Habits, when they are conscious, are a good thing no doubt and yet the slick and slippery ego can latch on to even the best of practices for its own good. A regular break from the routine of our lives is good preventative medicine, thus the importance of retreat. Withdrawing temporarily from life, finding a safe haven for reflection, moving away from our unconscious habits is a … [Read more...]
Spirituality, It Is All About Descending NOT Ascending – After All We Are Simply Human
There is something both delightful and freeing about fully accepting the fact that we are simply humans being. Given our entrenched fear of death though, we avoid dropping all the way into our humanness in order to avoid the ‘pain’ of death. Instead we focus on ascension. But you can’t get out until you fully get in! I know, I know, I can hear all the feedback as I am … [Read more...]
Is It Really All About the Money? Antidote – Make It All About the People
Generating corporate profits, magnetize your audience, monetize your clients, maximize your sales leads, draw people to your web site, write compelling blogs on and on it goes – a never ending stream of how to take full advantage of your clients. And it is all focused on making money - A money first me first approach as far as I can see. Now, I am not a fool, I understand … [Read more...]
Fitting In? Hell No. We are Dying to Fit Out!!
I have often sat with people in the last few days of their lives and heard many a deathbed regret. Most of these regrets are linked in someway to people trying to fit in, not make waves, or draw attention to themselves. In our Orwellian, don’t offend a soul new age spirituality we are quickly locking ourselves inside a politically correct jail cell. The cell does not have a … [Read more...]
Seriously Insignificant – Its Good News!
Our ancestors have been around for about six millions years, modern humans as we know them have been around for 200,000 years and modern society for about 10,000 years. Current average life expectancy for a human is roughly 80 years. So lets put our individual lives into perspective. Relative to modern humans as we know them our life expectancy is 0.04% of the time modern … [Read more...]