Do you remember the last time someone listened to you, deeply heard what you said, the disappointments and expectations hidden behind your words, the hope and joy you yearn to reach for but have difficulty believing in? These are the people and the events that impact us, touching the essence of our being and inflaming [...]
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The many faces of JOY! Sometimes joy just bursts forth when something wonderful occurs. You achieve something you worked hard to achieve, maybe even doubted whether you could do it or not. Other times joy feels like a still lake deep within you radiating a peaceful feeling of delight in simply being. What energies of [...]
This morning I am reminded of Ayn Rand’s comment, “Words are a lens to focus one's mind.” What are the words that move through your mind or take up residence there? These words are the lens through which you view the world. Do they let you see the love that surrounds you? Do they bubble [...]
Are you READY to: Redefine Power for Authentic Expression? Claim Your Leadership in the Role of Money? Configure it “Your Way”? If YES, join Joan King, Juliann Smith and Christina Lomas for Brunch in the Rose Garden at The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, CO On Sunday, June 9th, 2013 10:00 am to 12:00 pm [...]
Has what used to “zing” for you stopped zinging? What used to sharpen your desires now fall to do so? Could it be that something deeper than what used to zing you or sharpen your desires is calling you? Maybe what is calling now is beyond the observable and this makes most of us uncomfortable. [...]
Many describe their lives as increasingly rushed and at the same time stultifying. Have we limited the scope of our experience and minimized our vitality of living? Can we increase our capacity to live? And if, so, how? What if you risk to stretch and feel the edge of your life, to fly beyond it [...]
The relationships that shape us! In every moment of our lives we, human beings, exist within a multidimensional web of complex connections – with ourselves and other inhabitants of the earth and the universe. At times this web seems to stretch us, beyond our accepted ways of being. We recognize the invitation to be more [...]
This past weekend I was in the company of writers considering creativity.It always amazes me that multiple perspectives that we have of our creativity, its availability or lack thereof and how to access it. The psychologist and author of Flow Csikszentmihalyi tells us,“Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . [...]
The rhythm of the pulse of life embraces two distinct processes- one of expansion and one of contraction. Polled forward by the creative urge to express, we reach out expanding ideas, activities and connections. Equally important, however, is the process of contraction, the pulling inward to nourish, to focus and to integrate. Listen to A [...]