The Perfection Of What Is

By Janice Hylton

A compassionate body/breath practitioner said to me today that she felt the common definition of “perfection” was very constrained. I had been a recipient of her work as we shared some observations and questions about the nature of perfection.

What had come up for me a few minutes earlier as I lay on [...]

It’s called the Slip’n’Slide

By Colleen McCarthy-Evans

An Rx for all you Mermaids
and Would-be Mermaids

When that old fear grabs hold
Of your heart and your joints
Here’s the prescription you need
And it won’t hurt a bit

You’ll slip out of your fears
And slide back into ease
And that’s why we call it
The Slip’n’Slide.

All you really gotta do
To do the Slip’n’Slide
Is follow my instructions
And [...]

Facing the Reality of Your Fear

By Joanna Kaser

Dream 6/2

I was walking on the grass with a man, a friend, and I noticed a cute fuzzy little caterpillar. I bent to touch it and it turned into a large white fuzzy centipede-like creature and jumped up and attached itself to me. It had many tiny feet with suction cups on [...]

HDN FEAR

By Rebecca Traver

“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” — Seneca

A couple of afternoons ago as I was getting into my car I noticed that a jeep in the space ahead of me had a license plate [...]

What Is Fear?

By Jennie Marlow

Question: Help me with the word fear. For me, the word has come to mean awe. Or a verb, an arrow pointing me to the unknown, a place of resistance sometimes, and a trusting that an opening will occur.

Fear is a painful emotion caused by our perception that something bad is about [...]

When Bad Things Happen

In the course of anyone’s lifetime, “bad” things are guaranteed to happen. Yet there is nothing wrong with these “bad” things—nor is there anything “right” about them either. They simply happen.  They are neither good nor bad, right nor wrong, and human judgment is best left out of the equation.  It  is much more useful [...]

Taking a Lesson from Monty Python

By Jennie Marlow

How we deal with life can look a lot like that old Monty Python sketch called, “The Fish Slapping Dance.” We really do think we are so clever as we dance around our fears and issues, playing at confronting them, prancing to-and-fro, kidding ourselves into thinking we are really doing something—really getting [...]

Are the terms ‘unconscious’ and ‘unaware’ synonymous?

By Jennie Marlow

The term unaware can be used to describe something unconscious, however, unaware can also mean that we simply do not have the means to know something. For example (while not strictly true), we could say that before 1492, people were unaware that the Earth is round, but you wouldn’t say they were unconscious of it. [...]

Letting Go After a Loss

By Jennie Marlow

Question: I’m having a hard time getting over a break-up. She’s moving on and I’m still hurting over it. I gave my power away in this relationship big time. It’s a pattern I have had with previous relationships. Possibly life in general. Any advice in regaining my power? Thanks- Mark

Mark, the [...]

The Perfection of What Is

By Janice Hylton

A compassionate body/breath practitioner said to me today that she felt the common definition of “perfection” was very constrained. I had been a recipient of her work as we shared some observations and questions about the nature of perfection.

What had come up for me a few minutes earlier as I lay on [...]