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An old Tibetan wise man once said: “If you walk with haste you do not reach Lhasa. If you walk at a gentle pace, you will make it there.”
Originally published by Psychology Today
This Is What Happened After I Left Everything
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About two years ago I left two businesses I spent most of my 20’s and 30’s creating. For 15 years I was a psychotherapist, a role that came naturally to me. I was good at my job and over the course of time, built a successful practice….
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Originally published by Elephant Journal.
Are We Sick of Being Sick Yet?
Artwork by Danielle Benvenuto
Whenever I think about the state of the world–the story it is telling, the movie it is projecting–in order to understand what is really going on, I view it as one big breathing organism.
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Originally published on Wake Up World.
An Unexpected Journey Through Sex, Shame, and Love
Artwork by Danielle Benvenuto
Seven months ago I gave up my career as a psychoanalyst and energy healer to do nothing. I wanted to see what would happen in the space of just being, unattached to any role, without pursuing any goals.
Originally published by Elephant Journal. Republished on Medium.
Your Guilt Serves No One
We serve the world by showing up for ourselves, speaking our truths and by relentlessly seeking for and coming back to our truth.
THIS IS LOVE.
Originally published on Medium.
Your Success Story Bores Me
(And so does mine.)
I get bored shitless when I hear people talking about success: they’ve done this or that and blah blah blah.
Published on Medium.
Mind-Body Healing Meditation
During times of great change, we must find the grounding to support whatever discomfort arises in us. As we tolerate and embody our felt experience rather than push it away, we heal. When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
You Are The Thing You've Been Waiting For
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Things unfold in our lives.
Sometimes with the grace of a ballerina whirling through the air making us forget the separation between the space and the dancer and sometimes with the awkwardness of child just beginning to take his first steps as he learns to walk. Whether we like it or not and whether we fight it or not we are always in a process which is unfolding.
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Originally published by Elephant Journal.
How I Create the Life of My Dreams Even When I Feel like shit
I was becoming a master manifestor.
Everything I wanted, I got. From the extra salmon roll I didn’t order but wanted which showed up on my plate courtesy of the chef thirty minutes after I decided secretly in my mind I would get it, to my request for a loving, sexy, emotionally available man to travel with during my time in Asia who showed up only three days after….
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Originally published by Wake Up World.
How Meditating With My Younger Self Changed Me
A couple of years ago when I really began to dive head first into meditation, I found myself inhabiting and exploring a whole new world of possibilities brought on by books I was reading on the subject and my own intuitive and creative take while in the experience.
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This article was originally published by Wake Up World.
A Letter From the Cosmos: What We Must Know About Living on Planet Earth
Dear Fellow Humans,
I’ve had the privilege of living on planet Earth for quite some time now. The time I have spent here so far has been a real eye-opener for me. Through my experiences, many of which have been challenging, I have managed to figure out a few things about our humanity and how to live freely. It is these lessons I would like to humbly share with you in this letter.
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This article was originally published by Elephant Journal.
Everything in Life Starts As a Seed
Everything in life starts as a seed. A Flower. An avocado. A rigid belief system. A loving relationship. A musical composition. Disease. A flourishing business. Space travel. A life. Whatever you see manifested in the world and in your life began as a seed-which through time and reinforcement from internal and external sources germinated into reality for better or for worse.
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Originally published by Elephant Journal.
Understanding Destiny and Practical Steps to help you take charge of yours
We each come into this life with unique temperaments and quirks, a self- symphony, both breathtakingly beautiful and awkwardly arranged, and as par for the course agonizingly difficult to navigate at times. We come in with a symphony that is above all inherently distinct and unable to be replicated by anyone else we encounter in the world.
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Originally published by Wake Up World.
Are Your Emotions Holding You Hostage?
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Have you ever gone into a fit of rage and come out barely remembering what you said or how you got there in the first place? Have you ever been seized by sheer panic while waiting for a response from your new crush, a state so powerful that sending a text message every hour on the hour, wondering aloud if something terrible happened felt like a good idea?
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Originally published by Elephant Journal.
Dream On! Six Simple Ways to Enhance Your Dream Recall
Since as far back as I can remember, dreaming for me has always been an invitation for a new and exciting adventure. As a child I would lay my head on the pillow each night with a big smile on my face in anticipation of the new journey ahead, something that felt like a hand reaching from some other world in equal anticipation of my arrival.
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This article was originally published by Wake Up World.