Gentle Support vs. Strangler Figs
Gentle Support — too often, support turns into persuasion then coercion. We propose something more…
Have your emotions. Act responsibly in spite of them.
Have Your Emotions — Emotions are experienced pretty much from birth, … the infant’s emotion…
On Waking Up — Infinite Choice
Infinite Choice — blaming, holding on to grudges, all keep us stuck. Letting go opens…
On Waking Up — The Attack of the WhyBut Monster
On Waking up — Why and but are stop words. They are useful for getting…
On Waking Up — Awake as Compared to Asleep
On Waking Up — Awake as compared to Asleep It’s hard to admit, but our…
The Finger That Points to the Moon…
The Finger That Points to the Moon… — our internal representations are neither real, nor…
Thoughts on Letting Go
Thoughts on Letting Go — letting go is all about learning what you can control,…
Finding Compassionate Wholeness
Compassionate wholeness happens infrequently in our world, because of the downward pull toward security and…
About Embodiment — 12 Ideas
Embodiment — you are all of you — body, mind, and energy. There are ways…
About No Past – 12 Ideas
No Past — One of the toughest ‘sells,’ both in therapy and in life, is…
About Happiness – 12 Ideas
About Happiness — The key to happiness and contentment: happiness is determined by your intention.
About I‑am-ness — 12 Ideas
I‑am-ness — One particularly interesting way to look at ourselves as human beings is to…
About Being Chained – 12 Ideas
About Being Chained – I must take full responsibility for my choices, decisions, and directions.…
About Knowing Yourself — 12 Ideas
Knowing Yourself — I suspect that most people are more concerned with perfecting their defensiveness…
About Mind Movies — 12 Ideas
About Mind Movies — The stories we create might be interesting (to us) but they…
About Results — 12 Ideas
The usefulness or validity of an action is always determined by the result. If it…
About Self Actualizing — 12 Ideas
Self Actualizing — Self Actualizing means being in charge of one’s wife through both acceptance…
About Taking Action — 12 Ideas
About Anxiety — 12 Ideas
. It is impossible to live life free of anxiety. There is the anxiety that…
Bring Wisdom — 12 Ideas
Bring Wisdom — If life has any meaning, it is this: each event of life…
About Reality
About Reality: learning to be in the present moment, in the real, is key to…
Another Look at Emptiness
Another Look at Emptiness — a Western look at emptiness, and how different categories of…
The Emptiness of Everything
The Emptiness of Everything — watching the workings of our mind as we invent meanings…
Life, Death, and “Gone”
Life, Death, and “Gone”– we take life for granted, putting off the work we need…