It is difficult for us to slow down. To allow for open space in our lives in which, quite simply, to do nothing. Nearly 50 years ago, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote of the danger of becoming “mentally indentured servants of the industrial system” if we do not take care to distinguish our own…
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Blue Sky
“Behind all hardening and tightening and rigidity of the heart, there’s always fear. But if you touch fear, behind fear there is a soft spot. And if you touch that soft spot, you find the vast blue sky. You find that which is ineffable, ungraspable, and unbiased, that which can support and awaken us at…
Going Down
Sometimes you just cannot respond with an open heart. Right? My father died recently, leaving my mother vulnerable and unsure. His death, or perhaps it is more his absence, has disturbed unspoken boundaries and unleashed pent up emotions and resentments among members of my extended family. It seems right to me to defend my mother,…
Love As Wide As The Ocean
In response to a remark I made about the fear we experience in the face of uncertainty, a healer said to me: In a vision I am standing in a pool of water that comes up above my knees, to my thighs. I reach down to cup the water in my hands. It is an…
Playing to Your Weakness: Lessons from the Bhagavad-Gita
I am one of those people who love to take what business coaches refer to as “Assessments”. One recognized assessment known as DiSC pegs me as “Results Oriented”. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator, probably the most well known assessment out there, categorizes me as ENTJ – which, as one fellow coach reminded me, is the…
Daring to Blossom
In the past month I have done a lot of thinking about what it takes to initiate large-scale change – and how completely frightening this can be. However, as one of my favorite writers and historical personalities, Anais Nin, once wrote: “And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a…
Use Your Imagination! (A Dose of Shamanism for the Business World)
The human brain has been evolving for thousands of years. It is only within a small sliver of that time that our brains have been so pre-occupied with stimulation provided through electronic devices – our computers, televisions, mobile phones and the like. In contrast, for much of human existence the mind has used stories, metaphors,…
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