Noise-Canceling Headsets for Our Listening

May 6, 2012

  Do you find that some people just rub you the wrong way, regardless of what they’re talking about, even if it’s a topic that matters to you? If so, you may experience only their “difficult presence,” missing the message entirely, taking things personally, or both. Why? When we speak, we don’t just say what [...]

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May 2012: Who Has Changed Your World?

April 30, 2012

“A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” Welsh proverb  Every now and then, our life’s journey is touched by the presence of another – someone simply walking their journey, yet in the process, changing ours forever. Rarely planned or anticipated, often unnoticed until after-the-fact, their presence one day leaves [...]

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Personal Clarity Leads to Freedom

April 23, 2012

 Do you find yourself stressing through your day, perhaps with the hope that if you get enough done, you’ll feel more at peace? Even if only unconsciously, most people seem to relate a sense of accomplishment to the experience of peace and freedom. The way I see it, however, the best you get after a [...]

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Apr 2012: We’re All Travelers in Time

March 31, 2012

“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”   — St. Francis of Assisi When I travel, I’ve made it a practice to be more aware and present to what the world’s special places offer. Travel has become a way to explore time, place and myself more deeply. A few [...]

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Mar 2012: A Recipe for a Thriving Future

February 29, 2012

“Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.” We put a lot of energy into thinking about the future. With imagination, we can plan, desire, fear, predict, avoid or dream a vast array of possibilities. Depending on how we see, we may imagine the best life can offer or try to [...]

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Feb 2012: There Are No Contentious Topics

January 31, 2012

“You can either have what you want or you can have the reasons why you can’t have what you want.”   —– Alberto Villoldo, in The Four Insights   My newer clients often speak of the contention and conflict they experience, at home and work. The contention may show up as complaint, argument, anger, stress, anxiety, [...]

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Jan 2012: A Culture of Worry

December 31, 2011

“Fear is the interest paid on a debt you don’t owe.”    —– my fortune cookie this week at the local Asian restaurant  There’s always something. No matter how much peace or freedom we may experience in our lives, it seems there’s always something to worry about. And as our lives become more complex, chaotic, and [...]

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Dec 2011: Falling Off the Edge of the World

November 30, 2011

“We all continually move on the edges of eternity, and are sometimes granted vistas through the fabric of illusion.”                                                                     —– Ansel Adams, Autobiography     There was a time when prevailing belief held that the earth was flat, and if you were to reach the edge, you’d fall off. Although the belief itself has long [...]

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Who Says There’s No Cooperation in Government

November 27, 2011

Most days, I walk 3 or 4 miles somewhere in nature. It’s exercise, it’s quiet time, and it reconnects me with the mystery and unity of all life. One of my local favorites here on Cape Cod is the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge. It’s rather ordinary in some respects, but it’s also part of the [...]

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Celebrate What’s Right

November 14, 2011

Dewitt Jones is perhaps my favorite nature photographer. It’s not just because his images are spectacular, which they are. It’s more because he brings to his images a deep insight about life, and about how our ways of seeing impact our experience of life. His words are simple, yet they touch me deeply. Each week [...]

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