Connecting with the Divine/Spirit, Living Your Purpose, Mental Health Crisis As Spiritual Awakening, Wisdom Of The Heart
I love that quote by Thomas Merton! How can we possibly be anything but ourselves?! And yet, most adults have experienced an identity crisis at least once if not several times before the age of 30. The term “identity crisis” first came from developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. Erikson introduced the ideas of adolescent identity crises as well as midlife crisis, believing that personalities developed by resolving crises in life.
Conscious Relationships, Living Your Purpose, Spiritual Activism, The Power of Compassion, Wisdom Of The Heart
An innocent child does not judge her experience, nor does she have the impulse to control it. Life is simply happening, and the veiling function of the brain that separates us from experience is not fully in place. The innocent child simply feels what is happening. As long as there is no distress, the child lives as an expression of pure love.
Connecting with the Divine/Spirit, Living Your Purpose, The Power Of Love, Transforming Limiting Beliefs, Wisdom Of The Heart
“The innermost heart says, ‘You are enough. Nowhere to go, nothing to get, nothing to change. No need to grow more deserving You, yes You, are Love.’” ~Tosha Silver Statistics show that about 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every...
Conscious Relationships, Mastering Emotions, Wisdom Of The Heart
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ~Buddha If you google anger, you will find topics galore about why you need to avoid it, how anger makes you sick, and how to manage...
Conscious Relationships, The Power of Compassion, The Power Of Love, Wisdom Of The Heart
“Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.“ Mary Oliver Sophie, a 14-lb Bichon Frise, was my...
Mastering Emotions, Mental Health Crisis As Spiritual Awakening, Wisdom Of The Heart
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau When I was a child,in the early ‘60s, my grandfather would take my sister, brother and me highbush blueberry picking for hours, in Lynn Woods. We would venture out on a summer evening, with our...
Connecting with the Divine/Spirit, Mastering Emotions, The Power of Compassion, Wisdom Of The Heart
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”― C.G. Jung Right below the surface of our lives are the dreams, hopes and fears that direct our language and behavior in ways we rarely question. Someone asks us how we...
Conscious Relationships, Mastering Emotions, Mental Health Crisis As Spiritual Awakening, The Power of Compassion, Wisdom Of The Heart
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” Echart Tolle Conflict comes from the Latin, confligere, which means “to strike together.” Inner conflict is when two opposing feelings,...
Conscious Relationships, Mastering Emotions, The Power of Compassion, Wisdom Of The Heart
We have all been there before, when we just don’t know where to turn. We look back on our lives, and remember the dreams we had of a successful career, a happy marriage, a healthy body, and they look nothing like the life we are living. The voice in our head says, “Where did I go wrong? What could I have done differently? What next?”
Connecting with the Divine/Spirit, Mastering Emotions, Mental Health Crisis As Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Activism, The Power Of Love, Wisdom Of The Heart
You don’t hear the term, “the shift,” as in a shift of consciousness or paradigm shift, very often anymore. It seems many people now agree that there has been a shift, and that we are fully in it, and that we are in a new world now. Many say they have already had their shift in consciousness, often brought on by some ordeal, as a physical illness or divorce or financial crisis, or all of the above. The shift may have been from focusing on success and money to prioritizing family and love, or from pushing one’s body too far to radical self-care.
