Category: Spirituality
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Creating my Pinterest vision board
In my previous New Years’ post, I mentioned that I was considering creating a vision board. Most instructions for vision boards require thumbing through and clipping photos from print materials, then pasting it to a board. I have neither the time nor the inclination to do that, not to mention that the last thing I…
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A New Years’ revolution
Most of us begin the New Year with a list of resolutions that are often broken after a week or two. As a life coach, I know that most of those resolutions are hard to keep because the goals themselves are too weighty. If the goal is simply to make more money, for example, that’s…
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Transition
This has been a painful, heart-opening couple of weeks for me and my family. My 88 year old grandmother Millie has congestive heart failure and is making a slow, steady transition from this life. She has mostly been alert, aware, communicative at times and thankfully, not in pain. The decision was made this past Wednesday…
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Journey into the heart of fear, loss and trust
Recently, my husband and I took a long weekend to the Riviera Maya for some much-needed together time away from jobs, families and daily responsibilities. Despite my desire to just sit on the beach with a drink in my hand and let the sound of the sea reset my brain to “calm”, we actually did…
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Spiritual practice isn’t protection from life
Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple–except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different…
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Sharing tea with the ninjas
This morning, I spent some time sitting in gassho meditation, reflecting on the Reiki Precepts. This practice is foundational to Reiki Ryoho, but there are some days where I feel like it’s the life raft I’m clinging to for dear life. Since I was a child, I have struggled with mild depression and anxiety. I’ve learned…
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Are you ready to be the true dragon?
“As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.” – Pema Chödrön I recently received a text from a friend of mine who has been on the spiritual path for several years now, practicing yoga, meditation and Reiki. She asked me,…
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A matter of life and death
This morning, I read a very emotional article in the New York Times about a man named Julio Garcia, who died of a died of a brain hemorrhage in March 2010 and how at least seven people received organs from him after his death. In the untimely loss of one person there is now the…
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Kokoro: of one heart with Japan
Like so many around the world, I have experienced anguish, heartache and deep worry for the people of Japan following last week’s earthquake and tsunami. Their nuclear crisis is still unfolding and shows no immediate signs of abating. There is so much I could say about this disaster, but I wanted to focus on something more…
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