There are five kinds of mental modifications, which are either painful or painless. “We forget that the pleasure we seek is actually who we are,” notes my reference text in a discussion of this sutra. This is so radically optimistic. And certainly a different perspective from the general notion that we are made of darker…
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One Month to Get It Done
In my new home town in Colorado I have started collaborating with a group of entrepreneurs on the idea of accomplishing important goals. Since this is such a broad and potentially overwhelming topic, we broke it down: Choose one goal that you can achieve in a month – and get it done. In shamanic work,…
Finding My Way in the Dark
Today I decided: I will do an entire practice with my eyes closed. I toppled over a lot. And even when I held the posture, even when I was physically still, in my head I was as disoriented as if I were tumbling and rolling upside down under the sea. Finally I just stood in…
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…
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