Life is full of challenges. That’s the way it is. It makes it interesting and builds character. But we don’t like them, do we? We mislabel them as “problems” because we’re taught culturally to seek pleasure and avoid pain at all costs. We’re spoon-fed images that life is about having the perfect house with theRead more
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Life is about shortening the gap between where we are and where we’d like to be. In all aspects. Think about it. You want to get healthier or lose weight. You want to have a more committed spiritual practice. You want to be more creative and book more creative work. The only way you’re goingRead more
Listen up Drama Queens! What if we understood conflict from a new scientific quantum perspective, gaining a new awareness of how to use conflict when it arises in a way that’s healthy and creative? If you look at your life, the periods of greatest conflict also were the opportunities for greatest growth and awareness. YouRead more
How? Commitment. You don’t get what you wish for in life. You get what you believe. And sometimes, our beliefs need a little bit of encouragement. For example, you believe you can do something (write a play, audition for a show, ask someone out on a date) but you also have doubts. You fast-forward toRead more
Not unlike the DreamWorks movie, if you want to make your Dragon work for you, you first have to know you have one. Once upon a time, we were given a travel companion to help us navigate through life’s travails. As we grew, so did our Ego Dragon: by processing information, evaluating situations, making judgmentsRead more
Judith Lasater, a wonderful yoga teacher and writer, tells a story about “selling the goat.” It’s a metaphor for taking a step back and gaining perspective on your life when a situation is troublesome or stressful and it’d be helpful to see it with a new pair of eyes. She suggests, “selling the goat” –Read more
Start looking at your life in context. You might get some valuable insight: You’re doing just fine! Actually you’re doing better than fine. (I’m taking a page from Helena Bonham Carter, who now makes her husband, director Tim Burton, compliment her when they’re working together. “He has to give me a good compliment, which isn’tRead more
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
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