Why are we doing this? It’s important to ask ourselves this question. For whom? Do you ever stop and ask yourself why you want to act? Or Create? Or live your life as an artist? Sometimes we lose connection to – or allow the business to contaminate – the original reasons why we wanted toRead more
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Throughout your life and your career, you’re going to have to give yourself the green light. Again and again. No one else is ever going to give it to you. It doesn’t matter what level of success you achieve. How many people know you or your work. How many previous projects you’ve done or ifRead more
I was asked this past week to contribute to The Huffington Post’s “Healthy Living Section.” Here’s the link to that post or you can read the abbreviated version below. Do you ever feel like your brain just can’t possibly hold any more information? That it’s about to explode with all the sound bites andRead more
How do we move past our “Blurred Lines”? You know, the stuff that often makes us unable to see our emotional situations clearly. Well it won’t be by staying at the level from which confusion or blurriness is created. If you want peace, equanimity, clarity and access to wide-open spaces in your mind, youRead more
Last week I discussed not letting our reptilian vagus nerve get the better of us in stressful situations (like auditioning or asking Heidi Klum out on a date or parachuting at 10,000 feet) and thereby shutting us down from the potential of expressing empowered, authentic feeling that these experiences may evoke. But just likeRead more
A couple week’s ago I lectured on “Sharing Your Crack.” Which is a metaphor of sorts on understanding that the neural noise in our heads is often generated by an original, false premise that tells us we are unlovable and undeserving of love. That’s myth. But it feels real because of the paradigms thatRead more
Why do we turn the things in our lives that are gifts into complaints and burdens and headaches and drama? Why does it take tragedy (usually someone else’s) to wake us up to the gifts (however impermanent they truly are) to what we have in front of us right now? Why do we take forRead more
When I was in NY recently, I went out dancing with some friends and I tried to do a very Dance Fever-ish kind of move. The tightness of my G-Stars prevented me from getting as low as I could go so I got stuck somewhere in between. Awkward. A sort-of Dancing Limbo Land. IRead more
Connection. It’s what we’re all after. But we mistake being “connected” (through technology) with real connection. So we keep searching for it in things. Gadgets. Tweets. Status updates. Instagrams. Pics. Video streams. And the more we keep reaching for those things to connect us, the less we actually feel. Period. Connection comes from being withRead more
I was asked to be a presenter at this year’s Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment (GATE) Conference this past weekend. Some of the other speakers included Jim Carrey, comedian Louie Anderson, filmmaker Tom Shadyac, and many other inspiring artists. I wasn’t prepared. That can be a very sobering realization when you’re about to speakRead more