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Make It Right, Then Make It Better – Awakening

ho'oponopono, awakening, law of attractionHo’oponopono means “to make right” in the language of Polynesia.  To make right means to clear the attachments that hold us in hard feelings and harsh judgements – to bring our focus into the “field beyond right and wrong” as Rumi says.  It is one process among many for opening the heart and mind to the Soul’s presence; the flow of love and authentic kindness to and through us.

In my Life, the desire to find a way through these sticky energetic entanglements into the clear field of connected Love is a driving force.  Both personally and professionally, all of my experience tracks back to this intention – to embody the ability within myself and to teach the power of “making it right” with others.  Over the years, I’ve studied and practiced and shared numerous techniques: self reflection and analysis, meditation, ho’oponopono, Law of Attraction, Course in Miracles, Shamanic principles and practices, prayer, making wishes… and on and on.  Always with the singular intention of alignment with a state of well-being and Grace.

All of these techniques and philosophies work. Continue reading “Make It Right, Then Make It Better – Awakening”

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Lit From Within – Awakening

awakeing, creativityI’ve seen them.  These are the ones who seem to give off their own radiance as though the sun and stars shine inside their words and eyes and actions.  It doesn’t matter what is happening around them, they engage with an alert curiosity.  Everything to them is interesting.  When they talk, their passion for life is infectious; by osmosis, it seems, an eagerness for living spreads to anyone nearby.  Often, they are the success stories of our culture, but it isn’t the light shined on them by success that drives them.  It is that they are lit from within.

And I ask myself what inspired the awakening of the inner light within them?

In our western culture, we are raised to look outward.  To build our hopes and dreams based on what we see in the world around us.  To measure our successes by the approval of the world around us.  To define our worth in comparison to the world around us.  But these people who are lit from within…they found another way, another focus, another source for inspiration and desire to find and guide them. Continue reading “Lit From Within – Awakening”

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Memories – Law of Attraction in Action

law of attraction, visualization, creative power, memoryThink about it.  How much of our lives do we spend in the realm of memories?  Chatting with friends or ruminating privately.  Exploring with therapists the painful memories that stop us in our tracks when they surface or floating gently in recollections of laughter and love.  If we are truly forthright with ourselves, I bet we’d discover the vast majority of thoughts and feelings we have are either about the past or referencing/comparing to the past.

Interestingly, the part of the mind that visualizes and ruminates can’t distinguish between the timeline of past, present, and future.  It’s been proven through study after study. Continue reading “Memories – Law of Attraction in Action”

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A Fluid Mind and an Open Heart – Awakening

awakening, expanding consciousness, mind, heartI wrote recently that remembering and awakening are the same.  By this, I meant that the process of expanding consciousness, awakening, is as much — if not more — remembering who we are than becoming more than we were.

For me, this begs the question: what and when did I forget?  In other words, are there clues as to what is relevant to remember?  I asked this question in meditation, and the answer I got was: yes, remember a fluid mind and an open heart.

A fluid mind.  I pondered the qualities of mind that moves like water, and I came up with this list: Continue reading “A Fluid Mind and an Open Heart – Awakening”

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Secrets And Conscious Awareness – How Life Works

conscious awareness, openness, spiritual awakeningMost of us keep a few.  We call it our right to privacy or nobody else’s business.  We tell ourselves it’s too complex for other’s to understand; perhaps we fear the judgement that accompanies the lack of understanding.  Most of us believe we are successful at keeping some aspect of our experience a secret.  It’s the nature of the belief that we are all separate, distinct and engaged only through the five senses of our physicality, that lends power to the idea that we can keep secrets.

The good news is: this belief is as accurate as the belief that the world is flat is accurate.  The bad news is for the secret-keepers: in the subtle realms of emotion and thought, we are all connected; secrets are impossible. Continue reading “Secrets And Conscious Awareness – How Life Works”

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A Spider’s Story – How Life Works

art, weaving worlds, spider, teacher withinBy my art desk, there is a window.  Six months ago, I noticed a large spider
weaving her web on the other side of the pane.  Day by day, she built a
net across the window as I wove colors into fabric a few feet away.  I developed a fondness for her; a sense of kinship as we created in silent harmony together.  A pane of glass maintained our clear boundary as we wove side by side – each in our own world.  After a rain, I exalted with her on a good ‘catch’ day and cheered for her as she succeeded in stashing a large ‘spider’ wealth of small flying creatures in her web.

Several months passed of our weaving camaraderie when she surprised me with a baby – one itsy bitsy identical reproduction of herself. Continue reading “A Spider’s Story – How Life Works”

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Commune Through Community – How Life Works

awakening, personal process, community, serviceThe process is personal; do doubt.  The path to inner harmony and well-being is an internal journey.  To claim full responsibility for one’s behaviors and attitudes and feelings requires reflection inward.  The call to learn and evolve and align within a Greater Design is often an inner communion.

To commune is to join in a harmonious blending. And isn’t it interesting that the art of engaging outward and joining with other individuals comes from the word commune.  Community.

Ram Dass said, “The cure for every psychological ailment is to get involved with a greater cause.” Continue reading “Commune Through Community – How Life Works”

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The Teacher Within – Recognition of Awakening

Teacher, Guidance, Spiritual awakening, spiritualityWe can talk about our “Inner Being”, and we can philosophize forever on where the sacred Voice Within originates.  We can intellectually exercise and expand the concept of Guidance  into forever and beyond.  Still, it seems to me, there is only one question that bears fruit in its answer:

How do we recognize the Teacher Within?

If there is a wisdom abiding within our Being, functioning from behind what our conscious mind interprets as outside ourselves, how do we access it?  We have so many ‘voices’ playing commentator to our experiences – I know I do, anyway – how do we discern which voice speaks from Greater Intelligence amongst the voices that reflect well-worn opinions and biases?  These questions draw the line in the sand.  We can talk about it endlessly, but – at some point – we have to start listening to begin to understand the nuances of what it means.  Continue reading “The Teacher Within – Recognition of Awakening”

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Nature – The Infallible Teacher

Nature, learning, teacher, law of attractionLearning is the skill with which we are born.  From the moment (and perhaps even before) of first consciousness, we are gathering and integrating information.  Early on, our minds begin to formulate questions and seek answers.  It is a continual process, from figuring out how to take that first breath and throughout every experience of life.  And so, by association, do we have teachers all throughout our lives.  Whether by default or intention, there is always someone or some experience adding to the information we integrate to evolve.

Think about this:  In whatever circumstance we find ourselves engaging or whomever we find ourselves associating, the type of teacher/teaching  is defined. Continue reading “Nature – The Infallible Teacher”

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John of God Vlog – Day 5; Morning at ‘Home’


The John of God cycle at The Casa (Wednesday – Friday) is done, and we are into a new rhythm; Abadiania becomes ‘another’ place Saturday – Tuesday.  Everything slows to sleepy pace as the visitors to The Casa leave for home, and those of us remaining relax into the easy-going lifestyle of a small town.  It’s fun to watch the interactions of people who stay here for extended periods show up in the town after the ‘crowds’ leave to mingle and socialize.

The high point upon which our day revolves is our trip to the Waterfall. Continue reading “John of God Vlog – Day 5; Morning at ‘Home’”