The Five Spirits of Wealth Years ago, I was directed to find a book by Edwene Gaines called The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity, and I found it most inspiring Many people on a spiritual path are very conflicted about financial prosperity — material wealth — so in effect we are putting in our orders…
BRAVING: Trust in Relationships Many of my clients are learning how to thrive after narcissistic abuse, or pulling out of relationships with narcissists. [Narcissism is a disorder in which the person has an inflated sense of self-importance. Narcissistic personality disorder is found more commonly in men. The cause is unknown but probably involves a combination…
Should we, or shouldn’t we? I can’t tell you how many times clients ask me if they should get involved with someone… or regret having been involved with someone… or need help recovering from involvement. And mainly it’s because they don’t understand the basic principles of friendship, especially for intimate, romantic, or sexual relationships. Sexual…
The Spirit of Giving It’s the winter solstice today, the turning point of the year, the end of harvest (gathering in) and beginning of sharing or distribution. Yesterday, two conversations came together in my mind related to giving, especially at this time of year. Conversation 1: I arranged a Christmas Eve dinner with the other…
Magnificent doesn’t mean perfect! Yesterday I woke up feeling magnificent. Every human is designed for some kind of magnificence, and we each have our own particular flavor or signature. My own signature is brilliance, and on a good day I both exhibit brilliance in my life and work and being, and also appreciate it in…
Pivot Points, Coda As I was thinking this over a few days later, I noticed a few things about my own pivot points – and of course these patterns may or may not apply to anyone else. The high points: There is a period of discomfort prior to the pivot, just like Ken Wilber describes…
PIVOT POINT, Part 2 This morning it came to me that, for most people, their identity is bound up in what they do. In a male-dominated world, the divine masculine yang energy of expansion is paramount, so we do things because we can, regardless of the end or side effects. (For example, only in a…
PIVOT POINT, Part 1 Last Sunday was 02-02-2020, a palindromic date (and thus exceedingly rare – the next one will be in 03-03-3030). Spiritually and energetically, this seems to be a moment to reaffirm our dreams and intentions. My own teacher speaks of 2020 as a year of replenishment, of being blessed again after times…
Spirituality and the Waste Disposal I’ve been helping out a friend in Brazil who has a stomach virus that led to a week of complete blockage in his colon. (That’s my polite way of saying he couldn’t shit for a week.) We worked through the obvious questions – is this your complaint or someone else’s…
Spiritual Silliness I was listening to an inspired Geotran call last night that urged us all to stay out of strife, because that is one of the tools of this world, and it blocks our blessings. Now, as someone who is political by nature, that’s a hard one to hear sometimes, and yet I do…