In loving memory of Rahima Sharon Gray, and Deirdre Sulke-Meister Two very dear friends died in the last month. One was a shocking and brutal death. The other was expected, chosen as an alternative to continuing medical interventions with severely decreased quality of life. I learned a great deal about love, and about living, from…
Last summer, I made a blog post that has really been living with me. It was called Heart 7: Poetry or Chaos. I’ve watched it over and over, especially the end imagery (see video embedded at the end of this blog post). This summer, I feel as though I am living in a “part two”…
Summer is about the Fire element, and Fire is about joy and relationship. It’s the spark of connection. It’s the warmth of friendship. It’s the heat of passion, romance and intimacy. And it’s the alchemy of the flame. That is what the upcoming Fire Re-Ignition workshop is about: the transformation from free-floating anxiety to the…
HM 9 and TH 1 are the two ‘first contact’ points. When you reach out to touch someone, this is where the first contact happens. HM 9 ZHONG CHONG Rushing Into the Middle, Middle Rushing In, Right Into the Middle of Rushing, Full Tilt Into the Middle, Center Highway We could say that the Heart…
I’ve heard it said that it is more important to love than to be loved. I can see why this would be said; not least because going around endeavoring to be loved is far less effective, even in its own cause, than going around endeavoring to love. The results, on every level of mental, emotional,…
We’ve got to be okay with a little bit of anxiety; we’ve got be okay with a little bit of excitement. We’ve got to be okay with that kind of “Woohoo!” or we’re not going to get to that place of connection. There are a lot of people who are missing out on the connections…
The Flower and Sun Part 3 of 3 Did you miss the beginning of this blog? Start here: Flower and Sun Part 1. Let’s take a moment to make room for healthy old places of sadness. Remember, healing happens when the pain meets the love, and the love is in 51% or more voting majority….
Did you miss the first part of this blog? Find it here: Flower and Sun Part 1. This week’s blog is about the next step in the flower and sun exercise: To feel what it would be like to stay in this marriage of flower and sun in our own chest, even while around delightful…
In order to do the flower and sun exercise, I’m just giving us a moment first to feel the steadiness and solidness of our nestedness in our surroundings, and in our own body as nest. This is my body nest, on a me first basis, but as an act of generosity. The marvelous thing about…
Hans Peter Dürr was a physicist who thought that he was lecturing on physics, but I believe that he was lecturing on the nature of consciousness and the Heart. He remarked that any poem, written in a language that you don’t know, just looks like utter gibberish. Just complete and utter gibberish—what is that? Now,…
