turbo-charged rat race we call daily existence, our schedules are so busy we rarely come up for air.  Aside from the random vacation or […]

You are on your game, crushing it with confidence and ease.  All is good in your world with great health, a rewarding career and fulfilling relationships with friends and family.  You are moving effortlessly through life, gliding on the wings of angels, and firing on all eight cylinders cruising down the highway of happiness. The Gods […]

*Reposting with the hope that we will yearn and desire a renewed connection with community once we don’t need to socially isolate* I was walking out of a supermarket when a homeless man pushing a shopping cart caught my attention in the far corner of my eye. He was hard to ignore, talking – yelling, […]

Meditation has truly transformed my life in recent years.  But, in sharing this revelation with friends, it rapidly became apparent how misinformed Western culture is.  The most noticeable being a visceral reaction, as if I’d joined a religious cult which worships some weird God or moved to a hippy community with a fresh pair of […]

Imagine a world without human intervention. This horrific pandemic is giving us a glimpse of this: satellite photos show a dramatic drop in pollution over China and Western Europe; aerial views show cities once immersed in smog are now fully visible with fresh air. Traffic is practically non-existent and our beaches, hiking trails and parks […]

Santino is a remarkable chimpanzee at a zoo in Sweden. He clearly is not a morning chimp, as he would get agitated at the early visitors to the zoo and start hurling stones at the spectators. Can’t an ape just get a li’l peace & quiet to start his day? But the extraordinary part of […]

It has been proven we can hold as many as six thoughts in our conscious simultaneously. We are not typically in this state of clarity (or chaos!) but rather more often holding several random thoughts and emotions in our mind without particular focus or specific detail, yet all within our field of awareness. We can […]