Awakening Self Blog
A Connecting Thanksgiving Practice
If you're like me, you may be staying home for Thanksgiving - where you are sheltering in place, and not with extended family. You may be totally alone, or just with one or two loved ones. When I was in my 20's and I didn't want to fly "home" for the holiday, I would...
Transform Your Thoughts with the 5 “R’s” of Autumn
It’s autumn: the season to reflect. What better time to recognize the thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions that hold us back, and use the energies of autumn to transform them through the 5 R’s: reminisce, reflect, review, relea…
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Awake, Not Perfect
At the age of 19, I started on my spiritual path, believing that I’d become perfect. Boy, I was wrong. It took decades before I realized my goal was to be awake, not perfect.
Being the Virgo that I am, from an early age my perfectionistic tendenc…
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Make Time for Timelessness
Feeling stressed and short on time? The best way to shift out of overwhelm and find fulfillment is to stop completely, unplug outdoors, and open up to timelessness.
It was a Thursday morning, and I had just dropped off my daughter at her inter…
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History Has Its Eyes on You and Me: Insights from Hamilton
Spiritual, psychological, and yogic insights from Hamilton, an iconic musical so applicable to our times.
Like millions of others over the 4th of July weekend, I watched – for the first time! – the Broadway hit musical, Hamil…
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Transcending the Victim-Tyrant Polarity
In this current crisis of George Floyd’s wrongful death and the re-igniting of the Black Lives Matter movement, we’re seeing the polarity of Victim-Tyrant playing out through racism.
It isn’t a new polarity – it has been perpetuate…
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