Positive Energy Guide

Saving the World sounds like a positive Life Purpose. Yet there is something grandiose about presuming to know what is best for the entire world–and in seeing one’s self as the agent for its execution. Let’s look at the way well-intended ideas about Life Purpose may be Frankenstein in disguise. Tanya told me during a […]

Life Purpose is the course of action that best actualizes not your brightest, best, and most recognized potential, but the elements of your heart and nature that invite authenticity, joy, balance, and expression of core values. Life Purpose–also known as Soul Purpose–is the way you align yourself with the Greater Whole to give your life […]

When the idea of Life Purpose arises, the first thing that pops up for quite a few people is terror that Life Purpose will take them away from all they know and love. Since I began this series I have heard several versions of the following: “What if once I get healed or discover my […]

Life Purpose lives at the crossroads of Feeling and Belief. It is shaped by the collision between: What we feel about ourselves What we feel about participation in life Who we believe ourselves to be What we believe about participating with others What we believe informs our behavior in specific ways. We may believe, for […]

Dynamic changes in our world remind us we will not here forever. Remembering our impermanence stimulates gratitude for what we have, and can inspire us to live our lives to the fullest. Life purpose is about living our lives to the fullest. Feeling purposeless and not knowing what to do to make life worthwhile is […]

“Your work in this life is to find your work, and to give yourself to it with your whole heart.” Buddha Whether you got your notions about Life Purpose from parents, spiritual or religious leaders, from an assortment of media input, or somewhere else, your concepts will be biased by their energy and their values. […]

This post on using energy and sound to balance hyperactive children was written by my competent friend Barbara McKell, who practices energy medicine in Ontario: This summer I had some long fruitful conversations during a visit with my friend Teresa Dietze. On one walk together the subject came up of children being drugged with Ritalin. […]

Self-possession is a particular quality of Presence. The state of self-possession naturally expresses boundaries, a sense of dignity, and the ability to feel emotionally safe around others. When we know who we are and where we are, we define ourselves rather than letting other people define us. Here is a story I shared that was helpful […]

Being comfortable and clear relies on knowing where we start and stop, what is part of us and what is not, which feelings and sensations originate with us and which come from other people or events. The more intuitive we are the harder it is to make this call. Mystics experience all life as one. […]

A world of difference exists between living in your head and sensing. Sensing–attending to the flow of guidance received through your body–supports constructive responses to emotions and energies from moment to moment. Disconnecting from the body makes us ever so much more susceptible to external influences and energies. It lays us open to them like an empty […]