Being truly present is hard and takes practice, but the reward is... well... everything. What do I mean by "everything"? When you pause for a moment and focus on being here now, your awareness opens wide like a camera aperture, enabling you to let in all the light in your life. You also are wiring [...]
First know that you are intuitive. Everyone is. Our nervous systems are hard wired for it. Neurological tests show we feel each other from a distance and anticipate events before they happen. Know that your rational brain is blocking what your nervous system feels. Even the most gifted intuitives barely scratch the surface of all [...]
The heavens are always in flux, which stirs up the energies that effect you. Whether it's a new moon, a full moon, an eclipse, or some heavenly body going in or out of retrograde, these fluctuating energies give you a chance to release old stuck stuff and catapult yourself forward into something new. Here's [...]
Grace is found in the chalice of gratitude. -- anon The Dalai Lama said, "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." Now neuroscience is showing that you can change your brain and raise your energy levels with a few daily practices. One of the simplest yet most powerful ways is [...]
PRACTICING GRATITUDE”“ Grace is found in the chalice of gratitude. Think of five things for which you are grateful each day, and your brain will rewire to start noticing the gifts of your life. Then you will feel truly graced. SAVERING THE GOOD - When you think of good things, take a moment to saver [...]
One night many years ago while sitting in a circle with students, I had an extraordinary experience. We'd using our intuition to help each other, then decided to meditate together. We turned out the lights, lit candles, and closed our eyes. Softly and unexpectedly, I felt an immense benign presence flowing into me. I was [...]
The trick is to quiet the mind, be in the moment, and allow awareness to come to the surface. Research shows that everyone is intuitive, including you. Your intuition is in your body, accessible through your senses. You just have to feel what's going on with you below the surface because what's going on is [...]
Every semester my students and I bring heirlooms to class to see what secrets they hold. It is everyone's favorite and most wondrous night. We light candles and turn down the lights, then pass around the heirlooms. With pen and paper handy, we cup the treasures in our hands and meditate on them one by [...]
We live in a sea of consciousness. While our minds generate and transmit our own thoughts, we are in an equal, and perhaps greater, sense, radio receivers of consciousness. Every thought, act, and word that we utter is in some way a channeling of the consciousness around us. When you read for yourself, you are [...]
We get intuition through our senses. As consciousness flows through us from the universe, we sense it in ways unique to our own being and life experiences. Some people hear the information, like quiet whispers in their heads. Others feel it in their bodies, especially in the gut. When I read someone who's injured or [...]
