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Video Summary: The best intentions are lofty and ambitious. You’re asking for something that you've never allowed yourself to have or even to consider. It may be the relationship, true purpose, or spiritual community you've always dreamed of. You’ve stretched yourself to even say you want this thing. These best intentions often have some karmic issues attached to them. When you consider allowing that much beauty into your life, you naturally bump into fears, self-worth issues

Video Summary: One of our greatest emotional and spiritual needs is for people to accept us for who and what we are. This functions when we're authentic, vulnerable, and exploring an unconscious aspect of ourselves, and there are people who are able to accept that part of us. The good news is that there are people who can do that. The not-as-great news is that it may not be the people that you think it should be. Sometimes we expect family members, friends, significant others

Video Summary: There were six of us around a fire doing a ceremony in Cardiff Fork, Utah, approximately 37 years ago. One of the participants asked my spiritual teacher, “What’s the difference between you and me?” I suspect she wanted to understand the difference between his state of awareness and hers. I was surprised by his answer. He simply replied, “Trust.” He continued that he trusts himself, Spirit, and the universe at an extremely deep level. And that was the only diff

Video Summary: I've been seeing a pattern in the clients, coworkers, and people I bump into of seeking things from people, communities, and organizations that are not able to provide them. The things being sought include being appreciated, loved, understood, accepted, or validated. The pattern includes a tendency to choose and reach out to people and organizations that just aren't able to provide those things. Many people may want to provide those things, and some even promis

Video Summary: Happy spring. I want to contrast two ways of creating the life we would have for ourselves in this coming year: inside-out creating and outside-in creating. I'll start with outside-in because it’s the primary way we were taught to create things in our culture. With outside-in creating, we start with a specific goal that our mind can clearly identify and then work with things outside of us to create that goal. This brings the thing we wanted to create into our l

Video Summary: We are approaching the first day of spring and the Spring Equinox. It’s a time of new beginnings on the Medicine Wheel. Spring Equinox ceremonies often revolve around creating an intention to offer to Spirit to co-create something that you would like to awaken and unfold in your life. Intention is where our creative power really lies. Now's the time to create our lives through intention. The Medicine Wheel is an intentional wheel of life. We're deliberately doi

Video Summary: Welcome to March. We're now in the month of the first day of spring and the Spring Equinox. On the Medicine Wheel or Wheel of Life, it's a time we give birth to and awaken a new cycle of our lives. This includes the new things that we want to awaken, manifest, and create in our lives. So it's a great time to clear our life paths. That is to clear any residual things that may be blocking or obstructing our ability to bring these new things into our lives. This i

Video Summary: I've noticed we have this tendency as human beings to hang out in this undecided state in which we defer a decision. And, we tend to do this in the areas of our life that are most important. You can understand why, as it's an important decision and we want to get it right. For example, it could be the decision whether to stay in a relationship or not. Perhaps it’s the decision to get married or not, or to have a child or not at this time. It might be whether to

Video Summary: During the retreats that I facilitate, I sometimes offer the teaching, “How much beauty can you stand?” This evolved during several retreats I participated in, where I was doing my own deep intention work with what I wanted to create in my life and the extent I was willing to allow it. We were doing several days of ceremony, and there was this amazing energy of abundance and spiritual guidance. I could intuitively feel that if I was willing to intend something

Video Summary: I want to contrast two ways of interacting with people. The first is looking outside of oneself for validation, acceptance, and fitting into a group. Most of us were conditioned with this tendency. This can be a challenging issue to look at in ourselves. It's getting over the shame of seeking acceptance or people-pleasing. From what I can tell, we all do this in one form or another. Even those of us who have worked on it for a long time can revert to it if we'r

Video Summary: We're almost through January, and 2024 is predicted to be a wild year according to astrologers, psychics, and prognosticators. It's an election year, and we have wars going on, climate change and weather events, economic challenges, border problems, and a Congress that isn’t functioning well. So there's a great deal of instability and change. However, there are some things we can do to establish things we can count on, rely upon, and trust. It's the time of int