Five Minutes for Sanity

Free will or destiny: which is it? It’s both actually. But let’s focus on free will. Yes, it’s true, you have free will. The real question is who are you? The “you” that is free to create at will is your deeper being, not the mental false identity. This is tricky, because how can you…

An awakened life in an available life. A life lived with no limitation on expression or experience. It’s a flow of consciousness. It is wholeness. The projected story is that awakening means walking on air with some constant half smile; a life of pure compassion, kindness and decency. But it’s not. It is a life…

​Doubt is obnoxious it has a persistent and vaporous grip on us. It slowly contaminates our experience and usually brings along its best friend Dread. In fact, it’s so chronic and constant that we almost wouldn’t know what to do if it wasn’t there, churning away, making low-grade discomfort in our system. Regardless, it is…

So it’s really challenging to find a “delicious yes”—the internal place of pure satisfaction and right action, when an external flow or circumstance has lined up so nicely. Today we’re talking all about that painful place where you can’t see how anything could work out unless you push yourself…

Yup, I love them! A good rant is telling you about your personal boundaries. Usually it’s a boundary about how much heartache you’re willing to watch or take part in: heartache because you can’t watch someone you love hurt, or heartache because you can’t let someone mistreat or disregard you any more. And that’s awesome!…

So many of us feel really stuck at some point in our journey to liberate ourselves from suffering. I get a lot of letters each week, and across the board I usually find this same snag: an internal pressure to manipulate or escape or avoid what your body, emotions, fear, life is showing you. So…

Wrapping up our series on abundance, let’s talk about money… Part of a four-part series on Abundance: Abundance 101, Abundance 102, Abundance 103, and Abundance 104 (this post).

What can a tomato teach us about abundance? Let’s continue the conversation from last week with Abundance 103: Part of a four-part series on Abundance: Abundance 101, Abundance 102, Abundance 103 (you are here), and Abundance 104 (coming next Wednesday!).

Picking up from last week’s conversation, let’s talk about the fear that is at the root of the feelings of “not enough”. That fear can feel so real and so important… but is it really true? Part of a four-part series on Abundance: Abundance 101, Abundance 102 (you are here), Abundance 103, and Abundance 104…

​The world—that is, people in the world—are geared toward compromise. This means that when you say no, it is not a welcome movement. It’s almost like you have to talk yourself into it, like you are instigating a forceful movement. But in reality, saying “no” is a very important and very welcome movement. It’s just…

Lazy! We all hate that word. But when you are feeling “lazy”, it often means you really just need some time for rest. However, if after a period of “rest” you still feel weary and heavy and burdened, then you weren’t really resting. You just disconnected. Real rest is in the stillness, that awesome place…

We had so much great feedback from everyone about the No Compromise video, that we wanted to follow it up with some more practical tips for being able to really dig in to this new way of living. Little tips or life hacks for finding the consensus in hard places!