Our mental chatter tends to define most of us. That busy-ness of forward and backward, of reminiscence and contemplating innumerable futures, nicely defines a mind that is strongly identifying with its own noise. It is in this identifying with our internal chatter that we learn to identify
Read more →With the departure of summer weather and the closing of the beaches here in Japan, my grounding opportunities have dramatically been reduced. When floating in the surf and riding the waves, walking along the shoreline or sitting in the sand, we are unavoidably grounding and being 100%
Read more →For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, we’ve recently experienced the shortest day (Winter Solstice) and, as of today, the latest sunrise of the year. It is our wintertime playing out of the seasons. And for some of you reading this, it can be a very
Read more →In a recent comment, a reader noted some concern with my potentially negative review of sungazing as a means of cultivating personal energy stores. I think some clarification is in order. I love the sun. I generally follow the day-night cycle such that I am up before
Read more →A lot of what gets written about in the blog here involve teaching how to correct issues, right living, right though or otherwise cutting to the chase of a particular matter. These are all important, of course, but there is more to life than addressing problems. At
Read more →I often think and write about the act of being present in the moment. I have learned that being in the moment affects the way I deal with life. When I’m in the moment, everything looks and feels different. I think different thoughts as a result. Language,
Read more →Reality is a funny thing. On one hand, we know that reality needs to exist at some level. On the other hand, however, how we perceive that reality depends on a myriad of things. Our perception of reality is filtered by our thoughts and beliefs. The problem
Read more →The infinite universe. Within it, the speck of human consciousness. Many consider a single person to be insignificant in its smallness. On the grand scale of things, we stand almost imperceptibly small. In addition to our diminutive stature, we feel absolutely cut off from the rest of
Read more →In my life of operating various business ventures, I get to enjoy a satisfying mix of attention to detail versus opening up to creation. The different areas in which my business interests operate require very different yet complementary skill sets. Some of those skill sets, however, involve
Read more →I love the sun. I don’t go so far as to worship it, but I am fully tuned into our reliance on Sol as a species. Without this humble G3-class star in the Milky Way, we simply would not exist in the form we do now. At
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