When you begin to look at the world with its real challenges and tragedies – tsunamis, earthquakes, wars, famine — you hopefully can put your mental stuff into context and realize that most of what you consider “limitations,” simply aren’t. They’re habits. We take them on as truth because we’ve been thinking them for suchRead more
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Even though the video for this lesson was taken before the tragedy in Japan, I feel it seems to hold even more resonance today looking at the aftermath of what occurred there. Life is a constant opportunity to wake up. Every moment. When tragedies occur, they awaken us to the true miracle of being alive.Read more
As any follower of yoga will tell you — it’s all about the practice. But Patañjali – the founder of the yoga sutras more than 2,000 years ago believed that yoga was a metaphor for life itself. All of life is practice. Not just yoga. Or an acting class. Or practicing the piano. Or runningRead more
Life isn’t a destination. There’s nowhere to get to. Once you get married or book your TV show or win your award or buy your house or any of the number of things you desire as the end goal, you’ll discover that once you have them, your life is still the same. Sure, the external,Read more
Why do we wait? For what? We wait for the better airfare, or for the date we went out with last week to call, or for permission. We wait until we lose 10 pounds, or until we get our haircut or until we’re “more prepared.” We wait to get new headshots or write that novelRead more
That really says it all. In life and in our acting — the goal is to be fully expressed. We rarely allow ourselves to do this on a moment-to-moment basis because we become prisoners of our own minds criticizing us, judging us, telling us what is appropriate and keeping us playing safe. So we endRead more
We expend so much energy trying to look good, maintain control, focus on the end results, micro-manage and worry about things that are insignificant, that we lose the ability to be fully expressed, liberated and free in the moment. You’ve got to stop caring how you think other people think of you. The truth isRead more
James Cameron said that. And he should know. He made PIRANHA II. Absolute 1981 trash. But if he’d given up after such a dismal failure he would have never created AVATAR. Indeed, his future successes were born out of his early failures. Fail. That may seem counter to what we’ve all been taught, but onlyRead more
I had a stunning realization recently. My expectations in life are a direct result of the questions I am asking myself on a daily basis. When we ask ourselves questions from our brain’s neural grooves that have been habituated over time – we don’t have access to the things we really desire in life. WellRead more
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love discusses a phenomenon in which our lives will undoubtedly transform if we just start taking a step to move beyond our comfort zones. She calls it Quest Physics. I call it Zero Commitment = Zero Results. It’s a mathematical formula. You don’t get what you wish for in life, youRead more