Several years ago I was at a meditation retreat with my teacher Matthew, and one of the students asked this question, “I notice your car is very clean. Do you do this intentionally?”  “Yes,” he replied, “Taking care of what takes care of you is part of the spiritual path.” My mind began going in

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Each week I write a blog for my website (well, most weeks). I don’t have them planned out. I don’t know what I’ll be writing about next week or the week after. Ideas float thru my head like a Stone Fly floating downstream. They come and they go. But the ones that stick? The ideas

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Here’s how I use to start my day:  Wake up (with a little dread), not really wanting to get out of bed to face the day, but get out of bed anyway.  Get up, open the computer (react to all the emails, spam, newsletters, and whatever else was filling my inbox), check the newspaper for

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Several weeks ago I decided to do a weekend yoga workshop. I had never done one before. This one was being taught by a friend who had gone to India to study this particular style of yoga (Surya Kriya) with an Eastern Mystic named Sadhguru, and I thought, “What the heck? It’ll be good for

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I was a Do It Yourselfer.  For a long time (like decades). Not only with things like fixing the leaky faucet, but I managed a 3 month remodel of my house while living with my new boyfriend (which I don’t recommend – either one that is). And finally, I was determined to heal on my

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Yesterday I woke up feeling, well, you know, blue… Blue, lonely, sad, frustrated, bland, unmotivated, blue… I had nothing to complain about – other than things weren’t going exactly as I wanted them to.  My business teaches me this every day – being patient and o.k. with life just as it is. But damn it

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I hear this from many of my clients and students: “I want to know my purpose/career NOW,” or “I should be farther along then I am – when will I get there?” or “It has to happen by… or else (I’m a failure)” or “I can’t wait that long for clarity, I want it NOW.”

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I went on my first meditation retreat in 2003, shortly after breaking up with my boyfriend and declaring to him that I was going to become enlightened.  I didn’t know what it meant – enlightenment. And I certainly didn’t know how I was going to get there, but it just came out. I don’t know

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A few years ago I was talking with a friend. She was concerned about some things happening in her life (I think you can relate), and said, “If only the health care system in the U.S. were more like Europe.” I replied, “Ya, if only I had more money.” She said, “If only my kids

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You get up and think, “Ugh – I’ve got to get going, so much to do” with a sinking feeling in your chest. So you get up and go through the motions. Thoughts are racing to the future of all that needs to get done. That tightness in your chest…you got a break from it

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