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Bryon Katie, the creator of The Work, has done a brilliant job of teaching us how to be aware of whose business we are in with our thoughts. There is God’s business, someone else’s business, and our own business.  In many ways, the ‘claim your life as your own’ work that I do is all [...]

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Your work is to discover your life and with all your heart to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
When you claim your life, a life grounded in your own body, you discover your deepest self beyond the conditioned mind. As you integrate Presence into your life, you naturally share your unique gifts with your world.
You [...]

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I had the privilege of leading a retreat this summer called “Nurturing Your Soul” at www.carmelniagara.com, a beautiful and peaceful center in Niagara Falls, Canada.  Being together with women in a circle is a powerful way to support us to get in touch with who we truly are and what we truly want.

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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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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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The word, confidence, comes up a lot in our culture. It’s at the core of the work that I do through my writing, coaching, and leading of retreats. It’s been the biggest piece of my own personal journey.
What I now see is that confidence is essentially founded upon a concept of the mind that has [...]

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My invitation to you is to consciously spend time today observing the thoughts that pass through your mind. What do you notice?
How much of your thoughts  are focussed on expectations or desires?  How common are the phrases “I wish” or “if only” as you pay attention to thought?  In other words, how often do you [...]

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I define an edge as a step that is calling you that’s scary to take. In other words, doing ‘whatever it is’  would be a real stretch for you.  Jumping over that edge would be moving past old conditioning and habits into new territory.
For instance, an edge might be leaving an intimate relationship that hasn’t [...]

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There are days for all of us when we notice that we are almost obsessively trying to ‘get it’.  This ‘getting’ can pertain to getting the job done, getting why something happened, getting a new concept, getting where we think we should be, getting our dream to happen, getting more….more…more…
You get the idea [...]

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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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