The Heart Guide

Sometimes, in order for us to be reborn, we need to enter into difficult times; suffering, confusion, loss, fear. During this period, we feel forsaken by the ONE, we forget everything we knew: our tools, our faith, our drive. We make decisions that don’t support our healing, because we do not know any better. These…

The quality of our life rests primarily on the decisions we make. The way that we make decisions is based on our mindset, our understanding of existing circumstances and either out of hope for progression or fear of deterioration. How we make decisions is the ultimate determinant as to whether we are merely existing or…

I have a yellow Orchid in my bedroom. This plant has gone through many phases, but it stopped flowering about two years ago. Within the past few months, I’ve noticed the stems drying up and big flat leaves at the bottom dying off. I’ve continued to water it, even though it is an unsightly plant.…

Relationships create intimacy and connection in our lives. They are important for our health and well being, sense of self and growth. With the growth of technology many of us are connecting more frequently and easily than ever before. At the same time depression and loneliness is a rampant disease in our society, which is…

I decided to end the week with a question: Are Your Thoughts Thinking You or Are You Thinking Your Thoughts? This question is full of power and autonomy because our thoughts have the capacity to create or to destroy matter. In their simplest form, thoughts dictate our feelings, moods and behaviors. They have a tremendous…

After running a few errands this morning, I made my way home. As I approached my doorstep, I noticed an unusual array of belongings: a sleeping bag, a suitcase, a paper bag filled with newspapers and a pouch. Clearly someone homeless had left them by my doorstep. I wasn’t sure what to do, so I…

Once we have learned to transition from resistance to openness, we cultivate a much greater capacity for awareness. Awareness is not a mental “thing”, it isn’t really a thinking process or a rational or logical process in its totality. Reason cannot really exist in awareness, because awareness is absolute. In order for one to arrive…

Why is it important for us to merge our inner reality with the outer, and what does it mean to do that? I pose this insightful question to encourage those that are on the spiritual path to expand their awareness by putting their inner wisdom into practice. Once we’ve learned to listen to ourselves through…

According to Freud, the personality is composed of 3 parts: The Id, Ego and the Superego. The Id is the pleasure principle. It is the part of ourselves that develops to meet our wants, needs and desires. The ego is the reasoning aspect of the Id. It is the part of ourselves that progresses forward…

Quite often we are faced with changes and the transitional period between one experience and another can sometimes be very difficult as we deal with loss, grief and the breakdown of existing structures. It is natural that we become afraid, hurt and displaced during these periods. Our existing structures serve as expressions of that which…

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