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What would happen if you sat in a circle with a few people and together you took a minute to tune into a person or a thing with what I call “spacious detachment”? You could be tuning into antique [...]

Some time today when you make a mistake (or goof up, or do something embarrassing, or get angry with yourself, or feel guilty about something), use it as an opportunity to do nothing about it. [...]

“There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet Have you ever stopped whatever you were doing to simply observe your thoughts? Yes, to do nothing else but [...]

Sometimes life delivers a perfect storm of disasters that are so bad they’re funny. It’s almost like the Universe is doing a koochie-koo to get us to take ourselves less seriously. My [...]

Part 5 of 5 Why is it that whenever someone catches us doing nothing, we immediately jump to our feet so that we’re not perceived as total time-wasting deadbeats? If that is something you [...]

Part 2 of 5 “Go slow to go fast.” Slowing it down is the second way to ease the side-effects of clearing clutter.* Anytime a task becomes too overwhelming and threatens to stall your [...]

Part 1 of 5 There couldn’t be a more perfect way to introduce the first (of five) ways to ease the side-effects of clearing clutter, than to share a question I received from a reader: [...]

My eighteen-year-old “baby” graduates from high school tomorrow. I’ve been surprisingly okay all week. No pangs, no tightening of the throat, no water works. Until yesterday. I [...]

“Life by the inch is a cinch. Life by the yard is hard.”–Unknown In my book Your Spacious Self I offer a series of phrases that are designed to relieve and release the build-up of [...]

“If this clearing technique doesn’t seem like it accomplishes very much, that’s because from the mind’s point of view, it doesn’t. This exercise is designed to access a deeper inner knowing [...]