There is a wonderful phrase that is commonly used, ‘the river of life’.
A river has its course. It moves with the twists and turns that appear moment by moment. It flows over obstacles. Sometimes the current is fast, so fast the river is made up of rapids of seemingly chaos. At other times, the movement [...]
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Posted in Awakening, Relationship with Self, Relatonships, Self-realization, Well-being, Wholeness, authenticity, co dependency, inner confidence, inner peace on Jul 7th, 2010
Inner confidence flows naturally when we are connected to our core, the spacious peace that is our natural state. This spaciousness/stillness/emptiness is the Big Love, beyond the confines of the personality.
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Posted in Awakening, Relationship with Self, Relatonships, Self-realization, Well-being, Wholeness, authenticity, co dependency, inner confidence, inner peace on Jun 30th, 2010
In my last post, I shared, “inner confidence is not about gaining something. What is really happening is an inhibition to the natural flow of life. There is a block to Life. Natural confidence that resides deeply within us when we rest into peace/stillness/spaciousness is always, always present.” This is the primary key to [...]
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A wonderful way to use intuition as a tool to create flow and ease is to notice your body – what increases and what decreases its energy. Your body is a compass that you can follow; the reason being that the body is in the present moment which is very different from the mind.
When the [...]
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The media talks or writes a lot about the word, confidence, whether it be self-confidence or a quiet confidence when describing someone. Confidence often refers to an attitude of “I can do this”, “I take risks”, “I believe in myself”, “I like who I am”. In our culture, confidence is a quality to aspire to – one [...]
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In Oprah’s newsletter this week, Marcus Buckingham reports on the statistical findings of a recent, 2009 survey concluding that today’s women are generally not as happy as women forty years ago (statistically substantiated by six major surveys in developed countries throughout the world). Also, the survey found that women get less happy as they age; [...]
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I had the privilege this week of listening to Kofi Annan, the one-time Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006) address a group of 6000 students at the University of Buffalo. As a backdrop, it might be helpful to know that this university has one of the highest percentages of international students in the United States. [...]
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The mind can be brilliant – inventing, designing, creating, integrating, synthesizing, memorizing – all of this and more as it deals with the details of modern life. The paradox is that the mind can also be ‘crazy’. It feeds us stories and beliefs orginating from old conditioning and habits that are limiting and based on [...]
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Anger is a feeling that is or has been a challenge for most of us to accept and express in healthy ways. Collectively, there seems to be lots of messages that we receive about anger being ‘bad’ or ‘negative’ or ‘wrong’.
The reality is that we all know that acting out anger can cause problems in [...]
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An old friend of mine shared with me, “I marvel at what my friends teach me”. She wasn’t talking about learning how to garden or dipping into politics at a deeper level. She was addressing the emotional charges, the judgments, the highs and lows of relationships. Instead of making it about her friends, she takes [...]
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