“Being right is like heroin to human beings,” says Baron Baptiste, one of my teachers. There is a lot of “rightness” being pushed around right now. The problem (or perhaps the solution if we can see how this influences us) is that we all are, in fact, right. The beliefs we tightly hold onto came from our life experiences and made them right and true for us. This doesn’t mean they are universal truths, but, …
As humans we have a right to fully express our feelings. In fact, we MUST express our feelings for mental and emotional health. BUT as we express, let’s also transmute the energy behind our anger and fear into love and what we really want to create for our world. Be angry. Feel it. Notice how it shows up in your body. Listen to what it’s communicating to you, then act upon that wisdom. True wisdom …
One of my teachers recently asked our community to look at the reality we are creating for our world with our daydreams. (Our daydreams are the 60,000 – 80,000 thoughts that run through our minds each day.) When I looked at the world I was creating through some of my daydreams, it scared me. It was horror movie and war drama kind of stuff that I don’t even want to think or write about any …
“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” The first time I heard this saying I scribbled it on my white board, typed it into my Notes app, and saved it in my Favorite Quotes base on Airtable. (No one has ever called me disorganized lol!) I couldn’t get this saying off my mind. For much of my life, I did all the things that came my way because I am a strong, efficient high …
So many of us are still talking about how to survive the uncertainty of this pandemic, but here’s the thing: While the circumstances of the coronavirus lockdown (even with them starting to be lifted) are different from our old “normal,” the reality of life is still the same. This reality is that certainty is an illusion. We’ve never had certainty in life and never will have it. Before coronavirus, no one’s health, no one’s job, no one’s …