Zen for the Holidays — 10 Tips
Zen for the Holidays is a collection of hints and tips for dialing down the…
Zen 101 — Self-Responsibility
Self-responsibility is hard, as we live in a time when blame is much more popular.…
Zen 101 — More Zen Ideas
Zen Concepts — learning to act on our beliefs as opposed to just spouting them…
Zen 101 — Essential Zen Lessons
Essential Zen Lessons — Coming into presence is the key focus of Zen, and is…
Real Relating — Discover Yourself
On Real Relating — Discover Yourself — relating is a forum where we get to experiment…
Real Relating — Finding YourSELF
Real Relating — Finding YourSELF — Most people enter relationships either for what the other…
Real Relating — I Wasn’t Going to do This
Real Relating — I Wasn’t Going to Do This — learning to work through emotions…
Real Relating — Relating 101
Relating 101 — learning to let go of the past and the future is key…
Real Relating — Some Thoughts on Relating
Some Thoughts on Relating — it’s never a power struggle… it’s learning to see, hear,…
Passion, Ego and Charge
Passion, Ego, and Charge — Because we are conditioned, we view most things through the…
Fearless Exploration of the Void
Synopsis: Only through fearless exploration of the void can we come to terms with and…
The Courage to be Happy
Given society’s propensity to think that ‘love’ should = happiness, it’s a brave thing indeed…
Examining Your Premise
Examining Your Premise — your beliefs underlie everything you think and do — and most…
Never wait for another to “make you happy”
Nothing, including happiness, comes from the outside, so, never wait for another to make you…
Beliefs and Motes
Beliefs and Motes — There is no objective reality. Everything is filtered through our beliefs.…
Developing Self-Awareness
Developing Self-awareness — Self responsibility is never about self absorption. Self-responsibility is self awareness.
9 Ways to Screw up a Relationship
9 Ways to Screw up a Relationship — Thinking that my internal reality is dictated…
5 Life Lessons You Need to Get
5 Life Lessons You need to Get — some lessons are obvious, but the really…
Body Gates and the Path to Self-Knowing
Body Gates — there are gates in the body — metaphoric passages from one stage…
Mind Cobwebs
Mind Cobwebs — We’ve been conditioned by our families and tribes to ‘fit in.’ Making…
Bodywork
Bodywork is all about disentangling yourself from your wacky thoughts. We all have them. Blaming,…
Vulnerability — 5 things
vulnerability is considered a weakness… fear of vulnerability is ingrained at a deep level, to…
Crowning Glory — The Body Speaks
Crowning Glory — our heads are a blessing and a curse. If we buy into…
Insight — The Body Speaks
Insight: Our focus pulls inward, and then, as predictably as the sunrise, we’re pulled into…