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 [...]
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 [...]
By Meg Coyle Irsay
Like all relationships it takes time to build, and it takes time to dismantle resentment.
It takes time to learn just how denial works and it takes time to learn to correct it.
It takes what It takes to learn how to learn to see that sight is not vision. Sight is too [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Jennie Marlow
Relax into your being? What’s that? As a work-a-holic doer, I must admit that being is something I tend to view the way I might an arcane subject like the derivatives market or string theory. It seems such a basic thing, to rest, rejuvenate and relax. To be. Like everything else one [...]
By Jennie Marlow
No, I didn’t misspell it. And yes, it’s a very big game that largely goes unnoticed because it happens, not in a coliseum, but in the field of consciousness, within the arena of living the transformative life.
It is surely human to strive for a goal, to seek supremacy in the outer world, [...]
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 [...]
By Jennie Marlow
In my last post, A Case Against Envisioning, I explain the pitfalls of envisioning the form your future will take. In this post, I’ll give some pointers about the kind of envisioning that has practical value for you, and what visions you should avoid.
To illustrate what a useful vision might be, I’m [...]
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 [...]