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Allowing Everything to Be as It Is
A few weeks ago, we were honoured to have the renowned spiritual teacher Adyashanti in one of our meditation teacher training classes. Since the program started, I’ve been steeping in his wisdom, and I regret missing the opportunity to study with him, as he has retired from spiritual teaching. Our instructor asked Adya, “What is…
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The Pendulum
I traveled 1,100 miles over four days, and then shut everything off for another week of silent retreat. It was like crashing into a wall of water. Pendulum Swings Two weeks ago, I had my second silent meditation retreat. I chose this retreat because of my interest in John Prendergast, and the timing felt right,…
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Welcoming
This has been a week of change. Exiting my home for the last time. Traveling from New Mexico to California. Embracing nomadic life more fully than before. As I paused mid-week to connect with a fellow meditation student, I received a remarkable gift of awareness. A Meditation Dyad I had a meditation dyad with a…
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Unnesting
A friend recently characterized this period of my life as a time of locomotion. I loved the imagery of a locomotive gathering steam, the way my April unfolded. By mid-month, it was full steam ahead. Now, I find myself very much in motion. My preferred metaphor is the river. Earlier this year, I was floating…
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The Gem Within Executive Presence
As I wrap up a week connecting with lifelong friends and colleagues at Ellucian Live, I sense more deeply than ever the richness of life that emerges when we are fully present. I’ve written about presence before, and two years later, I find its impact deepening my journey and my clients’ as well. Somewhere along…
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More or Less
Recently, I caught up with a friend who is approaching that magical age of 50. Somewhere around this age, give or take 5-10 years, so many of us go through that phase we’ve unfortunately labeled a “midlife crisis.” I much prefer to think of this phase as a midlife awakening. The conversation went as these…
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Acknowledge. Honour. Release.
The past few months have been filled with new gifts of awareness. The primary catalyst was my meditation retreat in December. It formed a wave of new awareness, arguably a tsunami of awareness, that I’ve been tumbling around in ever since. It seems to me that, as children, we enter this world as lumps of…
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Learning to Read
It’s safe to say I read a lot. Certainly more than the average bear*. I’ve often felt my reading was more about quantity than quality. Recently, I’ve experienced a profound shift in my relationship with reading that may inspire you to re-evaluate your own. Reading as Achievement My love of reading has long been intertwined…
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Be A Liver
I was connecting with a friend yesterday, and she reminded me how, a few years back, she told me I was like a liver. Memories of that conversation came flooding back, along with the blog post it inspired. Re-reading that post, it feels especially relevant today. There is so much going on in the world…
