The Energy of Your Desire
For much of my life, I believed getting what I wanted was mostly a matter of deciding what I wanted badly enough and then working hard enough to make it happen. That was the world I grew up in. You were supposed to want a good career, financial success, marriage, children, a nice home, security […]
Your Feelings Are Telling the Truth. But What Are They Saying?
For years, one of the teachings I have received from Shaltazar that has affected me most deeply is this: our emotions are truth. Not because every thought attached to an emotion is true. Not because every fear predicts the future or every angry reaction is justified. But because the feeling itself tells us that something […]
Maybe You Don’t Want Attention. Maybe You Want Your Life to Matter
For several weeks, I noticed something interesting in myself. I am usually very open to change, but when it comes to certain aspects of technology, I am the opposite. I need it to work. And when it doesn’t, I panic more than I would like to admit. My Wi-Fi became the perfect example. It would […]
The Person You Are Becoming May Not Make Sense to the Person You Were
There are moments when you begin to surprise yourself. You say no when you once would have said yes. You rest instead of pushing through. Something that used to feel important suddenly loses its hold on you. You stop explaining yourself quite so much. You feel less willing to keep doing things simply because you […]
When Life Stops Cooperating With the Plan
There are times when life simply does not seem to cooperate. Technology fails. Plans change. Something that should be simple becomes complicated. One problem leads to another, and before long we find ourselves asking, What is going on? Recently, I noticed this in my own life. For a while, one small disruption after another seemed […]
What Is This Experience Trying to Show You?
Over many years on my spiritual journey, I have discovered that we all go through periods when life is shaken up in ways we do not expect. I never enjoy these times—they are rarely pleasant—but I have come to see that they often serve a higher purpose. After they pass, I usually realize I have […]
The Good Life Is Not What I Thought It Was
What Does the Good Life Really Mean? This morning, as I prepared to be a guest on a podcast called Living the Good Life, I found myself reflecting on what that phrase actually means to me. So many of us want to live a good life, yet we rarely stop to ask what that truly […]
When Joy Feels Far Away, Slow Down
When the Mind Speeds Up Lately, I have been hearing from many people who are feeling a kind of heaviness. Emotional weight. Tiredness. Quiet overwhelm that can be hard to explain. I have been feeling it too. And when that heaviness shows up, the mind often wants to figure out how to get us out […]
Feeling Heavy Doesn’t Mean You’ve Lost Your Light
When Heaviness Makes You Question Yourself Lately, I have been feeling down. Actually, “down” feels too soft. It has been one of the heavier emotional periods I have experienced in a while. On the outside, nothing dramatic has changed. I am still functioning. Still doing what needs to be done. But inside, there has been […]
Maybe You Don’t Need Another Answer
The Search for the Next Thing Something became clear to me this week, and I have a feeling I am not the only one who needs to hear it. Sometimes we are so busy searching for the next answer, insight, opening, or exciting possibility that we miss the wisdom already sitting quietly inside us, waiting […]