Graduation (aka Letting Go)

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 [...]

Choosing Ease

“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 [...]

A Simple Clearing Practice You Can Do (Right Now)

“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 [...]

Space Clearing: Compassion is Key

“Stress patterns that keep our homes, workplaces, and lives in a constant state of imbalance have a way of vaporizing in the presence of pure, elegant compassion.” –sbv Part 6 of 7 * [...]

Simplify, Simplify…

“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.” –Henry David Thoreau A big low-pressure system seems to have moved in to affect my entire household. First a [...]

Being With Loss

How is it possible to allow loss to simply be? To allow that things sometimes don’t add up, make sense, or work out? I’m still in shock and recovery over the fact that my laptop [...]

Awareness Changes Everything

“Nothing has more power to transform than awareness. When you become complete inside yourself, the worst conditions don’t matter.” –Deepak Chopra If you read “Massaging a [...]

Massaging a Meltdown

“Hot and cold. Pain and Pleasure. Come and go. Come and go. Oh my Dear One, manage to endure them.” – Bhagavad Gita   Today, I do not feel whole, or in the flow, or joyful about anything. [...]