By practicing awareness and non-judgment, you create space where something new can emerge. This is the beginning of transformation.

Pain offers the difficult blessing of causing one’s world to slow to a centered simplicity, as in, “Let’s see if I can manage to lie down without crying.”

It’s easy to become wrapped up in what is wrong and difficult in our lives, but when we shift our perspective, life gets better.

There is a mantra I love that can help enormously with this process we call Life, a mantra that really should be a Core Principle for Living. Here it is.

By becoming present and receptive to the subtle and small, life becomes a backroad exploration with multiple stops to take in the sights.

Chinese medicine calls viruses “Pernicious Evil Influences.” But while viruses are nasty, the anxiety they generate is worse.

A simple practice to create greater happiness …

When we stop, the rest of Life that we normally rush through comes into focus. We notice things we overlook, things we don’t stop to appreciate — until we slow down. 

Before we zoom over Thanksgiving on our way to Christmas/New Years/Spring Break/Next Summer, I would like to pause to consider the most basic and greatest of gratitudes: the privilege of being here at all.

There's a country song with the catchy little phrase: "When was the last time you did something for the first time?" Those words have (annoyingly) stuck with me because, well, I haven't done very much at all for the first time in a long time. This is not good.

We all have so much, so many gifts that we open and then casually toss aside in our overabundance of good fortune.

f you are one of those lucky people who knew who you were and what you wanted to do from the time you were seven years old, this column is not for you.

What do Donald Trump, a trip to Costco, and my dog have in common? More than you might imagine. A strange confluence of events culminated this morning in a surprising, personal revelation.

You are love even if you live in your head and forget about love. You are love even if you don’t feel loving, even if you feel lonely. Your true essence, is LOVE.

On the nature of disease, its meanings, and our role in creating it.

Our lives are so much more than what we can see when the sun is shining. The dark times open us to a greater revelation. The darkness opens a dialogue with soul.

It is far too easy to become wrapped up in what is “wrong” in our lives, far too easy to slip into self-pity and to forget that this moment is but a point on an infinite trajectory.

When we entered the year of the Black Water Snake. I knew it was going to be a wild ride: a year whose symbolic energy is turmoil and transformation ain’t going to be easy.

One of the more interesting phenomena of middle age is the recognition of just how very stupid and arrogant you have been up to wherever you find yourself near the halfway point.

Being slowed by loss or pain offers a unique blessing: it replaces all the details and to-do lists with a centered simplicity.