Where do you fall on the holiday spectrum with joy on one end and stress on the other? Let’s see if we can help tip it more to the joy end and less to the stress end. It can change moment to moment. There are two big reasons why we slide to the stress end. […]
I was sitting by a creek last week, watching the water. Once again I was struck by how water always follows the path of least resistance. When it encounters a block it simply slips around another way or settles in to the stillness of being where it is. It doesn’t try to force itself to […]
How do you create space in your life? Are you addicted to filling every moment? Are you cranking things out at work, rushing, meeting deadlines, just getting it done? At home are you continually checking email, social media, your cell phone? Do you flip from channel to channel on the television, searching, searching, searching? Are […]
Being awake in your life is one piece of being present in the moment. Maybe the two are actually the same. It’s about being fully present wherever you are rather than having your mind one place, which is not where your body is. In this complex world we speak often of multi-tasking and wear it […]
When I was in high school, way back when everything had to be ironed, I would only press the collar and cuffs of my blouse if I was going to wear it under a sweater. I think that may be a low Workability life energy solution to a problem. I haven’t thought about that in […]
Have you ever gotten caught in a cycle of taking yourself too seriously? Have you focused on the heaviness of a situation, not able to see how it might ever change? Often when that happens we let that heaviness spill over into other areas of our lives. For instance, yesterday I had a less than […]
