In my last post I said I would share a practical example of how the heart’s wisdom can effectively handle life challenges. This is both very simple and complex at the same time. I’m reminded of learning to tie my shoe as a young child. It was then the most complex task I had attempted. I remember how simple it looked and yet I couldn’t seem to figure it out when I tried to do it. Then suddenly I did it, and could see for myself just how easy it was.

Over the years what has become apparent is that many tasks are made more difficult when my intellect tries “to figure it out.” When my body-mind takes over, the task suddenly becomes so much easier. It’s taken me years of trial and error to learn to drop out of my head and inhabit my entire being, beginning with tying my shoes for the first time.

So what does that mean practically speaking? I’ve chosen the topic of  job loss, and financial stress Read the rest of this entry »

Many of us grew up feeling we needed to have “the answers” influenced by our educational system in particular. I clearly remember ducking my head and hoping I wouldn’t be called on when I hadn’t done my homework! The Wise Ones among us have always known that asking and living with good questions can ignite us to become more of who we truly are.

I was reminded of this on New Year’s Eve, and woke up early on January 1st to see what question would emerge to set the tone for the year ahead. I spontaneously asked myself, “What I would be like; what might I do, if I were even freer from the restrictive patterns of my personality?” I’ve asked myself that before Read the rest of this entry »

2010 draws nearer and the New Year holds so many possibilities—what will we all create? Reflecting on my own dreams and those of my friends and co-creators, I asked myself what was most essential to help our visions manifest? My attention was drawn to my heart and I could feel it was time for a more specific cleaning of memories that can create a “heavy” heart. This is the time to neutralize any disappointments, “failures,” and feelings of defeat or despair that may still be restricting our soul’s dreams and visions.

What is still there in my heart, in your heart, that causes us to recreate stories we no longer chose to live?

This is the time of year for reflection; it is easier now to see what may have been hidden from view. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere there is less external light. It can be a time when our internal light can burn brighter Read the rest of this entry »

In many cultures, honoring and connecting with the ancestors is an accepted and honored tradition. When I lived in Ireland, it was not uncommon for people to tell me about conversations they had with departed relatives and that they often asked them for help and guidance. An increasing number of people in the United States are also beginning to have supportive encounters with those we think of as having “died.”

We are in the midst of redefining our view of and relationship to death, and the rituals involving it. In this post I am focusing on relationship with our ancestors, known and unknown, as it affects our individual and collective visions.

This year Sunday November 1st is All Saint’s Day and in Mexico, The Day of the Dead, and the day we will hold our next Sound Alchemy event in Sonoma, California. We will connect with our ancestors in sacred ritual; so that they can assist us to fulfill our hearts’ dreams, which are also their dreams. (If you are reading this post after  November 1, 2009, please know that this ritual can be done at any time—alone or with others.) Read the rest of this entry »

Many of us are experiencing both personal and global challenges—physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Recently I began going through a kind of death or completion of my past life and, in a certain sense, of the identity that has been living it. Many of us are mirroring what our Earth is also going through, as our new world comes into being, even as the old one is falling away. An exciting and often very challenging process to be going through, individually and collectively.

I can feel that there is a reorganization and a transformation that is taking place so that the individual and collective foundation we have created through “time” can birth both evolved humans and an evolved Earth. Many people are saying this in different words; I know this is not new information.

What has changed, for me, is really feeling rather than thinking or hoping this is true. Read the rest of this entry »