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 [...]

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 [...]

Relieving Stress with Authenticity

By Jennie Marlow

“I know it’s a big, DUH!” said my friend. “There is almost no pain when I am being authentic to my own needs and feelings.” It was so well-put, I felt compelled to share it with a little commentary on why this is vital to living well when we are facing big [...]

Why Is This Happening?

A Message from Spotted Eagle

Channeled by Jennie Marlow

“Why?” It is a singularly human question, a peculiarity of our species. When we are faced with the question, “Why is this happening to me or someone I love?” this raises a much more provocative inquiry.

You may have noticed that if something bad is [...]

Notes on Emotional Freedom

By Jennie Marlow

On our Tools For Living Well page, Marvin Luzum’s article, What Is Freedom?, offers us his insights into how our fantasies and projections medicate our longing and regret, and take us far from the essential nature of emotional freedom. In his article, Marvin describes how our longing to experience emotional freedom can [...]

Can Paradise Ever Be Truly Lost?

By Jennie Marlow

Lately, I’ve been observing what others are going through in trying to meet their challenges and actualize their dreams. There is an unmistakable undercurrent that coming here to the Earth plane represents some sort of separation from eternal, ecstatic bliss in a cosmic paradise. This is intriguing, especially when you consider that [...]

Recession & Growth

By Jennie Marlow

Last night I heard several economic “experts” share their forecasts for 2010. Instead of recession, they predicted economic growth, but that growth will be barely detectable by ordinary citizens. It gave me pause, and I was left to consider the deeper meanings of recession and growth experienced by an individual on his [...]

Shaken, Not Stirred

By Jennie Marlow

I once heard a great joke about the Three Laws of the Universe. First Law: the Universe is very, very big. Second Law: people are really, really weird. And the third (my favorite), shit happens!

By the time I reached my twenties, and for almost thirty years thereafter, I fervently believed there was [...]

Making the Connection: Part 1

By Rebecca Traver

I have a hard time seeing my story for the construct it is. And for how I project my conditioning in the form of my story onto the present moment, absolutely convinced of its objective truth. It’s a huge challenge for me to realize how my issues play [...]