We are in healing times simply because humanity is in a healing crisis! As is always the case in a crisis, we can continue doing the same things and getting the same results [Einstein’s definition of insanity!], or take the...
It’s Christmas and we are meant to be happy . . . jolly, in fact! Another year is drawing to a close, and it’s time to celebrate. But it can be a busy and very confusing time of year: work...
Our close relationships with other people are much more than the shared feelings and experiences that fulfill our needs. Relationships create who we are, in a profound sense, and contribute significantly to our health and wellbeing. They also provide us...
‘Don’t just do something, sit there.’ – Sylvia Boorstein [b. 1936 ] Busy, busy, busy! On a daily basis we make many reasons, many excuses for our continuous activity, our high-speed thinking and how stressed we are by it all! ...
If your spiritual goal is to lift yourself to a higher consciousness, and you are not getting there, you must shed whatever is holding you down! This obvious activity may call for more than your spiritual practice can give you....
If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don’t know the stories you may be lost in life. — Siberian Elder Have you ever been horrified by your words and the way...
The unconscious is sometimes referred to as ‘the shadow’, as if it contains only our bad boogey, our dark side. For this, we can thank Sigmund Freud[1], who made the unconscious popular – and generally gave it a bad name. ...
Many of us live with deep emotional wounds in our being, and with painful kinks in our relationships with others and with ourselves. But a profound revolution in 21st century psychotherapy and neuroscience has shown how these painful patterns are...
At some critical times I find it is most useful to recall that everything is energy! Although I am sure I do not really understand or behave in everyday life as if it is. Even without a scientific knowledge or...
‘Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.’ – Carl Gustav Jung¹ To be fully alive, we must go through many births of consciousness in our life. Each birth, each expansion of consciousness,...